The Coolest Songs In The World compilations present a cross-section of the kind of rock’n’roll bands you’re likely to hear on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio show. Makes sense, since the E-Street guitarist selects the tracks, writes the liner notes, and puts it out on his Wicked Cool Records. Volume 5 features some newer bands like The Pipettes, The Raconteurs and the long-named Butch Walker and The Let’s Go Out Tonites, who do a dead-on T.Rex on “Hot Girls In Good Moods”. There’s also new music from old favorites Cheap Trick (who sound merely OK on “If It Takes A Lifetime”), The Saints (a downright feral “Porno Movies”) and ex-Flaming Groovie Roy Loney. Perhaps the best song here is “25 Hours A Day” an irresistibly vapid glam-era obscurity from Kim Fowley moonlighting under the name Jimmy Jukebox.
Tracklisting:
1. Some Other Guy – Hentchmen
2. Nothing Terribly New – The Hellacopters
3. Hot Girls in Good Moods – Butch Walker
4. Because I’m Awesome – The Dollyrots
5. If It Takes a Lifetime – Cheap Trick
6. If I Ain’t Got You – The Len Price 3
7. Pull Shapes – The Pipettes
8. Almost Summer – The Apers
9. Why Do They Know – Satelliters
10. Code Fun – Black Tie Revue
11. Ain’t So Cool – Les Hell on Heels
12. Baby du Jour – Roy Loney & the Longshots
13. Hands – The Raconteurs
14. What Would Joan Jett Do? – The Launderettes
15. Porno Movies – The Saints
16. 25 Hours a Day – Jimmy Jukebox
