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Program Information
The Sonic Cafe
What The Hell Is A Gigawatt?
Weekly Program
Scott Clark
 Scott Clark  Contact Contributor
May 16, 2025, midnight
Sonic Café, just ahh hangin around, that’s the Counting Crows. So ahh welcome to the Sonic Café, this time broadcasting at ahh 1.21 gigawatts, so don’t get too close to your radio. I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 435. So this time we present a great music mix spanning 55 years. Listen for the Cure with take on Purple Haze, we’ve got great blues from Victor Wainwright and the Wild Roots, also bluesman Kenny Wayne Sheperd live with I’m A King Bee. All that plus Siouxsie and the Banshees, a great instrumental cover of Steely Dan’s Aja by the magnificent Al Di Meola and sax man Ernie Watts. We’ll also take a trip back to 1965 in the Sonic Café time machine to the Club A-Go-Go from the Animals. Oh, and before we forget, a big Sonic Café welcome to our latest sponsor, Dickey the Stick, yes Dickey the Stick the perfect toy for every girl and boy. Also listen for cancel culture advice from Jimmy Carr, and Al Bundy giving his famous every man speech. So let’s get to it, from 1979 this is Joe Jackson, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Hanginaround
Artist: Counting Crows
LP: Films About Ghosts (The Best Of)
Yr: 2003
Song 2: Friday
Artist: Joe Jackson
LP: I'm The Man
Yr: 1979
Song 3: Purple Haze
Artist: The Cure
LP: Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years)
Yr: 2004
Song 4: Dickey the Stick
Artist: Johnny Carson
LP: The Tonight Show
Yr. 1970
Song 5: Aja (Steely Dan Instrumental Cover)
Artist: Al Di Meola, Ernie Watts
LP: The Royal Dan-A Tribute Album
Yr: 2006
Song 6: When I Get Canceled Next Time
Artist: Jimmy Carr
LP: Comedy Corner
Yr: 2024
Song 7: Reaper's on the Prowl
Artist: Victor Wainwright And The WildRoots
LP: Boom Town
Year: 2015
Song 8: Kiss Them For Me
Artist: Siouxsie And The Banshees
LP: Superstition
Yr: 2019
Song 9: I'M A KING BEE (Live) - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
LP:
Yr: 2020
Song 10: Club A-Go-Go
Artist: The Animals
LP: Animal Tracks
Yr: 1965
Song 11: Greatest speech of all time
Artist: Al Bundy
LP: Married With Children
Yr:
Song 12: Speed The Collapse
Artist: Metric
LP: Synthetica
Yr: 2012
Song 13: Cuts You Up
Artist: Peter Murphy
LP: Deep
Yr: 1995
Song 14: Just a Gigolo
Artist: Barbie & The Kens
LP: O Records Classics
Yr: 1980
Song 15: Downstairs
Artist: Paolo Vasile
LP: Il Giorno Del Cobra
Yr: 1980
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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