Rocket 88 (Music)
With Darren Snow
Tue Dec 21st 2010 7.00am–10.00am
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
7:00am | The Mekons “Having a Party” from F.U.N. 90 (A&M 1990)Buy it! |
7:05am | Matthew Young “Dummy Line” from Traveler's Advisory (Drag City 2010) N —Found out after the show that this album dates back to 1986 and is just now being reissued. Mr. Young is an interesting guy: http://www.matthewyoungdesign.com/Music.htmlBuy it! |
7:09am | Spoon “Written In Reverse” from Transference CD ALBUM (Merge 2010)Buy it! |
7:15am | Leonard Cohen “First We Take Manhattan” from I'm Your Man (Verve 1988)Buy it! |
7:21am | Beck “Black Tambourine” from Guero (geffen records 2005)Buy it! |
7:24am | Lovers “Figure 8” from Dark Light (Badman Recording Co 2010) N Buy it! |
7:28am | Jukebox the Ghost “Mistletoe” from Everything Under the Sun (Yep Roc 2010)Buy it! |
7:33am | Belle and Sebastian “I Didn't See It Coming” from Write About Love (Matador 2010) N Buy it! |
7:38am | Kitchens of Distinction “Smiling” from The Death of Cool (A&M 1992)Buy it! |
7:42am | Geoff Berner “Wealthy Poet” from Victory Party (Mint 2011) N —New "transgressive klezmer" set drops in March!Buy it! |
7:45am | Brett Dennen “The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still At War)” from The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still At War) - Single (Dualtone Music Group 2006) —Still. Kinda. I guess. Or at least meddling. Or cleaning up. Or something.Buy it! |
7:52am | The Ramones “Palisades Park” from Brain Drain (sire 1989)Buy it! |
7:54am | Darren Hanlon “Buy Me Presents” from I Will Love You At All (Yep Roc Records 2010) N Buy it! |
7:57am | Kelley Stoltz “Baby I Got News for You” from To Dreamers (Sub Pop 2010) N Buy it! |
8:02am | The Beach Boys “Long Promised Road” from Surf's Up (Reprise/Brother 1971) —Carl Wilson's first recorded composition. Today would've been his 64th birthday.Buy it! |
8:05am | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band “Harry Irene” from Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Retro 1979) —R.I.P. Don van Vliet. It was great. It was weird.Buy it! |
8:09am | Zola Jesus “Sea Talk” from Stridulum II (Souterain Transmissions (UK) 2010) N Buy it! |
8:16am | The English Beat “Tears of a Clown” from Just Can't Stop It (Rhino/London-Sire 2004) —John Wayne Gacy arrested: 12/21/1978Buy it! |
8:19am | The Goodtime Engineers “Gimme Your Love” from Patience of the Saints (The Goodtime Engineers 2010) N —Kickin' it out on New Year's Eve at the St. Clair Bowling Alley in St. Clair, MO (NOT to be confused with St. Clair Lanes in St. Clair County, IL!!!)Buy it! |
8:23am | Tegan and Sara “Northshore” from Sainthood (Vapor/Sire 2009)Buy it! |
8:25am | Janelle Monáe “Faster” from The ArchAndroid (Wondaland/Bad Boy 2010)Buy it! |
8:30am | The Elves of Heaven “This Christmas” (Seaport Music 2010) N Buy it! |
8:34am | OMD “If You Want It” from History of Modern (Blue Noise Limited 2010) N —Nice comeback! They try some new twists (successfully) as well as gettin' all Weekend at Bernie's with John Hughes.Buy it! |
8:38am | Luscious Jackson “Deep Shag” from Natural Ingredients (CAPITOL 1994) —Happy 45th to Gabby Glaser!Buy it! |
8:42am | Flesh for Lulu “I Go Crazy” from Long Live the New Flesh (Capitol Records 1987) —Speaking of John Hughes!Buy it! |
8:47am | Cheap Trick “I Can't Take It” from Next Position Please (Epic 1983)Buy it! |
8:50am | David Dondero “Just a Baby in Your Momma's Eyes” from #Zero With a Bullet (Saddle Creek 2010) N Buy it! |
8:54am | Ben Folds and Nick Hornby “Picture Window” from Lonely Avenue (Nonesuch 2010) N —All right! Finally, a sadder New Years Eve song than Scrawl's "11:59!"Buy it! |
9:00am | Stevie Wonder “Someday At Christmas” SINGLE (Motown 1967)Buy it! |
9:03am | Jens Lekman “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love” from Single (Secretly Canadian 2011) N Buy it! |
9:07am | Martha and the Vandellas “(We've Got) Honey Love” from Ridin' High (Motown 1968) —The group officially disbanded 39 years ago today.Buy it! |
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9:16am | The Autumn Defense “Don't Know” from Once Around (Yep Roc Records 2010) N —It's so simple, yet maybe the saddest line in any song released this year: "I won't know where you are anymore." Doesn't hurt that it's a gorgeous melody either.Buy it! |
9:21am | Sarah Jaffe “Watch Me Fall Apart” from Suburban Nature ((RED) Kirtland Records 2010)Buy it! |
9:27am | Jimmy Smith “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” from Christmas Cookin' (Verve 1992) —I misspoke on the air: This was released at PRECISELY the right time to soundtrack a gloriously f**ked-up Christmas party at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce!Buy it! |
9:31am | R.E.M. “Discoverer” from Collapse into Now (Warner Bros. 2011) N —Comes out March 8. Available evidence suggests the comeback is continuing.Buy it! |
9:34am | He Said “A.B.C. Dicks Love” from Take + Care (Enigma 1989) —VERY much a Wire Mk. II side project, courtesy Lugubrious Lewis.Buy it! |
9:40am | Acrylics “Nightwatch” from Lives and Treasure (Hot Sand 2011) N Buy it! |
9:46am | Bob Dylan “Forever Young” from Planet Waves (Asylum 1974)Buy it! |
9:51am | Allo Darlin' “Dreaming” from Allo Darlin' (Fortuna Pop! www.fortunapop.com 2010) N Buy it! |
9:55am | Various Artists “Christmas Wrapping” from The Best of the Waitresses (Universal Motown Records Group. 1990) —Happy holidays, everyone! Next week (12/28): The "Best of 2010" show.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.