Listen Up: 11-03-12

1. Sous Les Soleil Exactement – Lulu Gainsbourg  and Shane Macgowan – You think you've lived a long life, done a lotta things, some good, some less so, but you've seen it in  full. But you ain't lived till you've heard the Pogues leader slurring in French – Grade: B+

2. Steal Away – Robbie Dupree – Time has peeled away the cheese and left the cream – Grade: A

3. The Drift – Hospitality – Lively indie rocker with a sorta progressive tension to the vocals – Grade: B

4. The Recipe – Kendrick Lamarr – Beats by Dre – Grade: B

5. "Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape with the Flood of Detritus" – Titus Andronicus – There are a lot of dead out there – Grade: A

6. Joy – Tracey Thorne – Easily the best new  Christmas song in 2012, a lovely piano based song with catchy melody, everything and the girl!- Grade: A

7. Absolute Zero – Stone Sour – Metal singalong – Grade: B+

8. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Lady Antebellum – Exists to make Rod Stewarts Christmas album sound like Phil Spector's in comparison , Unspeakable doesn't begin to describe. It is like the great void at the end of life – Grade: D+ (at least he wakes up a little towards the end)

9. Are We All We Are – Pink – Great title hook – Grade: B

10. Drink Myself Out Of Love With you – Kristen Kelly – Her voice is too Miranda Lambert, but this is a cool little country rocker – Grade: B