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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 7, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

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hey!

5:01 PM		David Bowie Moss Garden (2017 Remaster) David Bowie "Heroes" (2017 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1977
5:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM		FUUDGE Le mentor FUUDGE N Le mentor - Single Folivora Records 2026 From Montreal! Check out their band camp: https://fuudge.bandcamp.com/
5:09 PM		K. Alexi Jungle Line K. Alexi N Warehouse Trax - EP Dark Entries Records 2026 https://kalexishelby.bandcamp.com/music House music pioneer!
5:14 PM		Urq Another Mystery Urq N This Dismal Village Exploding In Sound Records 2026 From New Orleans https://urqurq.bandcamp.com/album/this-dismal-village
5:15 PM		PJ Harvey Down by the Water (Demo) PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love - Demos UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1995
5:17 PM		Cheap Trick Day Tripper (Live) Cheap Trick Found All The Parts - EP Epic/Legacy 1980
5:22 PM		The Knack Maybe Tonight The Knack Get the Knack CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1979 The Knack was an American power pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1978 by Doug Fieger, Berton Averre, Prescott Niles and Bruce Gary.
5:27 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:30 PM		T. Rex The Slider T. Rex The Slider T-Rex Catalog (Spirit Music) 1972
5:33 PM		MC5 Starship Kick Out the Jams Rhino 1968
5:41 PM		Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride Steppenwolf The Second Geffen 1968
5:44 PM		Neil Diamond Red Red Wine Neil Diamond All-Time Greatest Hits Neil Diamond 2014
5:47 PM		Jack Name & Aoife Nessa Frances Watching the Willows Burn Watching the Willows Burn - Single Mexican Summer 2021 From L.A. https://jackname.bandcamp.com
5:53 PM		Jack Name & Invisible Dog Runaway Girls (Invisible Dog Remix) Jack Name Runaway Girls (Invisible Dog Remix) - EP Pacific Coast Editions 2024
6:05 PM		Sparklehorse Gold Day Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life Capitol Records 2001
6:08 PM		Songs: Ohia Love and Work Songs: Ohia Axxess & Ace Secretly Canadian 1999
6:12 PM		Styrofoam Winos Pearls Styrofoam Winos N Any River Dear Life Records 2026 From Nashville! https://styrofoamwinos.bandcamp.com/album/any-river
6:15 PM		Richard Swift Broken Finger Blues Richard Swift The Hex Secretly Canadian 2018
6:20 PM		The Clash I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. The Clash The Clash Sony BMG Music Entertainment 1976
6:22 PM		The English Beat I Confess (2012 Remaster) The English Beat Special Beat Service (Expanded) [2012 Remaster] Rhino 1982
6:27 PM		David Bowie Hang on to Yourself (2012 Remaster) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2012 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1972
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6:37 PM		The Rolling Stones Sing This All Together The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 1967
6:40 PM		Gary Numan & Tubeway Army Me! I Disconnect from You (1998 Remaster) Replicas (1998 Remaster) Beggars Banquet 1979
6:44 PM		Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army Are Friends Electric? gary numan Replicas Redux Beggars Banquet 1979
6:49 PM		Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Rhino/Warner Records 1970
6:55 PM		Cream I Feel Free Cream Fresh Cream Polydor Records 1966
6:58 PM		Brian Eno Driving Me Backwards (2004 Remaster) Here Come the Warm Jets EMI Marketing 1974
7:04 PM		The Cure Meat Hook The Cure Three Imaginary Boys Rhino/Elektra 1979
7:05 PM		Elton John Texan Love Song Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player (Bonus Tracks Version) EMI 1973
7:09 PM		Private Lives Wrong Again Private Lives N Salt of the Earth Feel It Records 2025 https://privatelivesmtl.bandcamp.com/album/salt-of-the-earth
7:13 PM		The Fall No Bulbs (Remastered) The Fall The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (Expanded Edition) Beggars Banquet 1983
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7:22 PM		Harry Nilsson Jump Into the Fire Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson RCA Records Label 1971
7:29 PM		Superchunk 100,000 Fireflies Superchunk The Question Is How Fast - Single Merge Records 1993
7:33 PM		The Specials It's Up to You The Specials (Remastered) Chrysalis Records 1979
7:36 PM		Raspberries Go All the Way CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1971 That Cleveland sound, aah.
7:39 PM		Beat Happening Cast a Shadow Beat Happening Black Candy K Records 1988 BH formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, and Bret Lunsford were the band's continual members.
7:42 PM		Antônio Carlos Jobim Caribe Antônio Carlos Jobim Tide Verve Reissues 1970
7:44 PM		A.C. Newman Drink To Be Me Babe Then The Slow Wonder Matador 2004
7:47 PM		Connie Converse Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) Connie Converse How Sad, How Lovely Third Man Records 2009 https://thirdmanrecords.com/blogs/news/the-legacy-of-connie-converse-with-long-awaited-reissue-of-how-sad-how-lovely?srsltid=AfmBOooc92OgYZCwsW-dsY6GFEyzEq6fLgcf7L8_CPNueMap3Ik5F5wg
7:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:56 PM		Foxwarren Dance Foxwarren N 2 Anti/Epitaph 2025
7:57 PM		Stephen Malkmus It Kills Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth Matador 2005

Chat is archived.

hey!

hey Michael!

lets get this party started!!

w/u! got away from keys w/u CP and tandy from last show !

Howdy Esoterica, michael, and Riley!

nice Michael!

hey riley and rob!

ayy what's up rob!

hope y'all are doing well!

hope you are well too!!

thx yes I am

polly jean into cheap trick nice

yes I am all over lol

and the b side of the knack this is awesome

agree!!! Doug fieger with the vocals

had this 45 was the b side of good girls dont

was a freshman in 79 too yay class of 83

I was class of 84!

so I think it came out the summer before my freshman year

i wore that album out that summer

MC5 the kick out the jams, *%^ band

oh yeah love the mc5

saw these guys at valley forge music fair with bto, the guess who dr hook and rare earth ...love john kay

wow nice lineup riley

they were all a lillte past their prime but was a fun show

good to see them no doubt nonteheless

Love Magic Carpet Ride!

I saw a version of the guess who with a young singer who was great

maybe 2013 in ocean grove

was cool when i saw em randy bachman played with bto then came back out and played with the guess who

It's nice to hear Neil D's original version of Red Red Wine

thx rob, yeah I had never played it here

oh I bet Riley, wow

valley forge music fair was such a great concert venue

I still remember a student dj on WMUC (College Park MD) in the early 90s playing Diamond's version *and* saying that he wrote the song!! I had no idea that he did and I didn't believe the dj ... obviously I didn't have any UB40 records!

ha that is cool, rob!

how did we ever survive without google

exactly

all the useless music facts i learned are all a click away now lol

haha

do you find it easier to be a DJ these days or harder since people can google everything you say?

wprb listeners are more analog they just are smarty pants lol

I think

lol i bet

I am SO bored ;-)

yes!

rob;)

bowie time

oh yeah!

Hang on ... to WPRB!

yes!!

you betcha

the thin white duke

yup

the stones answer to strawberry fields

oh yeah

Some Yanks took umbrage with that Clash song. It was friendlier than the Exploited's song about the USA though.

I thought that Stones song was from the Kinks

ha rob

I can see thaht

that

right, David!

Been listening on my drive home. Was a mellow show until the English Beat and you turned on the BEAT

GARYYYYYYYY

sweet, Bike!

i wish i love love the kinks

you guys have to go see Gary numan when he comes back around. amazing

saw him at park lol

I AM ELECTRIC

PARX

he has the moves

i saw numan in the 80s when cars came out he opened for the psychedelic furs

Despite what many say, I don't think that Stones album is half bad. Scratch that. It is half bad, but that means it is also half good. I like 5 of its 10 tracks.

banger!

she s like a rainbow is one of my fav stones songs

Someone I know suddenly feels age 22

hey Matt! yes!

haha me, too, dancing!

I missed Gary Numan in NJ three weeks ago.

I never saw him

Replicants fo a good cover (1990s supergroup)

*do

oh I will have to check it out, Matt

oh chit I hear dooooooooom

john osbourne

Huwhat is the greatest radio in the land? - ozzy o

What happened to Replicants? Did Rick Deckard hunt them all down?

David S, yes, and Deckard IS ONE TOO

lyrics by Giza Butler

Now is forever

in this realm

never gets old

just noticed Styrofoam Winos LOL

Do you realize the events of "Blade Runner" happened in 2019? And "Soylent Green" happened in 2022 (the year of George Jetson's birth). And "A Boy and His Dog" happened in 2024.

yup matt

WPRB, you're home for KLASSIK RAWK

oh chit

yo mike lol yup

hiys

did they really David?? examples

the great Jack Bruce

please

Wow, I remember seeing A Boy And His Dog. I didn't remember the 2024 connection though

I can't hear this Cream song without envisioning Homer Simpson dancing naked in his kitchen.

Is Jack Bruce still with us?

the mighty Ginger Baker

Mr. Irascib;e

l not;

gotta go Zoom, just wanted to say hi and good show.

he died in 2014

bruce

I AM DRIVING BACKWARRRRRDS

yeeeeessss

sad, he died before baker

I remember now hearing about Bruce calling Baker in his final days and getting a harsh brush off.

Ginger Baker is the only man Chuck Norris ever feared.

"In the post-nuclear United States of 2024, Vic is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States." Wow when I saw A Boy And His Dog it was circa 1980 and I wasn't all that much older than Vic was in the movie.

I'm reading the plot summary in wikipedia and kind of glad I saw the movie once, long ago, and forgot about it

whoa

rob

haha matt

why did ginger baker scare chuck norris

funny image

I caught ABAHD on vhs, great postap film

Ginger Baker scared everybody.

lol

saw ginger live once with his Air Force band and he was blasted but played so good

I saw the Ginger Baker documentary. He is pretty scary.

ha on both counts

you should play some Ginger Bakers Air Force someday

cool band

Hello Eso - been listening & enjoying the trivia chat as usual.

hi, Amy! thx!

More Cure!

I could go on and on about science fiction predicted futures that never happened. I read Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" in the 1980's. I believe that was set in 1997.

hey Kelly!

wow, david

now you know Elton is being sarcastic right?

Oh, and in 3 years Skynet is supposed to send the Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor.

this album was written when Elton almost married a woman

interesting fact, riley

someone saved my life tonight song details it

I love that song

but he is writing about a dominating queen, which I didn't think was a woman

I thought it was crazy times he was writing about in the east end of London

An old Elton John album (Captain Fantastic maybe?) came with a biographical comic book insert. It portrayed him as straight.

elton has some great stuff but to me was all before his 80s stuff

I love that album, David and I had it

almost had your hooks in me, didnt you dear

The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall The Fall

yes indeed love the lyrics

the elton album tumbleweed connection and honkey chateau are masterpieces

agree, Riley, two of my faves all the 70s stuff was great by Elton and bernie

Riley, yes, they are good albums!

i admit i bailed on Elton in the 80s but his 70's stuff is so good

Hey DJ Esoterica!

I bailed on Elton after Captain Fantastic

Nilsson!!

yeah me, too, rob

i liked im still standing, but after that i was out

that album was catchy

Did you ever see the controversial teen romance film Elton John scored in 1971 called "Friends"? It starred one of the schoolboys from "if...." A sequel was released 3 years later but EJ didn't score it.

never saw the movie but had hte album...was ok but he obviously got better lol

nope never saw it, david

Ska time

Ah yeah, this is the sound for annihilation deferred

for sure!

kelly

eric carmen

Raspberries for dessert?

46 years ago this month, guest host Strother Martin introduced the Specials on Saturday Night Live.

whoa, david

yum, rob

Nice, David

and now the sandman is here :-DD

are you going to sleep, rob?

Not yet, Esoterica!

yay

another great show @Esoterica nice work!

thanks Riley!!

appreciate!

An absolutely fabulous show tonight, @Esoterica, thank you SO much!

oh wow thanks rob, appreciate that

you are very welcome!!

This Connie Converse song is great!

Awesome Show! As always...

thanks, mike!

ggs dj Esoterica!

hey Michael! bye

Is that Connie's real name? It reminds me of that old novel and movie "Anthony Adverse".

I think so, David

hey! great set bye!

thank you!!

Thanks for the much needed tunes. Wonderful show as always :)

tx kelly!