Listen Up:5-24-12

1. Teenage Bass – Shit Robot – DFA's resident real deal DJ takes, not a bass line, but a lick, and runs variations of it, in complementary keys, with drum patterns submerged and tempered in different layers. For seven minutes – Grade: B+

2. Five Minutes More – Frank Sinatra – One of my Mom's fave, swings sweet and with an air of innocence that couldn't be pulled off today. Grade: B+

3. To Love Somebody – Bee Gees – Made to order soul classic – Grade: A+

4. Valentine – The Big Sleep – Noisy, melodic plus kitchen sink duet – Grade: B+

5. Life's A Gas – Joey Ramone – The less they adorn Joey's demos, the better the songs are – Grade: B+

6. Hell Ya – Drake, Lil Wayne – One of his livelier moments – Grade: B+

7. California Sun – The Ramones – They out Cali the Beach Boys – Grade: A

8. Free – Haley Reinhardt – Country twang on AOR pop song from American Idol also ran – Grade: B

9. Little Woman Love – Paul and Linda McCartney – First rate boogie woogie – Grade: A-

10. Something In The Way You Are – Gotye's foil is pretty annoying in her own right – Grade: C+

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