RoCM New Year’s Eve Playlist: 31 Dec 2022

Take that Long Island drivers….

As promised, here’s a photo of the bumper sticker that I mention during the show. I picked it up here if you are interested. I like it so much that I’m a bit hesitant to actually put it on a car, but if there’s one place where it belongs, it’s on the back of a vehicle on Long Island.

So for me, New Year’s Eve is a a holiday that I actually quite enjoy – yet another reason to spend time with friends to celebrate surviving another year on this tainted, distantly cold rock that is meaninglessly hurling through the empty void of space until the sun inevitably consumes the Earth in a fiery death of our solar system. And if that’s not cheery enough for you, read up on the heat death of the entire universe. Good times.

As my ever-so-cheery mother puts it, none of us get out of this alive. So yeah, I’ll take the little victories where I can.

And on the back of that dripping sentimentality, I just want to take a moment and thank you for listening to the show over the last year. It’s arguably one of the more rewarding radio experiences I’ve ever had so your ear time is much appreciated. And so for our last hurrah in 2022, here’s the playlist:

TimeArtistSongRelease
6:00:19 PMSkull SnapsIt's a New DaySnapped - EP
6:07:16 PMHorace TapscottSt. MichaelLive At Lobero, Vol. 2
6:30:27 PMPeter Brötzmann - Hamid DrakeTrees Have Roots in the EarthThe Dried Rat-Dog
6:41:26 PMNorman HowardThe Sound From ThereBurn Baby Burn
6:50:19 PMTom WaitsNew Year's EveBad As Me
7:00:16 PMMike Angelo & the IdolsCan't Stop MeCan't Stop Me (Single)
7:05:36 PMRoscoe MitchellNonaahNonaah
7:29:44 PMAlbert AylerMusic Is the Healing Force of the UniverseRevelations - The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings
7:39:25 PMAlice ColtraneI.H.S. ("I have Suffered")Huntington Ashram Monastery
7:50:37 PMSun Ra And The Omniverse Jet Set ArkestraAuld Lang SyneThe Complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency

Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.

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