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The Sonic Bloom

May 12, 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.

Monday, again?!

Well, here we are, folks. chillax and grab a cold beverage. Beautiful day in central Jersey.

6:04 PM		David Bowie Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie Let's Dance Parlophone UK 1999
6:06 PM		The Gits Second Skin (2024 Remaster) N Frenching the Bully (2024 Remaster) Sub Pop Records 1992 Crime cover.
6:07 PM		CPC Gangbangs Rock'n'Roll Enemy No. 1 CPC Gangbangs N Roadhouse - Single Slovenly Recordings 2024 Crime cover.
6:10 PM		Dr. Feelgood She Does It Right Dr. Feelgood Down By the Jetty (Collectors Edition) Parlophone UK 2006
6:12 PM		Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom For a Day Like Today Cowboy in Sweden (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Light in the Attic 2016
6:16 PM		PET MOSQUITO Okie Dokie PET MOSQUITO N Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music - EP Slovenly Recordings 2024
6:17 PM		Gökçen Kaynatan Moda Gökçen Kaynatan Fırtına - Single Odeon Müzik Yapımcılık 2015
6:20 PM		Fruits Young Jazz Fruits N The Great Internet 7" Slovenly 2025
6:21 PM		Sun Atoms Take This Love Sun Atoms N Everything Forever Little Cloud Records 2024
6:27 PM		Killing Joke Change (2005 Digital Remaster) Killing Joke Killing Joke [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue 2005 Released in 1980. Singer and keyboardist Jaz Coleman met drummer Paul Ferguson in late 1978. In February 1979, they put an announcement in Melody Maker with the words: "Bass, lead, to tell the killing joke, we mean it man ! Total exploitation, no information, anonymity".
6:31 PM		Warren Zevon Nighttime in the Switching Yard Warren Zevon Excitable Boy Rhino/Elektra 1978
6:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:42 PM		The Stranglers No More Heroes (1996 Remastered Version) The Stranglers No More Heroes Parlophone UK 2001
6:44 PM		Robert Fripp You Burn Me up I'm a Cigarette (First Edition: Original 1979 Release) Robert Fripp Exposure Discipline Global Mobile 2019
6:47 PM		Soft Machine Kings and Queens Soft Machine Fourth Columbia 1971
6:52 PM		Plasma Ei kuuniaa Plasma N Mua Et Voi Omistaa Sorry State is proud to present Mua Et Voi Omistaa, the debut vinyl from Helsinki, Finland’s Plasma, released in partnership with Nunchakapunk Records in Finland and Little Jan’s Hammer Records in Spain. Plasma carries forward the power, ferocity, and craftsmanship that has been Finnish punk’s calling card since the genre’s inception, fusing it with the bouncy energy and razor-sharp execution of modern hardcore punk. (bandcamp)
6:54 PM		Anytime Cowboy Losing Just For Fun Anytime Cowboy N Voice in the Clouds 2025 Weirdo punk from California.
6:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:59 PM		Dead Boys I Won't Look Back Dead Boys We Have Come for Your Children Rhino/Warner Records 2004 The Dead Boys' second studio album, "We Have Come for Your Children," was released in June 1978. The album was produced by Felix Pappalardi and recorded in Miami in early 1978.
7:00 PM		Flamin' Groovies City Lights Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head Buddha Records 1999 Teenage Head is the third studio album by the San Francisco rock band Flamin' Groovies, released in March 1971 by Kama Sutra Records. https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/flamin-groovies-reunion-noise-pop-2025-20153982.php
7:05 PM		Harry Nilsson Jump Into the Fire Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson RCA Records Label 1971
7:12 PM		Total Punk Records Gebrannte Amore V: Live at the Gas Station Fighting Jackpot Records 2021 A little Burning Love cover.
7:15 PM		Badfinger Sometimes (2010 - Remaster) Badfinger Straight Up (Deluxe Edition) EMI Catalogue 2010
7:17 PM		Drahla Default Parody Drahla N angeltape Captured Tracks 2024 From Leeds UK.
7:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:25 PM		Chelsea Many Rivers Chelsea Chelsea STRIKE FORCE ENTERTAINMENT 2017 From England. Members went on to form Generation X.
7:29 PM		Rod McKuen To Share the Summer Sun Rod McKuen Listen to the Warm Real Gone Music
7:32 PM		RAKTA Memória Do Futuro RAKTA Oculto Pelos Seres 7" - EP La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2018 From Brazil. https://rakta.bandcamp.com/
7:38 PM		Danny Michaels It's My Way (feat. Bobby Boydd) Danny Michaels On the Bandstand Anahuac Records/Discos Anahuac 2017 https://www.discogs.com/release/11634244-Danny-Michaels-With-The-Rebel-Playboys-On-The-Bandstand?srsltid=AfmBOorVJeDIrJRqY3rSRtI_6Q7Bu4Z8nZOPphJkjdiapB7WEJmyfeS3 From 1964. Drums [Terrific Tubs] – Billy Jay (2) Electric Bass – Bobby Boydd Guitar – Danny Michaels Liner Notes – Dick Haynes (2) Steel Guitar – Jerry Stevens (9) (discography)
7:41 PM		Joe Cannon You and Your Precious Love Joe Cannon Cold Hard Times Arista/Legacy 1970 Played a "singing horse barn cleaner" on "The Virginian" TV series in the 1960s under his real name. Born to French-Canadian parents, he adopted the stage name "Joe Cannon" at the start of his singing career in the early 1970s and legally changed the family surname to Cannon in '80. In December 1990 the Los Angeles Times called him "the one-man party of the Reno and Sun Valley saloons."
7:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:49 PM		Jim Ford Linda Comes Running Jim Ford Rare Singles and Previously Unreleased Masters, Vol. 1 AMB 2007
7:51 PM		Jane Birkin Jane B. (D'après un prélude de Chopin - Version alternative) Jane Birkin Mes images privées de Serge Universal Music Division Barclay 2013
7:55 PM		Marie Davidson Validations Weight N City Of Clowns Marie Davidson 2025
7:58 PM		Nusidm Katy Und Abel Nusidm The Last Temptation of Thrill Bruit Direct Disques 2023 https://bruit-direct.org/product/nusidm-the-last-temptation-of-thrill/
8:00 PM		Shirese Kept It Truckin Shirese Rose of Smiling Faces Grapefruit & C/Site Recordings 2023

Chat is archived.

Few people were in attendance when I saw the Dancing French Liberals of ‘48 (The Gits sans Mia) at Maxwell’s thirty years ago.

hey

wow interesting todbit david

tidbit

By any chance was that Bowie song used in Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur film?

idk david actually

Howdy Esoterica!

howdy rob!

how's things?

Kind of birdy. How are things with you?

I love the band name Pet Mosquito btw fwiw

Sweet - thought you were gonna say kinda crabby with your emoji

you are a irder tho right?

birder

The 1969 premiere episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus concluded with a lengthy skit about a fatally funny joke weaponized by the British army in WW II. I wonder if that’s where Killing Joke got their name.

Yes, I am a birder! It is the height of spring migration right now around DC so I get out as much as I can in the morning.

https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World

oh nice, rob!

aw interesting now i wonder, too, david

@David Shortell & @Esoterica, "Coleman gave an explanation concerning their name: "The killing joke is like when people watch something like Monty Python on the television and laugh, when really they're laughing at themselves.""

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Joke#Formative_years_(1978%E2%80%931982)

Soft Machine!! Great show tonight so far DJ Esoterica! Just now deciding to pipe up heheh

The Fripp was and the Soft Machine is great!

hey TAndy! thank you;)

aw nice unplanned but instinctively i went there with that combo, rob

Just tuned in...no Dirty Harry today.

hey mike! not today!

next week tho no worried

worries

That reminds me: Worriers play tomorrow at the Sultan Room (234 Starr St, Brooklyn, NY).

oh cool

The migration groups were so dense that they were caught on some local weather radars iirc

wow

Not terribly far from home, someone found a Mourning Warbler this morning. We went to the park and heard it, and my wife had a brief glimpse of it in flight. That species is notorious for being hard to see. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mourning_Warbler/overview

love that mourning warbler

TAndy & Esoterica, radar capturing migration groups is pretty cool to see.

i need to get into this, rob!

Eso, if you click "Sounds" it will play a couple of songs. I can't remember the last time I *saw* this species ...

Eso, it's fun (except maybe for getting up and out an hour before sunrise?)!

oh sweet, i will check it out. thanks:)

Bird song is a different kind of sonic bloom

absolutely:)

Happy Monday! 😇

Hi Inspector! Happy Monday!

That Rod McKuen was beautiful 💙

kooky but yes beautifu, TAndy.

that is what he does so well

I love to find the beauty in the strangest things.

oh me, too.

late to the party

hey there

howdy andrew!

Great show, Esoterica, thanks! Until the next time!

aw thanks rob!! til next monday!:)

have a good one, everyone! stay tuned!

Thanks so much for the show!

of course, TAndy!

thanks for stopping by and keeping me company!