. Baby, I Love Your Way – Peter Frampton – On the road, pushing Comes Alive one more time, this is the only work of sustained genius (except for a coupla Herd tracks), ignoring both his English pop side and his American blues side and instead discovering his singer-songwriter multiple acoustic guitars side. It is a pretty tune and it gave him a life time career. Deservedly so.
2.Yaz Gazetici – Derdiyoklar – Protest music from Turkey: "For heavens sake journalist come to our village and write about our situation,
Don't write about painted fingers in the city, Write about the calloused hands in our village." It starts like a Muslim pray and continues like a Gypsy purge on Western instruments.
3. Wild Word (demo) – Cat Stevens – What is interesting is the minor tweaking it took to make a great song a masterpiece: a play with the words, a fillip on the chorus.
4. Michael Jackson – Das Racist – An Aloud sample not a million miles from "Big Pippin'", to make the point that Me's lifestyle was…err, actually, I don't know what their point was. Catchy mofo but.
5. Laverne – Friendly Fires
6. Start me up – The Rolling Stones – If this hadn't occurred at the height of punk, I might have admired this smooth Richard's riff a whole lot more. But I would have never much cared for the lyric.
7. Slaughterhouse-Five – Bury Your Dead – World class hardcore: I think I prefer HC when it gives up on melody and concentrates on the pain.
8. King – O.A.R. – This is pretty good art jam with zero blues influence.
9. June On The West Coast – Vitamin String Quarter – The cello takes the bottom, the violins the top and the melody, always a good one, stays in the middle.
10. Redondo beach – Morrissey – Patti Smith cover cuts away at the lesbian overtone.