On
this, our final show of 2014, we’d hoped to complete our “Best of the Year” picks in the categories of album, single, anthology, re-issue,
compilation and boxset,
which we started last week.... but because there are so many, we’ll probably be
adding some more on our first show of 2015, because it truly was a great year
for psychedelia. Indeed the past few years are now being hailed as “the third wave of psychedelia”, with a world-wide
upsurge of young [and some not-so-young] musicians re-inventing and experimenting
with their influences to make music that is all their own, not just a pale copy
of the original 60’s garage/acid-punk/psych template, and a growing audience
who are discovering these sounds, past and present, as witnessed by the popularity
of “psych fests” around the world, while
some bands such as Temples and Ty Segall [coincidentally our “Artiste of the Week”] are even gaining “mainstream”
acceptance with commensurate record sales. So 2014 was an exciting year for new
psychedelic music, which is reflected in the difficulty we had trying to play
all of our favourites, as we mentioned at the start, because there were simply so
many brilliant releases.
So,
all the best for 2015 to you from the Cat & the Brat and 3D Radio 93.7fm and let’s see if this “third psychedelic wave” continues to gather force
in this coming year....
..... so here is the playlist, with some associated visuals.....
Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills ("Songs for
Mara" 2014 Chicago, USA)
the Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing ("Sallies Forth"
LP 1968 UK)
the Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties ("The Velvet
Underground and Nico" LP 1967 New York - taken from 2014 re-issue/boxset)
Psychic Ills - Come Around ("Psych for Sore
Eyes 2" compilation 2014 USA)
Sagittarius - In My Room [Brian Wilson cover]
("The Blue Marble" LP 1969 California, USA)
Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Indigo ("Abandoned
Meander" 2006 Canada)
the Monks - Complication ("Black Monk
Time" LP 1966 Germany USA)
Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen ("They
Worshipped Cats" 2014 Sweden)
Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine (7"single b-side [to Something Better] 1969 London, UK)
the High Dials - Our Time is Coming Soon ("War of the
Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)
Groep 1850 - Mother No-Head (7"single 1967
Netherlands)
the Expression - Quicksand (7"single 1970
Melbourne, Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from
The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK )
the Twilights - Time and Motion Study Man (7"single
[b-side to Young Girl] 1967 Adelaide,
Australia)
Nonesuch - Ride the Wind Away (7"single 1968
Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The
Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK)
Paul Messis - Nightmares (7"single 2014 Kent,
UK)
### “Artiste of the Week” TY SEGALL ###
Ty Segall - Manipulator ("Manipulator"
2014 California, USA)
Ty Segall - She Don't Care ("Sleeper"
2013 California, USA)
Ty Segall and White Fence - The Black Glove/Rag ("Hair"
2012 California, USA)
Ty Segall - Children of Paul (“I Can't Feel It” EP 2011 USA)
Dodson and Fogg - Entrepreneur In the Garden ("In
A Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)
the Dunes - Badlands ("Bad:Lands"
EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)
the Apricot - Aristocratic Appetite ("A
Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)
New Electric Ride - I Can't Help But Smile ("Balloon
Age" 2014 UK)
Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - TK16 Part 2 ("8"
LP 2014 Denmark/France)
Balduin - Mirror, Mirror ("All in a
Dream" LP 2104 Switzerland)
the See See - As The Morning ("Days, Nights
and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Sealed Scene ("Chambers" 2014 Guadalajara,
Mexico)
