Obscured By...

The new collection of "Antipodean" Nuggets CDs is still proving to be very plunderable, and so they began and concluded this week's Obscured By..., hosted by a solo Michael Hunter.  In between was the expected mix of old and new / near and far - and the just a little odd.  For the latter, look no further than Jonathan & Darlene Edwards (the less-talented alter egos of Jo Stafford & Paul Weston) deconstructing I Am Woman.  Some fine Greek pop and a frenzied accordion-led Purple Haze by Svetlyo Zhilev added to the mix, along with a near-half hour long track from the new Neil Young with Crazy Horse CD!  US singer/songwriter/cellist Ben Sollee, who will be a guest on the show in mid-January, showed what he's capable of - and the rest of the musical menu can be savoured below...

The Missing Links – Wild About You     (7”single 1966 Australia – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation CD 2012, Australia)

The Creatures - Ugly Thing  (7”single 1967 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
The Lost Souls - This Life Of Mine  (7”single 1966 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
The In-Sect - Let This Be A Lesson  (7”single 1966 Aust, Adelaide – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
Toni McCann - No  (7”single 1965 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Driftin' Back    (‘Psychedelic Pill’ CD 2012, Canada)

Ben Sollee - Electrified  ('Inclusions' CD 2011, US)

Elena - Poso Thelo  (How I)  (7" single 1972, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip' compilation CD 2011 Spain)
The Daltons - O Trellos (Mad)  (7" single 1972, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')
Elpida - Koita To Fos (Look At The Light)  (7" single 1974, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')

Vassilis Dimitriu- Omologia (Confession)  (7" single b-side 1974, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')
Flied Egg - I'm Gonna See My Baby Tonight  ('Dr Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine' LP 1972, Japan, taken from reissue CD)
Keith Lynn, The SPMs and Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - My Sweet Lord  ('Reggae Tribute To The Beatles' CD 1999, Jamaica)
Svetlyo Zhilev - Purple Haze (provenance unknown, c2008, Bulgaria)

Barat Dangdut - Terpopuler '95 - Hotel California  ('Ola Ole Ole' CD c1995, Indonesia)
Jonathan & Darlene Edwards - I Am Woman  (7'single 1979, US)

Tully - Syndrone  ('Sea Of Joy'  orig 1971, taken from 2012 reissue CD, Australia)
Tiny Tim - The Other Side  ('God Bless Tiny Tim' LP 1968, US)
 
Airlord - Earthborn Pilgrim  ('Clockwork Revenge' LP 1976, NZ/Aust)
Anima - Feel Like A Bone  ('Sturmischer Himmel' LP 1971, taken from reissue CD Germany)
Noosha Fox - Judy Blue  (unreleased track c 2006?, Aust/UK)

Velociraptor - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night  ('Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations Of The First Psychedelic Era' compilation CD 2012, Aust)

Obscured By...

With all three DOTS on board again this week, it was another excursion into the absorbingly odd world of rare, forgotten and overlooked music that we so enjoy sharing with you... music such as an unreleased Gary Young [Daddy Cool et al] track or a bunch of exceedingly obscure 1960’s singles from bands such as Adelaide’s Bentbeaks or the UK’s David McNeil, not to mention the plethora of B-sides (often superior to the A-sides!) from the likes of the Gibsons and Vivien Goldman (the dub version of which we played recently). And let’s not forget the Stranglers’ Swedish language version of “Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)” and other obscure delights from faraway places such as tracks from Hungarian band Omega’s 1968 debut LP, Germany’s Emtidi and Japan’s wittily (?) named Flied Egg. Ah yes, business as usual here in “Obscured by...”–land!

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

the Dark Ages – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]      (7”single b-side [to Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day] 1965 New Zealand)

the Bentbeaks – Raining Sunshine      (7”single b-side [to Caught Red-handed] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

the Executives – Summerhill Road      (7”single 1968 Sydney, Aust.)

Beaut – Goodbye Judy      (7”single 1976 Aust.)

Gary Young & the Rockin’ Emus – Rockabilly Heaven      (recorded, unreleased 1980 Aust.)

Mick Hadley & the Shakers – Rescue Me      (‘That’s Queensland, That’s 4IP’radio station compilation LP 1980 Aust.)

the Gibsons – You Know I Need Your Lovin’      (7”single b-side [to Magic Book] 1967 Aust./UK)

Dave Berry – And I Have Learned to Dream      (7”single b-side [to Forever] 1967 UK)

the Majority – Wait By the Fire      (7”single b-side [to I Hear a Rhapsody] 1967 UK)

David McNeil – Linda      (Belgium-only release 7”single 1968 UK)

Robbie Curtice [with Tom Paine] – Gospel Lane      (demo 1969 UK)

Noosha Fox – Judy Blue      (from unreleased ‘Wartime Spirit’ album 1986 Aust.)

XTC – The Loving      (7”single 1989 UK)

the Stranglers – Sverige      (Sweden-only release 7”single 1978 UK)

the Residents – Sinister Exaggerator      (‘Duck Stab’ LP 1978 USA)

the Lemon Kittens – Shakin’ All Over [Johnny Kidd & the Pirates cover]      (‘Spoonfed & Writhing’ EP 1979 UK) 

Audience – The House on the Hill       (‘The House on the Hill’ LP 1971 UK)

Emtidi –Saat      (‘Saat’ LP 1972 Germany)

Flied Egg – Dr Siegel’s Fried Egg Shooting Machine      (‘Dr Siegel’s Fried Egg Shooting Machine’ LP 1972 Japan)

Linn County – Moon Food      (‘Proud Flesh Soothsayer’ LP 1968 Ohio, USA)

JK & Co – Magical Fingers of Minerva      (‘Suddenly One Summer’ LP 1968 Canada/USA)

Omega [aka Omega Red Star] – Rettenetes      (‘Trombitás Frédi és a rettenetes emberek’ [‘Trumpeter Fredi & the Terrible People’] LP 1968 Hungary)

Ola & the Janglers – What a Way to Die      (7”single 1969 Sweden)

Hobbit – Everything Turning Out Fine       (7”single b-side [to Only Friends] 1972 UK)

Vivien Goldman – Private Armies      (7”single b-side [to Laundrette] 1981 UK)