1. Polly – Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra – Initially recorded for Spin's tribute album, this is an alarming a version of Cobain's masterpiece of the sustained sinister and horrorshow banality of evil in all its shapes. Forced violence is right in Palmer's tree and she murmurs and articulates: "she caught me off my guide…?", "the will of instinct…". Grade: A
2. Black Math – Jack White – Opening salvo in White's battle of New York – Grade: A
3. Madness – Muse – I wonder if they have any more like this out there? – Grade: A
4. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep – Jack White – Country alt plays as comedy relief in context – Grade: B+
5. The Killing Type – Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Auto – I seldom get a song this wrong the first time round, where I truly hated it for a week – Grade: A
6. The Goring – Sylvia Path – That's a bull doing it. And why does Sylvia sound so stentorian and English? Grade: B
7. Ambition – Subway Sect – This still sounds great. The organ riffs are so catchy and Vic has the best whine this side of Peter Perrett – Grade: A
8. Breezeblock – These guys remind of Two Door Cinema Club… not a compliment, though in small doses like this, they're not bad – Grade: B
9. Do You… Miguel – Lovely voice even for an r&b guy (where it goes the territory but a little new agey soundwise – Grade: B
10. Carpe Diem – Green Day – If these guys have three licks and two licks and all they do is recycle em, thank god they're killer ones – Grade: A