Obscured by...

Beginning our regular opening set of Australian recordings from the 60’s/70’s with an obscure 7” single by the Limit, which seems to have been released twice by the Australasian arm of RCA Records, firstly in 1968 and then again in 1969, yet sadly failing to bother the ‘hit parade’ on either occasion despite its quality, we moved through some equally fine songs by bands such as the Throb, MPD Ltd and Adelaide’s the Hergs plus a single by the short-lived ‘power trio’ Bulldog, which featured members of Procession, the Purple Hearts and the Bay City Union. While keeping a general psych/garage focus, we then ventured further out in time and place to the 80’s and beyond, with the likes of the Wylde Mammoths from Sweden, Magic Lantern [ a Sun Araw-related project] from the USA, Italy’s Head & the Hares, the Pandoras from California and Something Really Beautiful, whose fine song we discovered on a sampler LP from UK label Creation Records and who apparently released only one single before disappearing ... but at least they left us this great slice of neo-psychedelia. Also featured were tracks from recent reissues of albums by Comus, the Druids of Stonehenge and Paul Revere & the Raiders as well as a track from Hapshash & the Coloured Coat’s sole album, produced by member Guy Stevens, plus another spin of the sitar headswirler by Kali Bahlu by [rare] request. All pretty rare, semi-forgotten yet worthy stuff...just your usual “obscured by...”, presented for your listening pleasure this week by the Cat and the Brat!

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

the Limit – Happy Life       (7”single 1968/1969 Adelaide, Australia)

MPD Ltd – No Regrets     (7”single 1965 Melbourne, Aust.)

Marcie Jones – That Hurts     (7”single b-side 1966 Aust.)

the Throb – Turn My Head     (7”single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

the Iguana – Good News     (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Bulldog – Innerspring     (7”single 1970 Aust. – played from “Fable label: Collector’s Items” compilation LP 1972)

Musick Express – Jackie’s Thing     (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Style of Love     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Cornflake Zoo – Rainy Day     (“End of the beginning” EP 1986 Sweden)

the Pandoras – Haunted Beach Party     (“It’s About Time” LP 1984 USA)

Head & the Hares – Why must you fade away?     (“Autumn Songbook” 1998 Italy)

the Hidden Masters – Into the Night Sky     (“It’s Happening, vol.1” compilation 2010 UK)

No Strange – Sailing Out     (“L’Universo” LP 1987 Italy)

the Fuzztones – I Gotta Way With Girls [Lavender Hour cover]     (“Greg Shaw: He Put the Bomp! in the Bomp” compilation 2007 USA)

the Wylde Mammoths – Gone Away     (“Go Baby Go!” LP 1987 Sweden)

 Something Really Beautiful – Freak Outburst     (recorded 1988 – taken from “Do you Believe in Love: Creation Records” compilation LP 1990 UK)

Moon Duo – Mazes [Walking Through This Space]     (“Mazes – Remixed” 2011 USA)

Magic Lantern – Moon Lagoon Platoon      (“Platoon“ 2009 USA)

David Sylvian – The Healing Place     (“Down To Earth” 1986 UK)

Comus – Winter is the Coloured Bird     (“Diana” EP 1971 UK)

Kali Bahlu – How Can I Tell My Guru?     (“Kali Bahlu takes the Forest Children on a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance” 1968 USA)

Hapshash & the Coloured Coat – Aoum     (“Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids” LP 1967 UK)

the Barracudas – I ain’t no miracle worker [Brogues cover]     (“Mean Time” LP 1983 UK)

John’s Children – Desdemona     (7”single 1967 UK)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – The Great Airplane Strike     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Full Treatment – Just Can’t Wait     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Druids of Stonehenge – Signed D.C. [Love cover]     (“Creation” LP 1968 USA)   

Obscured By...

It was a largely Australian show today, beginning with our regular selection of 60’s and early 70’s sounds by artists as diverse as Barrington Davis, Love Machine and Adelaide’s the Hergs, and including the weird single from an equally weird yet iconic Aussie movie, Stork. Then it was time for some examples of the particularly Antipodean take on post-punk which flourished here after 1977, featuring, amongst others, the Fabulous Marquises, Tactics, the Moodists and Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Then it was overseas to Germany, the USA and even Japan, where we heard a long piece from Terahara Taka’aki, better known as J.A.Caesar, taken from the wonderful ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ series... and not forgetting the UK, which provided a couple of songs from the very cool reissue of the first 3 albums by the Bee Gees, which was our featured boxset. We finished with our “Letter of the Week” segment, diving blindly into the C sections of the 3D library and finding... Colostomy Bag Lady, for instance! Great stuff! All these rarities and forgotten gems presented for you this week by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

White Spirit – Going Away     (‘Scene : ABC-TV’ LP 1970 Tasmania, Australia)

Love Machine – May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone [Toys cover]     (7”single b-side 1969 Aust.)

Hans Poulsen – Stork’s Theme     (7”single from ‘Stork’ soundtrack 1971 Aust.)

the Meating – Back Home     (7”single b-side 1970 Aust.)

18CQ – I’m Gonna Treat You Good     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Frog Hollow – Slowish One     (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ EP 1972 Aust.)

the Hergs – Style of Love     (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Barrington Davis – Raining Teardrops     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Limit – Happy Life     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Jetsonnes – Newspaper     (7” split-single [with International Exiles] 1980 Aust.)

the Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons     (7”single 1980 Melbourne, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind     (“5MMM’s Compilation Album of Adelaide Bands 1980” LP 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Moodists – Six Dead Birds     (‘Double Life’ EP 1985 Aust. – taken from ‘Two Fisted Art’ anthology 2005)

the Sunday Painters – Rebel, Rebel [Bowie cover]     (7”single b-side 1981 Wollongong, Aust.)

the International Exiles – Let’s Be So     (7”split single [with the Jetsonnes] 1980 Aust.)

Ugly, Ugly, Ugly – Pride     (‘Et in Arcadia ego’ EP 1983 Aust.)

Tactics – Watch My Hands     (‘Long Weekend’ EP 1979 Aust.)

Amon Duul ll – Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse     (‘Wolf City’ LP 1972 Germany)

Faust – It’s a rainy day sunshine girl     (‘So Far’ LP 1972 Germany)

J.A. Caesar – A Psychedelic Opera... excerpts     (live 197? Japan - taken from Vol. 9 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset: for more information see  http://jrs.paullee.ru/jrsb2c10.htm )

Black Sabbath – Behind the Wall of Sleep     (‘Black Sabbath’ LP 1970 UK)

            “The Bee Gees : The Studio Albums: 1967–1968” boxset  (2007 UK/Aust.)

 

  the Bee Gees – Mrs Gillespies’ Refridgerator     (unreleased 1968 – bonus track on reissue of ‘Horizontal’ LP 1968)

  the Bee Gees – Craise Finton Kirk, Royal Academy of Arts     (alt. version – bonus track on reissue of ‘Bee Gees 1^st’ LP 1967)

the Smoke – Cowboys and Indians     (7”single 1968 USA)

 Colours – Lovin’      (7”single 1968 USA)     #

Colostomy Bag Lady – diGESTiCiDe     (‘Electro-convulsive Therapy for All’ 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)     #

cooperblack – Spanish Waltz     (‘My Art Is Bleeding’ 2008 Adelaide Aust.)     #

     #  “Letter of the Week”

Technicolour Dreaming

A solo Peter Brat began this first edition of Technicolour Dreaming for 2012 with a rousing rama-lama from the MC5 to set the tone for the rest of the show, and indeed the year! There were tracks from current Australian bands such as the Frowning Clouds, Belles Will Ring and Midnight Woolf, plus locals, the Asteroid Belt, as well as sides by their 60’s predecessors such as Oak Apple Day and Normie Rowe, plus Adelaide groovers, the Masters Apprentices, the Hergs and Glass Web [a member of whom turned up almost a decade later as bassist in the Brats!] From the 60’s we also heard the Dave Clark 5, the Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine and Love, as well as one of my fave singles from the Seeds, plus a bunch of new bands like the Hoa Hoas, Moon Duo and the sublime Espers, before finishing with our latest ‘Band of the Month’, San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees, who will be returning to play here in Adelaide at ‘Jive’ on the 21^st of January as part of their Australian tour... go check ‘em out, ‘cos they are a blindingly good live act! Happy New Year from the Cat and the Brat!

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

the MC5 – Rocket Reducer No.62 [Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa]     (rec. live 1968 – taken from ‘Kris Needs presents: Dirty Water-the birth of punk attitude’ compilation 2010)

Midnight Woolf – My Libido     (‘Tropical Disease’ 2008 Australia)

Molten Universe – The Green Ray     (‘The Green Ray’  2011 Aust.)

the Revillos – Jack the Ripper     (demo – taken from ‘From the Freezer’ anthology 1996 UK)

the Frowning Clouds – Do Like Me     (‘Listen Closlier’ 2011 Aust.)

the Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine – The Girl With the Sandy Blonde Hair     (7”single 1966 USA – taken from ‘Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things, Volume Fore’ compilation 2007)

the Ruby Suns – Kenya Dig It?     (‘Sea Lion’ 2008 New Zealand)

Messer Chups – In 3 Minutes Till Massacre     (‘Crazy Price’ 2003 Russia)

the Asteroid Belt – Slant Six     (‘Blank Horizon’ 2011 Adelaide Aust.)

Moon Duo – In The Sun     (‘Mazes’ 2011 USA)

Oak Apple Day – Oceans of Fire     (7”single 1969 Aust. – taken from ‘Datura Dreamtime: A Forest of Goldtops Vol 2’ compilation 1999 Aust.)

Love – Little Black Book     (‘Love’ LP 1966 USA)

Dave Clarke 5 – Glad All Over     (7”single 1964 UK)

Normie Rowe and the Playboys – Shakin’ All Over     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Ray Brown and the Whispers – Ain’t It Strange     (7”single 1965 Aust.) 

the Hergs – Cadillac    (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – Buried and Dead     (7”single 1967 Adelaide)

Glass Web – In A Year or So     (7” single 1969 Adelaide)

the Fabulous Four – 438 South Michigan Avenue – (7”single 1966 Sweden – taken from ‘Essential Pebbles Vol 3’ compilation 2000)

Espers – The Road of Golden Dust     (‘Espers III’ 2010 UK)

Belles Will Ring – The Green     (‘Crystal Theatre’ 2011 Aust.)

Sunsplit – All I Want     (‘Sing for Sunday’ 2006 – taken from ‘Psychedelica 2” compilation 2007 UK)

the Hoa Hoas – Growing up on the Seeds     (‘Pop/Drone/Pedals’ 2010 UK)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer     (7”single 1967 USA)

 

Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Farmer     (‘Carrion Crawler’ 2011 USA)    #

     #  “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

It was RADIOTHON time here on Adelaide’s 3D Radio this week, so the Cat and the Brat played lots of our (and we hope, your) favourite tracks while dealing with the phonecalls from subscribers-to-be and doing special ‘giveaways’... yes, it was chaotic, but also FUN! And we thank all of you who have subscribed (or intend to subscribe) to this wonderful all-volunteer community radio station to help keep us going to air (and streaming on the ‘net!) for the coming year... our licence is for promoting independent and progressive music from all genres and eras, particularly local and Australian. That’s why you can hear the music we play on our shows... music that is largely ignored by other stations. So whether you live in Adelaide or Albuquerque, Berlin, Athens, Zagreb or wherever... check out our website at www.threedradio.com and subscribe to this great station!

.....anyway, here is this week’s playlist.....

Eddie Current Suppression Ring – Memory Lane     (Primary Colours)

Dieselwitch – Forbidden Purple City     (Surfadelica)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – Ain’t It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Die Dancing Bears – New York Valentine     (7”single 1982 Adelaide, Australia)

the Laurels – Black Cathedral     (Mesazoic)

Love – She Comes In Colours     (‘Da Capo’ LP 1967 US)

James Taylor Move – Magic Eyes     (7”single 1968 Adelaide)

the Velvet Underground – Waiting for the Man     (‘the Velvet Underground & Nico’ LP 1967 US)

the Missing Links – You’re Driving Me Insane     (7”single 1965 Australia)

the Atlantics – Come On     (7”single 1967 Australia – also on their new CD ‘Collectibles’)

Surviving Sharks – Sever     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Psychic Paramount – N5 Coda     (II)

Nothing People – Fatal Planet     (‘Anonymous’ LP 2008 US)

Mondo Phase Band – Chase     (Major Input LIVE! 2011 Adelaide)

Almost Numan – Secret Agent Man [Devo cover]     (Off – Almost Numan)

the Seeds – Evil Hoodoo     (‘Web of Sound’ LP 1966 US – also on ‘Dirty Water 1’ compilation)

the Sensational Alex Harvey Band – the Hot City Symphony: Pt 1 [Vambo]     (‘The Impossible Dream’ LP 1974 UK)

the Mystrys – Witch Girl     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Hergs – Cadillac     (7”single 1967 Adelaide)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Come In You’ll Get Pneumonia [Easybeats cover]     (‘No. 1 Album’ LP 1969 UK/Japan)

 the Monkees – Star Collector [alt. version]     (‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones’ LP 1967 US)

the Monkees – Zilch     (‘Headquarters’ LP 1966 US)

the Sand Pebbles – Blue Eyes in Black and White     (Dark Magic)    #

    #  “Album of the Month”