"The Inner Life of Scorpio" by Robyn Hitchcock. The Sonic Bloom Thu Oct 13 with Esoterica on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

hey!

HEY!

howdy, kid

how's it going?

Hi LADY!

can i call you kid? sometimes i get frustrated when folks (even lovingly) call me that (being a little sister and all lol

Oh it’s going alright! How’s it going with?!?

huh, i am okay:) happy to chat with robyn h. today

Yes, “kid” is funny and fine with me. Can I still call you “LADY”?!? 😳

Looking forward to this show!

absolutely, Mr. m!

hey bri! I know you are a big fan, too, of robyn.:)

Oh phew and whew! Thanks LADY!

:)

you're alright, kid;)

Awww Yeeaahh!

Been way too long since I have seen him play. I would buy a box set of his stage patter humor, stories etc

Wait. You are interviewing ROBYN HITCHCOCK!?!

hello all

I sneaked out of work early so i could catch your chat w robyn!

Fun! Wow, I miss 1 week! Better not do that again!

Hey DJE. Hi kid.

and everybody!

Hey OldMan

Robyn! 💜

hi, C!

Hi, Andrew!

Hey, Eso! This is phenomenal.

Hi, Stevie P!

I love hearing Robyn!

Hey MrMalcontent 💀, Stevie P, Brian, Andrew & all

https://www.tinyghostrecords.com/

where you can find shufflemania!

Im awake early enough to hear it :). goodmorningz

awesome, la guelo!

I swear allegiance to freeform radio...

me, too, c!

A "Frillionaire" lol Mr. Hitchcock

yup lol

Hi Christine! 👻

I freakin love this interview

hello i'm finally in the chat :'') i never listen on a computer

aw thx, stevie p!

hi kian! yay! you are here

Hey Boo! 👻 MrM

... he was vibrating.....

yes, bri!

the chat is taking a turn lol

Robyn Hitchcock, Ghost Investigator 🔎

WestSiiidddeee GHOSTS! 🕶👻

yes!

Who's interviewing whom here? :) Grilled about ghosts

haha

hey jimbeaux

Eso, you're an interesting adult also.

I like Robyn... "Oh"

the antipodes, love it (well, emma his wife is from down under)

Robyn is keeping archaic language alive...as a literature person I love that.

there you go, bri:)

Yep... if you drill a hole from our Philly area you end up southwest of Perth out in the Southern Ocean

yes christine, i agree.

Not too many well inhabited land to land antipodes on planet earth.

We all vibrate to the beat of different drummers

true bri

Me and KidMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ are sort of antipodes

Apr-tober, the 13th month

;) on both counts

Love to see Robyn rock out the electric band! Saw him at Johnny Brendas w Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and the late Bill Rieflin (The Venus 3). That was amazing

ROBYN!!!!

hi, Jason!

we will meet ringo! his cat (along with tubby!)

Peter and Robyn interlocking guitars. Robyn is an amazing guitar player. Just knows the fretboard well. Very creative

we are zoom, obvs

on zoom

I am zoomZooMzoom

isn't robyn gracious?

to ask ME anything

https://www.tinyghostrecords.com/!!!

exclamation points are mine

https://tinyghostrecords.bandcamp.com/

Would love to hang out with Robyn and friends on a rainy Saturday afternoon, doing basically, nothing.

So good! Thank you

agree, stevie p

thanks richard!!

Ok BuhBye. Happy Halloween. Bye. Take care. ByeBye Tubby. Goodbye. Be well. Uh huh. Bye now. Alright. Bye. Thanks again. BuhByeeeEeee

lol

so sweet, thoroughly enjoyable for me

Well done, DJ Esoterica! Thanks for doing that for us!

JOHNNY MARR 🤎

thanks mr .m!

love johnny marr

My brother took me to see Robyn open for REM in 1989. He was sick as a dog!

oh wow, jimbeaux

nice double bill tho

what did robyn have?

Hi, can you tell me when the interview with Robyn was recorded so I can show the correct date on my Robyn Hitchcock site? https://askingtree.com/gigs/3605

Hi, Marcus! Sure, it was recorded a week ago, Thursday, 10/6.

and thanks:)

Thank you!

Will be seeing Robyn backing Emma at World Cafe Live in just a few weeks.

so sweet, i am going to try to get there as well, @marcus

Hi Esoterica. hi all, Just woke up and thought I was in a '70s movie for a second there. The musical vernacular was awesome for me. :)

you mean in our interview? hi roffle!

It is so cold in Shiloh town Birds can hardly sing Pretty girls gonna leave the town They won't be back 'till spring

Halleluyer

yup

hi Marcus et al!

howdy greg!

hey. great interview!

thanks, greg!

i had fun

CAT POWER❣️❣️

oh yeah love her

this GEM 💎🎶🎵

i love it

Pass the biscuits please....

Another great 33 1/3 book this lp

sweet, bri. i still haven't bought even one of those books. i need to

The descending strings here. . . I haz a scares

Takes about an afternoon to read some of them. So much fun

Heard Convoy on Krista's show earlier. Ode to Billy Joe now. Great rewind to 1970s day

Have you written for that series, Brian D???

oh sweet, bri

CAN 💟

I read. No write for work. Happy to be a spectator

“New” Live CAN on pretty vinyl and other formats out this month.

Ahhh... Krautrock bliss

yeah baby!

it says so right on the label, mike.

SauerkrautRock

Everyone should lie down in a dark room and listen to this on headphones at least once in their life.

sweet, mr. m, i need to check out the new CAN goods.

CANned goods

ha!

agree, mike lupica

Love and Sprockets

I will listen from my coffin ⚰️ 🪦 🧛🏻‍♂️ 💀

ha, roffle:0

Can. Faust. Yes. Very nice day on wprb

glad you like.")

that was supposed to be a smiley face lol

🥴 this one?

melty face deliriously happy?

mucho

Zut Alors, Eh?! 🇫🇷 🇨🇦

https://bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/blues-ambush-2

BLUES HAMMER!

yo know it!

damn then, indeed, mr. m

Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

cheers to you!

@mr. m

🖤💀

Goodbye Horse Noises

Hey! Did that Blues Ambush get cut off?

nope, it ends like that, david, and hi

i will urge them to do horse noises part two so we can keep it going. i will play more of t hem next week for sure. i was in a groove.

BELABORIS was enjoyable!

MELVINS 🖤

thx! i will be digging into some Dark Entries records artists next week for Halloween

Fun!

moody, gloomy, wan, peaked, pale, and the link

*like

Scarlet pumpernickel game show, is that you?

I'd like to select option D please

I’m too complicated for that simple game

Also, you're probably busy that day, MrM.

I’m so busy that day

I heard Al Green's cover of that recently.

💅 💀

goodBye Horses noiZe #QLazzarusAdjacent #ExplainYourGibberish

He nails this one

ha i did play that awhile back in homage to q lazzarus.

agree, bri

Next week is Bela Lugosi’s birthday so remember to play “Bela Lugosi’s Birthday” by the Dreamboys (featuring Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson).

oh cool, david

i will make. a note thx

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS 💟

Such an incredible cover. 💜 💜 💜

love it

she don’t fade

nope not once

Add to note: follow up with “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by BAUHAUS 💖

on it, mr. m! love that tune

thx

Thanks to you, DJ Esoterica!

you are very welcome:)

pretty voice here

fantastic pair of covers!

robyn hitchcock's wife

BUZZCOCKS!

oh yeah!

That thump. Early early days

howsrd!

🔥 🔥 🔥

love yes and yes

BUZZCOCKS❣️ Wooooo!

oops...howard!

Thanks for clarifying

stop, mr. m haha

Well I wasn’t sure 😩😝

#transloveairways

Devoto era. Pre Garvey. Diggle on the bass instead of guitar

cool era

I think Donovan coined "trans-love airways" in "The Fat Angel".

Da Phat Angel 😇

I missed Steve Garvey's band Reeder Station at the Asbury Park Yacht Club two weekends ago.

i didn't know that @david (fat angel)

Breakdown is on a great Manchester comp. "Manchester: North Of England - Story Of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977-1983 . Cherry Red records. 2017. Tons of songs on that. Some really cool experimental stuff. Dana K wheelhouse

cool, bri

OF MONTREAL ❤️

Steve's son plays the bass well too. Looks like dad in Buzzcocks days.

Is "San Franciscan Nights" really on the "Easy Rider" soundtrack album? It's not in the movie. Nor should it be, since they don't ride anywhere near San Francisco.

I missed the first hour sadly, but what a great bunch of tunes Esoterica. Thanks for this. ❤️

thanks, roffle. i will upload this on mixcloud

Cool!

haha david, good point.

i don't recall it being on the album. i will change that in the playlist

i concur, mr. m

Ha! Of Montreal ... coincidence there. Those words caught my eye as well

I agree, DJ Esoterica

Ha! Brian D!

Final Five Mins?! Fudge! I’m mad. And I’m cry.

Awesome show, Esoterica. Thank you!

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks for another great show! Fun interview! Guud timez in the chat! Big cheers! Kind regards to you, Lady! 🎃🧡🖤💀

Anthology?

What is the word?!?

“The Fat Angel” was on Donovan's “Sunshine Superman” album released in August 1966. He refers to Jefferson Airplane when most people never heard of them.

Installment? Iteration?

season

phew

Oh hahahaha

thanks, you erudite kid!

Great show Eso!

thanks, bri!

thanks c!

thanks, mr. m!

Great show ESO, as per usual.

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Ears!

cool, david, thanks for the facts

🖤💀

cheers dears!!

thanks kindly, stevie p

12:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin 1972 Parlophone UK 2001
12:04 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:06 PM		Robyn Hitchcock The Feathery Serpent God Robyn Hitchcock N Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022 Will be released Oct. 21! Get yourself a copy at tinyghostrecords.com
12:14 PM		Robyn Hitchcock Interview Robyn Hitchcock Interview 2022
12:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:47 PM		Robyn Hitchcock The Inner Life of Scorpio Robyn Hitchcock N Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022 With Johnny Marr on this song.
12:54 PM		Robyn Hitchcock Socrates in Thin Air Robyn Hitchcock N Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
1:00 PM		Robyn Hitchcock The Raging Muse Robyn Hitchcock N Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
1:05 PM		Armando Trovajoli L'amore dice ciao (Slow Take) [From "La matriarca - The Libertine"] Armando Trovajoli The Best of Armando Trovajoli - Soundtracks & Blues, Vol. 2 (Original Film Scores) Bacci Bros Records 2015
1:09 PM		Arthur Brown (A) Excitation Wavelength (Rustic Hinge "Replicas" - "T on the Lawn for 3") Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Strangelands" Cherry Red Records 2011 Recorded in the 60s not released until the late 80s.
1:10 PM		Fever Tree Come With Me (Rain Song) Fever Tree Fever Tree Geffen 2010
1:15 PM		Karen Dalton I Love You More Than Words Can Say Karen Dalton It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best EMI Catalogue 1969 A Booker T. Jones and Eddie Floyd tune.
1:18 PM		Karen Dalton Shiloh Town (feat. Richard Tucker) Karen Dalton N Shuckin' Sugar Delmore Recording Society 2022 Civil war song. "It is so cold in Shiloh town Birds can hardly sing Pretty girls gonna leave the town They won't be back 'till spring." Karen J. Dalton was an American country blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player. She was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and Bob Dylan.
1:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:30 PM		The Mystery Lights Melt The Mystery Lights The Mystery Lights Wick Records
1:32 PM		Perfume Genius Queen Perfume Genius Too Bright Matador 2014 Love the line: "No family is safe when I sashay."
1:36 PM		Cat Power Nude As the News Cat Power What Would the Community Think Matador 1996
1:40 PM		Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe EMI Catalogue 1967
1:45 PM		Can Sing Swan Song (2004 Remaster) Can Ege Bamyasi (Remastered) Mute 2011 Ege Bamyası is the third studio album by German krautrock band Can, originally released as an LP in 1972 by United Artists. The album contains the single "Spoon", which charted in the Top 10 in Germany, largely because of its use as the theme of a German TV thriller mini-series called Das Messer.
1:51 PM		Faust Krautrock Faust Faust IV (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Catalogue 2006 Released September 21, 1973. Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England in June of '73.
2:00 PM		Jaguar Sun & Husbands First Time Caller N First Time Caller - Single 2022 Jaguar Sun out of Ontario, Canada. Husbands is from Marseille, France.
2:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:12 PM		Blues Ambush Horse Noises Blues Ambush N Petty Bunco 2022 Yo! Great stuff here. https://bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/blues-ambush-2
2:20 PM		Belaboris Yö Vanhassa Talossa Belaboris Once Upon a Time Dark Entries Records 2013 From Finland! Between 1982 and 1984 Belaboris crafted catchy, melodic synthpop with the occasional guitar. Their lyrics were stylistically “kitchen sink melodramas” with occasional Gothic elements inspired by movies. The name Belaboris, is a combination of the horror actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
2:25 PM		Melvins I Want to Hold Your Hand Melvins Pinkus Abortion Technician Ipecac Recordings / Liberator Music 2018
2:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:35 PM		Robyn Hitchcock The Ghost in You Robyn Hitchcock The Man Upstairs Yep Roc Records 2014
2:39 PM		Emma Swift Queen Jane Approximately Emma Swift Blonde on the Tracks (Deluxe Edition) Double Drummer 2020
2:43 PM		Buzzcocks Breakdown Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch - EP Domino Recording Co 1977
2:45 PM		Eric Burdon & The Animals San Franciscan Nights Eric Burdon & The Animals Winds Of Change Polydor 1967
2:48 PM		Adam Strangler Coney Island Blues Adam Strangler Ideas of Order Duprince 2015 Out of Montreal.
2:58 PM		Say Sue Me Season of the Shark N 10 Damnably 2022

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