Technicolour Dreaming

So.... have you ever wondered if there’s a process we go through when programming Technicolour Dreaming, to select the tracks we play?  Though it may seem surprising at times, yes there is!! It involves constantly listening to music – new purchases, forgotten gems, suggestions from friends, and whatever the Pod-of-i selects for us when we’re driving. Lists are made and re-made, the bags full of CDs and vinyl are packed and ready to go, then off we set to Three D Radio. But on the way, something strange happens…. the evil Pod-of-i tries to tempt us away from our plans with tasty musical morsels … then a stop at the Post Office heralds the arrival of more music from faraway lands, further derailing our resolve to stick with our list. And upon finally arriving at our destination, a quick scan of the “new releases” section of the 3D library tempts us further, and our steely determination collapses like a stack of 7” singles falling off the shelf! So with best made plans laid to waste, we give in and play whatever takes our fancy, track by track for your listening pleasure…..

..... and here are this week’s selections, with visual accompaniment.....

Roxy Music – If There Is Something      (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

Fourmyula – Nature      (‘Creation’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

the Modern Lovers – Modern World  [alternative version]      (recorded 1972, unreleased – bonus track on re-issue of ‘The Modern Lovers’ 2003 USA)

Pugwash – Waltz #714      (‘Jollity’ 2005 Ireland)

Ride Into The Sun – Too Cold      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 Hove, UK)

Giobia – Fake Smiles on Statues     (‘Come and Get Me’ EP 2010 Italy)

the Story UK – Standing in the Rain      (‘Joy Ride on Memory Lane’ 2011 UK)

 

Crocodiles – Un Chant d’Amour      (‘Crimes of Passion’ 2013 USA)

Rangda – Idol’s Eye      (‘Formerly Extinct’ 2013 USA)

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra      (‘Dark Magick’ LP 2012 Iceland)

the Higher State – Ladder of Death      (‘Darker By The Day’ 2009 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 Wisconsin, USA)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – She Cracked [Jonathon Richman cover]      (7”single b-side [to This Wheel’s On Fire] 1986 UK)

the Hierophants – There’s An Itch      (‘New Centre of the Universe, Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Geelong, Australia)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius cover]      ('Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968' compilation 2013 Australia)

Sagittarius – Hotel Indiscreet      (7”single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Unnatural Axe – They Saved Hitler’s Brain      (7”single 1978 Massachusetts, USA)

Clinic – If You Could Read My Mind      (‘Visitations’ 2007 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

the Raveonettes – Be My Sunshine      (7”single b-side [to Love in a Trashcan] 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Vibravoid – The Politics of Ecstasy      (‘The Politics of Ecstasy’ 2008 Germany)

Crystal Stilts – Dark Eyes      (‘Radiant Door’ EP 2011 USA)

the Strange Flowers – No Love, No Pain, No Fall from Grace      (‘The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys’ 2007 Pisa, Italy)

Johnny Young – Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]      (‘Surprises’ LP 1967 Australia/UK)

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

David McWilliams – The Days Of Pearly Spencer      (7”single 1967 UK)

Peter Murphy – The Final Solution [Pere Ubu cover]      (7”single 1985 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s edition with a tribute to the Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who passed away last week, by playing ‘Crystal Ship’, a classic example of a brilliant single b-side, before moving off on an exploration of location, era and genre under the (often tenuous) shadow of ‘the psychedelic’, with artists as diverse as Psychic Ills, Jacques Dutronc, the Murlocs and the Koobas, plus a great new cover  of Tyrnaround’s classic ‘Colour Your Mind’ by Germany’s Vibravoid. Later in the programme the Cat & the Brat were joined in the studio by Mark from the Arch Menaces, to talk about their album launch this weekend at the Enigma Bar here in Adelaide... during the interview we also discussed all things ‘power-pop’ and a mutual admiration for ‘the Medway Sound’, as well as playing some selections he’d brought in by bands such as the Len Price 3, the Happy Hate Me Nots and an obscure 60’s Australian single by the Familiars extolling the virtues of ‘the hula hoop’... so go see them if you can, it should be a great show!

.....and here is the full playlist plus some moving pictures.....

the Doors – Crystal Ship      (‘The Doors’ LP 1967 USA)

 

Mark Fry – Mandolin Man      (‘Dreaming with Alice’ LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Jacques Dutronc – L’idole      (7”single 1967 France – taken from ‘Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi: Jacques Dutronc 1966-1969’ anthology 2009 France/UK)

 

Deerhunter – Neon Junkyard      (‘Monomania’ 2013 USA)

 

Palms – This Last Year      (cd-single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Vibravoid – Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensi’  2013 Germany/Italy)

 

the Pretty Things – Bracelets of Fingers      (‘S.F.Sorrow’ LP 1968 UK)

Inside Looking Out – Long Live Sivinanda      (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Splashh – Headspins      (‘Comfort’ 2013 Aust./NZ/UK)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out      (‘One Track Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Social Cell      (7”single b-side [to Time Will Come] 1967 Australia)

the Happy Hate Me Nots – You’re an Angel      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

 

the Parasites – When I’m Here With You      (‘Punchlines’ 1994 New Jersey, USA)

 

the Len Price 3 – She’s Not Really There      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2007 UK)

the Familiars – Go-Go Hula-Hoop      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Arch Menaces – Not In My World/the Link      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

 

          Interview with Mark from the Arch Menaces

 

the Lighthouse Keepers – Seven Years      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – 25 O’Clock      (’25 O’Clock’ mini-LP 1985 UK)

Giobia – Jaws      (7” EP 2010 Milan, Italy)

the Arch Menaces – Hearing the Sounds      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Prisoners – Whenever I’m Gone      (‘The Last Fourfathers’ LP 1985 UK)

the Moods – Rum Drunk      (7”single 1966 Melbourne – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers – I’m Your Witchdoctor      (7”single 1965 London, UK)

the Murlocs – Rattle the Chain      (cd-single 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

 

the Rolling Stones – The Last Time      (‘Out Of Our Heads’ LP 1965 London, UK)

the Koobas – Barricades      (‘The Koobas’ LP 1969 UK)

 

Moon Duo – Sleepwalker      (‘Circles’ 2012 San Francisco, USA)