1. Any Old Iron – Peter Sellers – The best of Goons? Hard to say when the competition is Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. The most famous? Absolutely. Here Sellers is playing low class/upper class to very amusing effect on a Brit Dance Hall perennial.
2. I Honestly Love You – Peter Allen – Call me a cynic, but this is a case of he protesteth too much. The honestly overstates the case… who doubts him?
3. Trouble On My Mind – Pusha T – With Tyler The Creator, "Two different world, same symmetry" claims Tyler and while it left me cold as a single, I love it on the new EP.
4. Psychic Mesa – Total Slacker – Lo Fi psycehdelia by the great indie band who stood their own last year opening for Wavves. The album is on Spotify… Ill report back after I've listened to it more.
5. The Man That Got Away (Live) – Judy Garland – The greatest gay anthemn of them all, is completely devastating at Carnegie Hall.
6. Oh What A Beautiful Mornn' – Hugh Jackman – Personifies American optimism.
7. Sherry Darling – Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band – Here is Bruce's genius: in what amounts to a joke song, the last verse begins with: "Let there be sunlight, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again…"
8. You Da One – Rihanna – Great fade in.
9. My Old Man Said Follow The Van – Mrs Mills
10. A Hard Day's Night -Peter Sellers – This time Sellers is playing low/high culture. Chamber music in the background as Sellers recites the Beatles as though he is Richard Burton and the Beatles are Shakespeare.