Technicolour Dreaming

The Scientists are in Adelaide this week so we thought we’d feature one of their classic songs, albeit one originally released as a single b-side, and this kind of set the tone for the rest of the show. Yes there were some recent releases, including songs from Pinkunoizu, the Luck of Eden Hall and Temples and even pre-releases from the Barbarellatones and the Dandelion Seeds, but the bulk of rest were from all over the place, with tracks from artists such as Chad & Jeremy, John Foxx, nick nicely, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, This Mortal Coil and the Frantics, with Mordecai Smyth finishing off on a suitably British psych-pop note.....

..... so here is the playlist, with some visuals to divert.....

Pinkunoizu – Necromancer      (“The Drop” LP 2014 Denmark)

 

nick nicely – 49 Cigars      (7”single b-side [to Hilly Fields (1892)] 1981 UK – taken from “Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Arnold Corns (aka David Bowie) – Hang On To Yourself      (7”single b-side [to Moonage Daydream] 1971 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Westward Leading      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

John Foxx – Endlessly      (7”single 1982 UK)

the Scientists – Swampland      (7”single b-side [to Happy Hour] 1982 Perth, Australia)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Alluda Majaka      (“Oddments” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Herculean      (CD-single 2006 UK)

This Mortal Coil – Strength of Strings [Gene Clark cover]      (“Filigree & Shadow” LP 1986 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In the Arena/Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 USA)

the Frantics – Just For a While      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Relax Your Mind” anthology LP 1994 USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Collapse of Suzy Star      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Dandelion Seeds – Crazy Sun      (“Dandelion Seeds” LP 2014 Iceland)

Chad & Jeremy – Rest In Peace/The Gentle Cold of Dawn      (“Of Cabbages & Kings” LP 1967 UK/USA)

the Amazing – Kirwan Song      (“The Amazing” 2010 Sweden)

Temples – Move With The Season      (“Sun Structures” 2013 UK)

the Sun Blindness – Velvet Apple      (“Far Arden” 2011 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Then the Sausage      (mp3 demo 2014 California, USA)

the Black Hollies – Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat      (7”single b-side [to Benevolent Beacon] 2011 USA)

Mordecai Smyth – I’ve Been So Tired      (“Sticky Tape & Rust” LP 2011 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was the day of “the race that stops Australia”, the Melbourne Cup, but here on 3D Radio, the only Race Horses to be heard were the Welsh band who started the show! Instead, our feature this week was the UK vinyl-only record label Fruits de Mer, which has been one of the foremost exponents of the recent revival of vinyl singles and albums in popular culture, with a brilliant range of beautifully packaged, limited edition, variously coloured vinyl slabs of psychedelia, Krautrock, r&b, progressive and spacerock goodness. From their catalogue, we played tracks of various genres and locales including the Netherlands’ Jack Ellister and Spain’s Stay as well as a new mix of Vibravoid’s swirling cover of Tyrnaround’s ‘Colour Your Mind’, the album version of which we played earlier this year – great stuff! Speaking of cover versions, we featured a few this week, including a great version of a Marmalade pop-psych classic by James McKeown, Crystal Jacqueline’s lovely take on a Second Hand song and Ty Segall’s new vehicle Fuzz doing King Crimson’s “21^st Century Schizoid Man” on the b-side of their new single. Of course we also played  some more tracks from the “Wizzz! psychorama francais - Vol.1” compilation LP, a new track from Dark Ocean Colors, a suite from Chad & Jeremy’s 1968 psych pop LP masterpiece “The Ark”, a new demo from the Barbarellatones in which they channel Andy’n’Edie..... and lots more.....

..... so here is the playlist plus instructive visuals.....

Race Horses – Cake      (“Goodbye Falkenburg” 2010 Wales, UK)

Vibravoid – Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround cover]      (7”single 2013 Germany)

Morgan Delt – Barbarian Kings      (7”single 2013 USA)

Lightships – Sweetness In Her Spark      (“Electric Cables” 2013 UK)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga      (“At Home” LP 1969 Holland)

Jack Ellister – Within You, Without You [Beatles cover]      (“Dawn Dream Club” EP 2013 Netherlands)

James McKeown& the Negative Drivers – See The Rain [Marmalade cover]      (“Happy Record Store Day : Active Listener compilation” download 2013 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – A Fairy Tale [Second Hand cover]      (“A Fairy Tale” EP 2013 UK)

the Cleves – You & Me      (7”single 1970 New Zealand/Australia)

Chrysalis – Dr Root’s Garden      (“Definition” LP 1968 USA)

Fuschia – Girl from Kandahar      (mp3 2013 UK)

White Sails – The Answer      (“Laguna Sunrise” EP 2013 USA/Finland)

Fuzz – 21^st Century Schizoid Man [King Crimson cover]      (7”single b-side [to Sunderberry Dream] 2013 California, USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – When Both Our Worlds Collide      (“Close Enough to See” 2013 USA)

Devonian Gardens – Swallow the Sun      (“Solar Shifting” 2013 Calvary, Canada)

Chad & Jeremy – The Emancipation of Mr X / Sunstroke / The Ark      (“The Ark” LP 1968 UK)

Vintage Cucumber – Mondsucht      (“MC Goyl Style” 2012 Germany)

the Deep – Psychedelic Moon      (“Psychedelic Moods” LP 1966 USA)

101 Strings – Whiplash      (“Astro-Sounds From Before the Year 2000” LP 1967 USA)

It’s All Meat – Make Some Use Of Your Friends      (“It’s All Meat” LP 1970 Canada)

Stéphane Varègues – Le Pape Du Pop      (“Le Pape Du Pop” EP 1967 France – taken from “Wizzz: Psychorama Français 66-71” compilation LP 2001 France)

Messieurs Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta – Psychose      (“Messieurs Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta” EP 1967 France)

the Barbarellatones – Run, Rabbit, Run      (mp3 demo 2013 USA)

Stay – If I Needed Someone [Beatles cover]      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

Lumerians – Koman Tong      (“The High Frontier” 2013 California, USA)

Obscured By...

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Sadly, we again paid tribute to another late, great Australian musician.... this week it was Mick Hadley [1942-2012], vocalist with the Purple Hearts et al ... but even though the ranks of those that made all those brilliant records grow ever thinner, the music remains undimmed!  ‘Early in the Morning’, and Ray Brown’s ‘That’s Evil’ for example, still have the power to inspire, as numerous younger bands continue to testify, and in their turn inspire the next wave and so on, and thus why we include current bands such as Psychic Ills in our search for the path less trodden here on ‘Obscured by...’ – this week with just two dots to do the exploring! And it was not merely 60’s music we found, but a bunch of Los Angeles punkers such as X and the Zeros, some Krautrock from Sergius Golowin plus UK neo-psych trailblazers Echo & the Bunnymen and electronic post-punk pioneers the Human League... all in all, just another day in the [obscured] office.....

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

Normie Rowe – I Just Don’t Understand      (‘It Ain’t Necessarily So, But It Is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)

the D-Coys – You’re Against      (7”single b-side [to Bad Times] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Procession – Up, Up & Away [Jimmy Webb cover]/Happy Times     (unreleased – performed on ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – That’s Evil      (‘Heading for the Top’ LP 1965 Aust.)

the Purple Hearts – Early in the Morning      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Purple Hearts – Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Walker Brothers – Archangel      (7”single b-side [to Deadlier Than The Male] 1966 UK)

Sparks – Ugly Guys with Beautiful Girls      (‘Lil’ Beethoven’ 2002 UK)

Lou Reed & John Cale – Trouble With Classicists      (‘Songs for Drella – a fiction’ LP 1990 USA)

the Electric Prunes – Sanctus      (‘Mass in F minor’ LP 1968 USA)

Echo & the Bunnymen – My Kingdom      (‘Ocean rain’ LP 1984 UK)

Julian Cope – Head Hang Low      (BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ 1983 – taken from ‘Floored Genius 2’ compilation 1993 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Come In, You’ll Get Pneumonia [Easybeats cover]      (‘Album No. 1’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)

the State of Mickey & Tommy – I know what I would do      (7”single b-side [to With Love From One To Five] 1967 France/UK)

the Elastic Band – Juice      (‘Expansion of Life’ LP 1970 UK)

 – unknown – #5 mystery track [+ Radio England promo]     (on disc 5 of ‘Circus Days: Pop-Psych Obscurities 1966-1972’ compilation boxset 2010 UK)

Chad & Jeremy – Sunstroke      (‘The Ark’ LP 1968 UK/USA)

Watermelon [aka the Lemon Drops] – Popsicle Girl      (rec. December 1968 – taken from ‘From the Lemon Drops to the Vibrations of Sequence in Order’ anthology 1996 USA)

Mother’s Love – Saint Without Glory       (‘Take One’ LP 1968 Holland)

the Human League – You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling [Righteous Brothers cover]      (‘Reproduction’ LP 1979 UK)

Psychic Ills – The Way Of       (‘Mirror Eye’ 2009 New York, USA)

Sergius Golowin – Die Wiesse Alm      (‘Lord Krishna von Goloka’ LP 1973 Germany)

Hoochudahn – Reefer Madness     (‘Esoteric Release 1978-1981’ LP 1981 Aust. – taken from CD re-issue 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

X – We’re Desperate      (7”single b-side [ to Adult Books] 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

the Cortinas – Fascist Dictator      (7”single 1977 Bristol, UK)

the Quick – Pretty Please      (from maxi-single ‘In Tune With Our Times’ [fanclub issue] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)

Johnny Moped – Incendiary Device      (7”single b-side [to No One]1977 London, UK)

the Zeros – Don’t Push me Around      (7”single b-side [to Wimp] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)

the Other Ends – Without You      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Oz Beat Frenzy’ compilation 2009 Aust.)