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The Sonic Bloom

Dec 28, 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.

Glam Rock Part 3!

Hi! Let's round up our last batch of glam goodies, shall we?

12:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:07 PM		David Essex Rock On David Essex Rock On Columbia 1973
12:10 PM		Crime Hot Wire My Heart Crime Murder By Guitar Superior Viaduct 2014 Legendary band from SF! Only 1000 copies released on black vinyl in 1976. Super punk yet they did dress up like cops! A Hot Wire My Heart Written-By – Johnny Strike B Baby You're So Repulsive Written-By – Frankie Fix Bass – Ron The Ripper Drums – Ricky Tractor Guitar – Frankie Fix, Johnny Strike Vocals – Frankie Fix, Johnny Strike
12:13 PM		Slade Mama Weer All Crazee Now Slade Slayed? Whild John Music Ltd 2007 "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1972 as the lead single from their third studio album Slayed?
12:17 PM		Suzi Quatro Devil Gate Drive Suzi Quatro Quatro Chrysalis Records 1974
12:19 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:27 PM		Cher Never Been To Spain Cher R Foxy Lady Geffen 1972 Going out to Mr. M!
12:30 PM		Screemer Interplanetary Twist Screemer N Singles Compilation Cherry Red Records 2023
12:36 PM		Iggy & The Stooges Search and Destroy Iggy & The Stooges Raw Power Columbia/Legacy 1973
12:37 PM		Electric Light Orchestra Roll Over Beethoven (2003 Remaster) Electric Light Orchestra N The Harvest Years 1970-1973 Parlophone UK 2006
12:46 PM		Be Bop Deluxe Life In the Air Age (2018 Remaster) R Sunburst Finish Cherry Red Records 1976 Going out to Inspector Callahan!
12:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:52 PM		Lou Reed Satellite of Love Lou Reed Transformer RCA/Legacy 1972
12:56 PM		Scott Yoder Sugar on Your Lips Scott Yoder N Wither on Hollywood & Vine (2022 Album Edition) Cruisin Records 2022
1:00 PM		Kyle Craft Heartbreak Junky Kyle Craft Full Circle Nightmare Sub Pop Records 2018
1:07 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:08 PM		Hollywood Brats Then He Kissed Me Hollywood Brats R Hollywood Brats Cherry Red 1994 Going out to Algernon Caldwallder!
1:10 PM		The Replacements Androgynous The Replacements R Let It Be Ryko/Rhino 1984 Going out to Algernon Caldwallder!
1:13 PM		Paul Da Vinci Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore Paul Da Vinci R Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore - Single Tic Toc Music 2016 Released in 1974. Going out to Josh C!
1:18 PM		Alice Cooper Is It My Body Alice Cooper Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits Rhino/Warner Records 2005
1:20 PM		Mike Leander Star Studded Sham HELLO Hello: Keeps Us off the Streets Esoteric / Reactive 1976
1:22 PM		Nick Gilder Hot Child In the City Nick Gilder The Best of Nick Gilder - Hot Child In the City Capitol Records 2001 "Hot Child in the City" is a song by English-Canadian musician Nick Gilder. It was released in June 1978 as a single from the album City Nights. It went to No. 1 both in Canada (October 14, 1978) and in the United States (October 28, 1978).
1:27 PM		Brian Eno Baby's On Fire (2004 Remaster) R Here Come the Warm Jets EMI Marketing 2004 Going out to Thomas! Eno recorded "Baby's on Fire" during the Here Come the Warm Jets sessions in September 1973 at Majestic Studios, London, where he had previously recorded the majority of his earlier material. The track was produced by Eno, who handled production and mixing duties on the bulk of the album's recording, and was created with musicians Simon King, Marty Simon, Robert Fripp, Paul Rudolph, and John Wetton.
1:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:37 PM		Sweet Love Is Like Oxygen Sweet The Best of Sweet Capitol Records 1993
1:40 PM		Cheap Trick Surrender Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight Epic/Legacy 1978
1:44 PM		Giuda Racey Roller Giuda Racey Roller Damaged Goods Records 2012 Rome's fave glam band!
1:48 PM		Zolar X Space Age Love Zolar X Soul Jazz Records Presents Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After the Love & Before the Revolution: Proto-Punk 1969-77 Soul Jazz Records 2014
1:52 PM		Celebrity Skin Celebrity Celebrity Skin Good Clean Fun Triple X Records 1991 Glam rock band from Los Angeles, excellent live shows back in the 80s.
1:55 PM		Hector Wired Up Hector Soul Jazz Records Presents Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After the Love & Before the Revolution: Proto-Punk 1969-77 Soul Jazz Records 2014 Hector were a four-piece Glam Rock band from Portsmouth, England. Sometimes called Junkshop Glam.
2:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:03 PM		Kiss She Kiss Dressed to Kill UMe Direct 2 2014 Released in 1975.
2:06 PM		Ice Cream Morning Bird Ice Cream 1974
2:09 PM		Brat Not Quite Right Brat Tuff Guys: Glam & Proto Punk Rock Nuggets, Vol. 1 (1970-1977) [Edited Version] V/A Stratosphere Records 2020
2:12 PM		T. Rex Life's a Gas T. Rex R Electric Warrior (Expanded Edition) [2003 Remaster] Rhino/Warner Records 2003 Released in Sept. 1971. Going out to Brian M!
2:15 PM		The Sandpipers Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls The Sandpipers Come Saturday Morning A&M 1970 This film is definitely depraved and GLAM. haha.
2:18 PM		The Damned Drinking About My Baby The Damned The Black Album Ace Records 2013 Goth and glam and punk!? From wiki: The Black Album is the fourth studio album by English punk rock band the Damned, and the first to feature Paul Gray on bass guitar. It was released on 3 November 1980 by Chiswick as a double album, with "Curtain Call" filling the whole of side 3, and a selection of live tracks recorded at Shepperton Studios at a special concert for Damned fan club members on side 4. The song "13th Floor Vendetta" paid tribute to the film The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), opening with the lyrics "...the organ plays to midnight on Maldine Square tonight".
2:21 PM		Elton John Bennie and the Jets Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2014 Remaster) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2014 Released October 1973. According to the album's producer, Gus Dudgeon, the album was not planned as a two-record collection. John and Taupin composed a total of 22 tracks for the album.
2:26 PM		Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven Donovan A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Legacy Recordings 1967
2:29 PM		Washington Flyers The Comets Are Coming Glam Rock UK Dockland Music 2022
2:32 PM		Ian Dury & The Blockheads Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Ian Dury & The Blockheads R Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2007 Going out to Brian M!
2:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:42 PM		The London Suede Metal Mickey The London Suede Beautiful Ones - The Best of London Suede 1992 - 2018 Edsel 2020
2:45 PM		The Lemming Queen Jacula The Lemming The Best Of - Single The Land of Avalon 2016
2:47 PM		Scott Yoder Ways of Love Scott Yoder A Fool Aloof Annibale Records 2018
2:51 PM		Kyle Craft Berlin Kyle Craft Dolls of Highland Sub Pop Records 2016
2:55 PM		Weirdos Happy People Weirdos Weird World, Vol. 1 Frontier 1991 The Weirdos were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1976 and broke up in 1981, were occasionally active in the 1980s, and recorded new material in the 1990s.
2:59 PM		D.I. Venus De Milo D.I. Team Goon Manifesto Records 1987

Chat is archived.

Hi!

Howdy!

HELLZ YEEAAH!

Don’t you dare say my request is FERGIE 🥵🙃🤣

hahaha noooo

Hahahaha

LOL

hi kim! hi christine! hi mr. m! thx for joining me

Happy Holidays Eso!

Is it Glamorgan? Or is it Glamorganshire? Or is it Glamkinchie? Glamfiddich?

Cuz I’m so gotdamn GLAMOROUS glamorous. I added my own echo echo.

G.L.O...

yo, bri!

happy holidays!

Or the only Gllammllyllglammellynwllwynn in the village? We're running out of "w's" and "l's"

Ha!

Careful o the flood zones today

Ohh! This Gem! 💎🎶🎵

such memories.

yes i just heard that bri on npr, flood danger around the schuylkill

PA, NJ etc. Stay on the upper ground

You know Eso, they still haven't figured out the flooding of fashion valley, it is still in the news every rainy season.

Be careful, Erybody! ⚠️ ⛔️ 🚨

yeah it is the old san diego river, right, kim?

yes be careful out there

Sonic Toof covered this one (Hotwire my Heart)

cool, bri!

SLADE does not speak for me, Mama

ha, i get it, mr. m

river keeps on rollin'

yes for sure

I’m only BoNkErS ☠️

SUZI QUATRO 💖

Seasons Greetings!

hi all, happy holidays !

Do you think the Frankenstein Rocker from the movie Tommy is supposed to represent Glam?

hi tom! happy holidays!

i love tommy! inspector, maybe...?

Just a thought...

CHER is the G L A M as heck!

CHER 🩷

yeah baby! do you like if i could turn back time??

You best BELIEVE!

you want a two-fer?

Spread it out to several shows! 🕺

This is a BANGER!

okey doeky

sp lol

doeky works lol

Thanks for the CHER Celebration! 🎉🥂🍾

Very H.G. Wells, glam for his time

yes!

How about "Life in the Air Age" don't know if it's considered glam, but Bill Nelson!

inspector, be bop deluxe?

IGGY & THE STOOGES 🤎

Yes!

that one? sure!

I missed Cher! My sister called! I should turn my phone off during the show.

Saw the tour 76, awesome!

important to talk to your sister!

@kim

Okay, I had to go back and look at last week’s chat… chatter *g jackson* mentioned seeing THE TUBES on a CHER Special. MrM said: CHER is Glam af. That is not a request! What are ya doin to me, DJ Esoterica?!? L0LZ

hahaha

request enuf

for moi

request adjacent for US 💃🪩🕺

Rock on! Hot wire my heart because we're all crazy now here on Devil Gate Drive

howdy, rob. exactly.

Rockn' stuff

Oh yea!

Howdy Esoterica and everyone! Too bad I was napping until the ELO track

Time travel is very glam!

all good, we have lots left to play:)

totally, inspector.

RobFromMaryland must have missed the Kingfisher exploration on DJ Krista’s show. For shame! 🐦

There was this character who'd appear on all the talk shows back then. Anyone recall Monty Rock The 3rd. Very Glam fellow.

Hi there. I know it’s not a glam song. But May you play the Replacements andrygnous

May you play the Hollywood brats? They where one of the first glam bands

MrM, I was out Doing Things, so I totally missed Krista and the Kingfisher. Dang.

Thank you!

absolutely! and hiii

‘Satellite of Love’ 💗

i love hwood brats too! will do

And Satellite Of Love is good too

EURYTHMICS do this one too!

Hey! I'd love to hear Paul Da Vinci - Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore

hi josh! okay sounds good!

LOU REED 🩵

sweet re: eurythmics, mr. m

It’s like a Sweet Dream

🤡👻🤑🤠😈😈😈😈

lol

watermelon sugar on your lips like sugar

i am not even going to touch that haha

I feel like we should be able to add to it tho

of course!:)

Plus, why did I reference that one direction kid ugh 🤦‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙅‍♀️

ha!

I didn't know that about Crime's stage attire. Isn't impersonating a police officer a misdemeanor?

probably, david. so dont take a chance;)

Forgot how much I love Kyle Craft!

yeah i love kyle craft too.:)

I love this Replacements song!! 😃

yes, me, too

lurker here, very much enjoying this Glam Fest <3

sweet, joshua:)

thx!

also - @esoterica - yr tunes for Jon's marathon were super fun! thx for doing what ya do

Lurker, no more! Cheers!

cheers, joshua!

Gear ⚙️ over there ↗️ is available to edit username if one should choose

this is Savage 😈❣️

@mrmal - cheers, and thx!

That’s not my name

It’s MrM or MrMalcontent if yer nasty

If I remember correctly, this Paul Da Vinci song was released right before I left Europe and could no longer listen to Radio Luxembourg and all those glam songs

he prefers mr. m:)

love that came into the chat! joshua! thx

Thank you, DJ Esoterica ❤️

ah, noted! @MrM

You should play something from Eno’s Here Come The Warm Jets!

Thanks, Joshua!

ok Thomas! and hiii

But I don't think I've heard the Da Vinci song since I left Europe? So, thank you Esoterica, for playing it

i'm friends w Jon S & occasionally pop in on his show, but have been checking out some of the other WPRB shows :D

Keep chatting and enjoying!

I remember this song on US radio (Nick Gilder). Another one I haven't heard in many years.

OMG... Hot Child in The City!

another GEM 💎

This song has a great "hook"

love the drumming too and agree, brian m

My CHER request really lit up this chat with requests! 🖤💀🥂🍾 I should get the chilled Prosecco for me to celebrate me. 🕺🕺🕺🕺 GLAMOROUS! Hiccup! 😵🤑

Nice solo

yes!! good on ya!

@mr. m

well crafted who;s the producer?

here you go thoas

thomas!

Good on you for nicely playing all the swell requests, DJ Esoterica!

Eso's on fire!

this favourite tune rn af

@Brian, Mike Chapman produced the Nick Gilder song (according to wikipedia)

love it, rob! ha! "on fire" comment

A lot of this stuff is 50 years old or near that?

yuppers gawd i'm old

def think some Cheap Trick has that dramatic flair that screams Glam to me

The best musical times...

this one rules!

thx kim!

agree, jwh!

this one is SWEET 💛

Al lot of this started in the late 60's with Bowie and Iggy and Marc Bolan. How bout some T Rex?

When I was in HS the girls went crazy for Marc Bolan.

Surrender to Glam Rock!

yes rob!

Always forget how dry sounding the studio Cheap Trick songs are

sure, bri!

i mean brian

durp, yes that one was SWEET!

getting my brians mixed up

is that bad (dry), bri?

It is exactly what it is. Dry sounding. Very clean sterilized

merp. This awesome show gettin mah brainz mixed up

haha, mr. m

i see what you mean, bri

Weird to not hear the"this is the next single off our new record" or whatever that intro is. Yeah. I'd rather hear the Budokan any day but this is cool. Weird to hear the fade out too

Cheap Trick do a great Sgt. Peppers concert

i get that bri! that is a great album.

oh yeah, brian m

Speaking of T. Rex, I think the British rock band Girlschool do a DYNAMITE cover of "20th Century Boy"

oh sweet, rob! i need to listen to it

Ian Drury is kinda glam. he wears lipstick and rouge on stage. R&R anthem Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Eso, you should! :-D

totally brian

I like it much better than the original

noted, rob;)

WestSiiidddeee! Appreciate the notes, DJ Esoterica!

Junkshop Glam❣️

thx! mr. m. i had jason shapiro on my show, who was the guitarist for celebrity skin

two celebrities that day!!

GLAMalicious Glamtacular‼️ that’s GLAMtastic❗️

aw thanks!

I’m Shazamin to the Glamin.

sweet, stoney!

hiii

logging off early have a great new year!

Yeah Rod was Glam fer sure

happy new year, kim!!

Happy New Year, WestSiiidddeeeKIM!

agree, brian!

His early stuff was all Tolkien

GLAM is a gas!

agree!!

killer show today !

Early Chorus effect on the guitar

Life's a Gas is so great, love that melody and the slinky feel

agree, jwh

Afternoon Esoterica! Good 🎶

thanks, tom!

afternoon, bo!

Hello, Ambrose Hughes! Happy Holidays!

happy holidays!

@Mr.M💀thank you, right back atcha!

Thank you, Ambrose Hughes! Cheers!

Hawt Damn! THE DAMNED❣️

Damned have it all covered!

yes they do, and that dave vanian is one suave guy! like a vampire:)

ELTON JOHN 💛

Like Dracula he never seems to get any older looking!🤔

it is true!

Is Elton the King of Glam?

maybe?

@Esoterica, did you ever look into Louis XIV?

The band from San Diego? Thx for the reminder, Bo! Sorry I didn't yet.

@Esoterica, that's them!

i will make a note:)

Wear your glam like heaven!

yes!

Then DAVID BOWIE is the Grand Emperor of Glam!? These titles are impossible.

@Esoterica, I'll check back in about a year from now😜

oh no! hahah

Heard these colors listed in the lyrics as a kid then.. later on Bob Ross went through them all again!

Donovan song is a JAM

Prussian Blue, Alizarin Crimson etc

What’s the etcetera?!?

He's the guy that played bass for Chicago

Later sang some karate moves or some such...

reasons to be cheerful, part three

who requested this?? brian? rob?

Ich Leiber Dich!

Not me!

I have this on Vinyl Reasons to be Cheerful in the B side

Drury always has the slickest Musicians

The DONOVAN song ‘Wear Your Love Like Heaven‘ mentions seven dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, scarlet, crimson, Havana lake, rose carmethene, alizarin crimson and carmine. 🎨 🖌️🖼️

sweet, mr. m

Glam-tastik! Awesome show as usual!

aw thanks, mike!

i have a friend named Kyle Craft, but this is NOT him. gonna need to check out more, i like this quite a bit (and the one from earlier)!

Esoterica, these have been great glam shows!

thx for the great show

sweet, yeah he is super talented, jwh

*and thanks!

aw thanks rob!

Cool glam education! I learnt much.

hey matt! thank you!

I learned a lot too!

DJ Esoterica! These series of shows are always so impressive! Thanks for bringing the RazzleDazzle! Big cheers! Many thanks! Happy New Glam Year! Kind regards to you, Lady! 🖤💀

Happy glam new year to everyone!

happy glam year!

thanks very much, mr. m! happy to be here

Cheers to all the Dears! Have a Happy New Yearz! Let there be Glam to fill yer Earz!

…said the Weirdo from California 😎

BYe, all! haha mr. m

Cheers Dearz!!

Thanks Esoterica!

The Weirdos occasionally reunited. I saw them in NJ twice.

see you next week!