1. Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus – The most self-reflective song ever written. In Stickles frustration at his inability to write the song, "I'll write my masterpiece some other day" he snarls, he writes his first undeniable masterpiece. A great song. I still listen to it all the time.
2. The Immigrant Song – Karen O, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – The old Led Zep number. Karen is on record as not knowing the original and this deconstruction is a serious noise.
3. Just Snap your Fingers – Marshall Crenshaw – It seems easy but if it was everybody would write such magical pop rock songs.
4. …And Ever – Titus Andronicus – He wrote my eulogy. I want this played on my birthday.
5. Reviewing The Situation – Oliver Soundtrack – This and another song in the musical, mixes a Jewish musical, almost gypsy, sound to West End. The lyric, by Lionel Bart, is unreal as Fagin talks himself into and out of going straight. In the movie, ron Moody gives an award winning solo.
6.Maps – Yeah yeah Yeah
7. Keep The Car Running – Arcade Fire – Sure, I'm not a big fan but I like this song lots and lots. Somebody wrote how they never write love songs, this one sure ain't.
8. Safe And Sound – Taylor Swift – She foregoes both her pop and her country roots to pretty good effect.
9. Generation Indigo – poly Styrene – What a loss, the album should have been in my top 20 albums and I forgot.
10. When I Paint My Masterpiece – Bob Dylan – Just like Titus Andronicus, though 40 odd years earlier, a self-reflexive exercise that is what it claims to want to be.