1.Ruin – Cat Power – The concept of being ruined has never been sexier and set to better purpose than on this incredible new rocker with a blues edge by yet eccentric white woman – Grade: A
2. Sleep To Dream – Fiona Apple – All these years later, I noticed how much Fiona sounds like Mike Garson (Bowie's pianist) in the mid 1970s – Grade: A+
3. Generals – The Mynabirds – Whatever the weakneses of the rest of the album might be, here she gets her polemics and provocations right: "I wanna pay my duuuuuesss" – Grade: A
4. Memo From Turner – Mick Jagger – "Gerrrrumofffffff" Grade: A+
5. In The Grace Of Your Love – The Rapture – If LCD married Belle And ebastian… – Grade: B
6. I Don't Know – Ozzy Osbourne – A blizzard of power chors reasserted Ozzy as the m,an to beat -Grade: B+
7. Out Of Time – Elvis Costello – Best song off the live album and one of the great Stones covers – Grade: A-
8. Happy People – r. Kelly – from the album where he decided he was Setvie Wonder – Grade: B+
9. Goodbye Engliand (Covered In Snow) – Laura Marling – The best folk song you'll hear this decade – Grade: A+
10. Something On My Mind – The Speedies – They were Yanks??? – Grade: A