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Sunday, 29 December 2013

100 albums of 2013


 
(1): British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy

(2): David Bowie – The Next Day (deluxe + extras)

(3): Public Service Broadcasting – Inform – Educate - Entertain

(4): Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film

(5): Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

(6): Arctic Monkeys – AM

(7): Helen Love - Day-Glo Dreams

(8): Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

(9): The National – Trouble Will Find Me

(10): Arcade Fire – Reflektor


















(11): I am Kloot – Let It All In

(12): Billy Bragg – Tooth and Nail

(13): Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live from KCRW
 
(14): The House of Love – She paints Words in Red

(15): John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts

(16): Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2

(17): Prefab Sprout – Crimson / Red

(18): Little Green Cars – Absolute Zero

(19): Lloyd Cole – Standards

(20): Adam Ant – Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter




(21): Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

(22): M.I.A.Matangi

(23): London Grammar – If You wait

(24): Eels – Wonderful, Glorious

(25): The Strypes – Snapshot

(26): Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito

(27): Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
 
(28): Gabriel Bruce – Love in Arms

(29): Neil Young - Live at the Cellar Door

(30): Bob Dylan – Another Self Portrait (bootleg series vol.10)


(31): New Order – Live at Bestival 2012

(32): Karl BartosOff the Record

(33): Various Artists - Django Unchained OST
 
(34): Parquet Courts – Light up Gold

(35): Midlake – Antiphon
 
(36): Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
 
(37): Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze

(38): The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra – The Benevolence of Sister Mary Ignatius

(39): Savages – Silence Yourself

(40): Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe




(61): Bill Callahan – Dream River

(62): The Knife – Shaking the Habitual

(63): Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God

(64): Various ArtistsInside Llewyn Davis

(65): Karl Hyde – Edgeland

(66): Los Campesinos! – No Blues

(67): Primal Scream – More Light

(68): La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin

(69): Daughter – If You Leave

(70): The Pastels – Slow Summits

 

(71): Elvis Costell & The Roots – Wise Up Ghost

(72): Frankie & the Heartstrings – The Days Run Away

(73): Jake Bugg – Shangri-La

(74): The Flaming Lips – The Terror

(75): The Beatles - On Air: live at the BBC Volume 2

(76): Nick Lowe – Quality Street A Seasonal Selection for All the Family

(77): Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady

(78): The Besnard Lakes - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO

(79):  The Duckworth Lewis Method Sticky Wickets
 
(80): Various Artists – The Great Gatsby OST




(81): Everything Everything – Arc

(82): Paul Mccartney - New

(83): King Krule – 6 Feet Beneath the Moon

(84): Volcano Choir - Repave
 
(85): Young Knives – Sick Octave

(86): David Lynch – The Big Dream

(87): Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect

(88): Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart
 
(89): Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day

(90): Omar Souleyman – Wenu Wenu


(91): Disclosure - Settle

(92): Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums

(93): White Lies – Big TV

(94): Matthew E White - Big Inner

(95): The Cribs – Payola: 2002-2012

(96):  Villagers (Awayland)

(97): Scott & Charlene’s wedding – Any Port in a Storm

(98): Stornoway - Tales from Terra Firma
 
(99): The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat (delux reissue)

(100): The Fall – Re-Mit

Monday, 16 December 2013

Rocket Science # 6: Christmas 2013

 
 

1: Crimble Time - The Beatles
2: And the Salvation Army Band Plays (disco mix) - Helen Love
3: Here Comes Santa Claus - Bob Dylan
4: (Have a) Merry Christmas - The Quotations
5: Christmas Present - The Sugarcubes
6: Christmas Is - Run DMC
7: Tinsel Town - Eugene McGuinness
8: Snowboard - The Hussy's
9: Christmas at the Airport - Nick Lowe
10: Reindeer - The Knife
11: Christmas Wrapping - Summer Camp
12: Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Guster
13: No Christmas While I'm Talking - The Walkmen
14: I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Brenda Lee
15: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - She & Him
16: Walk Out to Winter - Aztec Camera
17: Home for the Holidays - Emmy the Great & Tim Wheeler
18: The Mistlethrush - The Pogues
19: Despite the Snow - Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo
20: You're a Mean One Mr. Ginch - Aimee Mann
21: The First Song - Band of Horses
22: (Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With the Bag - Kay Starr
23: Wonderful Christmastime - The Shins
24: It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas - Fruit Bats

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Rocket Science #6:05

We've laid the cables and the wires
We've split the wood and stoked
the fires
We've lit our town so there is no
Place for crime to hide
Our little church is painted white
And in the safety of the night
We all go quiet as a mouse
For the word is out
God is in the house
 
 
1: Rags To Riches - Tony Bennett
2: Is Vic There? - Department S
3: She Goes to Finos - The Toy Dolls
4: No Expression - The Sufis
5: Baby Let Me Take You Home - The Animals
 
6: Bring It On - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7: What Doesn't Kill You - Jake Bugg
8: Isolation - Jane Horrocks
9: Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
10: Falling - Julee Cruise
11: Berzerk - Eminem
12: You've Got Me Wonderin' Now -
Parquet Courts
13: Punka - Kenickie
14: Here Comes The Nice - The Small Faces
15: Rip Her To Shreds - Blondie
16: The Hearse - Wampire




17: Happy When It Rains - The Jesus & Mary Chain
18: The Renegade (Radio Edit) - Friend Within
19: Wha' G'wan? (feat. Tukka) - Us3
20: Love Is Blindness - Jack White
21: Don't You Wanna Be Mine - The History of Apple Pie
22: Red Moon - The Walkmen
23: Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Rocket Science #6:04

1: Giorgio by Moroder -Daft Punk
2: Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
3: Evil Eye - Franz Ferdinand
4: Sky Men - Geoff Goddard
5: Tether - CHVRCHES
6: Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7: Big Love (Hot Chip Remix) - Matthew E. White
8: Too Late - Dreadzone
9: Too Bad, (That's Sad) - Edwyn Collins
10: Loaded Gun - Lightening Dust
11: Dogon Genesis - Lumerians
12: Will Calls (Marfa Demo) - Grizzly Bear
13: You Go To My Head - Judy Garland













14: Devil Came a Calling - Prefab Sprout
15: I Don't Know How - Best Coast
16: Together Forever- Two Wounded Birds
17: Monsters of Sunderland - British Sea Power
18: Old Clash Fan Fight Song - Billy Bragg

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Rocket Science #6:03

Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers

 

1: Pink Dominos – The Crescents
2: Andro Queen – Pixies
3: King City – Swim Deep
4: Same Things –
David Woodcock
5: Jackie Boy – Scott & Charlene’s Wedding
6: Tomorrow Tomorrow – Eleanor Friedberger
7: Earthly Pleasure – Villagers
8: Et Moi, et moi, et moi – Jacques Dutronc
9: Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft – The Wedding present
10: Doom and Gloom  - The Rolling Stones




11: Come Walk With Me - M.I.A.
12: Love Like Blood – Killing Joke
13: Staring at the Rude Boys – The Ruts
14: There Goes Our Love Again –
White Lies
15: Dark and Stormy – Hot Chip
16: Reflektor - Arcade Fire
17: Shine, Shine, Shine – Grant Hart
18: Sun Song – Laura Veirs
19: Shyer - London Grammar
20: What a Shame - The Strypes

 

Monday, 2 September 2013

Rocket Science #6:02

So when you say it's gonna happen now.
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long.
And all my hope is gone!!


 
1: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997) - Spiritualized
2: Goodnight Moon (2000) - Shivaree
3: Mary (2000) - Supergrass
4: I Love You, Ono (1999) - Stereo Total
5: Love is a Bourgeois Construct (2013) - Pet Shop Boys
6: White No Sugar (1999) - The Clint Boon Experience


7: Opposites Day (2013) - Lloyd Cole
8: He Was The King (2005) - Neil Young
9: Baby You're A Rich Man (1967) - The Beatles
10: Dayglo Reflection (ft Lana del Rey) (2012) - Bobby Womack
11: Bagboy (2013) - Pixies
12: Houses In Motion (1980) - Talking Heads


13: Broken (2013) - Jake Bugg
14: Ton of Love (2013) - The Editors
15: Get Myself Into It (2006) - The Rapture
16: Getting Away With It (1989) - Electronic
17: Tempo Block (1964) - Raymond Scott
18: Rewind the Film (feat. Richard Hawley) (2013) - Manic Street Preachers

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Rocket Science #6:01


when live music was affordable!!
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a t-shirt away






1: A Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer & his Orchestra
2: Cars Not Leaving - Gabriel Bruce
3: Soon You'll Be Gone - The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra
4: What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
5: The Day My Pad Went Mad - John Cooper Clarke
6: From the Ritz to the Rubble - Archtic Monkeys
7: Stoned and Staving - Parquet Courts
8: 2020 - Suuns
9: Caterpillars - The Handsome Family

10: Old Ned - Ron Grainer
11: Bird Balloons - Lady Lamb The Beekeeper
12: Destination Zulu Land - King Kurt
13: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
14: Surf City - The 101'ers
15: Everybody's Free (to wear Sunscreen) - Paris Music
16: In My Mouth - Todd Rundgren
17: Soothe My Soul - Depeche Mode
18: Positively 4th Street (mono) - Bob Dylan
19: The Village - New Order
20 Handyman Blues - Billy Bragg


Sunday, 28 July 2013

My Rocket Science: Graham Harrison



1: 20th Century Man - The Kinks
2: Stupid Girl - Garbage
3: Christchurch Woman - Justin Townes Earle
4: You Belong to Me - The Doobie Brothers
5:  Slave - The Rolling Stones
6: Muy Fifi - Ry Cooder
7: Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck







8: After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
9: Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
10: Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd. - Ryan Adams
11: How Come - Ray LaMontagne
12: Gringo - Little Feat
13: Song For Suzie - Heads, Hands & Feet
14: Gala (Unedited) - Waterboys
15: Stay - Jackson Browne

Friday, 14 June 2013

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Rocket Science #5:10

"Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob"
Ayn Rand



SIDE ONE
1: The Cross Eyed Rambler.......
2: Back 2 the Wild - Basement Jaxx
3: Colors - Horse Thief 
4: Because I Got It Like That - Jungle Brothers
5: Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
6: I Don't Want To Be Nice - John Cooper Clarke
7: Kill Surf City - Jesus & The Mary Chain
8: Axis - Pet Shop Boys
9: Entertainment - Phoenix
10: Because I Got it Like That - Jungle Brothers
11: Human - Daughter
12: Second Bite of the Apple - Beady Eye
13: What Are You Doing Fool? - Edwyn Collins & The Heartbreaks
14: Lightning Bolts - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
SIDE TWO
15: Is She in a Coma?.....
11: Reckoner - Radiohead
12: The Romance of the Telescope - OMD
13: Isjaki - Sigur Ros
14: Rock Flock of Five......
15: Slow - Kylie Minogue

16: Lady Day & John Coltrane - Gil Scott-Heron
17: Never Wanted Your Love - She & Him
18: The Bus Driver's Prayer - Ian Dury
19: It's A Lovely Day - Ella Fitzgerald

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Flash, Bang, Wallop what a picture......

Daft Punk (you got to love them) at Monaco Grand Prix (or is it?)

Monday, 13 May 2013

Rocket Science #5:09

The Simple Things You See Are All Complicated.......

1: Please remain seated...

2: Idiot Country - Electronic
3: I Don't like you ('cos you don't like the Pastals) - This Many Boyfriends
4: Razzmatazz - Pulp

5: The Kid's a looker (live) - Morrissey
6: Get Lucky - Daft Punk
7: Freedom -
Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton
8: Tomorrow never knows - The Beatles
9: Tramp down the dirt - Elvis Costello
10: Where can I go? - Laura Marling
11: Check my heart - The Pastels
12: I Go to sleep - Anika
13: I Got a name - Jim Croce



14: Blue collar Jane -
The Strypes
15: 2013 - Primal Scream
16: Flame-Out! - Paul Weller
17: Hemingway -
The House of Love
18: Everyone understands -
The Leisure Society
19: Demons - The National
20: The Boy with the jigsaw puzzle fingers - Karl Hyde

Monday, 8 April 2013

Rocket Science #5:08



1: Most of My Heroes Still... - Public Enemy
2: Django - Luis Bacalov & Rocky Roberts
3: Express Yourself - Labrinth
4: The Greatness & Perfection Of Love - Julian Cope / Teardrop Explodes
5: She Drives Me Crazy - The Good Natured
6: Blind - Talking Heads
7: Dilemna - Edwyn Collins
8: All the Time - The Strokes
9: She Will - Savages
10: A Tattered Line of String - The Postal Service
11: Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shangri-Las
12: Step Up for the Cool Cats - Palma Violets
13: Heaven - Depeche Mode
14: Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
15: Beat Girl - The John Barry Orchestra
16: Full of Fire - The Knife
17: Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18: I've Got A Name For The Newborn Child - Hiss Golden Messenger
19: In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song) - David Lynch & Alan R. Splet
20: Follow Baby - Peace
21: After You - Pulp
22: Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting

Sunday, 7 April 2013

My Rocket Science: Steve Cook

1: Just Play Music - Big Audio Dynamite
2: M.P.L.A. Dub - Tappa Zukie

3: Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
4: You Get What You Give - New Radicals
5: Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
6: Changes - David Bowie
7: Backstabbers - The O'Jays
8: Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
9: Heaven Knows - Robert Plant
10: If The Brakeman Turns My Way - Bright Eyes
11: Failed Suicide Club - Babybird




12: Young Pilgrims - The Shins
13: Cough Syrup - Young the Giant
14: No Cars Go - The Arcade Fire
15: Tinseltown In The Rain - The Blue Nile



16: Love and Mercy - Brian Wilson
17: Summer (The First Time) - Bobby Goldsboro
18: Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio -
Tom Robinson

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Rocket Science #5:07

"can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me"



1: I'll Stay With You - New Order
2: Undegpedwar - Y Niwl
3: Where Are We Now? - David Bowie
4: See You - The History of Apple Pie
5: It Starts and Ends With You - Suede
6: Shrink - Adam Ant
7: Atomium - Karl Bartos
8: Bullets - I Am Kloot
9: Ramona - Night Beds
10: Hee Haw Breakdown -
Nolan Cormier & the Louisiana Aces
11: The Passenger - Iggy Pop
12: Stick Together - Eels
13: Screwdriver - Prince
14: San Francisco - Foxygen
15: Everything At Once - Lenka
16: Machineries of Joy - British Sea Power
17: A New Life - Jim James
18: Harper Lee - Little Green Cars
19: Ol' 55 - Tom Waits
20: ...........

Theme Time Rocket Science: #5

1: The Party - Regina Spektor
2: Next Sunday Darlin' Is My Birthday - Hank Williams
3: The Invitation - Turin Brakes
4: All Night Disco Party - Brakes
5: Party For Your Right To Fight - Public Enemy
6: 1999 - Prince
7: 99 Luftballons - Nena
8: The Tea Party - Big Audio Dynamite
9: Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson
10: Birthday - Paul Weller
11: 16 Candles - The Crests
12: The Party - Betty and the Werewolves


13: San Antonio Foam Party -
Half Man Half Biscuit
14: Release The Bats - The Birthday Party
15: Helicopter (Whitey Version) - Bloc Party
16: All Tomorrow's Parties -
June Tabor And The Oyster Band
17: Piece of the Cake - Martin Stephenson & The Daintees
18: Party Doll - Buddy Knox
19: Many Happy Returns - ABC
20: Celebration - Sally Oldfield
21: Happy, Happy Birthday Baby -
The Tune Weavers
22: ................
23: Party Fears Two - The Associates

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Rocket Science #5:06

1: Aria (La Wally) - Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernadez
2: Spitfire - Public Service Broadcasting
3: We No Who 'U 'R - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4: Far Far Away - Slade
5: The Right Thing Right - Johnny Marr
6: Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
7: Pacific Ocean Blues - Dennis  Wilson
8: Knock Knock - Band of Horses
9: Velvet Elvis - Alex Winston





10: Taste It - Jake Bugg
11: Southwood Plantation Road - The Mountain Goats
12: Dirty Paws - Of Monsters And Men
13: Heart Of Stone (mono) - The Rolling Stones
14: See My Friend - The Kinks
15: Rock Bottom - King Krule
16: Laura - Bat For Lashes
17: Disappear - Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo
18: Mezzanine - Shields
19: Classy Girls - The Lumineers
20: She Got A Wiggle - Dexys
21: See Through Blue - Beth Orton
22: Too Close to Heartbreak - The Raveonettes
23: You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover - The Strypes