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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 16, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.

The Sonic Bloom, your way.

hey there, come on by the chat! i have no agenda today, but will be playing one new (to me!) band i am digging: Fog Lamp from S.F.

12:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:05 PM		Fog Lamp Dense Woolen Sweater Fog Lamp N Conversation? - EP Ain't Gonna Spiral Tapes 2023 Digging this band out of San Francisco. They are on bandcamp. Don't delay! Check them out.
12:08 PM		Fog Lamp Staircase Fog Lamp N Conversation? - EP Ain't Gonna Spiral Tapes 2023
12:12 PM		The Moving Finger Pain of My Misfortune We Can Fly, Vol. 1 - Psych Rarities from the 60's & 70's (Remastered) V/A TTW 2014
12:15 PM		The Movement Tell Her We Can Fly, Vol. 1 - Psych Rarities from the 60's & 70's (Remastered) TTW 2014 The Movement was from Dublin, active in 1967-68. They did this Exciters song as "Tell Her" and not "Tell Him". Rave up!
12:18 PM		The Neats Red and Grey The Neats 1981 - 1984 The Ace of Hearts Years Ace of Hearts Records 2017 Boston band active from 1970s - early 1990s.
12:20 PM		Little Scream People, People Little Scream People, People - Single Merge Records 2021
12:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:25 PM		Mac McCaughan Sleep Donor Mac McCaughan The Sound of Yourself Merge Records 2021
12:29 PM		Traffic Smiling Phases (Mono Version) Traffic Mr. Fantasy (Deluxe Edition) Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1999 Mr. Fantasy was released Dec. 1967. Recorded April-November 1967. U.S. version released 1968.
12:30 PM		Purling Hiss Baby Purling Hiss N Drag on Girard Drag City 2023
12:35 PM		Mercury Rev Coney Island Cyclone Mercury Rev Madrid Live '95 (Worldwide) Excelsior Melodies 2016
12:40 PM		The Mermen Ocean Beach The Mermen Krill Slippin Mesa BlueMoon Recordings 1986
12:41 PM		The Messthetics Quantum Path The Messthetics The Messthetics Dischord Records 2018
12:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:53 PM		Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner & Mike Watt Not Enough of Time N Everywhen We Go Joyful Noise Recordings & BIG EGO Records 2022
12:54 PM		Moon Duo Set It On Fire (Live) Moon Duo N Live at Levitation (Live) The Reverberation Appreciation Society 2022
1:00 PM		The Moping Swans The Moping Swans Are Home The Moping Swans Lightninghead to Coffeepot Fading Captain Series 2005 Band featuring Robert Pollard, Greg Demos, Jim Macpherson, and Tony Conley.
1:04 PM		Monolord The Bastard Son (Live at Freakvalley) Monolord I'm Staying Home - Single Relapse Records 2020 Formed in Gothenburg in 2013.
1:15 PM		Old Man's Will Easy Rider Old Man's Will Hard Times - Troubled Man RidingEasy Records 2015 Formed in Umea, Sweden, with first album released in 2013.
1:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:23 PM		Ornette Coleman Midnight Sunrise Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head Verve 2000
1:26 PM		Phil Manzanera Rongwrong (Live) Phil Manzanera 801 Live EG Records 1976
1:32 PM		Plastic People Tomorrow Tomorrow Plastic People Folk, Ya! Electric Muse 2006
1:35 PM		The Pretty Things The Devil Had a Hold of Me The Pretty Things To Build a Wall / The Devil Had a Hold of Me - Single Madfish 2020
1:37 PM		Primeval Pretty Woman Smokin' Bats at Campton's
1:43 PM		Ray Price Night Life Ray Price Night Life Columbia Nashville 1963
1:47 PM		Rat Fancy Beyond Belief Rat Fancy Suck a Lemon - EP HHBTM 2017
1:50 PM		Roberta Flack Jesse Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly Atlantic Records 1973 A Janis Ian tune.
1:55 PM		Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard Do Something Real (2019 Remaster) Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (2019 Remaster) GBV Inc 2019
1:57 PM		Robyn Hitchcock This Could Be the Day Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains Yep Roc Records 1984
2:00 PM		Robert Pollard Catherine from Mid-October Robert Pollard Zoom Fading Captain Series 2005
2:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:10 PM		Sir Lord Baltimore Master Heartache Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come Cherry Red Records 1970 This band was actually formed in 1968 in Brooklyn!
2:13 PM		Sir Douglas Quintet The Rains Came Sir Douglas Quintet Walking the Streets Crimson 1965
2:16 PM		Sleaford Mods So Trendy N UK GRIM Rough Trade 2023 Featuring Perry Farrell.
2:20 PM		David Bowie Where Have All the Good Times Gone David Bowie PinUps (2015 Remaster) Parlophone UK 2015 Written by Ray Davies.
2:24 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:26 PM		Snail Mail Forever (Sailing) Snail Mail Valentine Matador 2021
2:27 PM		Abbey Lincoln I Only Have Eyes for You Abbey Lincoln Abbey Sings Billie Enja Horst Weber 2001 Composed in 1934 by Harry Warren with lyrics by Al Dubin. Featured in the 1934 film, Dames first, as Dick Powell sings to Ruby Keeler.
2:31 PM		Skull Practitioners Dedication Skull Practitioners N Negative Stars In The Red 2023 Great band out of NYC!
2:37 PM		Washed Out Great Escape Washed Out Paracosm (Bonus Track Version) Sub Pop Records 2013
2:42 PM		Fruit Bats Magic Hour Fruit Bats Mouthfuls Sub Pop Records 2003
2:46 PM		Wang Chung Dance Hall Days Wang Chung Points On The Curve Geffen 1984
2:50 PM		The Psychedelic Furs Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk 1981
2:52 PM		The Cure In Between Days The Cure The Head On the Door Rhino/Elektra 1985
2:57 PM		Kurt Vile Pretty Pimpin Kurt Vile B'lieve I'm Goin Down... Matador 2015

Chat is archived.

how ya doing

High

You?

...as a kite.

I am okay!

What’s happening?! Just “okay”?!

oh i am tired that is all, no good sleep

in good spirits

Same here! Headaches!

noooooo

Yes. So annoying. And then I checked in on WPRB and Krista and Pup also ruined my sleep 🤪🤡👻

top 'o the mornin' to all. and BTW, this song was waaay ahead of it's time

how did they ruin your sleep? they are too good? you don't want to miss a thing right?

yes 😒

top o' of the morning, francis!

"The Fog"'s Jamie Lee Curtis just won her first Oscar.

WestSiiidddeee!

totally, mr. m

hi david! yes she did.

as for the song, francis. this is new... do you mean lalo schifrin? in that case, i agree ahead of its time.

And DJ Pup will be back at 5pmEST with an ALL VINYL SHOW!

For her fat-suited portrayal of Deirdre Beaubeirdre (and her multiversal variants).

@ Esoterica (host) Fog Lamp, eh? Reminds me of that old English music hall joke: "If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make fog horns out of?"

yup, i am glad she won, tho i liked EEAAO well enough, too much action gets tedious for. nmy brain.

ha, Richard!

i can see that.

Fun start to the show!

thanks!

I'm looking at Fog Lamp's bandcamp page now. Is there really a recycling center called Uriah's Heap?

ha, IDK?

Hello hello

Hello hello, bri

The Exciters were also the first to record "Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Dum Diddy Do)"

Bow-Wow-Wow, Yippie-Yo, Yippie-Yay Bow-Wow, Yippie-Yo, Yippie-Yay

that is right, david!

ha, mr. m

hello all

howdy tom!

Oh not MADELINE KAHN. Guess I’m just obsessed.

Love that warped gtr solo tone from Mac!

agree, bri!

what about MK, loved her, mr. m?

Was hanging and jamming with Steve G over the weekend Eso!

I thought you said her name. It was MAC McCAUGHAN 😁

awwww

Classic here! Smiling Phases. I think they named an anthology of theirs after this song title

this song is from 1967, btw. amazing album by traffic (but i am sure you all know this!)

Great drums sound

yeahhhh

digging the mono

I need TRAFFIC-Free zones 🥵

Volume back up for PURLING HISS! I almost spelled it incorrectly! 😹

Hurling wait

ha, great band, mr. m, out of philly

excellent new album

Nice! Thanks for sharing! Guud Stuffs!

sure thing:)

Mercury Rev sounding great here

love Mercury Rev

Hi hi hi

hi hi hi, stevie p!

I didn't know the Mermen recorded as long ago as 1986. They were the first band I ever saw at the Saint.

from S.F. then Santa Cruz.

i know the internet says they were founded in 1989 i think, weird

The Mermen

HighEyeAye Stevie P

tone of his guitar reminds me of Angus

That song wasn't about just any ol' beach, but specifically an "ocean beach"!

oh yeah, and hey, unoclay!

well, my fave beahc in san diego is indeed called ocean beach

How's this for spooky coinkeedink? I was sitting in traffic when you played Traffic.

Spookay

what, crazy, stevie

lol

Sends shivvers up me spine

yes

Hear you

I read you 5 by 5

my dog Toblerone is here!!

About 15 robins in my yard are here

Sh!tbirbs

lulz i have never heard someone say krill in a sentence before, other than friends. we use "krill" to refer to marijuana in code

whales say krill all the time

those whales are so high

Woudja be havin' a baleen o' krill?

Don't mind if I do!

haha now i will use krill for pot, too, uno

i think i got it from students when i taught highschool for a year. But i think they might have meant crack. No joke. My friends that it was hilarious and adopted it.

Uno, I learned from a Van Halen bio they referred to C'caine as "krell". Some sci fi movie reference. I think their code word for weed was "snade". No meaning

ahhhhh that explains it, 20 years later!!

Now you’ll have to switch to using Cocaine

Prob coincidence

but my heart condition. but if you say so

ha, mr. m

I chortled out loud at MrM too

Look who attended the premiere of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush": https://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ5myREQZVw

I remember in high school health class when they'd show us films and slides that gave us all the names for pot we should be aware of... to help us avoid the pusherman and whatnot

LIDS

hmm, tell me, david. i am in the process of DJing and not very skillful

Love the way Dewey Cox (John C Reilly) says "C"cane"

ha, bri, true

i always going to concerts and ask for lids and literally never get hooked up. Mr. Weaver lied to us

Unbeknownst to the health teacher, these classes gave us a new pallette of names for the devil's lettuce.

haha, unoclay

old timey slang is always so great. My parents still say "pots'd" to mean wasted. Like "pots-ed"

Is David Shortell gonna give up the details on the recycling center called Uriah's Heap? Or what the deuce!?!

We used "Higgins ". Mostly for the adjective "high" but could be the flowery stuff too . But we usually called that Pete or Peat if you're more Scotland centtic ha

teehee@mrm

higgiins, it sounds brit-formal, so good. we use "Captain" to mean...umm..the tiny bits of paper, if you dig.

And Hank. Common one there. Call yer friends, "Is Hank there? " etc

@uno... hepped up on the dope was the nomenclature used by my health teacher in HS

we use eagle tickets here in philly to call around

love all this linguistic info

so does the nsa

ha, mr. m

And then we took words a step further and used the "ee" sound for most vowels. Heegens. (That's where peet came from.. )

here's a super-lol, to me anyway. One of my insane punk friends likes to eat viagra recreationally. Dont ask. He calls it Hatrack.

woooowwww unoclay

MOPING SWANS!

hatrack... hehe

YO, bri! i just discovered this!

should have hypenatied it

tmi uno tell us more

Greg Demos Stripe -ed Pantsed Lawyer Esq

Well, hat rack, see

NSA: "OK, let's put these Sonic Bloomers on double secret probation."

lol

The Fading Captain series delivers.. thank you Uncle Bob. We salute ye

Buncha hopheads

salute ye indeed:)

a salty salute

hello all

hello, andrew!

Bob and co so many different sounds. Circus Devils. Go Back Snowball (i think that's the Mac MacCaughan collab).

Andrew, your dog looks like it's saying Hello

Airport 5 with just Tobin and Bob.

oh now o need to hear go back snowball

yeah i like airport 5

Macca and fiance Jane Asher were among those at the premiere, Eso. You can watch the movie here: https://ok.ru/video/736803490305

krill metal

Yea Stifled Man Casino by Airport 5 is one if Bob's best songs def

sweet, david, thx for letting me know

Lifeguards w just Bob and Doug Gillard. Great lp that

boston spaceships was great, too

i like BS, andrew

Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department. That's Doug Bob too

i have a doug bob collab coming up i think today

The Tommy Keene collab great too (RIP)

oh yeah for sure, btw ivan julian collabed with tommy keene, too

Ya Boston Spaceships! Just thought of them too. Good combo

I thought you meant Doug & Bob from "Great White North", eh?

I like BS L0LZ

lol

Nice epic long track. Captain Ahab style.

L Ron Mackenzie...

true, andy (re: like captain ahab). i like my metal, too!

chris slusarenko and john moen of eyelids were in boston spaceships

i think

they were both on my show a year ago. great band eyelids

Same here, David.

I know the names of the bands more than what all his actual solo/Fading Capt etc lps actually sound like... can't keep up. Still 20 years behind

Thanks for letting me know about swans. I shall henceforth refrain from taunting swans.

good idea, stevie

STOP LOOKING AT ME, SWAN

Amyl and the Sniffers announced for November at Union Transfer

sweet, unoclay. i just amy and peaches were on stage together. good stuff.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-hartman-on-the-road-cemetery-staff-personal-ad-for-goose-whose-mate-died/ Oh it’s a goose 🦢👎 still a good story 🤠

*saw

thanks, mr. m. much to dig into after the show (for me).

After a nap!

yes!

zzzzzzzzz

oh wait! i'm on the air

Not yet!

Ha!

a midnight sunrise at 1:28 pm, i am awake

hey Jp Roy (a succession reference?)

you know what is cray, i woke up about 1 am and there was a beautiful moon over a hill with wispy clouds.

im not familiar! The sky was really bright and wild last night

I hope I’m awake for DJ Pup’s ALL VINYL SHOW!

this guys voice makes me laugh like da fuk

the family in succession is the roy family, jp

i want to be, mr. m, when is it?

Today, fill in for DJ LizBot!

awesome!

If my headache is back imma Zzzzzz

aw, can you take something?

I think I had about 4 hours of stoopid sleep I’m cry

feel better, headaches suck

I will if it returns as bad 💊💊💊

Thoroughly enjoying all these nice selections! Cheers to you, DJ Esoterica!

you are welcome!

cheers to you!

Hope you feel better MrM.

Cheers to ya, bruv

Reminding me of In Hell We'll Be in Good Company.

Heya Esoterica! Love these hillbilly chords and such. :)

oh yeah, and hey mike!

You're giving me a happy distraction form depressing work that I don't want to do!

written by david rawlings and gillian welch (the song that pretty things did in 2020)

all i can see is garth

it was that foxy lady intro

of this song playing right now, unoclay?

A guitar cord and an amp got plugged in.

howdy, roffle!

Howdy!

i dunno it was just the classic rock into of that last song made me think of Garth doing the foxy lady

niceeee

@unoclay, interesting take on that.

Thanks, Stevie P! Very nice of you! Cheers!

Lounge on the Range.

Howdy esoterica!

yup, mike!

howdy, bo!

Lovin' this one!

Yosemite Lodge tunes. lol

yeah ray price was cool, no?

Oh I think that's safe to say.

yep:)

Didn't he die last year?

Have not heard this in a while. Mom loves this one

Ray Price, I think, died in 2013.

ROBERTA FLACK ❤️

aw, bri

it always gets me chocked up when i listen to songs my parents loved. i am going to see camelot at lincoln center and i know i am going to bawl.

Actually she loved the Janis Ian version and this too no doubt

well, janis was amazing.

Janis was a great guitar player too!

Roberta Flack? Killing Me Softly was quite the statement about Don McLean. Very nice.

i didn't know it was about mclean!

OMG this is exactly the way I play guitar! Fucking sue me!

Love this tune! More Uncle Bob Pollard!

ha!

-... Fire Department" actually in that title end. Do Something Real made it into the GBV setlists at the time and after. Good tune

One of the best Robyn lps. But so so many...

i changed the word, thanks, bri

agree, re: robyn, bri

More Bob!

Shit, I get this.

"Empty Chairs” was the song Don McLean killed Roberta Flack (and previously Lori Lieberman) softly with? I’ve never heard it.

Good interview that. And Robyn!

Sunny afternoon Es!

As interviewed on Sonic Bloom... Good playlist fodder there

The Pretty Things took their name from the Bo Diddley song, as the Rolling Stones did from the Muddy Waters song.

Love to hear that roll tape.

lol

thx david

I can't think of who I might be confusing with Ray Price...Love the eclecticism on display.

oh yeah

I ain't gonna play that is an awesome segue in it's own right.

Was Sir Lord Baltimore the villain in the Harry Potter books?

lol close, david

Everything was a villain. Antagonist are what books are all about.

SLB comes up a lot on the vinyl records blogs n sites etc. DOUG SAHM! And that Augie Meyers organ tone. Killer

Ha! Was just thinking of Doug Sahm!👍

ben vaughn loves sir douglas too

Janis Ian was not yet seventeen when Jimmy Durante introduced her to TV viewers in 1967. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YbVFy7nx88Q

Sleaford Mods getting funky!

Baltimore is a great place for LLC dark lordrs though.

oh yeah featuring perry farrell

SLEAFORD MODS 💚💚💚

oh yeah, mr. m!

fun timez!

Very Peripheral?

Have you ever seen Doug Sahm act opposite Kris Kristofferson in “Cisco Pike” (1971)? He sure said “groovy” a lot.

PERRY FARRELL ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

One o the best covers albums

agree:)

both mr. m and bri

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

no, david! i want to!

That 2015 reissue great stuff. Sounds awesome

I concur with all of us!

Damn great cover!

I actually saw a poorly attended Sir Douglas Quintet show at Maxwell’s in 1990. It was a weeknight, a few days after “Twin Peaks” debuted.

Twiggy disguised

Headache Heartache 🤕💔

Don’t you D A R E

L0LZ

Kinda the last studio stuff with Ronson that PinUps..

lolz, do you like snail mail, mr. m?

oh yeah, bri. you know i love mick ronson.

@David Shortell, I was at the Twin Peaks theater movie release Fire Walk with Me. I got to meet the cast. Hung out at winery events. What a day.

I haven't seen that in years, Roffle. I recall they recast the Lara Flynn Boyle part. I'm guessing Lara wasn't in the recent series revival either.

Yea, time is serious mischief in movie terms for sure.

Sheryl Lee was delightful and very nice.

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me

Is Mr.M💀 in this band?

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me

I'll take that as a definite maybe.

I do remember posing for this cover tho yo

ha, maybe, roffle?

Life is maybe.

It's a good likeness Mr.M💀😝

true, roffle

😆🥸

this show has been a Great Escape! 🎼🎶🎵

perf, mr. m:)

happy to oblige

happy st. patrick's, all!

Appreciate your very fine efforts on two shows this week, DJ Esoterica! 🍀💚🍀

of course!:)

Skull Practitioners played live on NJ radio last month: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/124901

it is a great escape for me!

wow! david.

Sub Pop Records❣️

thanks for posting

agree, mr. m rre: sub pop

RRRREEEEE

That pot 'o gold though. I know you guys are so GPS adventure. Respect!

okay THIS‼️

yup!

Great show DJE! I gotta roll. Take a powder. Take it on the arches. Bye!

thx, stevie p!

Skeedaddle

I think Highly of this band.

Vamoose

Same, Roffle

yeah, they are cool, roffle:)

Later for you, cupcakes!

Stevie P with the fastest goodbye 👎

like my interview goodbyes lol

Haha 😂

lolz

Bye. Byebye. Bye. Bye now.

ha!

Lovely things again Esoterica. Thank you dear.

I model my bye byes on DJE's interview bye byes.

Okay thanks BuhBye take care bye best wishes bye now thanks again bye

tee hee, stevie p

this GEM 💎💖

yup, mr. m

I keep trying to leave, and DJE keeps PULLING ME BACK IN

I really gotta go. Thanks again. Bye bye. I'

ha! okay bye

Oh my gawd Get Out!

DJ Esoterica, see the Life Moves Pretty Fast - The John Hughes Mixtapes ?!?

Left of center is another world though. Just sayin'.

no! mr. m

is it a dcoumentary?

I want it! Box Set of music!

Doggonit. Now... the Cure?

Ima be late for my mtg, I guess

This is I-92, Rock of the 80's. RIP Lee Paris.

CD or vinyl! Deluxe with a cassette too 😎

aw mike t.

cool! mr. m

It's nice out, I'm feeling like a teen again, think I'll go ride my skateboard (and break my neck).

Thanks for the good 🎶 esoterica!

sure thing!

You’re COOL, DJ Esoterica! Another TopNotch Show! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards to you, Lady!

nice closing set!

happy st paddy's and happy spring!

happy st paddys and spring!

aw thx, andrew!

Fun ride today Eso!

🍀🎩💀💚

thx, mr. m!

don't do it, mike t!

have a great weekend, all!

check in next thursday!

stay tuned to wprb

Can't listen often (and comment less) lately, but always greatly appreciate the light you help bring to these three hours each week.

A pity Robert Smith had become too old to star in Netflix' Sandman series.

aw, david. props to him though.

appreciate you, mike t!

bye, all