God Knows, by El Perro Del Mar from her debut album.

The sweetly nostalgic background vocals, the lyrics and her voice transport me, when I want to be transported.

It snowed today, the first of the season.

Hip hop sounds fabulous on the radio. Contemporary hip hop mixes tend to have a spaciousness absent in their rock and pop correlatives. Rather than a wall of smashed, distorted, dimensionless guitars, we get deep, gut-rumbling bass, melodic samples, head-knocking distorted beats, and, in the case of "Smack That," this brilliant couplet courtesy of Akon & Eminem:

Wanna jump up in my Lamborghini Gallardo.
Maybe go to my place and just kick it, like Tae Bo.

I do!

What a beautiful thing, that rhyme...

"You wouldn't expect to hear such a hot guitar solo in a Connie Francis song."