Listen Up: 7-29-12

1. I Miss You – Beyonce – This song, written by Frank Ocean didn't introduce him to the world entire, just the world entire that mattered. me? I don't consider it nearly as good as "!+" for instance, but I understand why you do. Thursday night a woman was running out of T5 when Ocean began performing this for the encore. It is that kind of song (and that kind of songwriter). You either get it or you don't – Grade: B+

 2. Peace Is Not Fiction – Tomas Doncker – The lyric is prose by Haile Sellasie re-written but the instrumental outro is something else again – Grade: B+
 
3. Vegas Girl – Conor Maynard – Those English are crazy – Grade: B+
 
4. Sleep Alone – Two Door Cinema Club – Anemic but not terrible rock and roll ballad, but that band name? It ain't gonna cut it – Grade: B
 
5. Two Veils To Hide My Face – Passion Pit – Best song on the album, and at 34 seconds (that was SECONDS) not long enough – Grade: B+
 
6. Somebody That I Used To Know – Kidz bop – I bet even Sting sounds good after these guys have got through with them – Grade: B
 
7. Crest – The Antlers – Third song off the EP, and finally a bluesy coocoo moody woofer – Grade: C-
 
8. In Joy – Wafa Abela – World music raised on Western decadence and soul – Grade: B+
 
9. I've Got You Under My Skin – Frank Sinatra – This isn't his greatest vocal performance, those belong to the sad not swing 1950s Nelson Riddle tracks, but this is greatest pop music moment, self-flagellation has never felt this good – Grade: A+
 
10. A fancy – John Dowland – remember when the lute was the main instrument? Elizabethan times, in case you were wondering – Grade: B+
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