Rocket 88 (Music)
With Darren Snow
Tue Feb 8th 2011 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 | Lifeguards “Paradise Is Not So Bad” from Waving at the Astronauts (Guided By Voices 2011) N —Another Robert Pollard joint, available for download or corporeal purchase starting Feb. 15. And Bob, if you're reading this, feel free to use "Corporeal Purchase" as a song title.Buy it! |
7:04am | Birds & Batteries “A Million People” from Panorama (Velvet Blue Music / Spune 2010) N Buy it! |
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7:17am | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin “Stuart Gets Lost Dans Le Metro” from Let It Sway MP3/FILE ALBUM (Polyvinyl 2010) —At the Firebird tonight.Buy it! |
7:20am | Tokyo Police Club “Your Favorite Color” from Champ CD ALBUM (Mom + Pop 2010) —Also at the Firebird tonight.Buy it! |
7:22am | Interpol “Narc” from Antics (EMI France 2004) —Following Tokyo Police Club around the country (and I can't say I blame them), Interpol hits the Pageant on Friday.Buy it! |
7:26am | The Duke Spirit “Everybody's Under Your Spell” from Kusama EP (Shangri La 2010) N Buy it! |
7:31am | Stevie Wonder “Too High” from Innervisions (Motown 1973)Buy it! |
7:36am | Cee-Lo Green “Bodies” from The Lady Killer (Elektra 2010) N Buy it! |
7:40am | Fitz & the Tantrums “Winds of Change” from Pickin' Up the Pieces (Dangerbird www.dangerbirdrecords.com 2010) —Playing on Saturday at Vintage Vinyl and then the Duck Room.Buy it! |
7:46am | Jimi Hendrix “Fire” from Are You Experienced? (MCA 1967)Buy it! |
7:49am | Kings of Leon “Mary” from Come Around Sundown (RCA Records Label 2010) N —Setting the benchmark for most-difficult-to-remember-album-titles-in-a-rowBuy it! |
7:52am | The Guggenheim Grotto “Diamond” from The Universe Is Laughing (United for Opportunity 2010)Buy it! |
7:55am | Languid “Morpheus in Palestrina” from 55 Clicks (Angstrom 2001) LBuy it! |
8:00am | Destroyer “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker” from Kaputt (Merge www.mergerecords.com 2011) N —Dan Bejar's voice and attitude still bug me somewhat, but damned if I don't love the SOUND of this new album. James Christopher Monger (allmusic.com) says it all for me with the phrase "producing the soundtrack for a discotheque with a capacity of one"Buy it! |
8:09am | Fujiya & Miyagi “Taiwanese Boots” from Ventriloquizzing (Full Time Hobby 2011) N —What th' hell?! How'd these guys get on Yep Roc?! Most of their fans are probably nowhere NEAR retirement age!Buy it! |
8:11am | The Bishops “Coming in Color” from Farewell to Reason (Grinder 1991) LBuy it! |
8:20am | First Aid Kit “Hard Believer” from The Big Black and Blue (Wichita 2010)Buy it! |
8:23am | The Decemberists “January Hymn” from The King Is Dead (Capitol Records 2011) N —First I find myself liking the new Destroyer, and now this. Who am I and what have I done with me?!Buy it! |
8:16am | T. Rex “Jeepster” from Electric Warrior (Reprise Records 1971)Buy it! |
8:28am | Lions of Hazelwood “Take up Your Serpents” from Lions of Hazelwood ((self) 2010) N LBuy it! |
8:32am | Beastie Boys “Futterman's Rule” from Ill Communication (Grand Royal/Capitol 1994) —Ellen Futterman rules!Buy it! |
8:35am | Bad Brains “She's Calling You” from I Against I (SST 1986) —On which Dr. Know sounds a lot like Eddie Van Halen...and after which the band's Lead Singer Problem soon began. Coincidence?Buy it! |
8:38am | Vanity Theft “Trainwreck” from Get What You Came for (Vigilante Music 2011) N —Playing Cicero's March 2!Buy it! |
8:44am | Dobie Gray “You Can Do It” from Midnight Diamond (Infinity 1979) —This is also on Dobie's compilation on Hip-O.Buy it! |
8:48am | OMD “Pulse” from History of Modern (Blue Noise Limited 2010) N —And this is some almost embarrassingly sexy sh*t.Buy it! |
8:51am | Deluka “Waves” from You Are the Night (Vel Records 2010) N Buy it! |
9:00am | Sick of Sarah “Kiss Me” from 2205 (Adamant Records 2011) N —Playing Cicero's March 9. Woulda made a perfect double-bill with Vanity Theft a week earlier, but it's also great that each band gets to headline...Buy it! |
9:03am | Blood Red Shoes “Colours Fade” from Fire Like This (V2 2010) N Buy it! |
9:12am | Magic Kids “Good to Be” from Memphis (True Panther Sounds 2010)Buy it! |
9:20am | Manfred Mann “5-4-3-2-1” from The Best of Manfred Mann (EMI 1964)Buy it! |
9:22am | Diane Birch and the Phenomenal Handclap Band “This Corrosion” from The Velveteen Age (S-Curve 2011) N —Aww, I think it's cute!!Buy it! |
9:28am | The Russian Futurists “Golden Years” from The Weight's on the Wheels (Upper Class Recordings 2011) N Buy it! |
9:32am | That Petrol Emotion “Big Decision” from Babble (Polygram 1987)Buy it! |
9:35am | The Rolling Stones “She Was Hot” from Undercover (Rolling Stones Virgin 1983)Buy it! |
9:40am | Elmore James “Tool Bag Boogie” from Whose Muddy Shoes (Chess 1953)Buy it! |
9:43am | Led Zeppelin “Fool In the Rain” from In Through The Out Door (Swan Song 1979)Buy it! |
9:49am | Kings of Convenience “I Don't Know What I Can Save You From” from Quiet Is the New Loud (Astralwerks www.trojanrecords.com 2003)Buy it! |
9:54am | Neil Diamond “Hallelujah” from Dreams (Sony 2010) N —I don't really care for music, do I?Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.