The New Abnormal Fri Dec 5 with ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

good morning

Good day, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

Good day, Mister Malcontent 💜

Gimbels & Sears, gents.

good morning. i keep waiting for that gentleman to say 'ladies and germs' but he never does.

Shamelessly reusing one of the greatest hits. Mornin Dale

good morning, TAndy

good morning, Dale

kinda working an enya vibe here, maybe it's just the irish part.

could be, Dale, could be

Morning lads!

good morning, Beck S

Can I request some (any) Japanese prog or fusion, before things get too.... difficult? Would love to hear Dave's fav

Yo Beck!

Sup Tandy!

The Japanese prog I brought today is alll scheduled for Difficult Listening Hour. But I will consider some requests for future shows

Spoilers!!

OoOo, I can dig it

sweet segue.

🙏🏻

Good morning, Dave and everyone

good morning, Rob from MD

Heya Rob

ששת ❤️

sheshet is a nice mellow discovery.

glad you were able to hear and enjoy

Clearlight is great

yup

I Just clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

thanks, Richard M

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Hi, ChristineBoo! 👋 👻

oh good morning, Christine

Heya Christine, Richard!

Good morning DTO 😶‍🌫️, TAndy 🚩🐈‍⬛️, Rob 🦀, Richard ☕️, and MrM 💀 Boo 👻!!

Looking forward to Difficult Listening Hour, which will match the difficult driving conditions around DC bc of our first snowfall of the season

yikes! good luck, and be safe, Rob

Good luck out there man!

Morning Christine, TAndy, MrM, Richard, Dale, Beck

Jeez, @Rob be safe 🦀 ⚠️ 🚦

This is a cool jam to end my work shift to.

that's a good feeling

Thx for your good wishes. I don't have to be anywhere until 1 pm, so we'll check at noon. My wife is cancelling a 10:15 appointment as I type this

This is DC, sometimes just the threat of falling snow seems to cause people to panic while driving

😇

Sounds like they better mobilize the national guard to shovel the roads

TAndy, 🤣🤣

There's a light coating on our side/cut-through street, and so far SUVs and cars have had no trouble

You know that we're starved when even a slight coating is treated like a huge deal.

THIS 🎶🎵

hope you like it

Luvs IT

Parma, Ohio no doubt

thanks for pointing out the omission. It has been corrected

Ahh yes! VIVA L’ITALIA 🇮🇹 💚🤍❤️

Gorlami.

that was delizioso! hope to hear more from ROCKY’S FILJ ❤️

for sure

this is another GEM! 💎🎶🎵🩵

I try to squeeze in some gems between the usual dreck

this malady is great...

that’s funny. zero dreck! only GEMS on The New Abnormal! 💟

glad you like. That's why I'm here - to air the great music that is overlooked by others

"great" of course strictly a matter of opinion and personal taste

most would disagree that anything on The New Abnormal is 'great'

Grate!?!

that's more like it

AYE CARAMBA!

Gems on the turntables 💎 sweep 'em off, somebody

this is Luverly

gotta book before difficult listening. thanks for the easy listening.

good mornin'

oh look who’s here

hehe

oh boy

Not just nominally popular! Yes sold out Madison Spirit Garden over and over

Heya Stevie and George! It's Time™

👈💀👉

👉💀👈

Hey, Stevie p

Good point, Georg K. They were an exception

but even if geriatric Yes sells out a big auditorium today, I'd say that does not mean prog as such is 'popular'

This song is 🐲

True. It made my EnterWebs STOP 🛑

some Japanese prog for Beck S.

and "Bird Song" for Rob from MD

Guud Stufs

fulfilling my mission

A snow plow just went up our street, hooray! Too bad there's not enough snow on the road surface to actually plow

here in NJ they dump an inch of salt for us to slip on

Bird song is great! Bird songs are great!

That salt dumping happens here too. I couldn't tell if that snowplow truck was dropping any salt ... the plow was above the road surface though so it wasn't doing anything with its front end

yeah, probably spreading

this track goes BERZERK❣️

nobody does berserk like the Belgians

what a track to wake up to

Ahahahahaha huh?!

Hahahaha - sorry about that S Mulhall. I'm afraid it won't get any easier until after 10:00

and then it might be a total BOHR 😉

Was tough, but here we are on the other side. :)

ooooo, a cunning pun

Meow

good morning, Roffle

Good morning Dave, and fellow listeners!

How many letters in your name!?!

I will have to consult a numerologist to be certain.

Should end in dorf

Thanks you -M! I like that!

After Hanukkah i will, I'm just covering all the bases for the holidays.

CHEER-ACCIDENT ⚠️💛

Halright, Kerrofflesburgsteindorf

Going to challenge Spintrons max character length before 2027

Kerrofflesburgsteindorfenstomp

lol

Orz

Kerrofflesburgsteindorfenstomplolz

good to see you, Guelo

Unckerrofflesburgsteindorfenstomplolz

Hi ǝʌɐꓷ

DJ Guelo, hello!

HeyOoo! Ha! @Kerrofflesburgsteindorfenstomplolz

Sup Guelo and Roffle and Mulhall!

MrM is on a higher level of wordplay this morning

I’m HIGH

Caffeine is a drug.

Heya TA!

A damn good drug!

owitz!

....ski

I do love Pierogi's so.

Oh man already just 13 minutes left of the show 😞

you'll be alright

Ha, Ski broke the character limit...lol

Good morning Dave. These last few songs have only been moderately difficult, although this one is starting to ramp up a bit

trying my bestest

I've always loved how Cheer-Accident bounces between power pop and outright weirdness

That S Mulhal was a rough patch to land here with. :)

good call on Cheer-Accident, Bud

DJ DaveTheObscure 💟 Many thanks for another Gem of a Show! Very well done! Appreciate you! Big cheers & kind regards to you, Sir! 🖤💀

another excellent show Dave! Thanks!

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Thanks for the show, Dave!

thanks for listening and joining me in the chat

This is the only song I would listen to when I took off in plane off the runway in the 90's It was my lucky song. it worked. Thanks for this DAVE!

Thanks for this great show, Dave. The snow is coming to an end right now too. I'm sad that you show is ending but not that the snow is ending

🙏🏻

WestSiiidddeee❣️

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7:03 AM		Maria Somerville October Moon N Luster 4AD 2025 Musician and producer from Ireland. https://mariasomerville.bandcamp.com/album/luster
7:05 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:08 AM		Katamaran Chromadur Café Florian pläne 1973 Jazz fusion band from Heidelberg, Germany, active in the 1970s.
7:22 AM		Eddie Henderson Anua Realization Capricorn Records 1973 American trumpet and flugelhorn player, born in New York City in 1940. Rose to prominence as a member of Herbie Hancock's band. On this, his first LP as a band leader, he is joined by Herbie Hancock (electric piano), and other members his Mwandishi-era band: Bennie Maupin (flute/sax), Buster Williams (bass), Lenny White (drums), Billy Hart (drums), Pat Gleeson (synths).
7:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:34 AM		Soft Machine Legacy Black and Crimson Burden of Proof Esoteric 2013 "Soft Machine Legacy" (formerly "Soft Works") was formed in 2004 by long-time members of Soft Machine from different eras of the group: Roy Babbington (bass), John Etheridge (guitar), John Marshall (drums), Theo Travis (sax, flute).
7:39 AM		Sheshet Autumn Nights ששת NMC United Entertainment Ltd. 1977 ששת was a short lived Israeli progressive rock and jazz group. They released two albums in 1977.
7:43 AM		Clearlight Sweet Absinthe Forever Blowing Bubbles Clearlight Music 1974 Clearlight is prog rock band from Paris, that was formed in 1973 by keyboardist Cyrille Verdeaux. The band featured a shifting cast of members of the French prog and underground scenes. Verdeaux's later work veered into NewAge music. "Sweet Absinthe" was not on the original LP, but a bonus track on the 2000 re-issue.
7:51 AM		Karaba Zu Schnell Schwester Mondreal Klangschutz Schallplatten 2018 Instrumental jam psychedelic band from Munich established in 2014, featuring influences from Embryo, Missus Beastly, Pink Floyd, Amon Düül 2 and others. https://karaba-band.bandcamp.com/
7:57 AM		Mediabanda Mi Ego Me Odia Bombas en el Aire Radical Beat/CHT Musik 2017 Chilean progressive rock, jazz fusion and contemporary music band. Active since 2000.
8:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:03 AM		National Health Dreams Wide Awake Of Queues and Cures Charly 1978 Canterbury supergroup. The group name "National Health" was obtained from those ☝round glasses Dave Stewart got from the National Health Service.
8:13 AM		Jordsjø Til Våren Nattfiolen Karisma Records 2019 Jordsjø is a Symphonic Prog band founded in Oslo Norway in 2014. https://jordsjo.bandcamp.com/album/nattfiolen
8:22 AM		Jettison Slinky Door Ajar Dank Side of the Morn Evander Music 1999 Fusion band led by jazz keyboardist Graham Connah.
8:27 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:31 AM		Rocky's Filj Il soldato Storie di uomini e non Ricordi 1972 Founded in Parma, Italy, in 1971, disbanded in 1981, but only released this one LP. Rocky Rossi sadly died in 1985 in a car accident. Storie Di Uomini E Non = stories of men and not
8:38 AM		Malady Aarnivalkea Malady Svart Records 2015 Malady is a psychedelic rock quintet from Helsinki Finland founded in 2010. https://maladyband.bandcamp.com/album/malady this is their 2015 debut
8:48 AM		Amoeba Split Quiet Euphoria Quiet Euphoria áMARXE 2023 Spanish progressive rock band formed in 2001 in A Coruña, (Spain), with a sound considered as "Canterbury" style.
8:55 AM		Happy the Man Morning Sun Crafty Hands Invasion Merch 1978 Happy The Man was a symphonic prog band that came out of rural Virginia and moved to Washington D.C. where they signed to Arista and released two classic albums, eventually breaking up at the very end of the 70's.
8:58 AM		Set Break: ÐⅈϝߓἴϾὐᒫȾ Ĺǐꮥ𐠙𐒢₦ἴᥰ᪄ Ȟ𐤈ƲƦ 👉😫👈
9:02 AM		Snake Oil Troy Uppercut Attitude Vol. 1 & 2 12Productions 2007 French fusion group
9:08 AM		Tairikuotoko vs. Sanmyakuonna Bird Song Viva Young Florida Magaibutsu 1998 Japanese avant-prog band, led by Tatsuya Yoshida (Koenjihyakkei, Korekyojinn, et al.) and Yuji Katsui (Bondage Fruit, Rovo, et al.).
9:19 AM		X-Legged Sally Bleedproof Killed By Charity Marquee Inc. 1992 Belgian avant-garde rock/jazz-band founded in 1988 and disbanded in 1997.
9:25 AM		Dün Bitonio Eros Universal Digital Enterprises 1981 Dün is a progressive rock/Zeuhl/RIO band from Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France, that was formed in 1976 under the name of Dune. The band split up in 1983 after recording one LP. (A limited pressing of 1000, the LP was sold only at their shows and became quite rare until the kind folks at Soleil Zeuhl reissued it on CD in 2000 - with bonus tracks!) Here is their LP propped up there on stage.
9:32 AM		Cheer-Accident Frozen Enduring the American Dream Pravda Records 1997 Cheer-Accident is an indie rock ensemble based in Chicago formed in 1981 by Thymme Jones. https://cheer-accident.bandcamp.com/
9:40 AM		Miriodor Peinturé dans le coin Signal 9 Cuneiform Records 2017 Avant-prog band from Quebec City, founded in 1980.
9:45 AM		Happy Family Shige et Osanna Happy Family Cuneiform Records 1994 Happy Family is an instrumental progressive rock/fusion/Zeuhl band from Tokyo, Kantō, Japan, that was formed in 1987.
9:49 AM		The Tea Club Get the Bullet Chasm The Tea Club 2025 Prog band from New Jersey formed in 2003. https://theteaclub.bandcamp.com/ this was edited for airplay to be FCC compliant
9:56 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:56 AM		Rachel Flowers The Mammy Anthem single s/r 2000 Rachel Flowers is a multi-instrumentalist based in California

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