Sonic café, it’s the end of the world, Tom MacDonald and John Rich’s cool collaboration on the collapse of our modern world. So ahh welcome, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 432. This time the Sonic Café brings you the end of the world, which should happen around the middle of this century. Our friends over at Cooper Academy lay out all of the theories in a segment coming up shortly. So whether you believe any of the this stuff or not, it gives us a great jumping off point for a music mix pulled from the last 52 years, and as you’ve probably guessed, each tune is about the end of the world. So yeah. Listen for Rockford, Illinois’ Cheap Trick, also from 1972 we’ll spin War, with the World is a Ghetto, plus Elvis Costello, Jesse Malin, the Dave Matthews Band and more including R.E.M. from 1988 with their tune celebrating the end of the world, and for some reason, they’re all just fine with it. So yeah, it’s the end of the world as we know it, this time from that little radio café in the Pacific Northwest that brings you a weekly dose of intelligent, eclectic music and pop culture and this time the end of the world. From 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta album here’s the Police and we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: End of the World Artist: Tom MacDonald ft. John Rich LP: Yr: 2023 Song 2: When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around Artist: The Police LP: Zenyatta Mondatta Yr: 1980 Song 3: Way Of The World Artist: Cheap Trick LP: The Essential Cheap Trick [Disc 2] Yr: 1979 Song 4: It's The End of The World Artist: Cooper Academy LP: Cooper Academy Yr. 2024 Song 5: The World Is A Ghetto Artist: WAR LP: Evolutionary [Disc 2] Yr: 1972 Song 6: Waiting For The End Of The World Artist: Elvis Costello LP: My Aim Is True Yr: 1977 Song 7: Until The End Of The World Artist: U2 LP: Achtung Baby Year: 1991 Song 8: Meet Me at the End of the World Again Artist: Jesse Malin LP: Sunset Kids Yr: 2019 Song 9: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Artist: R.E.M. LP: Eponymous Yr: 1988 Song 10: When The World Ends Artist: Dave Matthews Band LP: Everyday Yr: 2001 Song 11: Another World, Another Day Artist: Soul Asylum LP: Made To Be Broken [2018 Deluxe Edition] Yr: 1986 Song 12: Broken World Artist: The Interrupters LP: Fight The Good Fight Yr: 2018 Song 13: World On Fire Artist: Thirty Seconds To Mars LP: It's The End Of The World But It's A Beautiful Day Yr: 2023 Song 14: When The World Breaks Your Heart Artist: Goo Goo Dolls LP: Magnetic Yr: 2013 Song 15: REM Artist: REM LP: REM Yr: 2024
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)
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