1. One More Night – What survives first and foremost is a vocal tour de force by a singer who can’t sing.
2. Too Much Love – LCD Soundsystem – A live in the studio EP out on Tuesday.
3. The Ugly Duck -Danny Kaye – And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack and a flurry of eiderdown. And the moral? if you don’t turn into a swan you’re completely fucked.
4. Make Her Mine – Mayer Hawthorne – Like recent Cee Lo only not as good. So how bad is that?
5. Why Can’t We Love Each Other – Juliana Hatfield – Hitting a height of career mediocrity.
7. Me Enamora – Juanes – Big in japan.
8. Fantasy Is reality – The Brian Wilson Project – Nobody can beat Wilson when it comes to harmonies.
9. Northern Downpour – Panic At the Disco – Only a northern song, right?
10. I Am the Walrus – The Beatles – This is just too good…
11. The Dreams Of Candlelight – TSO – Could this be worse? Is it possible?
12. Nobody Hurts You _ Graham Parker – The great man gets it right: you can’t always be the right flavor. Saw him at Joe’s Pub a year or so ago, he was fabulous.
13. Till I Collapse: Eminem – We have a word for songs like this: album tracks.
14. Roy’s Keen – Morrissey – The WINDOW CLEANER!!!
15. I Stand Accused (Alternate Take) – Elvis Costello – A touch slower, and the vocal isn’t as raw. the take he preferred is much less busy as well.
16. Harry Rag – The Kinks – When Dave said they were too old to go back on tour, he didn’t mean this timeless joy and sublimity of smoking. Everybody fucking dies, why did they take cigs away from us??? Fucking scientists. “I curse myself for the life I’ve lead, and roll myself a Harry Ragg and put myself to dream”. In his wildest dreams, Damon Albarn can write a song like this.
17. You Are Everything – The Stylistics – And everything is you…
18. Not For Me – Marshall Crenshaw – Timeless, flawless, pop heaven from the greatest singer-songwriter of the 80s.
19. Scream Aloud – Fuzzy G – Minor song off a major mix tape
20. Julie _ The Bobby Fuller Four – Marshall Crenshaw loved em.
