Technicolour Dreaming

The first few songs played this week showed the way for the following two hours – a mix featuring a fair smattering of 80’s oddities and faves such as the Leopards and the Prisoners, some 60’s goodness from, for example, Australia’s Oak Apple Day and the Looking Glasses, seasoned with a plethora of recent tunes from the likes of Switzerland’s Balduin, Wheat Fields, Sky Picnic and the Red Plastic Buddha to name but a few. Then there was our “Band of the Week” ... the Hollies are too often dismissed as an “oldies radio staple” while the duration, variety and sheer brilliance of their 60’s output is ignored... along with the Beach Boys they were THE supreme harmonisers and, like the Beatles, seemed able to keep effortlessly throwing out pop masterpieces - so yes, we salute the Hollies! So, until next week, let’s all ponder the Vanilla Fudge’s timeless query – “Where Is My Mind?”......

..... here is the playlist, with a few diverting images while you ponder.....

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than the Sun      (“Beyond These Things” 2013 Finland)

the Leopards – Psychedelic Boy      (“Magic Still Exists” LP 1987 USA)

Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly Pair – Moonshot      (7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)

Red Plastic Buddha – She’s an Alien      (“Songs For Mara” 2014 Chicago, USA)

Ultravox! – Hiroshima Mon Amour      (“Ha! Ha ! Ha !” LP 1977 UK)

the Church – Silver Machine [Hawkwind cover]      (“Box of Birds” 1999 Australia)

 

the Luck of Eden Hall – Sassafras Overcoat      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Sunchymes – S S Serene      (“Let Your Free Flag Fly” 2012 UK)

the Greek Theatre – Frozen Highway      (“Lost Out At Sea” 2013 Sweden)

the Looking Glasses – Visions      (7”single 1967 USA)

Elephant Stone – Into The Great Wide Open [Tom Petty cover]      (“Acid Killed My Rock’n’Roll” anthology 2013 Canada/USA)

Wheat Fields – Saturnalia      (“Saturnalia” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Brother Sister      (“The Bethesda” EP 2004 Wales, UK)

***    BAND OF THE WEEK    –   the Hollies    ***

the Hollies – Leave Me      (“Evolution” LP 1967 UK)

the Hollies – King Midas In Reverse      (7”single 1967 UK)

the Hollies – Dear Eloise      (“Butterfly” LP 1967 UK)

Balduin – Everything      (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

 

the Unknowns – Not My Memory      (“Dream Sequence” LP 1981 Los Angeles, USA)

the Prisoners – Far Away       (“thewisermiserdemelza” LP 1983 Medway, UK)

Chapter V1 – Fear      (7”single 1968 USA)

the Dentists – Strawberries are Growing in my Garden [and it’s Winter-time]      (7”single 1985 UK)

Quilt – Cowboys in the Void      (“Quilt” 2012 USA)

Sky Picnic – Where the Memories Stirred [Lady Juniper]      (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” LP 2014 USA)

the Fast Camels – Ken’s Sad Vice      (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

   

  

the Vanilla Fudge – Where Is My Mind      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Vanilla Fudge: the Complete ATCO Singles” anthology 2014 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Once again this week the Cat and the Brat played a diverse set, ranging from the modern psych of America’s Andrew Douglas Rothbard, Sweden’s Dungen and Italy’s the Selfish Cales, to the 6o’s UK freakbeat of the Eyes and an early Frank Zappa cover by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band..... from some iconic Roxy Music to a Mexican revolutionary anthem by Adelaide’s Van Cleef, from an ode to the discotheque by Adelaide’s Mynd Gardeners to Mick Ronson’s brilliant ‘Only After Dark’, and from the Demon Parade to the Church to Ride Into The Sun to God! Ain’t that rock’n’roll religion?! And we ended the show with the surf’n’sleaze of the Barbarellatones, our current “Band Of The Month”, giving their unique spin to a Jan & Dean classic.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Dungen – Du e för fin för mig      (‘Ta Det Lugnt’ 2004 Sweden)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Indigo     (‘Abandoned Meander’ 2006 USA)

the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature     (7”single 1967 USA)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Help, I’m a Rock [Frank Zappa cover]     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Eyes – When the Night Falls     (7”single 1965 UK)

the Beatles – Tell me what you see     (‘Help!’ LP 1965 UK)

the Church – When you were mine     (‘The Blurred Crusade’ LP 1982 Australia)

 

Pel Mel – No Word From China     (7”single 1981 Aust.)

the Mynd Gardeners – Discotheque     (‘Tales from the Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2009 Aust.)

Van Cleef – Zapatistas!     (‘Zapatistas!!’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Secret Machines – Atomic Heels     (‘Secret Machines’ 2008 USA)

the Demon Parade – All the cool kids     (CD-single 2011 Aust.)

  

the Selfish Cales – Psychedelic Eyes     (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)

the Moffs – Another Day in the Sun     (7”single 1985 Aust.)

God – My Pal     (7”single 1988 Aust.)

Ride Into The Sun – Enemy     (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’  2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Mick Ronson – Only After Dark     (‘Slaughter on 10^th Avenue’ LP 1973 UK)

Roxy Music – Ladytron     (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]     (‘Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2009 USA)    #  

       #  “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

Peter Brat and Michael Hunter were briefly joined by third ‘DOT’, Megan Cat, via a phone link for one of the airbreaks, so technically there were three presenters on today’s show... and we were glad of her imput when she gave us a brief rundown on early 80’s Adelaide band the Metronomes, pointing out that local legend, Ash Wednesday, had played on the single we had picked from the 3D library as part of our ‘M’ bracket, today’s ‘Letter of the Week’. Apart from all that, we played the usual variety of obscurities and rarities from Australia and around the world, featuring a bunch of singles from 60’s Holland by bands such as the Phantoms, one from an album by Guatemalan band Electronicos La Fuente released in 1969, and a 1981 demo from Bauhaus. We also played music from the “Paisley Underground” scene of early 80’s L.A. which revolved around bands such as the Salvation Army (later renamed the 3 O’Clock) and the Bangs (who of course evolved into the Bangles), and we added one of Australia’s equivalents, the Church. Throw in some Manson Family and Graham Bond for Halloween, plus some Taman Shud and lots more, and you have another “Obscured by...”

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

Red Onion Jazz Band – My baby     (‘Red Onion Jazz Band’ LP 1964 Melbourne, Australia)

Autumn – Goblin’s Gamble     (7”single 1971 Sydney, Aust.)

Alison Gros – If I ask you     (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Taman Shud – They’ll take you down on the lot     (‘Goolutionites and the Real People’ LP 1970 Aust)

Young Modern – She’s got the money     (‘Live at the Grace Emily Hotel’ CD 2011 Adelaide)

Blue Bird – Goin’ Down     (7”single b-side 1971 USA)

Paper Blitz Tissue – Grey Man       (7”single b-side 1967 UK)

the Sorrows – Same Old Road        (7”single 1969 UK)

Revelation – Cotton Candy Weekend     (7”single 1968 USA)

the What’s New – Up So High     (‘Up So High’ EP 1967 USA)

Harper and Rowe – Love Machine     (7”single 1968 USA)

Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust [rough demo version]     (‘Mask’ Omnibus Edition boxset – originally recorded 1981 UK)

the Manson Family – Get On Home     (‘The Manson Family sings the songs of Charlie Manson’ 1970 USA)

Graham Bond – Abracadabra: the Word of the Aeon     (‘Holy Magick, We Put Our Magick On You’ LP 1971 UK)

the Beach Boys – Heroes and Villains [alt. version]     (recorded 1967 but unissued – played from ‘L.A. Nuggets: 1965-68’ boxset comp.)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Pale and Precious     (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)

Electronicos La Fuente – La Mosca     (‘Electronicos La Fuente’ LP 1969 Guatemala)

the Sevens – Run Me Down     (7”single 1966 Switzerland)

Rob Hoeke – When People Talk     (7”single 1965 Holland)

Fun Of It – Drollery     (7”single 1966 Holland)

the Phantoms – Someday I’m Somebody     (7”single 1965 Holland)

the Mo – Nancy     (‘Mo’ LP 1980 Holland)   #

Machinations – Hit by a missile     (7”single b-side 1988 Australia)  #

the Metronomes – Closed Circuit     (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)  #

Masongreystrange – Untitled#2 with Clarinet     (‘Interstate’ CD 2000 Adelaide)  #

the 3 O’Clock – With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend     (‘Baroque Hoedown’ EP 1982 Los Angeles, USA)

the Salvation Army – She Turns to Flowers     (‘Salvation Army’ LP 1982 L.A.)

the Bangs – Getting Out of Hand     (7”single 1981 L.A.)

the Church – Is This Where You Live     (7”single 1981 Australia)

     #  ‘Letter of the Week’  chosen randomly from the various CD/vinyl sections of the 3D library