Brightest Young Things

1.Spice Girls, "Headline (Friendship Never Ends)"
The New Spice Girls single. (they're back!) It is good that a. Victoria married rich and b. Mel B has Eddy Murphy's child rearing money till the day she dies. Because-this song kinda blows.

view here via Kevipod

2. Beirut, "My Night With the Prostitute From Marseille"
A classy tune from Zach Condon, straight from the much blog buzzed "Natalie Portman's Big Change: Songs for FINCA charity" album.

stream here via Stereogum

3. Björk, "Scary"
An old B-side. From the Homogenic Era. Which is amazing.

MP3 here via Music Slut

4.M.I.A., "Paper Planes (remix)
All Hip Hopped out and Killer. Better than the original song even.

MP3 here via Music Slut

5. The Verve, The Thaw Sessions
Verve is also back. And as NY Magazine said: "doing what they do best-playing the same chord for 15 straight minutes".

MP3 here via NME

6. Sondre Lerche, "To Be Surprised"
Since everyone is on a Swedish, melodic pop high since that Jens Lekman show on Thursday, here is some more.

youtube/MP3 here via Music Slut

7. 50 Cent feat. Lil' Kim, "Wanna Lick?"
And just because the general classiness of this week's column was a tad overwhelming, we have 50 and Lil' Kim evening things out for us. No classy lollipop metaphors here

MP3 here via Nah Right

Previously in Downloads:

• 1/27: Download: Axel F 1 Yeah Anniversary Mix
• 1/20: Download: Fatback Mix XXXIX
• 8/22: Download: Ferris Presents; School's out 4EVER!
• 8/19: Download: FATBACK MIX #33
• 8/17: Download: QUE SERA Slaughterhouse Mix
• 8/4: DOWNLOAD: A Busy Season for DAWES
• 7/25: Download: HELL IS FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Denman Summer Mix
• 6/17: Download: FATBACK MIX 3.3
• 3/17: Download: Fatback Mix #30
• 2/22: Download! Stereo Faith & Micah Vellian "Fr33k3rs"