Technicolour Dreaming

As you can see from the playlist below, I have finally received my copy of the "Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 2" compilation. Most of the bands are so unknown and obscure that I couldn't find any clips for the songs I played, but there's some great music on this comp, so if you want to get a copy, you'd better get your skates on, as there's under 50 copies left. I've included the quite frankly, strange and bizarre, but entertaining promo videos for this release below. And speaking of strange, I had to include the extremely groovy Brigitte Bardot clip for "Contact", which pretty unusual, even by 1967 standards. Enjoy!

The Seeds - 900 Million People Daily (All Making Love)  (7" single [b-side to "Satisfy You" 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Rolling Stones - Dandelion  (7" single 1967 UK)

The Stonefish - Boobalooba Beach  ("From 20,000 Fathoms" 12" EP 1986 Perth, Australia)

Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations  (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

James Taylor Move - And I Hear the Fire Sing  (7" single [b-side to "Magic Eyes"] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

The Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens  (7" single 1969 Perth, Australia)

DeWolff - Wicked Moon  ("Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants" 2009 Netherlands)

The Paisleytones - Devil Stole my Surfboard  ("Happening" 2006 Adelaide, Australia)

The Revillos - Scuba Boy Bop  ("Rev Up!" LP 1980 Edinburgh, UK)

The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2  ("Phosphene Dream" 2009 USA)

Brigitte Bardot - Contact  (7" single [b-side to "Harley Davidson"] 1967 France)

Bonniwell Music Machine - Astrologically Incompatible  ("The Bonniwell Music Machine" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

The Love Explosion - Black Pollen  ("Mood Processors" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Shinkiro - Formula For Eternal Life  ("Ceremonial Ride" Barcelona, Spain 2015)

The Coathangers - Sex Beat [Gun Club]  (digital single 2015 Atlanta, Georgia USA)

The Underground Youth - The Girl Behind  ("Haunted" 2015 UK)

Lenguas Largas - Si Es Sierto  ("The Rest of the Enchilada" 2016 Tucson, Arizona, USA)

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head (7"single 2010 UK)

Cheval Sombre - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles]  (7" split single [with Füxa] 2013 New York, USA)

Algae and Tentacles - Little Bodies  ("TOPAZ Dune Drift 1" compilation 2013 Arizona, USA)

Ohioan - No Favourites  ("TOPAZ Dune Drift 1" Arizona, USA)

Mohair Sweets - Green Light  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Canada)
Death By Raygun - Danny  ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)

Big Safari - New Felt Hat  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Liverpool/Sydney)

King Claw - Save Your Mind  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Nottingham)

Summer Flake - Make Your Way Back To Me  ("Hello Friends" 2016 Adelaide/Melbourne, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Frieda  ("Cosmos Terros" 2016 Perth, Australia)

Pond - Greens Pool  (7" single 2010 Perth, Australia)

Otherly Love - Aroma  (" 5+5=X " 2012 Tucson, Arizona USA)

A MARC Train Home - Taste The Floor [Jesus and Mary Chain]  ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015, Washington DC, USA)

MIMICO - The Serpent  ("MIMICO" 2013 Toronto, Canada)

The Six Ten - The Night  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Nottingham, UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

As always, the music this week ranged far & wide.... through tracks by the likes of Billy Nicholls and ? and the Mysterians from five decades ago, via Truth [a late incarnation of Them], Roxy Music, Dog Age and Galaxie 500 in the succeeding years, to the latest releases of Doug Tuttle and the Citradels, and scattered across both hemispheres, from the northern climes of Iceland, the abode of the Dandelion Seeds, to the southern reaches of Tasmania, from whence come the Green Mist. Whenever or wherever, we hope you enjoyed the ride.....

..... so here is the playlist, with the occasional visual accompaniment .....

Dog Age – Here Comes the Summer      (“Good Day” LP 1989 Norway)

Truth – Archimedes’ Pad      (recorded 1971 USA/UK – taken from “Of Them & Other Takes” anthology 2008 USA)

Brigitte Bardot – Contact      (7”single b-side [to Harley-Davidson] 1968 France]

Wooden Shjips – Contact [Brigitte Bardot cover]      (12”single 2009 San Francisco, USA)

Galaxie 500 – Submission [Sex Pistols cover]      (recorded live on BBC Peel Session 1990 UK – taken from bonus disc of “On Fire” reissue 2010 USA)

Doug Tuttle – Forget the Days      (“Doug Tuttle” 2014 USA)

the Daylight Braves – The Absent Ground      (“Liquid Sun” EP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

? and the Mysterians – 96 Tears      (7”single 1966 USA)

the Green Mist – The Rumbler      (“Next Stop Antarctica” LP 2007 Tasmania, Australia)

the Movements – Deserted Town      (10”split-EP [with Angry Dead Pirates] 2012 Sweden]

the Horrors – I Can See Through You      (“Skying”2011 UK)

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

the Citradels – Dervish      (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Black Coral – Swollen      (demo EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dunes – A Thousand Crimes      (“La Musique Nouveau” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Dead Blues      (”TheWindmill of the Autumn Sky” EP 2013 USA)

the Coral – 1000 Years      (“Butterfly House” 2010 Scotland, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Mountain Delight      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Billy Nicholls – Daylight Girl      (“Would You Believe” LP 1968 London, UK)

the Apricot – Mind Your Head      (“A Forestful of Threes” 2011 Norway)

the Dandelion Seeds – Al Azif      (“The Dandelion Seeds” 2014 Iceland)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out       (“One Track Mind” 2012 USA)

the Avengers – Midnight Visitations       (“Medallion” LP 1968 New Zealand)

Dean & Britta – Silver Factory Theme      (“13 Most Beautiful :Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” 2010 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Writing an introduction to our radio show’s playlist each week always provides a challenge to say something new and different... unlike the show itself, where we always have too much, rather than too little, intriguing music to share. This week we had new releases from the Black Hollies, the Night Beats, Mmoss and Life Coach to plunder, as well as some more French 60’s psych pop, including a track from a vinyl anthology LP collecting the EPs and singles of Evariste, often called “the French Kim Fowley”, more of which you’ll doubtless hear in the coming weeks. There was an Australian contingent led by Toyland, the Molting Vultures and the Easybeats, the original Marmalade version of a song we’ve been playing covers of over the past few shows, songs from long-time faves such as the Fast Camels, the Hoa Hoa’s, Joy Zipper and many more, before finishing with a double whammy of prime psychedelia from Sky Picnic and the Red Plastic Buddha. Yet our box of CDs and vinyl was still full of unplayed goodies, and so it goes every week – so much music, so little time! Therefore..... until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with associated visuals.....

the Night Beats – The New World      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 USA)

the Janitors – Do It Again      (“Drone Head” 2013 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane      (“Drop In & Go” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Marmalade – I See The Rain      (7”single 1967 UK)
 

the Easybeats – Peculiar Hole In The Sky      (7”single 1969 Australia)

the Saffron Sect – Pinch of Chalk      (“Optical Sounds – Pop Psych from Toronto” compilation 2012 Canada)

the Fast Camels – Big Daddy Smyth      (“The Magic Optician” 2010 Scotland, UK)

the Hoa Hoa’s – Falling in Love is for Young People      (“the Hoa Hoa’s” EP 2011 Canada)

Stay – Guess I Was Dreaming [the Fairytale cover]      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

TV Ghost – Siren       (“Disconnect” 2013 Indiana, USA)

the Jesus Loves Heroin Band – Be Mine      (“Revenge” 2011 Sheffield, UK)

Los Tentakills – A Many Times More      (7”single 2012 Scotland, UK)

Toyland – Ships & Boats      (“Toyland” EP 1983 Adelaide, Australia)

Life Coach – Limitless Opportunities      (“Alphawaves” 2013 USA)

Evariste – Wo I Nee      (“Wo I Nee” EP 1967 France – taken from “Do You Know The Beast?” anthology LP 2011 France)

Philippe Nicaud – Bonne Nuit Chuck      (“Erotico... Nicaud” LP 1970 France)

Stone – L'Antiquité     (“Baby Stone” EP 1967 France)

Brigitte Bardot – Contact      (“Brigitte Bardot Show” LP 1968 France)

the Topsy Turbys – Snake Woman      (7”single b-side [to Hey Tiger] 1965 USA)

the Black Hollies – No Illusion      (“Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere” LP 2013 USA)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – Ain’t It Strange      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Chocolate Watchband – I’m Not Like Everybody Else [Ray Davies cover]      (“The Inner Mystique” LP 1967 USA)

Mmoss – Spoiled Sun      (“Only Children” 2013 USA)

Joy Zipper – Go Tell The World      (“The Heartlight Set” 2005 USA)

Sky Picnic – Translucent Lucy      (“Paint Me a Dream” LP 2012 USA)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Waves      (“All Out Revolution” 2011 Chicago, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

With another bunch of CDs and vinyl appearing in our post-box, we were again spoiled with choice this week, playing amongst others, a track each from the new Carlton Melton and Magic Cat albums, a song from ex-Dolly Rocker Movement frontman Daniel Poulter’s new project, the Dandelion, as well as the A-side of Jacco Gardner’s latest single. We also finally received the long-awaited “Wizzz! Volume 1” compilation LP of French 60’s psychedelia which inspired a set of French grooviness from artists such as Les Papyvores, Jacques Dutronc and the inimitable Brigitte Bardot. However, a large hunk of the show was dedicated to the late Lou Reed – we featured songs from his Velvet Underground and solo periods plus a track from his widow, Laurie Anderson, and have included in the ‘moving pictures’ section of this blog, an hilarious TV interview in Sydney at the start of his 1974 tour here – I was fortunate enough to see him in Adelaide where he mixed with some of us in the bar during his support act, AC/DC – a memorable show!

..... and here is the playlist plus the aforementioned clips.....

Carlton Melton – Slow Wake      (“Always Even” 2013 California, USA)

the Walking Who – Have You Seen The Colours?      (“Mansions” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

the Towelheads – Hijacked      (“New Centre of the Universe, Vol.2” compilation 2013 Australia)

Race Horses – See No Green      (“Furniture” 2012 Cardiff, UK)

the Magic Cat – She’s Like Danger      (“For Friends Only” LP 2013 Rome, Italy)

the Smoking Trees – Entrance      (“Acetates” 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Jacco Gardner – The End of August       (7”single 2013 Netherlands)

Lou Reed / John Cale – Hello, It’s Me      (“Songs for Drella” LP 1990 USA)

the Velvet Underground – I’m Beginning to See the Light      (“The Velvet Underground” LP 1969 New York, USA)

the Velvet Underground & Nico – All Tomorrow’s Parties      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP 1967 USA)

the Velvet Underground – Sister Ray      (“White Light/White Heat” LP 1968 USA)

Lou Reed – How Do You Think It Feels?      (“Berlin” LP 1973 New York, USA)

 

Laurie Anderson – Example #22      (“Big Science” LP 1982 USA)

We The People – In The Past      (7”single 1966 Florida, USA)

Blues Section – Hey Hey Hey      (7”single 1967 Helsinki, Finland)

the Scantharies – Feat of Flame      (“The Scantharies” 2013 Greece)

the Stained Glass – My Buddy Sin      (7”single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Tuneful Trolley – Hello Love      (“Island in the Sky” LP 1969 Long Island, New York, USA)

Country Weather – Fly to New York      (recorded 1969 San Francisco, unreleased – taken from “Country Weather” double-LP 2005 USA)

the Dandelion – Pleiadian Love Vibrations      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Brigitte Bardot – Comic Book      (“Bonnie & Clyde” EP 1968 France)

Christine Pilzer – Champs Elysées      (“Café Crême” EP 1967 France)

Jacques Dutronc – Hippie Hippie Hourrah      (“Jacques Dutronc” LP 1967 France)

William Sheller – Excitissimo      (“Erotissimo” soundtrack EP 1969 France)

Les Papyvores – Le Papyvore      (“Le Papyvore” EP 1967 France)

Les Copains – Give Your Love To Me [Come On]     (7”single 1966 Germany)

Lou Reed – Goodnight Ladies      (“Transformer” LP 1972 New York, USA)

 

      R.I.P.   Lou Reed   1942 – 2013