Rocket Science #4:02

On a thousand islands in the sea
I see a thousand people just like me
A hundred unions in the snow
I watch them walking, falling in a row

1: For A Few Dollars More 'La Resa Dei Conti' - Ennio Morricone
from the album 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965)

2: Hello - Martin Solveig & Dragonette
from the single (2011)
3: Carry Go Bring Home - The Selecter
from the John Peel session (9/10/79)
4: Once And Never Again - The Long Blondes
from the album 'Someone To Drive You Home' (2006)
5: Superball - Magic Kids
from the single (2009)
6: Happiness - Kenn Dodd
from thesingle (1964)
7: Bad Connection - Yazoo
from the album 'Upstairs at Erics' (1982)
8: The Cult Song - Shannon and The Clams
from the album 'SleepTalk' (2011)
9: You Are a Tourist - Death Cab for Cutie
from the album 'Codes and Keys' (2011)
10: Come to the Bar - Pete and the Pirates
from the album 'One Thousand Pictures' (2011)
11: Glorious - The Pierces
from the album 'You and I' (2011)
12: Henry Rollins Don't Dance - Allo, Darlin'
from the 7" single (2009)
13: Chick Habit - April March
from the album 'Chick Habit' (1995)
14: Calgary - Bon Iver
from the album 'Bon Iver' (2011)
15: Give Him a Great Big Kiss - Shangri-la's
from thesingle (1964)
16: Library Pictures - Arctic Monkeys
from the album 'Suck it and See'(2011)
17: Gimme Some Truth - Primal Scream
from the b-side of single 'Country Girl' (2006)
18: Mandinka - Sinéad O'Connor
from the album 'The Lion and the Cobra' (1987)

19: Hellbent -New Order
from the album 'Total' (2011)
20: Golden Age - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
from the single (2009)
21: Walk Through Walls - Kyla La Grange
from the single (2011)
22: Death Cloud (UK Version) - Cloud Control
from the album 'Bliss Release' (2011)
23: Come Monday Night - God Help the Girl
from the single (2009)
24: Long Way Home - Tom Waits
from the album 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards' (2006)

Rocket Science #4: Peel

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise'.

I don't like encores. It's like, if you see a great painting, you don't want an extra bit painted on the side.

• - John Peel (Wednesday, August 30th, 1939 - Friday, November 12th, 2004) R.I.P

JOHN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

1: John Peel - The Hit Crew

2: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

3: Handsome Devil (live) - The Smiths

4: New Rose (peel session 30/11/76) - The Damned

5: Whiskey in the Jar (Peel session 14/11/72) - Thin Lizzy

6: Pass the Dutchie -Musical Youth

7: Fighting Fit (Peel session 6/1/96) - Gene

8: Lost John -Lonnie Donegan

9: Life After Death - Funboy Five

10: Ku Klux Klan - Steel Pulse

11: Turn the Heater On (Peel session 1/6/82)- New Order 
12: Falling and Laughing (Peel session 30/10/80) -Orange Juice

13:Song Sung Blue - Altered Images

14:Sunspots (peelsession 29/5/84) - Julian Cope

15: Africa - Rico

16: Blue Canary - Frank Chikens

17: John Peel Roadshow - Helen Love

18: Tulips (Peel session 4/11/04) - Bloc Party

19: Bored - Steveless

20: The Saints Are Coming (Peel session 1/9/78) - The Skids

21: The Green Fields of France - The Men They Couldn't Hang

22: Pickin' The Blues - The Housemartins



Rocket Science #4:01

Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!

1: A Night Like This - Caro Emerald

(from the album 'Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor' (2011)
2: Ok - Beastie Boys
(from the album 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two' (2011)3: John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantayzee
(from the album 'Battle Hymn for Children Singing (1983)
4: Blue Tip (Demo) - The Cars
(from the album 'Move Like This' (2011)
5: Can’t Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
(from the album 'The Seeds' (1966)
6: Exile Vilify - The National
(taken from the video game 'Portal 2' (2011)
7: Squealing Pigs - Admiral Fallow
(from the album 'Boots Met my Face (2010)
8: A New Day Has Begun - Roddy Woomble
(from the album 'Impossible Song and Other Songs (2011)
9: Round About - The Cellers
(unreleased single 2003)
10: Glamorous Glue - Morrissey
(from the album 'Your Arsenal' (1992)
11: Pop Muzik (Single version) - M
(from the album 'New York, London, Paris, Munich (1979) 
12: Don't Mess With My Man - Lucy Pearl
(from the album 'Lucy Pearl (2000)
13: Sadness Is a Blessing - Lykke Li
(from the album 'Wounded Rhymes' (2011)
14: Back By Dope Demand - King Bees
(from the 1990 single)
15: My Body - Young the Giant
(from the album 'Young the Giant (2011)
16: Ignite - The Raveonettes
(from the album 'Raven In the Grave (2011)
17: Family Business - Dengue Fever
(from the album 'Cannibal Courtship (2011)

18: Kitsch - Poly Styrene
(from the album 'Generation Indigo (2011)
19: All In White- The Vaccines
(from the album 'What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? (2011)
20: She Talks to Rainbows - Ronnie Spector
(from the EP 'She Talks to Rainbows (1999)

Theme Time Rocket Science #1

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

1: Neil Armstrong's 1969 On the Moon Speech

2: Sea of Tranquility - Siouxsie

(from the album 'Mantaray' 2007)

3: Saturn 5 - The Inspiral Carpets

(from the album 'Devil Hopping' 1994)

4: Goodnight Moon - Shivaree

(from the album 'I Oughtaa a shot in the head for making me live in this dump' 1999)

5: Dat - Pluto Shervington

(from the album 'Pluto' 1975)

6: The Earth Dies Screaming -UB40

(from the non album single 1980)

7: Kelly Watch the Stars -Air

(from the album 'Moon Safari' 1998)

8: Supersonic Rocket Ship - The Kinks

(from the album 'Everybody'sin Show-Biz' 1972)

9: Across The Universe - Cilla Black

(from the album 'Sweet Inspirations' 1970)

10: (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space - John Cooper Clarke

(from the album 'Disguise in Love' 1978)

11: Jetson's Theme - Man or Astro Man

(from the album 'Intravenous Television Continuum' 1996)

12: Destination Venus - Rezillos

(from the album 'Can't stand the Rizillos' 1978)

13: Luna - Fanfarlo

(from the album 'Reservoir' 2009)

14: Nightflight To Uranus - Datarock

(from the album 'Datarock Datarock' 2005)

15: Space - M.I.A

(from the album '/\/\ /\ Y /\' 2010)

16: Eight Miles High - The Byrds 

(from the album 'Fifth Dimension' 1966)

17: Ballrooms of Mars - T-Rex

(from the album 'The Slider'1972)

18: Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips

(from the album 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' 2002)

19: Saw A UFO - Eels

(from the album 'Useless Trinkets' 2007)

20: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

(from the album 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space' 1997)

21: Planet Claire - B52's

(from the album 'B52's' 1979)

22: Apollo 9 (A Cappelle Reprise) - Adam Ant

(from the 'Vive Le Rock' 1985) 

Rocket Science #3: dylan hits 70

You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down, you just stood there grinning
You got a lotta nerve to say you gotta helping hand to lend
You just want to be on the side that's winning

1: Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan
(from the album Knocked out loaded)
2: Come Una Pietra Scalciata - Articolo 31
(from the album Masked & Anonymous)
3: Song For Bob Dylan - David Bowie
(from the album Hunky Dory)
4: Highway 61 Revisited - Dr Feelgood
(from the album Hard Rain a Dylan Tribute)
5: Jokerman - Bob Dylan
(from the album Infidels)
6: Idiot Wind - The Coalporters
(from the album tracks inspired by Bob)
7: Handle With Care - Jenny Lewis
(from the album Rabbit Fur Coat)
8: My Back Pages - The Ramones
(from the album Acid Eaters)
9: It Ain't Me Babe - Nancy Sinatra
(from the album The Essential Nancy)
10: Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James & Calexico
(from the album I'm Not There)
11: Political World - Bob Dylan
(from the album Oh Mercy)
12: Pastures Of Plenty - Woody Guthrie
(from the album Pastures of Plenty)
13: The Man In Me - The Clash
(from the album London Calling 25th Anniversary bonus disc)
14: Blowin' In The Wind - Neil Young
(from the album Weld)
15: Girl From The North Country - Eels
(from the album Live at Town Hall)
16: Simple Twist of Fate - Stephen Fretwell
(from the album Man on the Roof)
17: Like A Rolling Stone (mono version) - Bob Dylan
(from the album Highway 61 Revisited)

Rocket Science #3:10

Guess the dream always end
They don't rise up just descend
But I don't care anymore
I've lost the will to want more

1: Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air - Long John Baldry And The Hoochie Coochie Men
from the single (1964) 

2: What Do You Want From Me? - Monaco
from the album 'Music for Pleasure' (1997)
3: Can't Find Entrance - Those Dancing Days
from the album 'Daydreams and Nightmares' (2011)
4: 96 Tears - The Stranglers
from the album '10' (1990)
5: Waiting for My Chance to Come - Noah & The Whale
from the album 'Last Night on Earth' (2011)
6: Home - Martin Stephenson
from the album 'Collective Force' (2002)
7: Wishes And Stars - Harper Simon
from the album 'Harper Simon' (2009)
8: These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra
from the album 'Boots'(1966)
9: Shack Up - A Certain Ratio
from the album 'Graveyard and Ballroom' (1979)
10: Behind A Painted Smile - The Isley Brothers
from the single (1967)
11: Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes
from the album 'Angles' (2011)
12: Evergreen - John Foxx & The Maths
from the album 'Interplay' (2011)
13: Face In the Crowd - Cat's Eyes
from the album 'Cat's Eyes' (2011)
14: Open Arms - Elbow
from the album 'Build a Rocket Boys!' (2011)
15: Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) - Sub Sub Feat. Melanie Williams
from the album 'Full Fathom Five' (1994)
16: Rolling In The Deep - Adele
from the album '21' (2011)

17: Deutscher Girls - Adam & The Ants
from the single (1982)
18: National Shite Day - Half Man Half Biscuit
from the album 'CSI: Ambleside' (2008)
19: One to Another - Charlatans
from the EP 'Warm Sounds' (2011)
20: Iron Shirt - Dreadzone
from the album 'The Good, The Bad and the Dread'(2011)

Rocket Science #3:09

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: Itsy bitsy, petit bikini - Richard Anthony
from the album 'Les plus belles chansons de Richard Anthony' (1960)
2: I'm Having A Coffee - Blancmange
from the album 'Blanc Burn' (2011)
3: Get In Line - Ron Sexsmith
from the album 'Long Player, Late Bloomer' (2011)
4: Getting Nowhere Fast - Girls at our Best
from the album 'Pleasure' (1981)
5: He's Making A Tape - MBE 
from the album 'Billy childish Archive from 1959' (2009)
6: Hunger - Frankie & the Heartstrings
from the album'Hunger' (2011)
7: The Crookes Laundry Murder 1922 -Crookes
fromthe album 'Chasing after Ghosts' (2011)
8: We are the Clash - Sparks
fromthe album 'Best of Sparks' (2000)
9: Are We Lovers Or Are We Friends? - Acid House Kings
from the album 'Music Sounds Better With You'(2011)
10: Birthday - Sugarcubes
fromthe album 'Life's too good' (1987)
11: The Look - Metronomy
from the single (2011)
12: Shes a Woman - Scritti Politti
from the single (1991)

13: Supercomputed - Cornershop
from the album 'Cornershop and the double-O groove' (2011)
14: A little love - Bing Ji Ling
from the album 'Shadow to Shine' (2011)
15: Joanna - Little Comets
from the album 'In search of the elusive little comets' (2011)
16: Beautiful Trash - Lanu
from the album 'her 12 faces' (2011)
17: Revolving Doors - Gorillaz
from the single (2011)
18: Secret Heart - Feist
from the album 'Let it Die' (2004)
19: Woman, when I've raised hell - Josh T Pearson
from the album 'Last of the Country Gentlemen' (2011)
20: New Ceremony - Dry the River
from the single (2011)
21: The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies - Pete Wylie
from the single (2011)
22: Murder - The Charlatans
from the album 'Independents Day ID08' (2008)
23: John Kettley (is a weather man) - Tribe of Toffs
from the single(1988)