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Tuesday 29 December 2015

Rocket Science #7:10

"there's too much caffeine
In your blood stream
And a lack of real spice
In your life"





1: Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Theme) - John Carpenter
2: Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours - The Smiths
3: Blackstar - David Bowie
4: Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes - Charlotte Gainsbourg
5: The Harrowed and the Haunted - The Decemberists
6: My Reward - Hamilton Leithauser & Paul Maroon
7: Shut Em Down - Public Enemy
8: She Does It Right - Dr. Feelgood
9: I Wanna Get in Your Pants - The Cramps
10: Hard Headed Women - Elvis Presley
11: Headcoat Lane - Thee Headcoats
12: About Tonight - The Ordinary Boys
13: Tiger - The Hussy's
14: 54 46 Was My Number - Toots & The Maytals
15: Noise, Noise, Noise - The Damned
16: Only After Dark - The Human League
17: Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
18: Yashar (John Robie remix) - Cabaret Voltaire
19: We'll Meet Again - She & Him

Friday 11 December 2015

Rocket Science # best of 2015 - Top 20

1: The Decemberists -
What A Terrible World, What A beautiful World
2: New Order - Music Complete
3: Julia Holter - Have You in Mind
4: Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall
5: John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
6: Courtney Barnett -
Sometimes I Sit and Think Sometimes I Just Sit
7:  The Waterboys - Modern Blues
8: Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
9:  Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
10: Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp



11: EL VY - Return to the Moon
12: Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
13: Blur - Magic Whip
14: The Charlatans - Modern Nature
15: British Sea Power - Sea of Brass
16: Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi
17: Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down
18: Joanna Newsom - Divers
19: Here We Go Magic - Be Small
20: Public Image Ltd. - What The World Needs Now








Thursday 10 December 2015

Rocket Science # best of 2015: 21-40



21: Kitty Daisey & Lewis - The Third
22: Admiral Fallow - Small Rewards
23: Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
24: Public Service Broadcasting -
      The Race for Space
25: Bjork - Vulnicura
26: Will Butler - Policy
27: Chemical Brothers - Born in Echoes
28: Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows
29: Mercury Rev - The Light in You
30: Slaves - Are you Satisfied?




31: Ryley walker - Primrose Green
32: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
33: Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
34: Beirut - No, No, No.
35: Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
36: Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
37: Iron & Wine + Ben Bridwell - Sing into My Mouth
38: Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
39: Laura Marling - Short Movie
40: Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance






top 20 tomorrow


Wednesday 9 December 2015

Rocket Science # best of 2015: 41-60



41: Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
42: Idlewild - Everything Ever Written
43: Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
44: Gaz Coombes - Matador
45: Jamie XX - In Colour
46: Tame Impala - Currents
47: Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
48: This is Kit - Bashed Out
49: The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
50: My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall



51: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
52: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Angels & Ghosts
53: Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night
54: Ryan Adams - 1989
55: I Am Kloot - Hold Back The Night
56: The Arcs - Yours Dreamily
57: Four Tet - Morning / Evening
58: Cathal Smyth - A Comfortable Man
59: Wilco - Star Wars
60: Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last




see 21 - 40 tomorrow






Tuesday 8 December 2015

Rocket Science # best of 2015: 61-80














61: Best Coast - California Nights
62: The Cribs - For All My Sisters
63: Ryan Adams - Live at Carnegie Hall
64: Squeeze - Cradle to the Grave
65: Peace - Happy People
66: Bob Moses - All in All
67: The Bird & The Bee - Recreational Love
68: Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture
69: The Unthanks - Mount the Air
70: The Slow Show - White Water


















71: Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
72: The Vaccines - English Graffitti
73: Panda Bear - Meets the Grim Reaper
74: The Skints - FM
75: The View - Ropewalk
76: Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
77: The Fall - Sub-lingual Tablet
78: Calexico - Edge of the Sun
79: Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
80: Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars




see 41 - 60 tomorrow

Monday 7 December 2015

Rocket Science # best of 2015: 81-100

















81: Homeshake - Midnight Snack
82: Maccabees - Marks to Prove It
83: Public Enemy - Man Plans God Laughs
84: Beach House - Depression Cherry
85: Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You
86: Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
87: Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
88: Susanna Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
89: Sons of Bill - Love & Logic
90: Mini Mansions - The Great Pretender


















91: Jack + Eliza - Gentle Warnings
92: Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
93: Michachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
94: Prince - Hit n Miss
95: Go Team! - The Scene Between
96: Leonard Cohen - Can't Forget
97: Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
98: Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
99: The Wombats - Glitterbug
100: Gang of Four - What Happens Next?


see 61 - 80 tomorrow

Rocket Science #7:09

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
to a friend, 1950















1: Throwing my Arms around Paris - Morrissey
2: All The Kings - Editors
3: Holes - Mercury Rev
4: Silent Ivy Hotel - EL VY
5: Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix) - Aphex Twin
6: Tutti Frutti (12'' Extended Mix 2) - New Order
7: How Do I Know - Here We Go Magic
8: Council Meetin' - The Style Council
9: The Hunter - Slaves
10: Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
11: Two To Birkenhead - Bill Ryder-Jones
12: House Of Cards - Radiohead
13: Angela's Eyes - Guy Garvey
14: Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 Alternate Take - Bob Dylan
15: Sweet Jane (Mono) - The Velvet Underground
16: The Boy Wonders - Aztec Camera
17: Taxi Cab - Tracey Thorn
18: I Was Doing Fine (Then a Few People Died) - Craig Finn
19: Paris France - Red Guitars


Tuesday 1 December 2015

Rocket Science #7:08

1: Bizness - Tune-Yards
2: You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates

3: La Loose - Waxahatchee
4: Under The Rug - The View
5: Barbarians - The Libertines
6: Shake It Off - Ryan Adams
7: Lie Lie Lie - Metric
8: Pretty Pimpin - Kurt Vile
9: Let Me Imagine You
 - Robert Forster
10: Stolen Footsteps - Wand
11: Dot Com - Battles
12: Matthew Arnold's Field
 - Ben Watt




13: Secret Meeting - The National
14: Oh No - Jack & Eliza
15: Disappointing (feat. Tracey Thorn) - John Grant
16: A Friend Like You - Aberfeldy
17: No, No, No, - Beirut
18: Sugar Town - Zooey Deschanel
19: Great Summer - Vance Joy
20: She's Dangerous - Tom Tom Club
21: No One's Bothered - Sleaford Mods
22: Trouble Town (Nov 83 version)
- Martin Stephenson & The Daintees






ROCKET SCIENCE TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2015 - COMING SOON



Rocket Science #7:07

And what will she do with Thursday's rags when Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's Clown and cry behind the door






1: My Heart's Not In It (Darlene McRea) - Yo La Tengo
2: Je Pense A Lui - Francoise Hardy
3: Heart of Oak - Richard Hawley

4: Cradle To The Grave - Squeeze
5: Get Into It - The Strypes
6: Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
7: Vietnam - New Order
8: Space Race - The Rah Band
9: Missing (Todd Terry Remix) - Everything But The Girl
10: The Bottle - Gil Scott-Heron
11: Reminisce - Olivia Jean
12: Get Down Moses -
      Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
13: Rebel Without a Pause - Public Enemy
14: My Type - Saint Motel
15: Little Baby - The Bristols
16: Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images
17: What - Judy Street
18: Hotel Chambermaid -
      Graham Parker & The Rumour
19: Red Guitar - David Sylvian
20: Jeepers Creepers - The Puppini Sisters
21: Everytime Boots - Julia Holter

Tuesday 4 August 2015

Rocket Science #7:06

When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads




1: Alfie - Cilla Black
2: Restless - New Order
3: The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4: Go - The Chemical Brothers
5: Restless Year - Ezra Furman
6: Bankrobber - The Clash
7: Run To Your Mama - Goat
8: Make Some Noise - The Beastie Boys
9: Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
10: Usually Bright - Elbow
11: How to Forget - Jason Isbell
12: Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
13: Don't You Find - Jamie T
14: Ong Ong - Blur
15: State Of Independence - Donna Summer
16: Kiss And Not Tell - La Roux
17: 10:37 - Beach House
18: She's Got the Light - Cathal Smyth
19: No Blue Skies - Lloyd Cole
20: Work Is A Four Letter Word - Cilla Black

Tuesday 30 June 2015

Rocket Science #7:05

1: 6 A.M. Jullandar Shere - Cornershop
2: What'cha Gonna Do About It? - The Small Faces
3: Would You...? - Touch & Go
4: Katie, Queen of Tennessee - The Apache Relay
5: Life's Too Short - The Lafayettes
6: I Heard Wonders - David Holmes
7: The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box - Modest Mouse
8: Y Gwyneb Iau - Super Furry Animals
9:
10: On The Regular - Shamir
11: Dead Fox - Courtney Barnett
12: Save Me From Myself - FFS
13: I'm Shakin' - Jack White
14: Handsome - The Vaccines
15: Love Song - Simple Minds
16: The Next Episode - Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
17: Don't Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes
18: Death Is A Girl - Mini Mansions
19: Venice with the Girls - The Fall
20: Merry Go Round - Jah Wobble
21: Because I Got It Like That - Jungle Brothers

Thursday 14 May 2015

Rocket Science #7:04

1: Burn My Candle - Shirley Bassey
2: There Are Too Many Of Us - Blur
3: Tiswas - Sleaford Mods
4: Rock with You - Michael Jackson
5: Sunshine on My Back - The National
6: The Man With the 4-Way Hips - Tom Tom Club
7: Miss The Girl - The Creatures
8: Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan
9: Bunkerpop - Lonelady
10: False Hope - Laura Marling
11: Insomniac - Echobelly
12: After All - The HAzey Janes
13: John Doe - Young Fathers
14: Cream Of The Young - Fat White Family
15: God help the girl - God help the girl
16: Get Low - Stornoway
17: In My Room - Scott Walker
18: No shade in the shadow of the cross - Sufjan Stevens
19: Tallulah - allo darling
20: Heavenmetal - Chelsea Light Moving
21: Kiss Me A lot - Morrissey
22:

Sunday 29 March 2015

Rocket Science #7:03

1: Whiplash - Hank Levy
2: Tour De France (La Grande Boucle Mix) - Kraftwerk
3: Baby Bye Bye - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
4: King Of Rock - Run DMC
5: Take My Side - Will Butler
6: Lover Please - Clyde McPhatter
7: The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt. - Father John Misty
8: Let's Get Out - Life Without Buildings
9: Digital Witness (Darkside Remix) - St. Vincent
10: Rapt (TRZTN Remix) - Karen O
11: River - Ibeyi
12: Huarache Lights - Hot Chip
13: Happy People - Peace
14: So Many Things To Decide - Idlewild
15: Avent Gardener - Courtney Barnett
16: All the Sad Young Men - Spector
17: Gagarin - Public Service Broadcasting
18: Blood Red Moon - The Hives
19: Laugh At Me - Sonny Bono

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Rocket Science #7:02


“Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.”

1: Keep Your Lips Sealed - The Dø
2: Stonemilker - Bjork
3: I Can See Elvis - The Waterboys

4: Bike Rider (feat. Pupajim) - Mungo's Hi Fi
5: Emilie - The Charlatans
6: Touch the Leather (Redux) - The Fat White Family


7: Philomena - The Decemberists
8: Tastes Like Medicine - Menace Beach
9: All My Friends (John Cale's Version) - LCD Soundsystem
10: The English Ruse - Gaz Coombes


11: A Prayer For The Unborn - Gary Numan
12: Home Computer (Disc Error Remix) - Kraftwerk
13: Carry Go Bring Come - The Selecter


14: Bird of Prey - Natalie Prass
15: Your Own Silent Movie - Smoke Fairies
16: The Party Line - Belle & Sebastian
17: 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore - David Bowie

Saturday 10 January 2015

Rocket Science #7:01

1: Choreograph - Gilligan Moss
2: I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem














3: Flashed Junk Mind - Milky Chance
4: Shrink -Adam Ant
5: All Summer Long - The Beach Boys
6: Alltogethernow 2004 - The Farm
7: Atlas (Radio Edit) - Battles
8: King's Lead Hat - Brian Eno
9: Blue Smoke - Dolly Patron
10: Give Us A Kiss - Nick Cave













11: a to z of my heart - The Inspiral Carpets
12: We Got The Beat - The GoGos
13: Come Home - Amatorski
14: Memo From Turner - Mick Jagger
















15: Tom Hark (1955) - Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes
16: Superstar - Sonic Youth
17: Killer in the Streets - The Raveonettes
18: Rock This Town - The Stray Cats
19: Dancehall Domine - The New Pornographers
20: Andy's Chest - The Velvet Underground
21: