1. Poses – Rufus Wainwright
2. There Goes – Alan Jackson
3. Innocent People Cry – Gregory Isaacs
Sometimes, three songs (it’s always three songs bizarrely enough) hi-jack your Ipod. These three have run off with mine. The Gregory Isaacs number sounds more calypso then anything human, and it sways in its anger. A masterpiece I recommend to basso Buju now he’s out on bail.
4. Salt Of The Earth – Bettye Lavre – If Bettye ever makes it big , she will be a blast for an SNL to take the micky. The woman sings every word as if the weight of the world is on her shoulders. And never found a melody she couldn’t make worse. I can’t take her at any price.
5. Sometimes It Snows In Paris – Phoebe Legere – I hadn’t heard Phoebe in a number of years so returning to the cabaret chanteuse (plus accordion!) I wondered why her voice wasn’t doing. Remembered that her voice was always like an engine for me: taking a while to warm up. So I gave it sometime to warm up. And now it is roaring through me on my fave Xmas song of the season.
6. Fuck People – Off! – Declaims loudly.
7.The Prodigal Husband – Tim Kashner – Declaims softly.
8. Play It Loud – The Black Eyed Peas – Shoulda been the first single.
9. Double It – Galactic – Hip hop comes to New Orleans and hip hop wins.
10. Please Don’t Break My Heart – Gary Wilson – It is mainstream soul from somebody who neither knows nor cares what constitutes the mainstream.