0:00:01) Last & Final Days by Eric McM’s Caravan Discordia off of Eric McM’s Caravan Discordia
0:00:45) How’s It Gonna End by Tom Waits off of Real Gone
0:05:35 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 1: year that trembled and reel’d beneath me by cars & trains off of we are all storms)
Welcome to that uniquely strange day caught between yesterday and tomorrow. Somehow both the most reflective and mindless square on the calendar. The very last-night when we throw another 365 back over our shoulders onto our ever-growing pile of Past. Tom Waits knows nothing lasts forever hence him asking “How’s It Gonna End.” But always always try and remember, like Imani Coppola, we can always try to have Hope For The Future.
0:06:35) Hope For The Future by Imani Coppola off of Afrodite
0:10:40) The Future Soon by Jonathan Coulton off of Joco Looks Back
0:14:25) Fear The Future by St. Vincent off of Masseduction
0:16:50) If Tomorrow Ever Comes by Cop Shoot Cop off of White Noise
0:22:10 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 2: Beginning of Elegy for a Solitary Year by Jill Tracy off of A Medicine for Madness: The 2020 Isolation Piano Recordings)
That was Cop Shoot Cop from their White Noise record. Before which we heard St. Vincent telling us to Fear The Future, which following after Jonathan Coulton’s sci-fi ballad The Future Soon, so perhaps she has good reason to be afraid. And we started with one from Imani Coppola’s Afro-dite album. And now here’s Ray Charles and Willie Nelson covering Frank Sinatra.
0:23:30) It Was A Very Good Year by Ray Charles & Willie Nelson off of Duets
0:28:25) Time by David Bowie off of Aladdin Sane
0:33:25) Sour Grapes (New Year’s Eve Song) by This Way to the Egress
0:37:00 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 3: Beginning of Elegy for a Solitary Year by Jill Tracy off of A Medicine for Madness: The 2020 Isolation Piano Recordings)
That group was called This Way to the Egress. And that was Sour Grapes (New Year’s Eve Song). Immediately preceding that we had an ode to our greatest teacher and worst enemy, Time by that insane lad David Bowie, who must’ve been going through a Jacques Brel phase at the time.
This time of year it’s pretty impossible not to think about the things we want to change in the upcoming year. The idea is like the air, so ubitiquous you hardly notice, but still seeps into you… And one can’t live without change. But did you ever notice the “Self-improvement” goals everyone trades back and forth never involve helping other people. Donating money to charity, or volunteering at the food pantry. Or giving up something the less well-off might call a “luxury” that causes pollution. I wonder why we never include those things when we talk about bettering ourselves? Must be something in the air.
0:39:25)Air by Hair Film Cast off of Hair (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
0:40:50) New Year’s Resolution by Otis Redding (with Carla Thomas) off of Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding [Box Set]
0:44:00) Forever No More by Mary J Blige off of No More Drama
0:45:40) There’ll Be No Next Time By Louis Prima (feat. Sam Butera) off of Collector’s Series
0:48:50) 365 Days by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones off of Question The Answers
0:51:50 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 4: 4 O’clock Reprise by Emilie Autumn off of Fight Like a Girl)
From Question The Answers that was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones with a number called 365 Days. Right before that we heard Louis Prima featuring Sam Butera talking about how There’ll Be No Next Time. Then jumping back we had Mary J Blige telling us ForEver No More from No More Drama. Then was Otis Redding and Carla Thomas singing about their New Year’s Resolution. That was where I was going to start that set but I played Air from the Hair. Sometimes you just got play a musical.
0:53:00) Last Midnight by Bernadette Peters from Into The Woods
0:56:05) Goodbye To Another Year by The Urban Voodoo Machine off of Goodbye To Another Year
0:59:35) II. earth: the oldest computer (the last night) by Childish Gambino [feat. Azealia Banks] off of because the internet
1:04:15) Yesterdays by DEAD BY WEDNESDAY off of Democracy is Dead
1:07:05 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 5: Goldberg Variation #17 by Glenn Gould off of Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1955 Version)
If you’ve been here before you’ve heard from the many sides of Ceschi Ramos, but that was the first time we played metal-Ceschi. That was the Ramos Brothers and DEAD BY WEDNESDAY with Yesterdays from Democracy is Dead. Before which we heard II. earth: the oldest computer (the last night) from Childish Gambino feat. Azealia Banks. Before which heard from The Urban Voodoo Machine helping us say Goodbye To Another Year. And we started off with a number from the original broadway cast of Into The Woods. That was Bernadette Peters belting out Last Midnight.
So here’s to a new year and taking all those things we put off throughout last and to putting them off for Another Year
1:08:45) Another Year by Amanda Palmer off of Who Killed Amanda Palmer
1:14:40) The Human Game by Alan Watts off of This Is It
1:17:35) Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) by Guy Lombardo off of Enjoy Yourself – The Hits of Guy Lombardo
1:20:50) Tomorrow, Today by Piñata Protest off of El Valiente
1:23:45 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 6: Sweat Set by Lazerbeak off of Lava Bangers)
That was Piñata Protest. From El Valiente that was Tomorrow, Today. Before that we heard the Guy Lombardo version of Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think). And yes I remember I played the Louie Prima version back in August for Happiness Happens Day. Just before that we heard from Alan Watts. And we began it all off with one from the person Who Killed Amanda Palmer, that one was entitled Another Year.
I guess it’s time to start winding down. You’ve got a whole new year to prepare for, and it’s been too long a December.
1:25:25) The Party’s Over by The Scarring Party off of End Times
1:26:45) It’s Just A Ride by Bill Hicks off of Revelations
1:28:55) End Of The Road by Dog Fashion Disco off of Sweet Nothings
1:35:30) I Am The Ride by Chris Smither off of Up On The LowDown
1:39:20 (Music Rev. ruins by talking over 7: Had Enough by Lazerbeak off of Lava Bangers)
That was Chris Smither, who you may remember form October’s Food Day episode when he sang about a veritable cart and having No Love Today. But here he realized I Am The Ride. Before that we had a bluesy Dog Fashion Disco tribute to Bill Hicks with End Of The Road. Then before that, from the man himself telling us that life is It’s Just A Ride, from his Revelations special in London from 1993. And we began it all off with The Scarring Party telling us that The Party’s Over, from their End Times album. And they are right, that’s about it. I am going to leave you with DeVotchKa Telling us How It Ends
Before I do though I want to say thank you for spending your time with me and giving me that greatest gift. Remember that you are loved so take good care of yourselves and each other. As always it’s been perfection talking at you. So until nest time or never whichever comes first. I am Rev. You are wonderful, and though its been a bit of a clusterfuck, together we’ve been Aurally Fixated.
Thank you. I love you.
1:41:10) How It Ends by DeVotchKa off of How It Ends
Bonus: Auld Lang Syne by The Black on White Affair off of In The Christmas Groove
Bonus: Auld Lang Syne by The UK Subs off of Bollocks To Christmas
Bonus Bonus: We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn off of Dr. Strangelove SoundTrack