Listen Up: 12-28-12

1. Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton – Released in 1977 (at the height of punk!) this piece of dross is the nadir of Clapton’s career and through its appearance on an early “Miami Vice” episode, the embodiment of the 1980s. Amazingly insipid – Grade: D 

2. I Want To Hold Your Hand – Moving Sidewalks – Billy Gibbons early band go punk goes pop on the Beatles. Pretty fucking bad news – Grade: C-

 

3. Charmer – Aimee Mann – Title track off her latest and a self-portrait if ever there was one.

 

4.I Wanna Be Your Man – Willy Moon – Electro pop meets rockabilly – Grade: B-

 

5. Carnies – Rush – Are the bad men gone? – Grade: D+

 

6. When I Was Your Man – Bruno Mars – Bruno shows his range but can any one make him stop? – Grade: C-

 

7. Coroduroy – Pearl Jam – Love the guitar fade in, off their best album – Grade: A

 

8.Welcome To Heartbreak – Kanye West – With Kid Cudi, so am I flogging a dead horse or does everybody get the point? – Grade: A

 

9.3Hunna – Chief Keef – Nice dynamics – Grade: B

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