10 - "I'm So Ronery" Team America Soundtrack
Being presented as the sad lament of the self-pitying North Korean dictator sung in an extreme "Asian" accent that rewrites the very title, the song is totally set up as comedy. Yet it has such a memorable and honestly compelling sad melody that it still comes out a beautifully sad song, even having to jump over the comedy hurdles to get there. This is just a superior piece of songcraft.

11 - "Button My Lip" Elvis Costello
Elvis has rarely constructed underlying instrumental grooves nearly as good as this or "Bedlam" from the same album. Both of them have much more supple and involved grooves that will thus give longer lasting flavor than perhaps even some of his classic catchy but more hamhanded grooves such as even "Pump It Up."

What really sets off the whole combination of tune and groove is the what might be called jazzy arrays of dissonance that Steve Nieve is setting off in the keyboards as the track progresses. Steve Nieve is BAD.

12 - "Family Tree" Loretta Lynn
This sad fiddle driven broken home lament has a particularly interestingly bitter and malicious lyric. "No, I didn't come to fight/ If he was a better man, I might" Nonetheless, she's brought their children to meet the woman who's burning down their family tree.

This is one of the most straightforward country recordings on this Van Lear album, one of the things closest stylistically to her classic hits.

However, it's a thousand miles different in meaning and intent from "You Ain't Woman Enough." It sounds more obviously "country" than some of the other Van Lear Rose songs (ie it's acoustic), but it sounds neither stylistically nor emotionally like Loretta's classic fightin' woman songs. It's a whole new sound for her.

13 - "The Delivery Man" Elvis Costello
I'll start by saying that this is just the kind of Elvis song that might seem insular to casual fans. In just the kind of cleverness that might infuriate the less patient, he had some half-developed storyline for this album, especially this track- which he purposely cut short and scrapped.

Except that it leaves this song in particular as having a half told story which we never quite get filled in on. On the other hand, you could try to call that a dramatically useful "mystery" as per the "Ode to Billy Joe."

Purely as a stand alone song, though, this has a very compelling melody and tone. He's managed to compose an epic rock waltz that can't be denied. Given the Southern gothic tone, you might think of this as some kind of advanced response to The Band.