Lifght Fantastic

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This week, we celebrate the as-yet uncorroborated experiment at the CERN laboratory that fired particles faster than the speed of light. This week's programme is about light and particles and such. I never really liked British Sea Power when I lived in the same town and saw them a few times – I still don't. But this opening song is pretty nice.

1. Atom, British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?, 2008
2. 2000 Light Years From Home, The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Decca, 1967
3. Places of Light, Brainticket, Cottonwoodhill, Bellaphon, 1971
4. Faster and Faster, Eden Rose, On the Way to Eden, Katema, 1969
5. Into The Atom Age, XTC, White Music, Virgin, 1978
6. Guiding Light, Television, Marquee Moon, Elektra, 1977
7. I See The Light, The Five Americans, 7", 1965 (from the compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, Disc. 2, Rhino)
8. Light Is Faster Than Sound, Janis Joplin, Big Brother And The Holding Company, 1967
9. Light Flight, Pentangle, Basket Of Light, Transatlantic, 1969
10. Light, Amon Düül II, Carnival in Babylon, United Artists, 1972
11. White Light, Gene Clark, White Light, A&M, 1971
12. Eternal Light, Teenage Fanclub, A Catholic Education, Paperhouse, 1990
13. Superspace, Quickspace Supersport, Kitty Yo
14. I Saw The Light, Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything?, Bearsville, 1972