Listen Up: 10-26-12

1. Die Young – Ke$ha – Two years ago I really liked the girl, but there is something too intellectually scattered about the song: it seems to be dance but not purebred, as if it is trying to get somewhere else. Perhaps the way Pink used indie but in reverse. I keep on expecting it to tighten up the beaten while flying a little closer to the moon. Plus songs about dying are always a drag -Grade: B
 
2. Whistle Down The Wind – Sarah Brightman – Who wrote the lyric to this… "let your voices carry?"  The musical was a disaster and why anybody thought an early 1960s movie about children who mistake a runaway prisoner for Jesus would work on Broadway is beyond me – Grade: C+
 
3. Turn On The Lights – Future – Epic records recording artist, this Atlanta guy is more like the moody Drake then the rough housing Lil Jon – Grade: B
 
4. You Were Made For Me – Gene Kelly – "Life was a song, you came along…" Prime Kelly via Brown and Freed. Who wrote it in 1929 for one reason only: to prove devolution actually exists after we've failed to approve upon it 80 years later – Grade: A+
 
5. Blak And Blu – Gary Clark Jr – he might well be the best guitarist since Hendrix. Just not here – Grade: B-
 
6. Charmer – Aimee Mann – I love this song, what it lacks in popular appeal it makes up for in poppiness – Grade: B+
 
7. Can't Take My Eyes Off You – Frankie Valli – Killer song from the 1960s and I am sure he will play it tonight – Grade: A+
 
8. Wildest Dreamer – Brandy – This is so generic it could be anyone, hell it be be Monica – Grade: C+
 
9. By Jeeves – Original London Cast – It is official, Webber's great score – Grade: B+
 
10. Fall Into Arms – The Bottom Dollars – Pub rock, of pub rock were less crazy about r&b – Grade: A
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