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– Honey Hush – Big Joe Turner – – As nasty a piece of misogyny as rock and roll ever manages, as he warns his woman to stop that "Yakkety yak" because he's "holding a baseball bat" before he hits the road with Tonto. Makes you wonder exactly why he is in such a hurry to leave.

2. No Love Lost – Wiley – This is the Wileyest song you'll ever hear the highlight of the newbie, the hook is verbal: "where they are now, I don't know though…. I couldn't tell ya" he warns about his musical fellow travellers.

3. Goodbye To England (Covered In Snow) – Laura Marling – This would be a great English folk song under any circumstances, but the flash forward, the return when she is older, moves it into the realm of myth.

4. Radio Sweetheart – Elvis Costello – The flip side of his first single opens with a fade-in. A fade-in? No, Elvis was never a punk rocker.

5. My God – James Fortuna  Fiya – A big song, should have Gospel fans swooning.

6. Bite The Bullet/The Chase Is Better Than The Catch – Motorhead – Sounds a lot like Motorhead -if you see what I mean

7. Dreamer – Elizaveta – not only his name like a thin wafer for women on diets, so is her song.

8. We Take Care Of Our Own – Bruce Springsteen – So now I have tix to see him at MSG, does the song sound any better, you ask? No.

9. Summertime Clothes – Animal Collective – The exact direction the new album will take off from.

10.Sidecar – Kathleen Edwards

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