Obscured By...

So obscure, it was:

a) brand new, only delivered to the station during the show (local band Alpha Beta Fox),

b) an unusual US act who took his lyrics from the Adult Personals section of his local paper (Amil Byleckie),

c) a little-heard B-side (Galadriel, Whistler's Mother, Bill Fay, Sparks etc.),

d) an early recording by a Czech band who were not allowed to record or legally perform during the first 5 years of their existence (Uz Jsme Doma),

e) late 70s UK punk from the Beggars Banquet label (The Doll, The Lurkers, Tubeway Army),

f) hard to find a performance video for!

Altogether, it was this week's Obscured By... with Cat & Brat & Michael Hunter.  As you may have suspected.

 

King Fox – Hourglass      (recorded 1970, released on ’70-2-07: the [un]forgotten album’ 2007 Sydney, Australia)

Human Instinct – Nile Song [Pink Floyd cover]      (live on ‘GTK’ – ABC-TV show 1971 Aust./New Zealand)

Galadriel – Working      (7”single b-side [to Standing in the Rain] 1971 Aust.)

Whistler’s Mother – Mister Big      (7”single b-side [to Steamboat Willie] 1971 Aust.)

Ray Brown & Moonstone – Flight of the Gulls 2      (‘Mad House’ LP 1970 Aust.)

Uz Jsme Doma – Uprostred Slov [in the middle of words]      (‘Uprostred Slov’ LP 1990 Czech Republic)

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO – Loved and Confused      (‘Electric Heavyland’ 2002 Japan)

Tony Burello – There’s a New Sound       (7”single 1953 USA)

Alpha Beta Fox – Pins & Needles      (CD-single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Sparks – Lost & Found      (7”single b-side [to Amateur Hour] 1974 USA)

Eighteenth Day of May – Eighteen Days      (‘Eighteenth Day of May’ 2006 UK)

the 23^rd Turnoff – Michael Angelo      (7”single 1967 Liverpool, UK)

Bill Fay – Screams in the Ears      (7”single b-side [to Some Good Advice] 1967 London, UK)

Amil Byleckie – Mistress Seeks Property      (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)

Amil Byleckie – Watch Me Watch You      (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)

the Doll – Trash      (‘Streets’ compilation LP 1977 UK)

Tubeway Army – That’s Too Bad      (7”single 1978 UK)

the Lurkers – Ain’t Got a Clue      (7”single 1978 UK)

Amil Byleckie – Are You Cruel?       (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)

the Dandy Warhols – Cherry Bomb [Runaways cover]      (‘Take It Or Leave It – A Tribute to the Queens of Noise: The Runaways’ compilation double-LP 2011 USA)

the Otherside – Haunted House       (‘The Otherside’ EP 1985 Utrecht, Holland)

Les Thugs – Femme Fatale      (‘Femme Fatale’ demo 1984 Angers, France – taken from ‘Road Closed: 1983-1999’ anthology 2003 Belgium)

the Surfadelics – Bad Little Girl      (‘Bad Little Girl’ EP 1986 UK)

Les Klepstones – She’ll Always Be Mine [Customs cover]     (recorded 1985 Orleans, France – taken from ‘Battle Of The Garages, Vol. 4: Tomorrow The World!’ compilation LP 1986 USA)

the Zodiac/Cosmic Sounds – Taurus: the Voluptuary      (‘The Zodiac/Cosmic Sounds’ LP 1967 USA)

Zendik – I’m So Tired Again      (‘Hair’ LP 1969 Holland)

Timebox – Gone is the Sad Man      (7”single b-side [to Girl Don't Make Me Wait] 1968 UK)

Obscured By...

The new - a local Adelaide band Tea whose demo was only received a matter of days previously.  The unreleased - a totally improvised song by Broderick Smith & Matt Walker recorded at Semaphore late 2011.  The odd - Yat-Kha's throat singing Love Will Tear Us Apart, and other wild world music versions of well known songs.  The unexpected - a reggae version of My Sweet Lord.  The pretty wonderful - music by US early 70s psych band Mystic Siva and South Korea's "godfather of rock' Shin Joong Hyun.  The Australian rarities - present and correct.  The host - Michael Hunter.  The common thread - Obscured By..., of course!

Inside Looking Out - On Whom Her Favour Falls  (7" single B-side 1969 Aust Adelaide)
Jeff St John & Yama -  Everybody's Gone  (7" single B-side 1967 Aust)
Vince Lovegrove - Livestock   (7" single B-side 1971 Aust Adelaide)
Snakes Alive - Fruit Pie  ('Snakes Alive' LP 1974 Aust)
Sidewinder - Heartaches  ('Sidewinder' EP 1978 Aust)
The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go  (7" single 1968 UK)


 
Pete Dello & Friends - A Good Song  ('Into Your Ears' LP 1971 UK)
Mystic Siva - Find Out Why  ('Mystic Siva' LP 1971  US)


 
Bokaj Retsiem - Something's Wrong With Bokaj  ('Psychedelic Underground' LP 1968 Germany)
T Swift & The Electric Bag -  Expo In Sound  ('Are You Experienced?' LP 1968 US)
Tea - Tea Home For Xmas  ('Tea' demo CD 2012 Aust Adelaide - precursor to full CD later this year)
Shin Joong Hyun -  Beautiful Rivers And Moutains  ('Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974' comp CD 2011, rec. 1973 Sth Korea )
Keith Lynn, The SPMs & Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - My Sweet Lord  ('A Reggae Tribute To The Beatles, Vol 1' comp 1999 UK)
Svetlyo Zhilev - Purple Haze ('Marmoreal Apparitions' CD 2008 Bulgaria)



Yat-Kha - Love Will Tear Us Apart  ('Re-Covers' CD 2005 Tuva) 


 
Dan Bau Vietnam - Rider In The Sky (Ghost Riders In The Sky) ('Roady Music From Viet Nam' comp  1997 Vietnam)
Father John Misty - Everyman Needs A Companion  ('Fear Fun' CD 2012 US)


 
Glenn Cardier - Hollywood  ('Stranger Than Fiction' CD 2012 Aust)
Broderick Smith & Matt Walker - Lazy Semaphore Sunday  (unreleased, live 2011 Aust) 


 
King Fox - Listen Girl ('70 2 07, The Unforgotten Album' recorded 1970, released 2007 Aust)
Agitation Free - A Quiet Walk  ('2nd' LP 1973 Germany)