1. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby – Dinah Washington – Very, very sexy jazz. As aggressive as a torch song can possibly get and given the great singers history (married 8 times!) it is hardly a shocker.
2. Machine Gun – Portishead – Off their last album, the rat-a-tat of different toned drums is an infectious rhyme that lives up to its songs name.
3. Reach Out/You Got The Love feat Candi Stanton – Swedish House Mafia – Wait till you hear this one, if there is a better segue than the sample off "Reach Out I'll Be There" I haven't heard it.
4. We Owned The Night – Lady Antebellum – These guys are romantics but this tail of a one night stand isn't lachrymose. The guiyat is ocking and the break real good.
5. Dirt Off Your Shoulder – Jay-Z – Obama pre-empted this to dismiss his critics during his first Presidential campaign.
6. This Guy's In Love With You – Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass – It's a long fuse to a big bang song break as the chance of rejection overwhelms before it subsides again to the verse. Inspired use of "If not I'll just die" by Hal!
7. Stop – Twin Sister – A shoegazers take on trip hop (the drums are heavily doctored) and this is actually kinda… commercial!
8. Witch Shoes – Johanna And The Dusty Floor – Much darker than her first album, Johanna's pop sensibity in check to her Goth witchiness..
9. Our Hearts Are Wrong – Jessica Lea Mayfield – Folk with a country hue in the vocal.
10. You Can Count On Me – Panda Bear