Listen Up: 7-20-12

1.  Live Alone (Brennan Green Remix)  – Franz Ferdinand – This is the one with LCD Soundsystem and Debbie Harry. Debbie sounds like a disinfected sexbot and LCD use their typical synthesizer bleats. As For Franz Ferdinand? They have become a 21st Century Depeche Mode – Grade: B+

2. Love The One Your With – CSN – Live from their 2012 tour and man, Stills ode to infidity has never sounded dodgier – Grade: C-

3. Total Carnage –  Sweet Valley – This is Nathan and his kid brothers side project which starts with a Four Seasons sample, then trails off into a bad acid trip where everything distorts and crawls. And then ends – Grade: B+

4. Hello Hello – Missy Higgins – 1950ish Connie Stevens goes country pop song – Grade: B

5. Boyfriend – Best Coast – If you don't think The Only Place is a leap forward, listen to this again – Grade: B

6. Disconnected _ Wafa Wafa – Peter goes disco – Grade: B+

7. Heartbeat – JJAMZ – They must be getting sick of the Rilo Kiley comparisons by now – C+

8. Day That I Die (with Amos Lee) – Zac Brown Band – Apparently, he has discovered marijuana – Grade: D

9. All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem – AFter missing LCD screening of the movie, this ain't a replacement. PS the London Sessions version, hence the grade – Grade: B

10. Money Won't Change You – James Brpown – But a bad cold will take you out – Grade: A+

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