1. Hurt – Johnny Cash – Cash takes Trent Reznors ode to self-immolation and turns it into a back door vision of death stranded in his quickly decaying body. Cash sounds very very old, he seems to be knocking on heavens door and heavens door is getting ready to let him in and the result is a cover that belongs more to Cash than Reznor – Grade: A+
2. She Found Now – My Bloody Valentine – The new album was released Saturday night and crashed their website 22 years after their last album. Of MBV feedback noise merchants and MBV JAMC fuzzed out melody makers, the first track is the latter – Grade: A
3. Closed – Scott Krakow – 35 years ago, Scott's cleverly crafted soft rock would be the mainstream. Today it is esoteria. So it loses an audience but gains integrity – Grade: A
4. Hey Mama – Kanye West – His Oedipal scream of desire and love simply gains strength over the years- Grade: A+
5. Posh – Lionel Jeffries – Not DIsney, but this Sherman and Sherman song off Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a perfect excaple of how the Yank writers took the sting out of class distinctions – Grade: A
6. Conduit – Funeral For A Friend – Off their latest albums, it is the best quasi-mainstream heavy metal hard rock around – Grade: B
7. Don't Stop The Party – Pitbull And TJR – ziga-ziga-ziga-zow, rhymes with pow and why shouldn't it? – Grade: B+
8. Ramblin' Jack – Kris Kristofferson – High on arrival. low on love… – Grade: A-
9. I'm Not Your Hero – Tegan And Sara – I can't help feeling this may be T&S breakthrough album – Grade: A-
10 Capricorn II – Wayne Shorter – He wasn't playing hsi sax like this last Friday – Grade: A-