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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 14, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Esoterica

The Sonic Bloom, your way.

hey come with me on a journey of musical delights! The Jam, The Stooges, new music...

12:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
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12:05 PM		Crack Cloud Post Truth (Birth of a Nation) Crack Cloud Pain Olympics Crack Cloud Media Corporation 2020
12:10 PM		The Cramps Domino The Cramps Off the Bone EMI Records 1989
12:13 PM		The Cribs Things Could Be Better The Cribs N Singles Club #4 - Single Sonic Blew 2021
12:16 PM		Cream World of Pain Cream Disraeli Gears Polydor Records 1967 just found this on the web: The title of the album, as Eric explains it, is a pun. The group was driving along one day trying to think of names for the record, coming up with things like “Elephant Gerald” (Ella Fitzgerald) and hit upon “Disraeli Gears,” a word play on English racing bicycles which have derailer gears.
12:19 PM		Crime Murder By Guitar Crime Murder By Guitar Superior Viaduct 2014 Crime was an early American punk band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band was formed in 1976 by Johnny Strike, Frankie Fix, Ron "The Ripper" Greco, and Ricky Tractor.
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12:27 PM		Aldous Harding Passion Babe Aldous Harding N Warm Chris Flying Nun Records 2021
12:32 PM		Bill Gage & Cheater Slicks Piano Tunnels N Piano Tunnels In The Red 2021
12:40 PM		The Districts I Want to Feel It All The Districts N Great American Painting Fat Possum 2021 This band hails form Lititz, PA. https://fatpossum.com/collections/the-districts
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12:47 PM		Grace Cummings Heaven Grace Cummings N Storm Queen ATO Records / Fontana North 2022
12:52 PM		Zelia Barbosa Cancão Da Terra (Song of the Earth) Zelia Barbosa Brazil: Songs of Protest Monitor Records 1991 Also on Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/zelia-barbosa/brazil-songs-of-protest/latin-struggle-world/music/album/smithsonian
12:56 PM		mssv Green Goddess mssv N The Scott Aicher EP Nomad Eel Records 2021
1:00 PM		Ben Goldberg, Nels Cline & Tom Rainey Branch from the Trunk (live) The Art Spirit (Live form The Owl Music Parlor) 2016 THE ART SPIRIT - Ben Goldberg, Nels Cline, Tom Rainey Live at The Owl Music Parlor Recorded in concert on May 26, 2016. Ben Goldberg (clarinets), Nels Cline (electric guitar) and Tom Rainey (drums) Recorded and mixed by Michael Coleman Mastered by Liberty Ellman Three master musicians walking the tightrope of spontaneous creation, crafting music of ferocity, warmth, and beauty in front of a live audience.
1:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:11 PM		Flipper (I Saw You) Shine Flipper Generic Flipper Domino Recording Co 1981
1:16 PM		The Birthday Party Happy Birthday The Birthday Party Hee Haw 4AD 1983
1:23 PM		The Stooges Real Cool Time The Stooges The Stooges Rhino/Elektra 1969
1:27 PM		Björk Hidden Place Björk Vespertine Rhino/Elektra 2004
1:30 PM		BAMBARA Slither in the Rain BAMBARA N Love on My Mind - EP Wharf Cat Records 2021 Bambara is a post-punk band from Athens, Georgia that is now based in Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Reid Bateh, Blaze Bateh, and William Brookshire. Their use of machines, loops and other assorted lo-fi software aided in them also being labeled as noise rock.
1:35 PM		Guided By Voices Re-Develop Guided By Voices N Crystal Nuns Cathedral GBV Inc 2022
1:37 PM		Bread Guitar Man Bread Guitar Man Elektra Asylum 1972 Guitar Man is the fifth album by Bread, released in 1972. The album produced three U.S. Top 20 singles: "The Guitar Man", "Sweet Surrender", and "Aubrey". Guitar Man peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200.
1:42 PM		The Grass Roots Let's Live for Today The Grass Roots The Grass Roots San Juan Music 1971 https://www.liveabout.com/the-grass-roots-bio-and-discography-2522075
1:43 PM		H.P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness (Live) H.P. Lovecraft Live at the Fillmore, May 11, 1968 Sundazed Music H. P. Lovecraft was an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1967 and named after the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
1:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:55 PM		Charlie Parker & bird Laura Bird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Columbia/Legacy 1988
1:56 PM		Jamiroquai Canned Heat Jamiroquai N Synkronized Sony Music CG 2021 Remaster of the song featured in Napoleon Dynamite!
2:02 PM		Roy Rogers Yellow Rose of Texas Roy Rogers Home On the Range Prestige Elite 2006 from wiki: "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American folk song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1] Several versions of the song have been recorded, including by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson[2] and Mitch Miller. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/perspectives-african-american-history/yellow-rose-texas-ironic-origins-state-song/
2:05 PM		Wipers Alien Boy Wipers Is This Real? Zenorecords 1980 The seventh track off Is This Real?, “Alien Boy” was supposedly written about or at least inspired by James Chasse, who associated with Greg Sage in the 1970s and 80s. Apparently, Chaase, a schizophrenic and an eccentric, once told Sage he felt like an alien, which inspired Sage to write the song.
2:08 PM		The Gun Club Ghost On the Highway The Gun Club Fire Of Love Rhino/Slash 1981
2:12 PM		The Dream Syndicate Where I'll Stand The Dream Syndicate N Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions Fire Records 2022
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2:21 PM		Kristine Leschper This Animation Kristine Leschper N The Opening, or Closing of a Door Anti/Epitaph 2021
2:22 PM		The Jam In the Crowd The Jam All Mod Cons (Remastered) Polydor Records 1978
2:25 PM		Paul Weller Bull Rush Paul Weller Paul Weller Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1992
2:32 PM		Paul Weller On Sunset Paul Weller N Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook With Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra Polydor Records 2021
2:37 PM		The Stranglers (Get a) Grip [On Yourself] The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus Parlophone UK 2001 Released April 15, 1977!
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2:50 PM		AURORA Life on Mars Girls, Vol. 3 (Music from the HBO Original Series) Girls Soundtrack / Interscope 2016
2:55 PM		Kelsey Cork and the Swigs Upstream N Weird Bones - EP goodhowareyou records 2021
2:57 PM		Perel & Marie Davidson Jesus Was an Alien N Jesus Was an Alien Kompakt WW 2022

Chat is archived.

hey!

HeyOoo!

Hello

heyoooo yourself, mr. m:) hi bri!

what's crack-a-lackin'?

eyyyy, sonic bloomin time. boutta hop in the car, needless to say ill be listening!

awesome, guelo!

Tryin to stay outta trouble! How are you, DJ Esoterica?

you and me both, partner!:) trying to stay outta trouble, but it still finds me haha

WhaOh! Maybe more time on planning! Charts and diagrams!

yes yes! so true

this one is Cinematic!

agreed!

THE CRAMPS❗️ Fun timez!

oh yeah get your psychobilly on

Roy Orbison gets crampy ha

Ha!

oh yeah...

Roy O version always makes me think of Jarmusch Mystery Train

hello all! only two songs in and i'm pretty sure i needed this show more than i knew.

love mystery train, so true

aw thanks, colin! welcome aboard! and i need it too, more than you know:)

this set brought to you by the letter C !

haha

accident

serendipity

Now you gotta keep it going!

haha i have one more, coming your way

Knee Na Samoan. Holger Shoegaze.

Irk Lapp Town

Also, hidden theme? … World of Pain *Olympics, Off The Bone and Things Could Be Better ❤️‍🩹

D'ya Injure Bee Acre?

D"ya Hack Bruise?

in addition to it being sonic bloom o'clock, pretzels and water ice have just been delivered to work.

Mmmm pretzels! 🥨 emoji for that!

Speaking of work, I need a drink

L0LZ

Details on these pretzels please and thank you

Love that 30 Rock episode about the teamsters Hoagie day (they said Italian sandwiches for the show... ok New York we'll allow it...) and the mystery secret hoagie place....

John Lennon books are all about that word play

Looking for Stevie P, the_dude, mark

Well now I want a sammich

i choose the honey mustard for my pretzel.

A career that would last.... a lunchtime....

So a soft baked pretzel?

We just take out that word "baked". Soft pretzel. Save time

It’s 9:30 am here. I got back in bed. No snacks here. Or drinks. 🥨🥪🌯🍺🍷

I think Elephant Gerald would have been a better title .. less pompous .. which the Cream coulda used .

Giggles

lol, soft baked. west side!! and yes. soft.

L0LZ

haha joe, i get ya

and welcome!

Accent on the word pretzel not soft

Well, I asked for details and got zero

Honey Mustard. That explains nothing!

now all i have is George Costanza voice yelling in my head, these pretzels are making me thirsty!

Salt on this pretzel??

OMG L0LZ

Another set of swell selections!!

Steak =steak sandwich. Pretzel=soft pretzel. When it comes to lunch gotta save time in Philly

I can’t eat anything there. Got it.

Love Aldous

i had a California chees steak the other day really good, like a cheesesteak hoagie, onion lettuce tomato mayo

Pie = pizza

forgive typos

WestSiiidddeee

I need pie 🥧 what’s that called??

yupers! westsidddeee

A passable chicken tikka masala froz lunch today. Small green salad w pepitas.

Even less letters in Za for pizZa 🍕

Then I could ask for pie and get dessert

i've been calling it the Za, and yes i learned that here in the chat.

You’re welcome

ilike th za, nice ring

i just say slice of rhubarb

last friday night i brought my mom some take out, she asked what i was bringing, i said, the za!

Is there salt on this pretzel or am I gonna lose my last marble today?!?

"Za" reminds me of "The Official Preppy Handbook". Silly early 1980s thing. Strange that a 2 letter word is harder to state clearly than the full word pizza.

my dad stu would always ask for rhubarb in restaurants (or as well called them in California, coffee shops), rarely they would have real rhubarb (no strawberry)

*we

We do not call it Za here. It’s pizza. 😆

salt included!

"Coffee shop " is more of a term for "diner " no?

Thanks, Colin!! Blood pressure dropping

I want to feel it all

not my blood presure, salt included!

Prayers

I always picture that one they use for so many scenes in films when i hear the term coffee shop (begin of Pulp Fiction ... that one)

Hawthorne Grill

oh yeah

Aka Holly's

Exactly like that yep

BRAZIL❣️

yes, mr. m:)

Land of super hero hvac repair experts!

Rogue hvac technicians!

Whaaaat

DeNiro and Gilliam told me that

You'll just have to fill out the proper forms for me to explain more

Probably from a film I haven’t seen 😝🤓😫😭

Green Goddess 🥗

A film titled.... Brazil

I chortled out loud

hey there!

howdy!

HeyOoo Meow! What’s that cat’s name? Chainsaw?!?

mssv! they put on a great show

mr m, do you know that I started calling him chainsaw because of you

yes they do! agree, andrew

domino, mr. m?

ACES! Great name! Cheers!

lunch break! gonna take this radio show to the car and sleep off this pretzel.

haha carb load?

cheers to you, mr. m!

Wait. Who is Domino ?

NELS CLINE 💚

thaht is the cramps tune about a cat i played earlier. wait, i am confiursed.... what cat were you talking about?;)

Haha. The one Andrew is using as user pic!

oh chainsaw! haha

i gotta keep up. i hope andrew, your cat is not chainsaw

Haha! Was trying to remember the actual name.

Chainsaw is a great name for a cat! So is Domino!

Nice selection here, DJ Esoterica!

thx mr. m!!

his real name is Giant

do you like the george stevens film?

Dang! That’s a good one! He does wear human sized glasses. 👓 🐈‍⬛

that art of spirit was awesome! just finally picked up another speaker for my car door... stereo experience incoming

nice guelo! glad you enjoyed

Hello Esoterica. I see I tuned in for the right song!

yo rob! yes!

You are shining right now with your dj-ing!

haha! nah, he got his name because he was like twice the size of his siblings when he was a kitten. and we let the kids name him

thanks, rob:)

oh sweet, andrew, cuteness

HeeHaw❗️ 4AD❣️ 1983‼️

STOOGES!

my fave :)

well i have a lot of faves but YKWIM;)

Nice! Cool time for realz

you always have a cool time with iggy;)

and with BJÖRK 💖

tah-rue, so i take it, courtney barnett NO, bjork, yes!

You got it! NO to Quartley Barfnett 🤣

Bless her heart. Her music is for anyone else just not me. 😛

got it!;)

BAMBARA has a nice sound

agree, though the vocalist sounds dangerously close to crash test dummies vocals lol

GBV!

yes! NEW

L0LZ

Colin trying to sleep through the Madness 😳

haha

maybe i should put shadow fax or some other new age goodies on

one word shadowfax

Nope. You snooze, you hit the roof of your car

Hahaha

damn... got the wrong speakers... now Im thinking of just adding these 2 speakers somewhere else in the car...

oh no, guelo! you will work it out, no doubt, good luck, man

this JAM right now!!

Does the JAM right now have large talons?

Maybe it does, GOSH!

uncle rico tosses football to mrm

hello Eso and everyone! Can't hear this song without thinking of Napoleon Dynamite!

haha bri!

hi li maria!

agreed, mr. m!

Uncle Rico resurfaced in White Lotus!

Okay ROY ROGERS 💛

Roy Rogers can do more than a Fixins Bar!

yes bri, i watched the white lotus!

hey mary!

Hello Esoterica! I don’t usually get to tune in during work, but we slowed down a little today.

WIPERS‼️

nice, welcome, mary! glad you could make it:)

greg sage:)

This is nice

Yes, guud stuffs 🎵🎶

Didn't know Dream Syndicate got back together since the 80s

cool, glad you like, yeah DS solid new release

this one by The Jam is a… BOP

oh yeah love this album, top ten for sure for me

haven't heard this in such a loooong time!

love this song

me too :)

Bull Rush! Great tune. Used to hear it on another station when it came out. 30 years ago wha....

great sixties vibe, no? an the psychedelic interlude in the middle

or maybe toward the end, here... ha!

Yeah he's totally going retro with the flute and cool effects etc!

beatles-esque

This great installment of your fine show is reminding me of when I first tuned in to The Sonic Bloom and I’m luvin it! Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

there it is!

yup, li maria:)

mr. m, thanks kindly!

WHOOOOSHHHH.... Alice don't eat the mushrooms no

crazy work day today popping in quick to say hi

hey tom:)

how are ya, tom? still there? lol

Bye TomS! We barely knew Ye!

DJ Esoterica! DJ MikeLupica gave his fun pledge drive news! What are your plans for The Sonic Bloom???

Heading out--thanks, Eso! Will we see you on the Starlight Lounge cam next Wed?

yes! yes!

In two weeks, Li Maria!

Oops--I'll mark my calendar!

I fink it all went sideways then innit?

Next week with MikeLupica is DJ Pethie!!

That's right!

Michael Caine hack Brian D account?!? Who dat?

I enjoyed the show, Esoterica. Until the next time (I can't always catch your show in the afternoon).

Final Ten Mins?!? I’m cry.

thx rob! hasta leugo:)

luego

still here

lol mr. m, bri

or dick van dyke in mary poppins

Maybe that one!!

Ever hear Barbara Streisand's rendering of this song?

hi david! no i haven't

that would be a trip

Ever hear Jessica Lange’s version?

From American Horror Story

Come on! FreakShow!

Wooooo! With German accent!

haha love that first season of AHS, mr. m

Gotta watch em all!!

Great show, Esoterica! Thank you!

Have a great weekend!

hey IP!

you too thx for stopping by:)

Good one Eso. see y'all later

DJ Esoterica, many thanks for sharing all these great tunes! Take good care! Kind regards to you, Lady! Looking forward to hearing the interview next week!

thx mr. m!

thx bri!

thx, mary!:)

thanks for the jam(s)!

thx for stopping by, andrew!

MikeLupica! You interrupted that song!

😩🤪🥸😎

Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

haha bye all::

cheers to you!