Rocket 88 (Music)
With Darren Snow
Tue Jul 5th 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 | Arctic Monkeys “Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair” from Suck It and See (Domino 2011) N Buy it! |
7:03am | Bon Iver “Calgary” from Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar www.jagjaguwar.com 2011) N —From the second biggest-selling album in the USA this week. Tell us again, alt.rock radio, how people just want to hear more Seether and Chevelle.Buy it! |
7:07am | Wilco “Ashes of American Flags” from Kicking Television - Live In Chicago (Nonesuch 2005)Buy it! |
7:13am | Alice Cooper “No More Mr. Nice Guy” from Billion Dollar Babies (Rhino Records 1973)Buy it! |
7:16am | Marianne Faithfull “No Reason” from Horses And High Heels (Naive 2010) N Buy it! |
7:19am | Raphael Saadiq “Over You” from Stone Rollin' (Columbia 2011) N Buy it! |
7:21am | The Beatles “Slow Down” from Past Masters, Vol. 1 (Capitol/Apple 2009)Buy it! |
7:24am | Steve Forbert “Big City Cat” from Alive On Arrival (The Orchard 1978)Buy it! |
7:27am | Barry Manilow “Work The Room” from 15 Minutes (Stiletto 2011) N —Unusually cynical and new-wavy, and nearly hip. Someone else wrote the lyrics.Buy it! |
7:30am | FM Belfast “Mondays” from Don't Want To Sleep (Morr Music 2011) N Buy it! |
7:43am | De la Soul “A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"” from De La Soul Is Dead (Tommy Boy 1991)Buy it! |
7:47am | Colourmusic “You For Leaving Me” from My___ Is Pink (Memphis Industries 2011) N Buy it! |
7:50am | Amor de Dias “House of Flint” from Street of the Love of Days (Merge www.mergerecords.com 2011) N Buy it! |
7:54am | Sarah Jaffe “Two Intangibles Can't Be Had (Working for a Nuclear Free City Remix)” from Even Born Again (Kirtland 2011) N —Actually an amended reissue of an earlier EP. She's opening for Centro-Matic tonight at Off Broadway.Buy it! |
7:57am | Northern State “Away Away” from Can I Keep This Pen? (Ipecac Recordings www.ipecac.com 2007)Buy it! |
8:01am | Gomez “Just As Lost As You” from Whatever's On Your Mind (ATO 2011)Buy it! |
8:04am | Talking Heads “Road To Nowhere” from Little Creatures CD ALBUM (sire 1985)Buy it! |
8:08am | Modern Skirts “Under Bridges and Overpasses” from Gramahawk (athensmusic.net 2011)Buy it! |
8:12am | The Cramps “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns” from Stay Sick (Vengeance 1993) —The bikini was introduced at a Paris fashion show 65 years ago today.Buy it! |
8:15am | Dom “Living In America” from Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (Burning Mill 2011)Buy it! |
8:18am | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers “I Love Hot Nights” from Modern Lovers 88 (Rounder 1988)Buy it! |
8:21am | Darwin Deez “Up In The Clouds” from Darwin Deez (Lucky Number Music 2011) N Buy it! |
8:25am | Handsome Furs “What About Us?” from Sound Kapital (Sub Pop 2011) N Buy it! |
8:30am | The Kills “Heart Is a Beating Drum” from Blood Pressures (Domino 2011) N Buy it! |
8:34am | Amii Stewart “Knock On Wood” from Best of Amii Stewart (Hot Productions 1978)Buy it! |
8:39am | Pretenders “Mystery Achievement” from Pretenders (Remastered) (Rhino/Warner Bros. 1979)Buy it! |
8:44am | TOM TOM CLUB “The Man With the 4-Way Hips” from Close to the Bone (Sire / Reprise 1983) R Buy it! |
8:50am | Foster the People “Call It What You Want” from Torches (Startime Int'l/Columbia 2011) N Buy it! |
8:54am | Pixies “Alec Eiffel” from Trompe le Monde (Elektra 1991)Buy it! |
8:57am | The Blind Eyes “Satisfactory” from With A Bang (self 2011) N LBuy it! |
9:01am | Viva Voce “Black Mood Ring” from The Future Will Destroy You (Vanguard vanguardrecords.com 2011) N Buy it! |
9:06am | The Wombats “1996” from The Wombats Proudly Present...This Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna 2011) N Buy it! |
9:11am | Noah and the Whale “Give It All Back” from Last Night On Earth (Mercury 2011)Buy it! |
9:14am | LCD Soundsystem “All My Friends” from Sound of Silver (DFA/Capitol 2007) —Well, SURE, if you get hung up on the eighth notes on the piano it could drive you nuts--but you're supposed to be listening to the words and the other instruments too, ya friggin' hillbilly.Buy it! |
9:21am | Lou Reed “Satellite Of Love” from Transformer (RCA 1972)Buy it! |
9:25am | Black Kids “Hurricane Jane” from Partie Traumatic (Mercury Records Limited 2008) R —Happy anniversary, Brian and Tara! The Pixies were for you too, in retrospect. :)Buy it! |
9:29am | Cocteau Twins “Iceblink Luck” from Heaven or Las Vegas (4AD 1990)Buy it! |
9:33am | Patti Smith “Words Of Love” from Rave On Buddy Holly (Fantasy 2011) N Buy it! |
9:36am | My Morning Jacket “Wonderful (The Way I Feel)” from Circuital (ATO 2011) N Buy it! |
9:39am | The Vaccines “A Lack Of Understanding” from What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia (UK) 2011) N Buy it! |
9:52am | Keren Ann “Run With You” from 101 (Blue Note 2011) N Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.