26 October 2002

Doves - "Caught By The River" "We've got Rockbusters - I thought it went all right last week"/"you taught me about tomatoes last week"/"we should never refer to stuff Karl has said in the past - it'll just take too long to explain." Mock Turtles - "Can You Dig It?" "What do you think about Ricky's boxing match?" Turin Brakes - "Long Distance" Police in smart cars Mott The Hoople - "Roll Away The Stone" Coldplay - "The Scientist" Can Steve get a ticket for Springsteen tomorrow? Could Steve see as well as an owl? REM - "The One I Love" U2 - "Electrical Storm" "How To Escape An Anaconda" - we started a feature last week - or the week before Educating Ricky 3: "stocking aitken and waterman", "it's not his volt", "Get a lobe of this" New Order - "Vanishing Point" Foo Fighters - "All My Life" Educating Ricky - last week: tomatoes and worms/worms get stressed/what do sealions do? Educating Ricky 3a: "Get a lobe of this" (girl was deaf for about four years, hit her head and could hear)/"bees are deaf!"/Educating Ricky 3b: "It's not his volt" (electric boy)/"electric eels have 400 volts in 'em!" The Coral - "Dreaming Of You" Educating Ricky 3c: "stocking aitken and waterman" (origin of "put a sock in it")/Karl choking on a Freezepop/earliest memories Tupac Shakur - "California Love" Rockbusters 3 (prizes: xfm compilation, arbitrary compilation, "Stigmata" - "last weekend it was 'Children Of The Corn'"): "At the moment, I'm in a river full of logs" - JT, "That lad's got bad asthma" - W, "I saw that Mousetrap the other night, but the heating in the theatre was knackered" - C Ryan Adams - "Nuclear" Richard Ashcroft - "Check The Meaning" Rockbusters answers: Justin Timberlake, Weezer, Coldplay That Song's Got A Good Story: Gene Pitney - "24 Hours From Tulsa" The story of the song/"Two Little Boys"/"That's it"