1. Something’s Gotta Give – Frank Sinatra – Sings Jimmy Mercer, and this one swings hard and it is one of those arrogant songs that Sinatra excelled, it swings from a chandelier and is all seduction and smart cracks and finger snaps – A
2. Worst Behavior – Drake – In Ezra Koenig’s arrogant and smug review for the arrogant and smugh “The Talkhouse” which deserves no better, his Drake review gets one thing right: this song is a motherfucker – A-
3. Wooly Bully – Sam The Sham – Launched a million Tex Mex copycats – A+
4. What Is Life Without Love – Cheetah Chrome – Eddy Arnold cover is better than you’d expect. Maybe all those years in Nashville have rubbed off – B
5. East Side Story – Cheetah Chrome – This is an exceptional song, an act of disciplined nostalgia – A
6. Hourglass – Squeeze – A small hit for them back in the day stands up exceedingly well – A
7. Raindrop In My Skull – Of Montreal – I know what you’re thinking because that’s what I’m thinking but it is pretty good indie psychedelic popness– B
8. Champagne – Cassadee Pope – Is it silly to dislike somebody because of their name? – C-
9. Girls – Mayday Parade – Not bad jingle jangle emo – B
10. Don’t leave Me In The Night Time – Kenny Rogers – With Buckwheat Zydeco! – B