Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat rejoiced in a “bad crowd” theme this week, as you’ll notice from songs by bands as diverse as Big Black and the Zachary Thaks... with Adelaide being well represented over the decades by the likes of the Twilights [60’s], Exploding White Mice [80’s] and the Molting Vultures [00’s]. We also featured the new single by the Frowning Clouds from Melbourne, a Simon and Garfunkel cover by the Church, a 2007 track from the Len Price 3 (caught ‘live’ in the UK recently by last week’s co-host Bryan) and an alliterative favourite from the Monkees. We played another track from our current “Album of the Month”, the double CD from Almost Numan which features the Adelaide band doing one CD of  Tubeway Army/Gary Numan/Devo cover-versions [called ‘OFF’] and another of 80’s-inspired originals [called ‘ON’] – great stuff! Plus songs from the Throb, Black Cab, Wire and lots more...

..... so here is the full playlist.....

 Ed Harcourt – Hanging with the wrong crowd     (Here Be Monsters)

the Black Angels – Bad Vibrations     (Phosphene Dream)

the Molting Vultures – Bad Bad Woman     (Drop In and Go)

the Twilights – Bad Boy     (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)

the Zakary Thaks – Bad Girl     (7”single 1966 Texas, USA)

Big Black – Bad Penny     (‘Songs About Fucking’ LP 1987 Chicago, USA)

David Bowie – Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family     (‘Diamond Dogs’ LP 1974)

the Vegetable Garden – Hypnotic Suggestion     (7”single 1968 Perth, Aust.)

the Throb – Black     (7”single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

the Frowning Clouds – Rescue     (CD single 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Atlantics – Lighter Shades of Dark Pt 2     (7”single b-side 1969 Aust.)

Johnny Young – Hold On     (‘Surprises’ LP 1968 Aust/UK)

the Monkees – Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky     (‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd’ LP 1967 USA)

the Monkees – P.O. Box 9847     (‘The Birds, The Bees and the Monkees’ LP 1968 USA)

Black Cab – Rescue     (Call Signs)

the Church – I am a Rock [Simon and Garfunkel cover]     (‘Sing Songs’ EP 1982 Aust.)

the Len Price 3 – Mesmer     (Rentacrowd)

the Yardbirds – Shapes of Things     (7”single 1966 UK)

Nuvo Bloc – I’m a Rock     (demo 1979 Adelaide)

Almost Numan – Me I Disconnect from You [Tubeway Army cover]     (Almost Numan – ‘OFF’)   #

Wire – Outdoor Miner     (7”single 1979 UK)

the Pubert Brown Fridge Occurrence – Sleepy Jan     (A Once and Future Thing)

the Exploding White Mice – Bad Little Woman     (‘A Nest Of Vipers’ LP 1985 Adelaide)

    #  ‘Album of the Month’