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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 14, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 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.

Just another Monday night!

Hey, let's pay tribute to Clem Burke with some Blondie and also lavish in the musical stylings of The Jam, SWANS, and more!

6:05 PM		Television Personalities Part Time Punks Television Personalities Paisley Shirts & Mini Skirts Overground Records 1980
6:07 PM		The Pastels Crawl Babies The Pastels Truckload of Trouble Fire Records 1993
6:09 PM		Beat Happening What's Important Beat Happening Beat Happening Domino Recording Co 2019 Released in 1985. Beat Happening formed in Olympia, Washington in 1983. Heather Lewis, Bret Lunsford (D+) and Calvin Johnson (Selector Dub Narcotic, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System, The Hive Dwellers), met at punk shows and decided they could do as well and why not. Arch your back to the primitive beat.
6:12 PM		Takeda Momonohime Takeda N Psychedelic Minimalism Vol. 1 2025
6:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:28 PM		Paul Weller Bull Rush (Demo 1992) Paul Weller Paul Weller (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009 Released in 1992.
6:34 PM		The Ghostwriters Sleedermauseman / Reference To Rota Ghostwriters N Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear Dark Entries Records 1981 New reissue of Philly-based electronic duo, orig. release in 1981..
6:42 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:43 PM		Lalo Schifrin Mannix (Long Version) Lalo Schifrin R Mannix (Soundtrack) Aleph Records 1999 Going out to Lester! Mannix is an American detective television series that originally aired for eight seasons on CBS from September 16, 1967 to March 13, 1975.
6:47 PM		Lalo Schifrin Fear Lalo Schifrin Mannix (Soundtrack) Aleph Records 1999
6:49 PM		Nightmoves Nightdrive Nightmoves N Deep Entries (Gay Electronic Excursions 1979-1985) V/A Dark Entries 2024
6:54 PM		Split Enz History Never Repeats Split Enz Waiata WM Australia 2006 Waiata (released as Corroboree in Australia) is the seventh studio album by New Zealand new wave band Split Enz, released in March 1981. Waiata is the Māori term for song and singing, while corroboree is an Aboriginal term.
6:57 PM		Screamers Anything Screamers Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977 - EP Superior Viaduct 2021
6:58 PM		The Gun Club The Breaking Hands (12" Version) The Gun Club N Mother Juno (Deluxe Remastered 2023) Blixa Sounds 2023
7:03 PM		Death Keep On Knocking Death ...For the Whole World to See Drag City Records 2009 The best! Death is an American musical group formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by brothers Bobby (bass, vocals), David (guitar), and Dannis Hackney (drums, percussion).
7:06 PM		The Weirdos Jungle Rock The Weirdos Destroy All Music Bomp! Records
7:09 PM		Crime Rock 'n' Roll Enemy No. 1 Crime San Francisco's Doomed Superior Viaduct 2022
7:11 PM		JFA Stage Dive JFA Stage Dive - Single DC-Jam Records 2023
7:13 PM		Suicidal Tendencies Possessed Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies Frontier 1983
7:15 PM		Agent Orange Breakdown Agent Orange Living In Darkness (40th Anniversary Edition) Posh Boy Records 2018
7:18 PM		Bad Religion We're Only Gonna Die Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (Remastered) Epitaph 1982
7:20 PM		Hüsker Dü It's Not Funny Anymore Hüsker Dü Metal Circus SST Records 1983
7:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:30 PM		OFF! Oblivion (Free LSD Blu-ray Bonus Track) OFF! N Oblivion (Free LSD Blu-ray Bonus Track) - Single Fat Possum 2024
7:34 PM		Minutemen & Black Flag Fetch The Water R Minuteflag - EP SST Records 1985 Going out to Race and David!
7:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:40 PM		Blondie Denis Blondie Plastic Letters (Bonus Tracks Edition) [2001 Remaster] Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 2001 RIP Clem Burke.
7:42 PM		Blondie Fade Away and Radiate Blondie Parallel Lines Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 2001 Written by Chris Stein.
7:46 PM		Blondie Hanging on the Telephone Blondie Parallel Lines Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 1978
7:48 PM		Blondie (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear Blondie Plastic Letters (Bonus Tracks Edition) [2001 Remaster] Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 2001 Plastic Letters is the second studio album by American rock band Blondie, released in February 1978, produced by Richard Gottehrer.
7:53 PM		Blondie Rapture Blondie Autoamerican (Bonus Tracks Edition) [2001 Remaster] Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 2001 Written by band members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, and produced by Mike Chapman, the song was released as the second and final single from Autoamerican on January 12, 1981.
7:58 PM		Los Piranas Despectiva caridad

Chat is archived.

hey

good evening!

Here they come!

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932)

Part Time Punks rule :-D

yes, lester! that is the one!

Great composer. thanks for the reminder.

hi, rob and lester:)

And hi everyone

hey now.

This song still makes me laugh uproariously

howdy, dale!

yes, rob, me, too:)

screen shot song!

hey michael, yup!

a little shaggs-y ending there.

yeah you are right, dale, just the right kind of off-key

Put on your boots. And walk with me. over the Freeway, and down to the sea. Thats's where we can always go When we really want to know.

oh yeah

oh this is sick!

Hey Es!

yo, race!

yo, TAndy!

awesome, thx

glad you dig

Sea and Sand. Lalo puhleeze? Also the Mannix theme was super like San Fran. Second unit ?

yup!

dreaming is such a ripper on drums

agree

lester i will play some lalo just you wait

Bardo Pond. Of course this was a reference to Isabelle. Not the ascetic yankees.

was eating dinner so couldn't chime in, but the takeda was fantastic.

agree, dale, thanks

right, lester

just you wait Henry Higgens

ha!

charles cohen? I saw them live,, google is your friend. 192 pAINTEE BRIDE.

convixted of child molestation. Oh jeez thanks.

what?!

oh well no thanks

Charles Cohen was convicted of pedophilia. It probably broke my heart.

horrific.

but anyway, Great tune.

Mike Connors is Joe Mannix

i didn't know that, lester, thx for letting me know.

hey inspector!

Hello!

i have a pic of him in the playlist

hello!

I knew a kid named Joe Mannix and he went to Zl

Zl?

To LA to meet Mike Connors!

Slip of the fingers

this went super groovy!

oh yeah

I saw "Mannix" for the first time this past month, when MeTV showed the earliest episodes. I particularly wanted to see the 1967 appearances of Neil Diamond and Buffalo Springfield.

omg, david that is cool

I've been binging on "The Saint" Roger Moore

oh man that is great, inspector

You can stream all those old shows now

its all so ephemeral. I did dig Mccloud.

Danger Man. Patrick McGoohan is great too!

true

The Columbo episodes with Patrick McGoohan are awesome!

Question, Esoterica,. Why do you even bother? I guess I know. Bring th4 Music the People?

to the

look for the columbo with roddy mcdowel in super tight polyester slacks. looks like he has a pickle in his pants.

jeez

lester, not sure what you are referring to, sorry.

bother to what?

tough crowd

Retro seventies crowd!

oh yeah, inspector.

Best of times! imho

it was ! i get nostalgic

i just get a little dense. ha! are we in an artist v. art debate?

There's always Mott The

love them! as you know, inspector

💘

Bowie loved Ian Hunter. Man these Joke wriet themselves.

I won tickets from the radio for this Death show 12 years ago:

https://youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2TCAswrr5RQ

cool, david

Joybringer (Manfred Manns Earth Band)

oh yeahn inspector

Only on the vinyl Solar Fire

You couldn't even play some 70's shit on a contemporary proper radio show. Unless you were living in the Delta.

ribbon in thy sky

stevie. dare you

that's a cool song

The Fall also covered that 1958 Hank Mizell rockabilly song. It's not to be confused with Kip Tyler's "Jungle Hop" which came out the same year!

I wonder if Jodie Foster likes JFA.

ha!

turn it up

let's go!

crazy to think thundercat got his start with ST

that is nuts

race

Gallien Kruger

amp it up

Great one.

hey DubNP*, oh yeah and hi

i like it loud.

Split Enz are nothing like that other New Zealand band, Labretta Suede & the Motel 6, who played Bowery Electric on Friday. I believe they’re based in NYC now, but Labretta works in Asbury Park!

https://fourthnmain.com/labretta-suede

so do i, lester

Possesed! Just got tix for show in Hershey! Old Slayer Please! Love you Erica

Love it, Jed1! Old Slayer, like which song?

This past 20 minutes is a recording from my childhood bedroom stereo.

in the vein of classic LA punk, could i get fetch the water by minute flag?

I believe that was the 2nd song Hüsker Dü played at their 1984 show in Florence, NJ. The pit suddenly went nuts.

Honor Race's request. I've been wondering 40 years what that record sounds like.

Somehow I’ve never seen Beat Happening. I only got to see Calvin Johnson in Manasquan circa 2000.

i will try, david and race

ty ty!

oh you are most welcome!

i listened to the third album mike and kira put out as dos recently, it was really interesting

oh yeah i like it, race

the double bass and vocals lends to a unique sound, very paced out and introspective imo

D. Boon sang that. It came out a year after he died.

yeah very sad

agree, race

Hello people of WPRB and music lovers in general. Love you all.

Love you! Hey Pengy

Yup that is exactly what we are here, music lovers

Oh this song would be the trailer song for the movie of my life.

oh yeah love this song

weird little prog lead

I got to see Clem in the Split Squad (featuring Eddie from the Plimsouls, and Keith from the Fleshtones) twice in recent years. Before that I saw him in Magic Christian (which featured Cyril Jordan of the Flamin’ Groovies). The first Clem Burke performance I saw was the second (and final) time he drummed for the Ramones (at City Gardens).

nice, david

Ahh, Blondie. My first teenage crush.

everyone's crush. hi, thomas:)

The last two times I saw Paul Collins, he didn’t play that telephone song. Can you believe it? It’s like the time I saw the Rolling Stones and they didn’t play “Satisfaction”.

Always great to hear you, Esoterica.

Good stuff as usual!

awesome, Jed1! Thx. Too SoCal-centric haha?

When Debbie Harry guest-hosted Saturday Night Live, she introduced the first hip-hop act to play on television: Funky 4 + 1.

That voice, angelic. Killer bass line.

wow, david

amazing, thomas. agree

thx, everyone!

After "Autoamerican", the music biz suddenly ignored Blondie. Their next album, "The Hunter", got no airplay.

didn't get to The Jam ha. Next week! Stay tuned

yeah that is true