Technicolour Dreaming

 While starting with some 70’s New York rocking from Patti Smith and Harry Toledo, amongst others, and then dropping in some psychedelia, surf and garage, including America’s Dark Ocean Colors, New Zealand’s Tomorrow’s Love, a swirly classic from the Bee Gees 2^nd English LP, a scary surf story from the Barbarellatones and a pre-release taste of the new single from Paul Messis, the bulk of this week’s show featured a diverse bunch of local and Australian acts such as DieselWitch, the Skronks, the Molting Vultures, the Moodists and the Mynd Gardeners, and included a phone interview with Magic Bones who are headed our way as part of the launch tour for their new EP, before finishing with our current “Band of the Month”, the Sonics.

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

Patti Smith – Gloria      (‘Horses’ LP 1976 New York, USA)

Wayne County – Max’s Kansas City     (‘At the Trucks!’ 2006 USA/Spain)

Harry Toledo & the Rockets – Busted Chevrolet     (‘Harry Toledo & the Rockets’ EP 1976 USA)

Television – Foxhole     (‘Adventure’ LP 1978 USA)

DZ Deathrays – Debt Death     (‘Bloodstreams’ 2012 Brisbane, Australia)

the Skronks – Out of Yourself     (‘Into This’ 2012 Canberra, Aust.)

Space Party – Flight to Mars      (‘Invasion of the Surfer-Men’ 2009 Canberra, Aust.)

the Molting Vultures – The Trough     (‘Get On Board’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Barbarellatones – Jaws!      (‘Invasion of the Surf Zombies’ 2006 USA)

Dieselwitch – Kicks     (‘Dieselwitch Will Kill You’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Moodists – When the Trees Walk Downhill     (7”single 1981 Adelaide/Melbourne, Aust.)

the Green Circles – You Think I Don’t know?     (‘Say Oui’ EP 2003 Adelaide, Aust.)

Paul Messis & Jessica Winter – Sunflower     (7”single 2012 UK)

the Twilights – Time & Motion Study Man     (7”single b-side 1967 Aust.)

the Mynd Gardeners – Where Tomorrow Lands     (‘The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella’ EP 2012 Aust.)

Tomorrow’s Love – 7 & 7 Is [Love cover]     (7”single 1969 New Zealand – taken from ‘A Day in my Mind’s Mind Vol. 2’ compilation 2008 NZ)

Mikal Cronin – Is It Alright     (‘Mikal Cronin’ 2012 USA)

the Bee Gees – Lemons Never Forget     (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 Aust./UK)

Magic Bones – Gouge Out a Victim     (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

 [phone interview with Richard from Magic Bones]

Magic Bones – Devil’s Spawn     (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Cato Salsa Experience – Milk for Revolution     (‘No. 3’ 2005 Norway)

Dark Ocean Colors – Own the Day     (‘Dark Ocean Colors’ 2012 USA)

the Lovetones – Shipbuilding [Elvis Costello cover]     (CDsingle b-side 2002 Aust.)

the Sonics – Strychnine     (‘Here are the Sonics’ LP 1965 USA)   # 

     # “Band of the Month”   

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

Once again this week, Peter Brat was the sole presenter on the show... but the Cat is returning soon! As usual I played a number of 60’s bands, such as the Nazz and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, as well as a very cool psych track by the Bee Gees from their second album, a few new tracks [my favourite being one from the great new album by the Barbarellatones] and various points in between, including a bunch of singles and album tracks by some of Australia’s finest like the Lipstick Killers, God, the Moodists and the Dagoes... I finished with another track from our current “Album of the Month” by Sydney band, the Laurels...

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

the Beach Boys – Hang on to your Ego     (out-take from ‘Smile’ sessions – taken from ‘The Trip’ compilation)

Blue Sunshine Minds – How does it feel     (‘Burn Your Fingers On The Sun’ – psych. compilation 2009 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Exit Sign      (Sonic Seducers)

the Scoundrelles – Why doesn’t someone take this goddamn girl away from me     (Organic Molecules In Action!)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – Paint It Black     (‘Winds of Change’ LP 1967 UK)

God God Dammit Dammit – Harry     (The Very First Day Of The Sunshine)

God – My Pal     (7”single 1988 Aust.)

the Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods [of Love]      (7”single 1979 Aust.)

the Moodists – The Disciples Know     (‘Thirsty’s Calling’ EP 1982 Aust.)

Tyrannosaurus Rex – She was born to be my unicorn     (Bolan Boogie)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Smell of Incense     (‘Vol. 2’ LP 1967 USA)

the Nazz – Open My Eyes     (7”single 1968 USA)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George     (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 Aust/UK)

the New Vague – Luv Her To Death     (CD single 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Yard Apes – Goin’ South     (Devil’s Road)

the Barbarellatones – Bad Vibes     (Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute)

Dieselwitch – Forbidden Purple City     (Surfadelica)

Colin Buckley – Little Egypt     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [13^th Floor Elevators cover]     (Supreme

Siouxsie & the Banshees – The Staircase (mystery)     (7”single b-side 1978 UK)

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

the Laurels – Merry Go Round     (Mesazoic)  #

    # ‘Album of the Month’