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The Sonic Bloom

Aug 26, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Tuesday!

hi...

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:07 PM		Buddy Holly I'm Gonna Love You Too Buddy Holly Buddy Holly Geffen 1958
5:08 PM		Robert Fripp & Brian Eno Wind on Water Evening Star Discipline Global Mobile 1974
5:14 PM		Guru Sights In The City (feat. Carleen Anderson & Courtney Pine) Guru Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Catalog 1993
5:19 PM		Bob Dylan It Ain't Me Babe Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan Columbia 1964
5:23 PM		Fiorino, Don & Andy Haas Hand I Coordination Fiorino, Don & Andy Haas N Accidentals Resonant 2025
5:25 PM		Fiorino, Don & Andy Haas Phat Flutter Fiorino, Don & Andy Haas N Accidentals Resonant 2025
5:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:28 PM		Dos Santos Return Y Regreso Dos Santos N Logos International Anthem Recording Co. 2018
5:32 PM		Crime Rock 'n' Roll Enemy No. 1 Crime San Francisco's Doomed Superior Viaduct 1991
5:35 PM		Deradoorian Set Me Free Deradoorian N Ready for Heaven Fire Records 2025
5:39 PM		Deradoorian Logos Deradoorian Logos Fire Records 2025
5:43 PM		The Young Rascals Groovin' The Young Rascals Groovin' Rhino Atlantic 1967
5:46 PM		Codeine House Codeine Kitchen b/w House - Single Numero Group 1994
5:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:53 PM		June of 44 Of Information & Belief June of 44 R Four Great Points Quarterstick Records 1998 Going out to Kelly!
6:00 PM		June of 44 June Miller June of 44 Engine Takes to Water Quarterstick 1995
6:03 PM		The Psychedelic Furs Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs Forever Now Columbia 1982
6:07 PM		Elvis Costello Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello My Aim Is True (Deluxe Edition) UMe/Elvis Costello 2007 Happy bday Elvis Costello! Elvis Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus, on 25 August 1954, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London, the only child of a record shop worker and a jazz musician.
6:10 PM		Codeine Pickup Song Codeine Frigid Stars Sub Pop 1990
6:13 PM		Chavez The Ghost By the Sea Chavez Better Days Will Haunt You Matador 2006
6:17 PM		The Fall L.A. The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985
6:21 PM		Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust Bauhaus Singles (Remastered) Beggars Banquet 2013
6:24 PM		Cabaret Voltaire Just Fascination (7" Version) #7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978-1985) Mute 2014
6:27 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:33 PM		XTC Respectable Street XTC Black Sea (Bonus Track Version) Virgin Records 1980
6:36 PM		Diamanda Galás The Thrill Is Gone Diamanda Galás All the Way Intravenal Sound Operations 2017
6:41 PM		Linea Aspera Antipodean Tedium Linea Aspera Preservation Bias Dark Entries Records 2019
6:46 PM		Danse Society All I Want Danse Society Looking Through Anagram Records 1985
6:53 PM		Mott the Hoople Sweet Jane The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective Legacy/Columbia 1993
6:57 PM		Crisis of Conformity Fist Fight! Crisis of Conformity Fist Fight! - Single Drag City Records 2011
6:58 PM		MX-80 Sound Why Are We Here MX-80 Sound Crowd Control Ralph Records 1981 MX-80, also known as MX-80 Sound, is an eclectic American art-rock band founded in 1974 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, by guitarist Bruce Anderson. Considered “one of the most out of step but prescient bands of its time". (wiki)
7:01 PM		Chrome Tv as Eyes Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves / Alien Soundtracks Cleopatra 1990 Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco in 1976 by musician Damon Edge and associated with the 1970s post-punk movement.
7:04 PM		Pere Ubu Humor Me Pere Ubu The Modern Dance Fire Records 1978
7:07 PM		The Fall Spoilt Victorian Child The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985
7:11 PM		Roger Williams Theme from "The Sundowners" Temptation Kapp 1960
7:13 PM		Swell Maps Secret Island Swell Maps Jane from Occupied Europe Secretly Canadian 1979
7:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:22 PM		The Kinks Low Budget The Kinks Low Budget Sanctuary Records 1979
7:25 PM		The Clean Getting Older The Clean Anthology Merge Records 2003
7:29 PM		The Chills If This World Was Made For Me The Chills N Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs Fire Records 2025
7:33 PM		The Chills Pink Frost The Chills Kaleidoscope World Fire Records 1985
7:38 PM		The Suburbs Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling The Suburbs Credit in Heaven The Suburbs 1980
7:39 PM		The Clean Beatnik The Clean R Anthology Merge Records 2003 Going out to Rob!
7:41 PM		José James Blackeyedsusan José James The Dreamer Rainbow Blonde Records 2008
7:45 PM		The 3Ds Outer Space Helizapoppin Flying Nun 1992
7:48 PM		The Verlaines Heavy 33 The Verlaines You're Just Too Obscure for Me Flying Nun Records 2003
7:53 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:57 PM		Mavis Staples Beautiful Strangers Mavis Staples N Sad and Beautiful World 2025 Written by Kevin Morby.

Chat is archived.

hey there

Hi there! This Fripp & Eno is taking me back to my bookstore days. I played this until my boss told me to stop

What a bad boss ;-)

howdy ears, thx! glad to take you back

howdy rob!

Hola Eso! Nice pick, I haven't heard this Guru in a long time!

hey travis!

thanks! thanks to my son who bought this gem

@ Esoterica (host) Thanks for the immediately great playlist. "Return Y Regreso" by Dos Santos makes me realize again, there's a whole genre of ... call it Latino soul, maybe? ... that I need to hear more.

hi richard! thanks I like that one, too - yes latin soul?

Hello Esoterica and everyone

howdy rob! nice to see ya!

Hey - there. no time to chat but listening as well. Great tunes as always

Mott the Hoople could rock, indeed.

hey! hi francis

thanks!

yes richard for sure!

It's great to hear The Fall twice tonight

Hi DJ Esoterica!! Just now able to join the chat, but thank you for playing June of '44!!!!

sure thing!:)

howdy, kelly - hope all is well

I am on a low budget too. But not quite like this ;-)

ha you and me both!

@ Esoterica (host) How did you know to play The Kinks' "Low Budget" ... exactly when I was at my desk ... paying bills? ;-D

haha

:-))

All's well. I'm listening to the sonic bloom ;)

sweet, kelly!

I'm having chills listening to these Flying Nun bands

nice, rob! me, too!

Hey Eso, could you play another Clean song? Like Tally Ho?

sure thing!

Or Beatnik?

Oooh thank you!

sure thing!

A dj on the DC area station WOWD recently did a two-part show on Flying Nun records. Two hours each show. The shows were fantastic! The first one (covering the 20th century) was all covers of Flying Nun songs. The second show was of more recent, and original, material.

Ty Esoterica

wow that is cool, rob!

you are welcome:)

(the shows are archived here: https://www.mixcloud.com/rockrabbithole/ Aug 5 and Aug 12)

thanks, rob! i will listen

Enjoy! I just noticed that there's 18 and 48 extra minutes that they didn't broadcast so *I'll* have to listen to the archived version. Oh, the horror ;-)

wow ok thanks for letting me know

Great show, Esoterica, ty! Until the next time

thanks rob!

bye, everyone!

be well

see ya next week!