1. Still Into You – Paramore – Perhaps their finest song, an astounding, very addictive piece of power pop that held their pretty damn good anyway current album together – A
2. What I Might Do – Ben Pearce – a big song for me right now if only for a superb drum pattern right on the bottom and a staccato vocal – A
3. Never Knew What I Missed (featuring Samira) – Shaggy – The Everly update is lovers rock with excellence in its sweet and loving vibe. They should make this the single – A-
4. Candlelit Bedroom – Elton John – His best song in decades is also his least ombastic with a simple but hopeful moral: “love will always lead you to a better place” – A
5. Da Doo Ron Ron – The Crystals – Lala Brooks terrific singing, you can hear why Spector insisted upon her – A+
6. It Had To Be You – Elvis Costello – Elvis makes amends for his awful performance at Central Park with this version of the standard, including the intrudction and a 1920s swing arrangement – A
7. Sun/C79 – Cat Stevens – An odd deep album track, storyteller, about a one night stand that leads to a child. The lyric aint much and the song itself is as weak as he gets but the arrangement is starling and it gets through as very revealing – B
8. Sweets For My Sweet – The Drifters – Charlie Thomas lead vocal is magical on this innocence slice on sweetness – A
9. Don’t Let Go – Isaac Hayes – I bet those strings at the end get sampled a whole lot – A
10. Amazing Love – JJ McCable, Fallin’ Angel – Beatle-y, but more than that, a prog rock sensbility tied to a power pop skill – B+