Rocket Science #4:08

Well, I'm a lonesome schoolboy
and I just came into town
Yeah, I'm a lonesome schoolboy
and I just came into town
Well, I heard so much about London
I decided to check it out

1: Desert Raven - Jonathan Wilson
from the album 'Gentle Spirit' (2011)

2: Better Set Your Phasers to Stun (feat. Helen Love) - Hyperbubble
from the EP 'Better Set Your Phasers to Stun' (2009)
3: Valentine - The School
from the album 'Loveless Unbeliever' (2010)
4: Tthhee Ppaarrttyy - Justice
from the album 'A Cross the Universe' (2009)
5: Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
from the album 'The Second Coming' (1994)
6: Envelop - Julianna Barwick
from the album 'TheMagic Place' (2011)
7: Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell
from the 1958 single
8: I'm Excited - DJ Shadow
from the 2011 single
9: Sex With an X - The Vaselines
from the album 'Sex with an X' (2010)
10: Black Hills - Gardens & Villa
from the album 'Gardens and Villa' (2011)
11: Sophia - Laura Marling
from the album 'A Creature I don't know' (2011)

12: Small Hours - Robert Smith
from the album 'Johnny Boy Would Love This' (2011)
13: Chemmie - Joan As Police Woman
from the album 'The Deep Field' (2011)
14: Suicide Demo For Kara Walker - Destroyer
from the album 'Kaputt' (2011)
15: I Hold Your Hand In Mine - Tom Lehrer
from the album 'live on concert' (1960)


16: Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
from the 1979 single

And the winner is..........

Rocket Science end of year results...

Best Album : The Rifles - Freedom Run

Best Book: Andy Kershaw - No Off Switch




Gig of the year: Morrissey @ Harwick Town Hall June 21st




Magazine of the year: Word Magazine




One to watch 2012: Spector

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Rocket Science #4:07

well she's show showing it off then
the glitter in her lovely eyes
show show showing it off then
and all the people shake their money in time

1: Please Please Please- James Brown

from the album 'Please, Please, Please' (1959)
2: Cosmogony (Serban Ghenea Mix) - Bjork
from the single (2011)
3: Crash - The Primitives
from the album 'Lovely' (1988)
4: Dub Outside - Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell
from the album 'Ghosts Outside' (2011)
5: Bust a Move - Young MC
from the album 'Stone Cold Rhymin' ' (1989)
6: Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five - Wings
from the album 'Band on the Run' (1973)
7: Well... All Right! - Buddy Holly
from the album 'A Rock n Roll Collection' (1972)
8: The Rip Tide - Beirut
from the album 'The Rip Tide' (2011)

9: A Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues
from the EP 'Poguetry in Motion' (1986)
10: Hometown Farewell Kiss - The Triffids
from the album 'Calenture' (1987)
11: Little Man - Little Dragon
from the album 'Ritual Union' (2011)
12: Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (feat. Santigold) - Beastie Boys
from the album 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two' (2011)




13: Vampires (Afrolicious & Rob Garza Remix) - Thievery Corporation
from the single 'Vampires' (2011)
14: Liar Liar - The Castaways
from the single (1965)
15: Freddie's Lapels - D. Charles Speer & The Helix
from the album 'Leaving the Commonwealth' (2011)
16: Ghost Story - Cloud Control
from the album 'Bliss Release' (2011)
17: Between The Lines (Instrumental) - Bonobo [Simon Green]
from the promo (2011)
18: Confusion - Nouvelle Vague
from the album 'Best of Nouvelle Vague (Limited Edition)' (2010)
19: You Can't Keep Me - Amy LaVere
from the album 'Stranger Me' (2011)
20: What a Mouth (What a North and South) - Tommy Steele & Harry Robinson
from the single (1960)

Rocket Science #4:Christmas

Do you think I would leave you dieing
There's room on my horse for two
Climb up here, Joe we'll soon be flying
Back to the ranks so blue

1: Deck The Halls - REM

2: Christmas Time Again - Bad Manners

3: Christmas Wrapping - Best Coast

4: I Wish It Could Be Christmas - Frank Sidebottom

5: Snowflake In a Hot World - Mercury Rev

6: Through December - Laura Veirs

7: Feliz Navidad - Sea Of Bees

8: Christmas - The Who

9: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Slow Club

10: I Smell Winter - The Housemartins

11: Ain't No Chimneys In The Project - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

12: Ring the Bells - James

13: Will You Still Be In Love With Me Next Year? - Hot Club de Paris

14: Let It Snow - The Puppini Sisters

15: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Mabel Scott & Maxwell Davis & His Orchestra

16: The Last of the Melting Snow - The Leisure Society

17: December In New York - Thea Gilmore

18: Santa Claus - Throwing Muses

19: Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Jack White

20: Merry Xmas (War Is Over) - Badly Drawn Boy

21: Wombling Merry Christmas - The Wombles

22: Christmas Is Going To The Dogs - Eels

23: Ballad Of Jack Frost - The Triffids

24: Last Christmas (TFI Friday Performance) - Manic Street Preachers

25: Christmas Was Better in the 80's - The Futureheads

Rocket Science #4:06

All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts
And they're coming round the track to haunt me
When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts
I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely

1: Betty Et Zorg - Gabriel Yared

from the OST 'Betty Blue (37.2 Le Matin)' (1986)
2: November the Second - Morrissey
from the EP - Everyday is like Sunday' (2011)

3: Good for Nothing - Hard-Fi
from the album 'Killer Sounds' (2011)
4: Don't Talk To Me About Love - Altered Images
from the album 'Bite' (1983)
5: Alphabet St. - Prince
from the album 'Lovesexy' (1988)
6: Rill Rill - Sleigh Bells
from the album 'Treats' (2010)
7: What Did the Hippie Have In His Bag? - Cornershop
from the single (2011)



8: Future Starts Slow - The Kills
from the album 'Blood Pressure' (2011)
9: Six Months In a Leaky Boat (Live) - SplitEnz
from the album 'Extravagenza (live)' (2005)
10: Fine Time - New Order
from the album 'Technique' (1989)
11: Hits Me Like a Rock (feat. Bobby Gillespie)- CSS
from the album 'La Liberacion' (2011)
12: Crystalline (Serban Ghenea Mix) - Björk
from the single (2011)
13: Blue As Your Blood - The Walkmen
from the album 'Lisbon' (2010)
14: Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis

from the album 'Live at the Filmore West' (1971)
15: Speaking In Tongues - Arcade Fire
from the album 'The Suburbs (Deluxe Edition)' (2011)
16: Holdin' On To Black Metal - My Morning Jacket

from the album 'Circuital' (2011)

17: The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man On Earth
from the album 'The Wild Hunt' (2010)
18: Shadows - Warpaint
from the album 'The Fool' (2010)
19: So It Goes - Nick Lowe
from the album 'Jesus of Cool' (1978)
20:We're The Replacements - They Might Be Giants
from the album 'A User's Guide To They Might Be Giants' (2011)

Theme Time Rocket Science #2

Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn

Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal
Die Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl


Die Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band
Weisse Streifen, gruener Rand


Jetzt schalten wir ja das Radio an
Aus dem Lautsprecher klingt es dann:
Wir fah'rn auf der Autobahn...




1: Drive - The Wedding Present
from the EP 'Mini' (1996)
2 Route 66 [Beatmasters Mix] - Depeche Mode
from the album Remixes 81-04 (2004)
3: Like A Motorway - Saint Etienne
from the album 'TigerBay' (1994)
4: Speedo - The Cadillacs
from the album 'Tiger Bay'(1994)
5: Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor & His Playboys
from the b-side of 'pledgin' my love' (1958)
6: Little Red Corvette - Prince
from the album '1999' (1982)
7: Car Jamming - The Clash
from the album 'Combat Rock' (1982)
8: Drive On, Driver - The Magnetic Fields
from the album 'Distortion' (2008)
9: Passenger Seat - Death Cab For Cutie
from the album 'Transatlanticism' (2003)

10: Autophilia (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car) -The Bluetones
from the album 'Science & Nature' (2000)
11: You May Think - The Cars
from the album 'Heartbeat City' (1984)
12: Fast Cars - Buzzcocks
from the album 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen' (1978)
13: Car Song - Elastica
from the album 'Elastica' (1995)
14: Driver 8 - R.E.M.
from the album 'Fables of theReconstruction' (1985)
15: A13, Trunk Road To The Sea - Billy Bragg
from the album 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (Bonus CD)' (2006 reissue)
16: Moonlight Drive - The Doors
from the album 'Strange Days' (1967)

17: Always Crashing In The Same Car - David Bowie
from the album 'Low' (1977)
18: M62 Song - Doves
from the album 'The Last Broadcast' (2002)
19: Autobahn (Xfm Session) - Cut Copy
from the single 'Going Nowhere' (2005)
20: Bring That Cadillac Back - Harry Crafton
from the album 'Harry Crafton 1949-54' (1980)
21: M1 A1 - Gorillaz
from the album 'Gorillaz' (2001)

Rocket Science #4:05

We promised that we'd always have time for each other
Whenever I needed you'd be there
We promised to be true there'd be no other
We promised that for ever we would care
Oh........How can you ever let me down.

1: Still Life - The Horrors
from the album 'Skying' (2011)

2: Starlite - Paul Weller

from the single (2011)

3: Highway 61 Revisited - Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers

from the OST 'Im Not There' (2007)

4: Touch Sensitive - The Fall

from the album 'The Marshall Suite' (1999)

5: Palaces Of Montezuma - Grinderman

from the album 'Grinderman 2' (2010)
6: Introducing Randy Newman - The Blood Arm
from the album 'Turn and Face Me' (2011)
7: Up Up Up - The Givers
from the single (2011)
8: Dodecahedron - Beth Jeans Houghton
from the single (2011)
9: Them That Do Nothing - Field Music
from the album 'Measure' (2010)
10: Goldstar - Cashier No.9
from the album 'To the Death of Fun' (2011)
11: Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires
from the album 'Pala' (2011)
12: She's Not There - Neko Case & Nick Cave
from the OST 'True Blood 3' (2011)
13: Videograms - Inch-Time
from the album 'Floating World' (2011)
14: Breakin' The Chains Of Love - Fitz & The Tantrums
from the EP 'Breaking the Chains of Love' (2011)15: Rebel Waltz - The Clash
from the album 'Sandinista!' (1980)

16: All Could Come True - Dennis Hopper Choppers
from the album 'Be Ready' (2011)
17: Ship of Promises - Villagers
from the album 'Becoming a Jackal' (2010)
18: You Overdid It Doll - The Courteeners
from the album 'Falcon' (2010)
19: O Superman - Laurie Anderson
from the 'Big Science' (1982)
20: How Long - Ramona
from the EP 'How Long' (2011)