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The Sonic Bloom

Jul 28, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Tuesday!

Howdy!

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan V/A World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:05 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:11 PM		Blue Öyster Cult Flaming Telepaths Blue Öyster Cult Secret Treaties Columbia 1974
5:15 PM		Blue Öyster Cult Astronomy Blue Öyster Cult Secret Treaties Columbia 1974
5:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:33 PM		Mondo Lava Lady in the Lake Mondo Lava N Utero Dei Hausu Mountain 2025 https://beatsperminute.com/mondo-lava-falls-into-endless-electro-psych-spirals-on-lady-in-the-lake/
5:37 PM		Frances Chang I can feel the waves Frances Chang N I can feel the waves - Single RVNG Intl. 2026 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/08/add-to-playlist-the-magnetic-uncanny-songwriting-of-frances-chang-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks
5:43 PM		Genesis Supper's Ready (2007 Stereo Mix) Genesis R Foxtrot (2007 Stereo Mix) Rhino Atlantic 1972 Going out to the Inspector and to Riley! Thx for the request for old Genesis.
6:06 PM		Rod McKuen The World I Used to Know Rod McKuen Greatest Hits of Rod McKuen Real Gone Music 1969
6:09 PM		Sonic Youth Disappearer Sonic Youth Goo Geffen 1990
6:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:19 PM		Patti Smith Kimberly Patti Smith Horses Arista/Legacy 1975
6:24 PM		Deep Purple Highway Star Deep Purple Machine Head Rhino/Warner Records 1972
6:29 PM		Kohoutek Disfalo Kohoutek N Akvoturo Feeding Tube 2026 https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2021/09/kohoutek-interview-impro-psych-rock-heaven.html
6:34 PM		The Psychedelic Furs The Ghost In You Mirror Moves Columbia 1984
6:38 PM		Robyn Hitchcock Virginia Woolf Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Hitchcock TINY GHOST RECORDS 2017
6:41 PM		Roxy Music Same Old Scene Roxy Music The Best of Roxy Music EG Records 2001
6:45 PM		Eels Dark and Dramatic Eels Earth to Dora E Works Records 2020
6:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:53 PM		Girls At Our Best! Go for Gold Girls At Our Best! Pleasure Cherry Red Records 1981 https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/girls-at-our-best/
6:56 PM		Doubting Thomas Clocks Doubting Thomas The Infidel (Special Edition) Metropolis Records 1990 https://thedoubtingthomasband.com/
7:00 PM		Ratboys Alien with a Sleep Mask On Ratboys Printer's Devil Topshelf Records 2020 Ratboys are an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2010 by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Julia Steiner and her partner, lead guitarist Dave Sagan. As of 2020, the band consists of Steiner, Sagan, Marcus Nuccio and Sean Neumann.
7:04 PM		Cows Terrifique Cows Cunning Stunts Amphetamine Reptile 1992 Cows were a noise rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota who formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1998.
7:07 PM		Bongwater Free Love Messes Up My Life Bongwater The Big Sell-Out Shimmy Disc 1991
7:09 PM		Psychic TV Roman P. Psychic TV Hex Sex - The Singles Pt. 1 Genesis P-Orridge 1993
7:13 PM		Momma Medicine Momma Household Name Polyvinyl Records 2022 A more recent review of Momma: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/momma-welcome-to-my-blue-sky/
7:17 PM		Chime School Wait Your Turn Chime School Chime School Slumberland Records 2021 https://chimeschool.bandcamp.com/
7:22 PM		Annabel Another Day, Another Vitamin Annabel Having It All Tiny Engines 2015 https://annabel.bandcamp.com/
7:23 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:29 PM		Sunhyun Yoo Sweet Sorrow Sunhyun Yoo N PLAiDE 2026
7:36 PM		Robyn Hitchcock I Am This Thing (Radio Edit) Robyn Hitchcock N I Am This Thing (Radio Edit) - Single TINY GHOST RECORDS 2026
7:38 PM		Oblivz Dr. Y Oblivz Managers - EP Oblivz 2022 https://oblivz.bandcamp.com/album/managers
7:42 PM		Shredded Sun Shredded Sun - Skyscraper N Shredded Sun - Skyscraper - Single Repeating Cloud 2026 https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/never-odd-or-even-2
7:44 PM		The Carp Nothin's Gonna Help Nothin' The Carp N Tangled Up With The Two Tailed Rat Total Punk Records 2026 https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tangled-up-with-the-two-tailed-rat https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/the-carp/
7:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:52 PM		Flower Travellin' Band Satori, Pt.2 Flower Travellin' Band N Satori WM Japan 1988
7:59 PM		Flower Travellin' Band Satori Part V Flower Travellin' Band N Satori Start Entertainments Limited 1971

Chat is archived.

howdy

howdy!

ooo BOC nice lets rock the house 🎵

howdy!!

hey rob! hey riley!

Hello! Great tune to start!

howdy!

hold on while i delete the other rogue playlist stay here!

buck dharma on geetar

oh yeah. thx inspector

Did the station do a re-air of one of your shows like two in the morning several nights ago?

Hi again

1am saturday night

Yes!

yay!

successfully deleted rogue paylist

Be right back, I see that DC is under a Tornado Watch with a Severe Thunderstorm warning heading right toward us

wat!!??

be safe Rob

oh no stay safe

Batton down the hatches

i am giving you a sneak peak of the next song, too. yes lock down everything. stay inside.

Heh, I see that the Tornado Watch extends to Philly & Montgomery County (your Montgomery County, not mine)

thankfully i moved outta Montgomery a few years ago

alabama, riley?

Riley, if you're in Bucks you are in the Tornado Watch area, just saying

oops, eso, read the chat posts, montgomery county haha

no county of PA

got it

why is montco tornado alley for philly?

ita a big valley for it to travel in

very true

nursery crimes is a great album

play suppers ready old genesis :)

Canned Utility and the Coastliners

harold the barrel is good too

My second pick

Sitting on a front porch in Montco Pa..waiting for the tornado..will make a run for the root cellar if I see something

be safe carlos

root cellar psycho! 🫣

be safe, everyone

oh riley and inspector, i am seeing your old genesis requests - will try to furnish

suppers ready from foxtrot?

Thank You Eso!

sure thing!

Joining the chat friends, waiting on something to comment on. The weather in West Philly perhaps?

howdy, IConJohn

Will the giant hogweed be returning after supper is ready?

Hello Eso, are we getting the entire Supper's Ready?!

oh yes, do not forget the giant hogweed

yes, bud! all 23 minutes

that is why we are prb

;)

And the DJ gets a nice break :)

well, i am not gonna knock that either haha

nice genesis. hey now.

Supper is indeed ready! 🍽

Sounding great, DJ Eso 💯

hey there, dale. i knew there would be fans out there, but thank the inspector this one i think specifically

aw thanks, christine!

Play me my song. Here it comes again. Old King Cole was a merry old soul

yes, this is in fact supper time! not planned i swear

It's perfect.

I bought Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme as $1 dollar cutouts way back in the day

and enjoyed them thoroughly

oh yeah, you did, i can just see it:)

thx, c

🌺

Hi! I love the Seconds Out version, but this song is just fantastic. :) Great call!

🦊💃

saw em do this live in 1980, before they started doing medleys of the old stuff

hey roffleaphonic, oh yes that is good, too

wow, riley, so cool

At the Spectrum Riley? I was there:)

yep.spectrum night efore thanksgiving

They do=id not plat this though :(

played entire version of supper

oh wow, can you imagine having to remember all these lyrics playing on the stage

before phil stopped singing peter's songs

I missed that! It was more Abacab stuff, at the show I saw.

memories from half a century ago...and saw them do this fifty years ago.

I never saw PG Genesis, and that is a great regret of mine - however I saw the Amnesty show at giants stadium, so it kinda balances out

by abacab, phil only did medleys of petes songs sadly

Maybe I saw them in '81 then. Now I gotta think. lol

Riley and Roffle definitely dating themselves with Genesis Spectrum memories LOL! Didn't Genesis perform the Lamb at the Civic Center?

i have my koss headphones on and the room is lit just by the glow of my kenwood kr4070.

love this, date away!

great memories

gabriel played witgh genesis at the tower theatre

the glow of my kenwood haha love it

hey randy, i regret that too, never saw PG

trick of the tail and lamb lies down are such classics, why pete quit after that is beyond me

The Tower was THE best venue back then. Saw the Police there.

i only saw peter gabnriel solo

the sledgehammer tour lol

saw vh open for ted nugent at the tower

peter played at my college in 1978 for his second album. then i saw him at a perkins pancake house after that show and i asked for an autograph. he asked me for a ride back to his motel. as we're leaving his tour bus pulled in and he jumped out t get in with them.

I went to a music festival in Seattle and he was in the tent next to us before the show, but I had to early.

leave early

in those days ted was normal

THat's wild Dale!

If you're an early Genesis fan, the band The Musical Box is well worth seeing. They're actually licensed by Genesis, and use the original projections, and reproductions of the stage design and instruments.

definitely a memory roffleaphonic.

that is cool, bud, where do they play?

Around here, usually the Keswick

In general I'm not a fan of the overwhelming number of "tribute bands" out there, but this one is worth it

A friend of mine saw KC and after the show was talking to Bruford about drums, and Fripp cameso out and said "Let's go William." And they got in a van.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8T09hhjPnnk

haha god, i'm bored...i might as well be listening to genesis oh no, you didn't david haha

TMB has been around a long time. Seen them many times

Supper's Ready vs Musical Box?https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/92622755/seconds-outa-tribute-to-the-music-of-genesis-philadelphia-music-hall-at-world-stage?utm_source=hive&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hive_email_id_638258_flash-sale-day-26-seconds-out-genesis-tribute&h_sid=f052566c2c-5f208387aac8064aede28e25&h_slt=eyJoaXZlX3VzZXJfaWQiOjM2MTg2NDM3LCJoYXNoIjoiNTQwMTliMmRlMGE5Y2FmIn0%3D

this is on eleven.....some good toe tappage for sure.

oh, cool, IConJohn, I just glanced briefly, is that the cover band?

"Lazy" is a screamer.

hey mike, lazy is great

Sometimes, I consider it my theme song.

ha that would be me,too

Yes Eso, Suppers Ready is another "tribute="cover band. My brother raves about Musical Box but I"m a 10 minute bike ride to the former World Cafe Live and Keswick is probably an hour car ride to see Musical Box.

I've heard THIS in our ShopRite

P-Furs that is

cool, IConJohn, I will look out for them, thx

ha, randy

i guess i ain't too original

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1poOnkzhc73QiOpwmbOW7L?si=zmH_4IUCSLaQvkDGXwtuqA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=CtQHRm_ZR82lK

You're the original @DJEsoterica, so THATS something!

aw thanks!!

Robyn interviewed, signed his book and performed at Rough Trade on Friday:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TOrJBCet5Dc

We concur.

I love Go For Gold!!

Damn that Eels tune. Wow that was my reality at one point. I don’t think back to that period of time much, but man…… I can’t do dark and dramatic.

so good, huh, rob!?

WOOH!!

Heck yeah

yeah G Jax, so honest those lyrics slay me. i get it. counts for friends, too, not just romantic partners.

man, david re: robyn. were you there?

I had to look at the time that was released, cause it would been ironic if it was released at the same time I was living that hell. It was it. It was released twice later, but I know the eels have been around a while.

The 45 of Go For Gold was one of 11 records I bought the year I took a pay cut in order to get a job in my field. 3 or 4 of these 11 records were 45s. I still have all 11. I absolutely had to have them

sweet, rob!

Anyway, call tube looking back at your playlist day pretty damn awesome. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard. “supper is ready” on terrestrial radio in my whole entire lifetime. OK.

Geez, this thing makes me sound like an idiot. Supper’s ready not supper is ready.

no it doesn't you are good, G Jax.:)

Back to theme songs...I used to have 21st Century Schizoid Man as my ringtone. I guess that would be my "walk-up" song at CBP.

oh yeah a good one

No. On Friday I was at Crossroads to see Twisted Teens, along with the NJ debuts of Pyrex and Loosey.

It's simply jealousy?

ccol, david, how was it?

cool

yup, rob

Too crowded for my liking. I had fortunately seen Twisted Teens last May in New Brunswick!

Bongwater fell apart around the same time ABC canceled "Anything But Love".

huh, right david.

i recall ann magnuson in a tv show, that one?

Yes. After Ann Magnuson’s lawsuit, the next I read of Kramer was in the NY Times about him performing at the Knitting Factory. According to my memory, that was right after the “Seinfeld” episode which revealed the character Kramer’s first name. Boy, Shimmy-Disc’s Kramer must have been subject to a lot of jokes that night.

wow

Ty for the show, Esoterica, we both loved it!

ty, Rob! For being here and being you:)

Thanks, everyone! See youse next week!