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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