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DoublePlusGood

Jan 1, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We’ll hear songs about renewal, new beginnings, fresh starts, newness and the like to kick off 2026!

5:03 PM		The Mountain Goats This Year John Darnielle Dilaudid - EP 4AD 2005
5:07 PM		The Zombies This Will Be Our Year Odessey and Oracle Marquis 1968
5:09 PM		Daniel Johnston Some Things Last a Long Time Daniel Johnston 1990 Eternal Yip Eye Music 1989
5:14 PM		Yo La Tengo Roll On Babe Derroll Adams Sleepless Night - EP Matador 2020
5:18 PM		Future Bible Heroes A New Kind of Town Stephin Merritt Partygoing Merge Records 2013
5:19 PM		The Beach Boys I Know There's an Answer Pet Sounds Capitol Records 1966
5:22 PM		Blackalicious Day One Blazing Arrow Geffen* 2002
5:26 PM		Soupy I Bailed On Family Plans Practice - EP Bee Side Cassettes 2019
5:31 PM		Big Joanie New Year Sistahs Daydream Library 2018
5:34 PM		Yo La Tengo One PM Again I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Matador 1997
5:37 PM		Dave Van Ronk Another Time and Place Dave Van Ronk Going Back to Brooklyn Hightone 1985
5:41 PM		Adrian Belew Time Waits Adrian Belew Op Zop Too Wah Passenger 1996
5:44 PM		Otis Redding & Carla Thomas New Year's Resolution King & Queen Rhino Atlantic 1967
5:48 PM		Sagittarius Another Time Present Tense (Expanded Edition) Columbia 1968
5:50 PM		Cate Le Bon About Time Cate Le Bon Michelangelo Dying Mexican Summer 2025
5:53 PM		L’Rain New Year’s UnResolution New Year's UnResolution - Single Mexican Summer 2023
5:57 PM		The Comet Is Coming Because the End Is Really the Beginning Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery Impulse! 2019
5:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:05 PM		The Dismemberment Plan The Ice of Boston The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified DeSoto Records 1997
6:09 PM		The Kinks Do It Again Word of Mouth Sanctuary Records 1984
6:14 PM		XTC Life Begins at the Hop Drums and Wires Virgin 1979
6:17 PM		The Vitamins New Town Vaultage 78: Two Sides Of Brighton Cherry Red Records 1978
6:19 PM		Death By Chocolate My New Old Organ Bric-a-Brac Darla 2012
6:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:22 PM		The Breeders New Year Last Splash 4AD 1993
6:24 PM		The Andretti Marquis De Sade's Rockin' new Years Eve Suicide, Italian Style Sorrento Publishing 2020
6:29 PM		Michel Polnareff Time Will Tell Michel Polnareff Disc'AZ 1966
6:31 PM		Tuxedomoon New Machine Desire / No Tears Crammed Discs 1980
6:35 PM		Green/Blue In Time Paper Thin Feel It Records 2022
6:38 PM		Killing Joke Change Killing Joke Malicious Damage 1980
6:42 PM		Talking Heads New Feeling Talking Heads: 77 Sire 1977 Debut
6:45 PM		Ron Geesin It's All Very New, You Know Ron Geesin A Raise Of Eyebrows Cherry Red Records 1967
6:51 PM		Jethro Tull A New Day Yesterday Stand Up Reprise 1969
6:55 PM		Sparks Change Music That You Can Dance To MCA 1986
7:00 PM		Bill Nelson Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug Bill Nelson Chimera Mercury 1983
7:05 PM		Brocade West New Kit Original Obligations Chapman Pond Music 2020
7:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:08 PM		Felt New Day Dawning Me and a Monkey On the Moon El Records 1989
7:15 PM		Wire The 15th 154 Harvest 1979
7:17 PM		Galaxie 500 Final Day Uncollected 20/20/20 1996 Young Marble Giants cover
7:20 PM		Wild Beasts End Come Too Soon Smother Domino Recording Co 2011
7:28 PM		Beverly Glenn-Copeland Ever New Keyboard Fantasies Atlast Records 1986
7:35 PM		The Mountain Goats Woke Up New Get Lonely 4AD 2006
7:38 PM		Ewan MacColl In a World Like This, Everything Changes So Rapidly... On the Edge (A Radio Ballad) Argo 1970
7:42 PM		Even As We Speak Begins Goodbye Under the Bridge V/A Skep Wax 2022
7:46 PM		Dendrons New Outlook II 5 - 3 - 8 Innovative Leisure 2022
7:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:49 PM		ESG A New Day Bam-Bam Jam art-funk ensemble from the South Bronx, ESG (Emerald Sapphire & Gold) was formed by sisters Renee, Valerie, and Marie Scroggins, all of whom handle vocals and percussion, and friends David Miles (guitar) and Leroy Glover (bass).
7:53 PM		The Smiths Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want William, It Was Really Nothing / Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want Rough Trade 1984
7:55 PM		Molly Drake Cuckoo Time Molly Drake The Tide's Magnificence: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake Fledg'ling 2018
7:56 PM		Nick Drake From the Morning Pink Moon Island 1972
7:59 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- HAPPY 2026!
7:59 PM		Blackalicious Green Light: Now Begin Blazing Arrow 2002

Chat is archived.

HAPPY 2026!

Greetings!

Greetings, Number 6!

Did you see the new room upstairs? It's nicely fitted out.

HNY! Emphasis on new, all the way!

This song is perfect, Lizbot

Hi Zach! I love this song so much, glad it's hitting right!

HNY, Roffle 0x7EA!

Here's the other New Year's classic I had to play!

I love all the versions of it they recorded through the Jordan lake session pandemic albums

@Number 6 - Didn't see it yet! Looking forward to it. I'm in studio, just didn't peek up there yet

@Zach - Yes! I DJ'd my brother-in-law's wedding this past October and he and his wife are huge MG fans and requested a song from the Jordan Lake Sessions

My sister read “riches and wonders” at my wedding ceremony, love the goats

@Lizbot- When Mike is there he usually has it unlocked and available for use.

@Zach - That's great! The only band my brother-in-law & sister-in-law love more then TMG, is The National, so they had a giant Geese of Beverly Road singalong at the end of the night!

@Zach - As far as Mountain Goats, they requested: Training Montage, Mark On You, Snow Owl, Cry for Judas and Tollund Man! Definitely ended up being the band with the most songs played during the reception

@Number 6 - He's usually gone by the time I'm here at 4. Sometimes I run into him, but usually not. I can't wait to see my rug in that space!

That’s great! We had a surprise presentation of “Mack the Knife” from the next door neighbor at my wife’s family beach house where we had the reception. Biggest song of the night was uncontrollable urge by DEVO though

@Zach - I love Uncontrollable Urge! My favorite concert of Fall 2025 was seeing DEVO with B-52s in Holmdel, NJ! Mark Mothersbaugh is amazing. He was diving and sliding on his knees across stage over and over! I don't know how he does it!

My brother in law was there!

Still jealous honestly haha

@Zach - It's funny you mention Mack the Knife because I was reading about Marianne Faithfull's mom, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, (related to the Masoch who wrote "Venus In Furs"!,) who was a dancer in Max Reinhardt's company and danced in Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht productions, so she probably heard the original performances of Mack the Knife!

@Zach - Great show! Only issue was the PNC Bank Arts Center was really really slow to get the crowd into the venue. There was such a long line going way down the length of the parking lot to enter the venue, I missed opener Lene Lovich, who I love!

@Zach - I had seen DEVO at The Met not that long before that show, but I love them so much, I made a plan to get to both shows. Slept in Long Branch and spent the next day in Asbury Park! Made a whole weekend trip out of it! Was nice to see The B-52s too, though they weren't as on top of their game as other times I've seen them, but it was their farewell tour, so I had to see them one last time!

He had said something similar about the crowd, and that he thought the B52s were playing first so they were a little late

Nutz, I wish I could have seen the B52s, etc., but I had a scheduling conflict. :(

@Zach - I think the reason The B-52s went second was due to the farewell tour element. But yeah, I don't think anyone expected it to take THAT long to get into that venue! It was crazy

@Number 6 - The whole "Cosmic De-volution" show was logistically tricky for me, but I made arrangements months in advance to make it a mini-trip! Had to get dog-sitting and babysitting and everything! But was worth it!

Did you hire porters and Sherpas??

That would be my next move

@Roffle 0x7EA - haha, no, just bugged my in-laws to take in my teen for the night! The trickier thing was getting dog-sitting and coordinating with my friends who joined george & I. They have two small kids, so it took a lot of planning to be on the same page, but we all crashed at a hotel in Long Branch that night and watched a Friday the 13th marathon in the hotel room since it was Halloweentimes

Pretty close though. :)

@Roffle 0x7EA - More or less the same!

Sagittarius! Thanks!

Hi Sean! Love this album!

@Sean Burns - I hope you're having a good, or at least warm!, New Year's Day!

Same back to you Lizbot!

Thought this might be Haley Henderickx for a second

Was very wrong haha. Some similar vocals happening

@Zach - Could see how you'd make that mistake, though!

Hi everyone

Hi Rob from Merryland 🦀! Happy 2026!

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - How has your 2026 been so far?

@Lizbot, after our family thing was over, I zoomed out and saw the Snowy Owl that's been at National Airport since the 25th. An exciting way to start my birding year

How has your 2026 been?

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - Oh wow! I've never seen a Snowy Owl outside of an aviary or zoo! Great sighting!

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - On NYE, we had tickets to JOhn Oliver at The Met in Philly last night. It was an early show, and we made it home by 10 and watch the series finale of Stranger Things with our teen, who grew up on the show.

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - Today I had to pack up before the show because I'm driving straight to NYC with George & Hattie directly after the show so that she's in NYC early for a [CHILLY] college tour tomorrow morning! Which means George & Hattie are wandering around Princeton with the dog right now! Thankfully they found some open businesses that allow dogs!

@Lizbot, NYE sound good. We stayed home and listened to WPRB until the 10 pm hour. Good luck with the college tour and staying warm with the dog!

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - Thanks! I wish these colleges had more tours in the summertime! Most are during weekdays and don't go later than 2 pm, so they conflict with high school schedule. We have to take advantage of Winter Break to get in a tour, though we will be freezing walking around campus!

…*summoned*…

haha! Hi addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum! Happy New Year to you and yr family!

I had this Jethro Tull album on an 8 track and loved it! Brings back memories.

@Number 6 - One cannot deny the power of TULL

@Number 6 - Or rock flute, for that matter

I'll say!

@lizbot how was John Oliver??

I worked for a guy many years ago who was a man of very few words. We'd go days without talking, doing our own thing, he liked it that way, a real hermit, so I'll never forget the time Jethro Tull came on the radio, he paused from his work, looked really introspective, and then just said "Hrrrrmmmm, FLUTE!"

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Oh it was really good! Also enjoyed the Brooks Wheelan opening set, which I had no real expectations for, though I'd seen him in snippets online

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Oliver is very animated! He kicked over a metal stool! His set was really long, but worth it! He also didn't get thrown off at all when a few audience members tried to participate, and worked it into the set well. He also tried to imitate an eagle call for the Eagles fans in the audience to hilarious effect!

I just saw this: MTV isn't completely ending, but its dedicated global music channels (like MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, MTV Live) went dark on December 31, 2025, marking the end of an era for music-focused broadcasting after 44 years, while the main, reality-focused MTV HD channel continues. This shift reflects declining traditional TV viewership, with Paramount Global retiring these music channels to focus on streaming and reality programming, though it's seen as a symbolic end to MT

MTV's original music-video dominance.

Oh my word, that all sounds like a hoot, @Lizbot!

@Number 6 - Yeah, I heard about that. It's a bit sad. I hate reality TV, and I know MTV has been focusing mainly on that for a very long time now, so I admittedly haven't watched their music channels in many years, but "120 Minutes" meant a lot to me in the 90s, especially during the Matt Pinfield years, with less mainstream music, and for a stretch, in the late 90s, I'd watch "Amp", debuted techno videos, after 120 Minutes

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - It was fun! I've never seen any of those Jon Stewart-era Daily Show correspondents live...Or at least I don't think so...I have to think about that for a moment! There were a LOT of them! I almost saw a free outdoor John Hodgman show in NYC during the pandemic, but other plans got in the way

I remember there was another channel where you could call in and they would play a requested video for $1.99 or something. Need to play Money For Nothing in remembrance.

From what I remember reading last night, those MTV channels went dark in Europe and I think Australia. North American ones will probably go dark at some point in the future

@Number 6 - My next door neighbor childhood friend and I watched a lot of MTV together at his house in the early MTV years because my parents didn't have cable yet. That was the no-commercials, music-only era, and we got very excited when our favorites popped up. We used to have Weird Al singalongs

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - The non-music ones?

One of those MTV channels' last song was "Video Killed The Radio Star" which is of course the very first video MTV broadcast

@Lizbot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV#Termination_of_music_programming

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - oh man, that would make me nostalgic! Yeah, I always think of that song WRT MTV's beginnings

"Parent company Paramount announced on October 10, 2025, that its United Kingdom and Ireland channels MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live will all stop broadcasting after December 31, 2025. The broadcaster's "flagship" channel, MTV HD, will remain on air, showing reality series such as Dating Naked UK, Teen Mom, and Geordie Shore.[137][138] North American channels will remain unaffected but will also be evaluated later.[139]"

"After going off the air in the UK and Ireland, the aforementioned MTV channels will be switched off in France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and Brazil,[140][141] in what Euronews journalist David Mouriquand called "a sign of changing times". "

and "As of January 2026, MTV only carries music videos in five regions: United States (through a 1 hour weekly block on the main network and several side channels on cable and Pluto TV), Japan, Israel, Taiwan, and India. "

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - Oh, their parent company is Paramount?! No WONDER they're getting slashed. Paramount has been slashing programming left and right.

"Geordie Shore"! Haha!

Love this song 💙

@Lizbot, yup. Here's an article published today from People Magazine talking about it https://people.com/is-mtv-shutting-down-11878155

Good evening DJ Lizbot and the chat

Good evening, TAndy! Happy New Year!

@TAndy - Glad you're digging the Beverly Glenn-Copeland!

Geordie Shore, tee hee

Hiya TAndy

Happy New year to you too! 🥳

@Rob from Merryland 🦀 - I have a 1970ish British folk-rock album by Trees with an excellent song called "Geordie" and the album title is "On the Shore"! "Geordie Shore!

@TAndy - Were you up for NYE? I didn't even noticed when midnight passed, but I was up until around 2 am

I was up! The neighborhood was lit up for a good half hour before it started to settle down a bit

@TAndy - haha, I was in a rowdy crowd until about 9:30, but then I went home and just watched a show with the kid!

Nice relaxing show tonight, great for editing photos. Safe travels to the Lizbot family.

Hi John Coffey! Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for an uplifting show to ring in the new year, BCNU!

Thanks for tuning in, Number 6! Happy 2026!

Excellent show, thank you Lizbot! Hasta la proxima

Thanks, Rob from Merryland 🦀! Happy New Year!

HNY to u2

THX Lizbot!

@Roffle 0x7EA - Thanks for tuning in! Have a great rest of New Year's Day...Night!

Is anyone hearing the signal? It was sipposed to switch over to the next show!