Gut Feeling – Devo
The beginning twitches. nervous twitch. A guitar that keeps trying to settle but can’t quite decide where to land.
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
Though it is over in two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, it could well be the most flawless two minutes and twenty-eight seconds in pop music history.
Reptilia – The Strokes
Reptilia kicks its heels in, grins its teeth, and erupts into one of the tightest, leanest rock attacks of the 2000s just after that squirming bassline slithers out of the shadows.