Sadly, RXP has ended due to the sale of the station. Oddly enough a station that was once called New York’s Rock Experience (don’t get me started on why it was stopped being marketed as that) , ended not once but twice and both times with songs by English artists, first on Thursday night during Rich Kotite’s final show and last DJ voiced segment, he chose to end with the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” and then on Friday as the station transitioned to it’s musical stunt before it turns to a news talk station. the last RXP song was the Who’s “Long Live Rock”
This got me thinking about some cool local artists that might have had songs worthy of the end of what was once called New York’s Rock Experience (once again, please don’t get me started on why it stopped being called that, only Kotite knows)
Here’s a bunch of songs by a bunch of local artists, that might have been cool to sum up RXP and the sale and format switch, what do you think?
Arguably the biggest or at least the most influential band form the 5 Boroughs are the RAMONES
here’s a few songs by them:
“I’m Against It”
“Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue”
“The KKK took my Baby Away”
“Here Today Gone Tomorrow”
“We Want the Airwaves”
“Too Tough to Die”
New Jersey has some artists that have some logical songs:
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
“Further on up the road”
“Fade Away”
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY
“I Don’t Want to go Home”
LITTLE STEVEN
“The Time of your Life”
DRAMARAMA
“What are we gonna do?”
“Everybody Dies”
SMITHEREENS
“Goodnight Goodbye”
“Drown in my own Tears”
or maybe one of these from Brooklyn:
GARLAND JEFFREYS “R.O.C.K.”
THE HOLD STEADY (they played RXP’s first anniversary show)
‘Rock Problems”
“Lord I’m Discouraged”
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART “Lost Saint”
Or one of these from Queens or Long Island
JESSE MALIN “Broken Radio” BILLY JOEL “I’ve Loved these Days”
and back to NYC for this one
BLONDIE “Fade Away and Radiate”
maybe this NYC one should have ended it: “All for the Love of Rock and Roll”
