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

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

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

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

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

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


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