Listen up: 10-15-12

1. Apathy – Trash Talk – The loudest song off their new album is also the best off their new album, a brash hardcore piece of thrash rock exploding loudly and then subsiding – Grade: A

2. Some Other Time – Blossom Dearie – Wins my award for the best American standard I ever missed out on completely – Grade: A+

3. Let's Put Off The Light's And Go to Sleep – Rudy Vallee – Steve Crawford missed out on this one during this best of the 1930s. Rudy Vallee sophisticated croon on a novelty tune. Great intro by the way – Grade: A

4. Reggie's Song – PiL – A highlight on Saturday night's gig, the chorus emerges as an anthemn – Grade: B+

5. Snare – MellowHype – Giggling weirdness, weird tuneless singalong – Grade: B

6. Age Of Consent – New Order – Their finest moment off their finest album. ANd they are playing it on tour!! – Grade: A

7. Say Please – Monsters Of Folk – Don't let the shared lead fool ya, this was 100% Oberst – Grade: A

8. Born For Me – Paul Westerberg – His "Norwegian Wood" – Grade: B+

9.  She – Jeff Lynne – Is he trying to sound French? – Grade: A-

10. That Summer Feeling – Beth Orton – An astonishing song -I can't wait for next July – Grade: A

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