Sonic Café from 2019, that’s American Authors with there song Deep Water, we liked the tune so much we decided to use it as a theme for this, our 405th episode of the Sonic Café, So yeah, I’m your host Scott Clark and this time the Sonic Café jumps into the deep end of the pool with a music mix pulled from the last 45 years. Each song is about water, from swimming pools, to lakes, rivers and the ocean we’ll water it all. Listen for music from Metric, Nirvana, They Might Be Giants, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Barenaked Ladies, Elton John, Modest Mouse and many more. And just for fun, listen for comedy shorts from Jim Gaffigan, Roy Wood Jr., Patton Oswalt, Nate Bargatze and Brian Kiley that all support our theme. So pull on your snorkel and swim fins and join us as the Sonic Café presents a thing we’re calling the Deep, Deep Water, this time from our little radio café overlooking the mighty blue Pacific way out here in the Pacific Northwest, here’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Deep Water Artist: American Authors LP: Seasons Yr: 2019 Song 2: Open Water Artist: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard LP: Flying Microtonal Banana Yr: 2017 Song 3: Indoor Hotel Pool Artist: Jim Gaffigan LP: Yr: 2023 Song 4: Breathing Underwater Artist: Metric LP: Synthetica Yr. 2012 Song 5: Lake Of Fire Artist: Nirvana LP: MTV Unplugged In New York Yr: 1993 Song 6: Meet Every Employee on a Cruise Ship Artist: Roy Wood Jr. LP: Comedy Central Yr: 2023 Song 7: Lake Monsters Artist: They Might Be Giants LP: I Like Fun Year: 2018 Song 8: Lake of Fire Artist: Hurray for the Riff Raff LP: Look Out Mama Yr: 2012 Song 9: Floating Down The River Artist: Tears For Fears LP: Secret World Yr: 2006 Song 10: Cruise Ships and Buffets Are Here to Stay Artist: Patton Oswalt LP: Netflix Is A Joke Yr: 2023 Song 11: Channel Swimmer [Bonus] Artist: 10cc LP: The Original Soundtrack Yr: 1975 Song 12: Man Made Lake Artist: Barenaked Ladies LP: Detour De Force Yr: 2021 Song 13: My Sister Bought A Boat Artist: Nate Bargatze LP: Yr: 2023 Song 14: Madman Across The Water Artist: Elton John LP: Madman Across The Water Yr: 1975 Song 15: Float On Artist: Modest Mouse LP: Good News For People Who Love Bad News Yr: 2004 Song 16: Firing The Pool Boy Artist: Brian Kiley LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr: 2023 Song 17: Sink Or Swim Artist: Bad Lieutenant LP: Never Cry Another Tear Yr: 2009 Song 18: Just Coffee Artist: Lalo Schifrin LP: Bullitt Yr: 1968 Song 19: Skin Lotion Artist: Audio Lotion LP: Advanced Skin Care Yr: 1999
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)