RADIO ETHER PROGRAM 2,121 (BURN OUT ETHER)

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RADIO ETHER
PROGRAM TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE
(BURN OUT ETHER)

Burn Out
Amy M. Alvarez

Everything is fine: a means to endure
news cycles, historic cycles, menstrual

cycles. This is walking home after work,
crawling into bed naked. Night, quiet with

snow. I am an empty bank account.
I am a pylon glowing in the dark. I am
a primal scream. I am not here.

The body speaks first. If that doesn’t work,
the mind empties: a crate of crabs scuttling

toward nothingness. Authoritarianism
blossoms like a corpse flower: foul men

spread their stench across the globe.
I remember these songs. It’s all on fire.

A meteor // a virus // a bomb
like a dark-eyed angel hurtles toward us.

I’d like to see the ocean lap against a glacier
before the end. I’d like to see the northern

lights. I’d like to watch effigies of foul men
burn in the desert. I’d like to be there, reel there,
at the end.

1. Intro
2. Don't Beat Me Down (Gordon Lightfoot) - Gordon Lightfoot [Back Here on Earth - United Artists Records - 1968]
3. God's Own Drunk (Lord Buckley) - Jimmy Buffet [Living and Dying in 3/4 Time - Dunhill, ABC Records - 1974]
4. I Don't Need No Doctor (J. Armstead, N. Ashford, V. Simpson) - New Riders of the Purple Sage [Powerglide - Columbia - 1972]
5. talk
6. Goon Squad (Elvis Costello) - Elvis Costello and the Attractions [Armed Forces - Columbia - 1979]
7. Wilderness (Joy Division) - Joy Division [Unknown Pleasures - Factory - 1979] (2007 Remaster)
8. Killing an Arab (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst / Michael Stephen Dempsey / Robert James Smith) - The Cure [Boys Don't Cry - Fiction Records - 1980]
9. talk
10. Israel (Steven Severin / John Alexander Mcgeoch / Budgie / Sioux) - Siouxsie & the Banshees [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single - Polydor - 1980]
11. The Man Whose Head Expanded (Smith, Scanlon) - The Fall [Perverted By Language - Line Records - 1983]
12. This is Sad (Fela Ransome-Kuti) - Fela Ransome-Kuti and His Africa '70 [Fela Fela Fela - His Master's Voice - 1970]
13. talk
14. Mutiny in Heaven (Harvey, Cave) - The Birthday Party [Mutiny! - Mute, Vogue - 1983]
15. The Shepherd and the Moon (B. Bergman, E. Papathanassiou) - Aphrodite's Child [End of the World - Mercury - 1968]
16. Hey Joe (Trad., Arr. Hendrix) - Jimi Hendrix Experience [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Mono - Polydor - 1966] (mono - 2013 reissue)
17. talk
18. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) - Pink Floyd [The Wall - Harvest/EMI, Columbia/CBS - 1979] (2016 reissue)
19. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses (2018 European reissue)
20. Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon–McCartney) / Penny Lane (Lennon–McCartney) - The Beatles [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Mono - Parlophone - 1967] (mono)
21. Outro
22. Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) - Bob Dylan [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single - Columbia - 1965] (2016 2x45 RPM MFSL mono reissue) [ETHER BONUS]

DJ: Charles Cicirella
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Cleveland, Ohio

Artwork included
ENJOY!

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