Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat were back again this week, with both new and old favourites... Amongst the Australian selection, we played a track from the re-issue of the Reels classic 1979 album “Quasimodo’s Dream”, some Screaming Tribesmen and a Ray Brown and Moonstone psych gem, plus hometown tracks from Roo Shooter and Isolation Valve. We visited Peter Sellers’ movie The Party via the Wondermints, went to 70’s UK with the Normal, went Scandinavian with Serena Maneesh, revisited a Canadian deejay’s 1965 bogus band doing ‘Like a Dribbling Fram’ and checked out, from the 60’s, the Knack (same label but no relation)... And we finished with ‘DieselWitch Will Kill You’, our new ‘Album of the Month’, by local surf/garage heroes DieselWitch...

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

Serena Maneesh – Selina Melodie Fountain     (Serena Maneesh)

the Fall – Totally Wired     (7”single 1980 UK)

Isolation Valve – Virus Envy     (‘Dear Warren Ellis’ demo 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

the Screaming Tribesmen – Date with a Vampyre     (‘Date with a Vampyre’ 12”EP 1985 Aust.)

the Normal – Warm Leatherette     (7”single 1978 UK)

Devo – Be Stiff     (12” mini-LP, Stiff Records 1978 US/UK)

Roo Shooter – My Pal [God cover]     (People Gather Round for the Sound of Slaughter)

the Barracudas – His Last Summer     (7”single 1980... taken from ‘Drop Out with the Barracudas’ LP 1982 UK)

the Aves – Thick as Thieves     (‘the Aves’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide)

Wild Rocket – Dewey Decimal System     (Salad Days)

Blondie – In the Flesh     (‘Plastic Letters’ LP 1978 USA)

the Reels – Kitchen Man     (‘Quasimodo’s Dream’ LP 1979 Dubbo, Aust.)

Quasi – Poverty Sucks     (When The Going Gets Dark)

Ray Brown and Moonstone – Start of a New Day     (‘Mad House’ LP 1970 Aust.)

Chapta – Journey to the Sun     (7”single 1970 New Zealand – taken from ‘A Day in My Mind’s Mind’ compilation of 60’s NZ psych)

the Third Bardo – 5 Years Ahead of My Time     (7”single 1967 USA)

 the Double Agents – I Want, Need, Love you [Black Diamonds cover]     (‘Wild About You’ comp. 2004 Aust.)

the Race Marbles – Like a Dribbling Fram      (7”single 1965 Canada – taken from ‘Pebbles Vol.3’ comp.)

the Wondermints – The Party [cover of theme song from Peter Sellers’ 1968 film]     (‘Shots In The Dark’ : Henry Mancini tribute compilation 1996 USA)

the Electric Prunes – Hideaway     (‘Underground’ LP 1967 USA)

the Knack – Time Waits for No-one     (7”single 1967 USA)

Kahli Bahlu – How Can I Tell My Guru     (‘Kahli Bahlu Takes the Forest Children On a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance’ LP 1968 USA – taken from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ compilation boxset)

DieselWitch – Jack It All In     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)    #

     #   “Album of the Month”      

Technicolour Dreaming - 30th March 2011

THE CAT AND THE BRAT were joined on this week’s TECHNICOLOUR DREAMING by a guest programmer... LUKE of Adelaide three-piece surf/garage dynamos DIESELWITCH, whose eclectic musical tastes fit right in with our usual mix of psych/surf/punk/pop/electro etc! Plus, of course, our “Monkees’ song of the week” and a track from the March Album of the Month, the Black Angels “Phosphene Dream”...

...so here is the playlist...

Moon Duo – Seer (Mages)

Dr. Timothy Leary – Freakout/ Turn On,Tune In (Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers [comp.])

the Ruby Suns – My 10 years on Auto-pilot (the Ruby Suns)

the Higher State – Clear Motive (Darker By The Day)

DieselWitch – Forbidden Purple City (Surfadelica e.p.)

Link Wray – The Batman Theme (Rumble : the best of Link Wray)

the Dirtbombs – Vixens in Space (Horndog Fest)

Slug Guts – Hookin’ Town (Down on the Meat)

Dick Dale & the DelTones – The Victor (Mr Eliminator)

the Molting Vultures – Caccamawartoo (Get A Grip)

the Frowning Clouds – Snake Charmer (Listen Closelier)

the Black Lips – Bad Kids (Good Bad Not Evil)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer (Live at Merlins’ Music Box)

the Flaming Lips – Bad Days (Clouds Taste Metallic)

Nirvana – Ain’t it a shame (Sliver : the best of Nirvana)

the Pixies – Planet of Sound (1991 CD single)

the Black Angels – River of Blood (Phosphene Dream) #

Mick Harvey – Sad Dark Eyes (Two of Diamonds)

Grandaddy – Miner at the Dial-a-View (Sophtware Slump)

Fluffy – Barbarian (Fluffy Loves You)

Bearded Gypsy Band – Alaskan Whaler (Bearded Gypsy Band)

the Monkees – Tear Drop City (Monkees Music Box) *

# Album of the Month – March

* “Monkees Song of the Week”

Obscured By... March 29, 2011

Peter Brat was the sole ‘dot’ presenting “Obscured by...” this week. As usual, there was a fair smattering of Adelaide and Australian 60’s and 70’s recordings, as well as psych, pop, surf and garage et al. from Indonesia, Japan, Europe, the UK and USA, including a 1971 prog track from Demis Roussos’ band ‘Aphrodite’s Children’, one from Scott Walker’s 2006 album, “the Drift”, on 4AD Records, and Sleater-Kinney (with the B52’s Fred Schneider) doing a cover of the title track from the movie “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.

...and here is the playlist...

Maple Lace – Comes a Time (7”single 1970 Sydney, Aust.)

Nineteen 87 – Engagement Party (7”single 1968 Sydney, Aust.)

Flying Circus – Turn Away (Bonza Beat & Boom Boom Boom, 1971 LP Aust.)

the Zoot – Turn Your Head (Zoot Out, 1970 LP Adelaide, Aust.)

Rashamra – Mr Timekeeper (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Vanda & Young – Superman (demo 1970 Aust.)

the Twilights – Take Action (Once Upon a Twilight, 1967 Adelaide, Aust.) )

Animation Unlimited – Big Bad Woman (1966 Adelaide, Aust : Big Beat Cellar Scene [comp.])

Velvett Fogg – Yellow Cave Woman (1969 UK : Cave of Clear Light [comp.])

David Axelrod – Urizon (Song of Innocence, 1968 US)

the Electric Prunes – I (Underground, 1967 US)

Red Crayola – Hurricane Fighter Plane (1967 Texas, US : Dirty Water-the birth of punk attitude [comp.])

Scott Walker – The Escape (the Drift)

Mick Ronson – Pleasure Man / hey ma get papa (Slaughter on 10^th Ave, 1974 UK)

the She-Creatures – Radar (7”single 2009 UK)

Sleater-Kinney [+ Fred Schnieder] – Angry Inch (Wig In A Box [comp.])

Bill Hicks – The War (Best of Bill Hicks)

Kuni Kawachi & Friends – Kirikyogen (1969 Japan : Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 5 [comp.])

Freedom of Rhapdosia – Freedom (1970 Indonesia : Those Shocking Shaking Days [comp.])

The Fabulous Four – 438 Sth Michigan Ave [RollingStones cover] (1966 Denmark : Essential Pebbles Vol 3 [comp.])

Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen (1971 UK : Mojo- ‘Heavy Mod’ [comp.])

Status Quo – Someone’s Learning (1971 UK : Cave of Clear Light [comp.])

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In the Arena (Volume 2, 1967 US)

the Chocolate Watchband – Living in the Past (1967 US : Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol.2 [comp.])

the Jet Set – Now I Love You (1967 Aust : ‘Datura Dreamtime’- Forest of Goldtops Vol.2 [comp.])

Ulysses – Sometimes (2010 UK : Shindig! It’s Happening Vol.2 [comp.])

Euphoria – Hungry Women (1967 US : with love- a pot of flowers [comp.])