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Islands in the Stream by Constantines and Feist, streaming at http://arts-crafts.ca/constantines/islandsinthestream
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Where Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers saw a campy hoot, Leslie Feist and the newly sensitive rockers of Constantines see poignant devotion. In a hypothermia-induced take on the Bee Gees-penned love oath, Bryan Webb is the taciturn, low-voiced cowboy, "soft inside" for the downy, harmony-singing Feist. Sparse, slo-mo and tender, this B-side's one for the ages — from one lover to another, ah-hah.
You Really Got a Hold on Me by She & Him, from Volume One (Merge)
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She's actress Zooey Deschanel; he's singer-songwriter M. Ward. Surprisingly, in a sweet bedroom-quality recording of the Smokey Robinson classic, an apparently tone-deaf Ward mangles his duet part, while Deschanel, in a torchy-country-karaoke kind of way, really does have a hold on us.
Live With Me by the Rolling Stones with Christina Aguilera, from Shine a Light (Polydor)
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Wouldn't it make more sense for the saucy-singing Aguilera, not sexagenarian Jagger, to take the line "I got nasty habits"? A gassed-up romp pairs a rubber-lipped dirty old man with a belting young blonde, but it's horn-playing Bobby Keys who ends up hitting the sax.
