Technicolour Dreaming

There was a definite German flavour to the show this week, with Vibravoid, Klaus Nomi, and Can featuring (lots and lots of Can, certainly more of an airing than ever before, and very likely, ever again!) The latter two bands were choices of fill-in co-host Mike G, who certainly put a different spin on the second half of Technicolour Dreaming! A smattering of local Adelaide bands also featured, with The Dunes, Wild Rocket, Blood Plastic and an old but good one from Nuvo Bloc thrown in for good measure. The rest of the show was the usual mix of old and new from round the world … and following the Australian Playboys’ “Sad” with The Social Outcasts’ “Mad” was totally unintentional!

So here’s the playlist, with clips galore…..

Trappist Afterland - Penitents Rail     (“Like a Beehive, The Hill Was Alive” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)     

The Magnetic Mind - Stay Away from the Door     (“Active Listener Sampler No.8” compilation 2013 London, UK) 

Dark Ocean Colors - When Both Our Worlds Collide     (“Patches and Patterns EP” 2014 USA) 

All Night Radio - Fall Down 7     (“Spirit Stereo Frequency” 2004 USA) 

Rolling Stones - In Another Land     (“Their Satanic Majesties Request” LP 1967 UK) 

Electric Prunes - Vox Wah Wah Pedal commercial     (“Acid Dreams: Epitaph” compilation 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

The Regiment - My Soap Won’t Float     (7” single 1967 USA) 

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 San Francisco, USA)  

The Australian Playboys - Sad     (7” single [b-side to “Black Sheep RIP”] 1967 Australia)

The Social Outcasts - Mad     (7’’ Split single [with Ronnie and the Renegades] 1959 USA)

Vibravoid - Hole in My Shoe [Traffic]     (“The Stepping Stone EP” 7” 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Nuvo Bloc - Equal Education     (Demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia) 

The Dunes - End of the Beginning     (“Live at the Sound Lounge 2015” 2015 Adelaide, Australia) 

Can - One More Night / Vitamin C     (“Ege Banyasi” LP  1972 Germany) 

Clutch - White's Ferry     (“From Beale Street to Oblivion” 2007 Washington DC, USA) 

LoneLady - (I Can See) Landscapes     (“Hinterland” 2015 Manchester UK) 

The Dunes - Door to the Mind     (“Live at the Sound Lounge 2015” 2015 Adelaide, Australia)  

Can - I'm So Green     (“Ege Banyasi” LP  1972 Germany)  

Blood Plastic - King Blood     (“Blood Makes Fantastic Plastic” 2014 Adelaide, Australia) 

Klaus Nomi - I'm Wasting My Time     (“Klaus Nomi” LP 1981 Germany) 

Blood Plastic - Round Around      (“Blood Makes Fantastic Plastic” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)  

Can - Moonshake     (“Future Days” LP 1973 Germany) 

LoneLady - Army     (“Nerve Up”  2010 Manchester UK ) 

Wild Rocket - Year of the Snake     (“Daisy Dream” 2015 Adelaide, Australia) 

Klaus Nomi - The Nomi Song     (“Klaus Nomi” LP 1981 Germany) 

David Bowie - Sweet Thing     (“Diamond Dogs” LP 1974 UK) 

David Bowie - Big Brother     (“Diamond Dogs” LP 1974 UK) 

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man     (“In the Court of the Crimson King (An Observation by King Crimson)” LP 1969 UK)

…and an extra treat - The Rolling Stones, with the instrumental track (take 9) from “In Another Land”, together with some great photos from the “Their Satanic Majesties….” sessions - 

  

Obscured By...

Though this week’s hosts, the Cat & the Brat, are a ‘duo’, this show was mostly about singles... the 7” vinyl kind ... and sometimes, their b-sides! From the Syssys and the Revillos to Psychic TV and Metal Urbain, we voyaged from decade to decade and country to country to bring them to you, even including a b-side featuring ubiquitous 60’s Sydney DJ, Ward ‘Pally’ Austin on the debut single by Python Lee Jackson! Not that we forgot the EP and LP formats either, with rarities from the likes of Frog Hollow and the Urinals to the Cosmic Dead and Apryl Fool... and with our predilection for boxsets, how could we fail to play a selection from “the Lost Tapes” set by Can? All in all, a singular show...

(NB: a couple of videos wouldn't allow embedding, so please use the provided links instead!)

..... and here is the playlist..... 

the Imagination – We Got Fun      (7”single b-side [to A Day in the Life] 1969 Australia)

Frog Hollow – A Slowish One      (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ 7”EP 1972 Aust.)

Alison Gros –Weaver of Life      (7”single b-side [to All the Days] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Syssys – Take a Heart      (7”single b-side [to Jump Back] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Ward Austin (with Python Lee Jackson) – Who Do You Love [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single b-side [to Python Lee Jackson-Emergency Ward] 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow      (‘The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories’ LP 1984 UK)

Psychic TV – Just Drifting      (7”single 1982 UK)

Hurrah! – Sweet Sanity      (7” single 1986 UK)

Skeletal Family – Promised Land      (7”single 1985 West Yorkshire, UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug      (‘Another EP’ EP 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

Sunglasses After Dark – Morbid Silence      (12”single 1984 UK – taken from ‘Sunglasses After Dark’ 2008)

Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective      (7”single 1978 France/UK – taken from ‘Anarchy in Paris’ anthology 2004)

Can – Bubble Rap      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset 2012 Germany – disc 1)

Can – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 2)

Can – One More Saturday Night      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 3)

Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland Part 1      (‘Apryl Fool’ LP 1969 Japan)

Pierrot Lumiere – Narciso      (‘Pierrot Lumiere’ LP 1974 Italy)

the Revillos – Scuba Scuba      (7”single 1980 UK)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbe Keke Wo Taoo [Give us a chance]      (rec. 1975 Ghana – taken from ‘Psycho African Beat’ anthology  2010)

the Music Convention – Bellyboard Beat      (‘Children of the Sun’ soundtrack EP 1968 New Zealand)

the Grim Reepers – Two Souls      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1990 Wisconsin, USA)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun      (7”single 1966 UK/USA)

Big Boy Peter – Cold Turkey      (7”single 1968 Norwich, UK)

the Cosmic Dead – White Rabbit      (‘The Cosmic Dead’ LP 2012 Iceland)

Obscured By...

This week on Obscured by... again there was a solo ‘DOT’... this time Peter Brat. I followed our regular policy of rarities and obscurities from around the world in various genres and from varied sources... including a ‘live on TV’ song from Australian 70’s band Kelly, a previously unreleased 1982 Kimberly Rew track with the Waves [later known as Katrina & the Waves], the first ever Rough Trade record [by French electro-punks Metal Urbain, who I was lucky enough to see in London in 1977], the 1978 b-side teaming Eno and UK punks Snatch [Judy Nylon & Patti Palladin] and which also featured Phil Collins on drums, 80’s psych from the United States of Existence, a couple of long tracks from the debut albums by Germany’s Guru Guru and Can, some Australian 60’s grooviness, the song by Luke Haines that ought to have featured in TV show “Spooks”, and much, much more...

...so here is the playlist...

the Vacant Lot – Don’t let me sleep too long [Myddle Class cover]     (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust.)

Marty Rhone – No No No No     (7”single 1967 Aust.)

the Groop – Mandrake Wine     (recorded London 1968, released on flexidisc with ‘The Vault’ magazine 1989)

Dave Miller Set – Let’s Get Together     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Kelly – See My Way [Blodwyn Pig cover]     (‘live’ on ABC-TV “Hit Scene” 1971 Aust.)

The Harts – Little Girl     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Flying Circus – Turn Away     (‘Bonza Beaut & Boom Boom’ LP 1971 Aust.)

Frog Hollow – Slowish One     (‘Over, Under, Sideways, Down’ EP 1972 Aust.)

the Gentlemen – No Chance     (‘Psychedelic Super Pjotr’ compilation of Eastern Bloc psych etc)

Country Joe & the Fish – Section 43     (‘Country Joe & the Fish’ LP 1966 USA)

BabyGrandmothers – Being is more than Life      (‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish hippie and underground music 1967-74’ compilation)

the Firesign Theatre – More Undermutterances     (Best of the Firesign Theatre)

the Byrds – 5D     (‘Fifth Dimension’ LP 1966 USA)

the Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today     (‘Even More Nuggets Vol. 3’ compilation)

Love – You Set The Scene     (‘Forever Changes’ LP 1967 USA)

the Waves – Animal Song     (previously unreleased 1982 recording – bonus track on ‘Bible of Bop’)

the United States of Existence – Love to the 44^th power    (‘Introducing...’ LP 1986 USA)

the Shower Scene from Psycho – She [Monkees’ cover]     (Exploding Hits)

Eno & Snatch – RAF     (7’single b-side 1978 UK)

Metal Urbain – Paris Maquis     (7”single 1977 France/UK [1^st release of ‘Rough Trade Records’])

Cabaret Voltaire – The Set Up     (‘Extended Play’ EP 1978 UK)

Sunglasses After Dark – Swamp Baby     (7”single 1984 UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug     (‘Another E.P.’ 1979 USA)

the Virgin Prunes – Bau Dachong     (7”single 1982 UK)

Guru Guru – Oxymoron     (‘KanGuru’ LP 1972 Germany)

Can – Thief     (‘Delay’ LP 1968 Germany)

Luke Haines – the Spook Manifesto     (The Oliver Twist Manifesto)