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The Sonic Bloom

Nov 11, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Esoterica

Chillin' and Listenin', Wishin' n' Hopin'

Playing The Dream Syndicate, some new music, and old stuff. Much more, too!

12:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:04 PM		The Apartments Help The Apartments The Evening Visits... And Stays for Years (Expanded Edition) Captured Tracks 2015
12:08 PM		The Particles Apricot's Dream The Particles Can't Stop It: Australian post-punk 1979-82
12:10 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Another World (Remastered) Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Warner Records 2017
12:15 PM		Pere Ubu Non - Alignment Pact Pere Ubu Elitism for the People 1975 - 1978 (Sampler) Fire Records 2015
12:22 PM		Joe Jackson (Do The) Instant Mash Joe Jackson Look Sharp! (Bonus Track Version) A&M 1979
12:24 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:30 PM		Lightnin' Hopkins Once Was a Gambler Lightnin' Hopkins The Best of Lightning Hopkins Arhoolie Records 2001
12:33 PM		Bob Dylan One More Cup of Coffee Bob Dylan Desire Columbia 1976
12:38 PM		Graham Parker Waiting for the UFO's Graham Parker Squeezing out Sparks UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1979
12:40 PM		Dave Edmunds Let It Be Me Dave Edmunds Subtle As a Flying Mallet Sony BMG Music Entertainment 1975
12:43 PM		Talking Heads The Big Country Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food Warner Records 1978
12:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:52 PM		The Exciters Exciters Theme The Exciters Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk On the Isthmus (1965-75) Soundway Records 2011
12:56 PM		Florry You Don't Know Florry N Big Fall 12XU 2021
1:01 PM		Andy Williams Moon River Andy Williams Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams Columbia/Legacy 2009
1:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:05 PM		Brian Eno Fickle Sun (III) I'm Set Free Brian Eno The Ship Warp Records 2016
1:15 PM		Delta 5 Mind Your Own Business Delta 5 Delta 5: Singles & Sessions 1979-81 Kill Rock Stars 2006
1:19 PM		Delta 5 Now That You've Gone Delta 5 Delta 5: Singles & Sessions 1979-81 Kill Rock Stars 2006
1:23 PM		The Magnetic Fields Kraftwerk in a Blackout The Magnetic Fields Quickies Nonesuch 2020
1:25 PM		The Glow Love Only The Glow Love Only / Heavy Glow - Single Double Double Whammy
1:28 PM		The Felice Brothers Inferno The Felice Brothers Inferno - Single Yep Roc Records
1:32 PM		Hot Chip Straight to the Morning (feat. Jarvis Cocker) Hot Chip Straight to the Morning (feat. Jarvis Cocker) - Single Domino Recording Co 2020
1:35 PM		Hot Chip Candy Says Hot Chip Candy Says - Single Late Night Tales 2020
1:38 PM		Guided By Voices Sunshine Girl Hello Guided By Voices N Earth Man Blues GBV Inc 2021
1:42 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:46 PM		Guided By Voices Ant Repellent Guided By Voices N Earth Man Blues GBV Inc 2021
1:48 PM		Bronze Dulcinea (Live) Bronze Live in San Francisco Castle Face 2016
1:53 PM		The Real Kids She's Got Everything (Live) The Real Kids She's Got Everything (Live) - Single Norton Records Inc. 2001
1:55 PM		The Jam David Watts The Jam All Mod Cons (Remastered) Polydor Records 1978
1:58 PM		Simply Saucer Bullet Proof Nothing Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited In The Red 2018
2:03 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:07 PM		999 Trouble 999 English Wipeout Overground Records 1977
2:11 PM		The Flesheaters Cyrano de Berger's Back A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
2:12 PM		New York Dolls Personality Crisis The New York Dolls R New York Dolls Mercury Records 1973 for race!
2:15 PM		Come Let's Get Lost Come Don't Ask Don't Tell Fire Records 1994
2:22 PM		Chris Brokaw Puritan Chris Brokaw N Puritan 12XU 2021
2:27 PM		The Dream Syndicate Tell Me When It's Over The Dream Syndicate The Days of Wine and Roses Rhino/Slash 1982
2:31 PM		Florry Passenger Side (Wilco) Florry N Florry Posse Demos 2021
2:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:35 PM		Velcro Hooks Wildman Velcro Hooks Gymnophoria Howling Owl Records 2012
2:38 PM		Olivia Awbrey Advanced State of Decay Olivia Awbrey Dishonorable Harvest Quick Pickle Records 2020
2:43 PM		Wobbly Popular Monitress Wobbly N Popular Monitress Hausu Mountain 2021
2:51 PM		The Jesus Lizard Monkey Trick The Jesus Lizard Goat (Remaster / Reissue) Touch and Go Records 2009
2:55 PM		Algebra Mothers Strawberry Cheesecake Algebra Mothers Strawberry Cheesecake - Single Third Man Records 2019
2:59 PM		La Chica Interlude La Chica La Loba Zamora Label 2020

Chat is archived.

Hello

Hi, DJ Esoterica!

Brian D, hello

Hello Mr M

Greetings and Salutations, to One and All!

Mmmm sundries

hi mr. m and bri

how are you??

I’m good enough, thanks! How are you, DJ Esoterica??

I am good!

can't complain

tahnks

or tanks

Hi all!

I can always complain! Today I’m just gonna be Chillin' and Listenin', Wishin' n' Hopin'!!!!

hahaha good!

as long as you don't cry

Wellllll…

hi andy!

What do ya know it's the sonic bloom!! 🔊🔊🎵🌼🌻

hey dude:)

what do you know??

how are you, dude?

Can't complain either! (And who would listen if I did)

Hi everyone !

What's up Tom!

hi tom! any meetings?

and haha, dude:)

actually in a meeting but have them on mute, lol

good!

not teaching a class today thankfully

don't like teaching?

don't mind but can't listen while I'm teaching

right!

Listening and lunching. Can't complain if my mouth is full of food!

UBU!

PERE UBU❣️

Oh, this hits right.

Hey, Esoterica! Greetings, MrMalcontent 💀, DSM, Brian, Tom, Andy, and Duuuuuude

hi christine!:)

Hi Christine !

👋, 🦉‼️

hi dsm!

👋 💀!

☺️🤩🥳

Nice start to the show, DJ Esoterica!!

Hey Everybody!

thx, mr. m!

A song about instant mashed potatoes

right, dsm!

this SONG rn af

agreed:)

Oh yeah....

BOB DYLAN ❤️

tiiiight

‘One More Cup Of Coffee’ ❤️

yaaaassss

"One More Cup of Coffee," a very under-played Dylan classic IMHO, thanks for spinning it, Esoterica.

Bob loved the vocal style of Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum. Might be evidence of her influence here

https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movie-sounds/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-the-big-lebowski/i-m-staying-i-m-finishing-my-coffee-enjoying-my-coffee

hi richard! i love that song, gladly played:)

interesting, bri

dude! cool, i will check out

🤣🤣 @the_dude!

haha the dude

Jokerman to a lesser extent as well. That phrasing

squeezing out sparks, a true masterpiece

i love this

nice cover of the everly brothers, imo

TALKING HEADS 💚

@dude, lol

These picks are so good. Both Desire and More Song about Buildings and Food are probably my favorite albums for Bob Dylan and Talking Heads, respectively.

wow, joseph, glad you are enjoying!

This TH song and Television's Venus are in a similar world for me

I almost forgot, happy Thursday Erica!

David byrne and tom verlaine have a similar cadence

hey race! rock celebrity in da house

check out a great band, pushing tiger lilies for which race is the singer

and much more

Bonjour!

Today's show's sounding real great

Cant go wrong with the brass section

thanks, race:)

Just added pushing tiger lillies to the list, looks fun!

cool! you won't be disappointed

now mr. m is going to cry;)

this GEM! I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭

hhaha

Here Cat!

oh god, waaaaah

how you doing busbob?

Unscheduled day off from behind the wheel. But all is well!

Thanks for asking, hope all is well with you1

WestSiiidddeee!!

Heck Yeeaahh!

Agent Orange!

i think next week def calls for some Zevon

In his autobiography Zappa said he worked each day until he got tired, which lead to his bed time getting pushed back so that his waking hours cycled constantly. He said the worst was when he'd be awake at the same time as his family and have to eat dinner with them.

That sounds about right for zappa

Oh, I love this track. And the entire The Ship album. 💚

yes, christine:)

Thanks for playing it!

hey rob! you, that does sound right re: zappa

btw go watch the sparks brothers, the sparks doc. it is amazing and gets into frank zappa producing halfnelson (the mael brothers first band)

SahWeeeeet!! I luv L.A.❣️ #LostAngels 🖤💀

Oh! I saw it months ago and I remember them talking about Half Nelson, but I don't remember any talk about Zappa? But it was months ago...

BRIAN ENO 💛

Dramatic pause…

Another fun Zappa film ref if you can find it, World's Greatest Sinner, starring directed and produced by weirdo character actor Timothy Carey and scored by Zappa (his first gig). Zappa called it the worst film of all time.

DELTA 5 💟

💜💜💜💜💜 No! MYOB

dance!

Can I interfere in your crisis?!?

wild, rob. i like weird, even terrible films. must check out:)

I love bad movies for lots of reasons, one is that it helps you understand what makes a good movie!

Two words: The Room

Works with music, books, food, etc.

🍦 👅 🚫

yes, race. that is pretty awesome

You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!!

haha yes

but i prob think terrible films are good, even if they are terrible. valley of the dolls 2 case in point

Wasn't there at least one The Room-inspired PRB station ID? That also had R2D2 in it?

I think so

Wasn't Valley of the Dolls 2 written by Roger Ebert?

Let’s hear that station ID next week!

I believe that's its : you're yearing me apart - wprb princeton -

No spoilers!

Also, I dig the hell out of World's Greatest Sinner. It took him like 4 years to produce because it was all his own money and a passion project, even though it's about him getting fired and then running for mayor and trying to dethrone God

@the_dude! 🤣

Speaking of movies like that, are you a fan of philamoca s psychotronic film club DJE?

yes rob!

Adding that one to the list, looks fun, my memory gets fuzzy with film recommendations.. there's some other terrible passion project filmmakers, I have to think harder

dude, i haven't yet! need to be a part of this

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

🧀 = my 🧠

Oh you must join! I've been to a handful, its a lot of fun, and it's triumphant return is this Monday!

Films generally shoot for a ..type..but there's others in the mix too, documentaries etc..I was due to pick mine before philamoca got closed pre pandemic

that is awesome, dude. i will try to get there. love philly! i also love the original hills have eyes

fyi

It's free and first come and probably highly anticipated, so I'm getting there early, that'd be my recommendation

lemme know if you think of them the_dude cause I'm a huge fan too.

I love how horror movies reference other horror movies, I think...hills started it with a Texas chainsaw poster?

you say mondays?

Also, fyi about those psychotronic events, you never know what they're going to play and the one guy years ago played a nazi rape exploitation film and half the audience (including me and my gf at the time) ended up leaving early on

i love Chainsaw

Haha yup, I wasn't at that one but heard about it..

And yeah I'll send it ya dje

whoa. i would have left

It used to be what, bi weekly?

I think it was once a month when it first started. I went to the first one which was a brucesploitation film and then that one and haven't been back since (mostly cause I keep forgetting now)

Yeah I can't say that would have been my choice..

It was on hiatus for a while, if ya see me there with my prb hat feel free to say hi Rob!

haha will do man

And yeah, I dunno what's going on with the Philamoca these days. I know someone in the city keeps trying to shut them down, probably due to some developer

Totally, I think they're targeted, evil neighbors

Now this is a bop

HOT CHIP 🧡💛💚

oh yeah

"Open you minds, your hearts, your souls good people"? lol

andy, was that the lyric in the last song?

No, the music sounded like a faster version of an old Tranquility Bass song with those lyrics.

oh okay

Does the playlist update automatically for most people? It never updates for me without a Chrome Tab Refresh.

Only with a refresh!

yeah joseph... i know what you mean

Gotta refresh it on Firefox too

Glad I'm not the only one I guess.

That’s how it works for all! REFRESH IT FOR UPDATES!

Way back about 15-20 yrs wprb had an auto refresh playlist.

Not that it was better...

The main wprb website home page however should auto update the current song in a little "now playing " inset : wprb.com

yes true, bri

But yeah not as convenient as the full playlist in the spinitron site

Yeah. I thought it was kinda crazy that GBV and Dino Jr are still putting out good music and released an album within a week of each other this year.

they are so cool! gbv. and dino jr. go older folks like me!

this band bronze is amazing, our of sf

*out of

Wait another day or 2... Pollard will release something else! (Ducks head... they just fall from sky...)

DINOSAUR JR ❤️‍🔥

yup

ty segall, too

Ty segall is a beast

totally

uncle Bob Pollard just had a b-day on Halloween o yeah

wow!

he should curb his drinking tho...:)

Yeah! * hiccup °°°°

Yeah he got a late start... that teaching career getting in the way of his music career ha... then that little hiccup where GBV almost didn't get it going

Oh, Brian D has the hiccups too! 😵‍💫

haha

Cheers! 🧉🧉🧉

Bob curb his drinking yeah... it is better than 20 - 30 yrs ago i hear. Have not seen them in a while. In the 2000s Nate Farley Doug Gillard era they had the 2 fisherman sized coolers of beer on stage. Bob usually w a bottle of Jack and or Cuervo too... i think he has slowed down

Can i get personality crisis by the new york dolls?

done, race!:).

Kinks cover!

Damn good cover

The Jam!!!

hi Li!

i love the jam and yes, excellent kinks cover!

isolation drills lp had that song titled "how's my drinking? " ha

Its funny how all the girls try to go out with david watts when clearly he's so gay and fancy free

exactly

that is right, bri haha

Hi Esoterica and all! :D @Race

#LostAngels RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!

#LostAngels recommend band: ❌❣️

Maybd something off of Los Angeles

sorry, race! my music access is acting up!

How about Trash instead? Will that one work?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hi Esotericats!

hey stevie p!

Oh, look who’s here

I'm chataecly challenged again today.

Workin for the man

Kick him in the bits!

Will do booboo

mute button, stevie p, mute button

Eyyyy 🤘

Yeah them snotty boys with lipstick on!

behind the cypherin masheens... and lurnin books...

I'll kick him in the yarbles... If he's got any yarbles!

sorry a truncated version. moving parts breakdown. today!

NEW YORK DOLLS 💟 good pick, Race Taylor! Cheers to DJ Esoterica! Excellent show! Don’t stress!

Fr fr no worries!

aw thanks, mr. m:)

Stevie P, next week… 3 hour lunch!! #LostAngels

I'm hoping I'll be done with this annoying gig next week

I forgot how relaxing being in lockdown was.

aw don't despair, stevie p!

mr. m is correct! #lostangels 3 hours of wessssttttssssiiidde, l.a and surrounding areas musical gms

GEMS

next week

ahhh, add GERMS to the list! #LostAngels!

PAT SMEAR❣️

Descendents

yup! added both

thanks!

Dick dale?

yes! met him, btw

😮 im jealous

Did you ask him about his secret surfing spot?

ha no!

did he have one?

It was (apparently) the talk of the school

i bet! i did meet him surfside at the belly up tavern in Solana Beach near my hometown of San Diego

this wilco cover is great

check out florry on bandcamp - good stuff! https://florry.bandcamp.com/album/big-fall

THE DREAM SYNDICATE‼️ Nice playlist❣️

agreed, tom!

thanks, mr. m!

love how they bluesed it up

I feel like these vocals could almost be from Daniel Johnston.

Ha, I just clicked on the playlist to see if this was Daniel Johnston!

ha, bud!

i agree

here is more on velcro hooks: https://velcrohooks.bandcamp.com/

I think we were both talking about Florry

out of bristol uk, amazing

right! i think so the last song

Yep, Florry definitely sounded like Johnston. Velcro Hooks is excellent!

whoa. VH is bangin!

allergies!

man this show! ha

Lol , not to make fun of you coughing, but a little like a sweat leaf intro going on

Yes, we heard you cough and/or sneeze! Bless you!

Oh no

Glitch Music

D'oh, it's the funk of doom!

Back!

Hooray!

Phew & Whew!

no!

Maybe 3 seconds

just a Quick Pickle

stop while you're ahead, mr. m haha

🤪🤣😆

lol

what is happening! is it april fools

giggles and giggles

Lol, a wild ride today!

Gotta go. Great show, as per usual!

or mischief night

Y2k suddenly catching up 21 years later

Glad to be riding along

byw steviep!

that is it, race!

Cheers, Stevie P!

yes cheers!

thx dude!

Big thanks, DJ Esoterica! 🙏

Paper Tulips next week?

Cheers to all the Dears! Especially those with Big Ears!

Today's show COOKED 🔥 🍲

show rocked as always ! have a great week !

Wait, is it cali bands, or LA bands? And punk bands or any?

thanks! appreciate you all so much:)

cheers dears

DJ Esoterica! Another great show! Glad to catch up on shows on the Mixcloud, thanks! Many thanks for everything! Biggest CHEERS and Kindest Regards to you, Lady!

THE JESUS LIZARD ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Thanks very much, Mr. m:).

oh yeah!

yes dsm! thanks! i will go back into the chat to write all of these down:)

awesome!

Great show and looking forward to next week.

i'm a few minutes late, but i really enjoyed the song from wobbly on my way over! gonna have to check them out later, thanks for the great tunes

The keyboard melody here is so Strangler-esque

Fr fantastic tunes fantastic time

thanks, race, christine, dj milky way, et al and colin!

you are all the best

great show! you never disappoint!

tanks andrew!

haha thanks

good time today Eso!

thanks, sweet leaf cough and all

Answer the_dude, DJ Esoterica!

what?

Wait, is it cali bands, or LA bands? And punk bands or any?

Hahaha. Yes. That’

That!

dude yes l.a. and l.a. surrounding area!

esotericawprb@gmail.com

bye all!