1. Get In Line – Ron Sexsmith – Why are heartbreak songs so much better than love songs? Because the one who got away can never let you down but the one you’re with will let you down all the time.
2.The Morning Sun – Beady Eye – Their first flat out Oasis like masterpiece plus extended end.
3. Peg O’My Heart – Dropkick Murphys – Classic as classic rave up
4. The Afterlife – Paul Simon
5. Far Away – Marsha Ambrosius – A slow sizzle that builds between old time soul and hip hop beats for seven delerious minutes
6. Someone Like You – Adele – I keep saying this cemented her -and it did… in the UK. It hasn’t dropped here as a single yet. It’ll be on the Hot 100 for months and months and months and months.
7. Singularity – Bright Eyes – Nothing is living if nothing dies? That is an aphorism of enormous power and subtlety.
8. Under Cover Of Darkness – The Strokes – So, didja think they were any good on SNL. You know what I thought…
9. Bubbly – Colbie Colliat
10. Little By Little – Radiohead – Sure, I hate em, but this one hooked me… blame it on gravity!