Obscured By...

The new collection of "Antipodean" Nuggets CDs is still proving to be very plunderable, and so they began and concluded this week's Obscured By..., hosted by a solo Michael Hunter.  In between was the expected mix of old and new / near and far - and the just a little odd.  For the latter, look no further than Jonathan & Darlene Edwards (the less-talented alter egos of Jo Stafford & Paul Weston) deconstructing I Am Woman.  Some fine Greek pop and a frenzied accordion-led Purple Haze by Svetlyo Zhilev added to the mix, along with a near-half hour long track from the new Neil Young with Crazy Horse CD!  US singer/songwriter/cellist Ben Sollee, who will be a guest on the show in mid-January, showed what he's capable of - and the rest of the musical menu can be savoured below...

The Missing Links – Wild About You     (7”single 1966 Australia – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation CD 2012, Australia)

The Creatures - Ugly Thing  (7”single 1967 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
The Lost Souls - This Life Of Mine  (7”single 1966 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
The In-Sect - Let This Be A Lesson  (7”single 1966 Aust, Adelaide – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
Toni McCann - No  (7”single 1965 Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Driftin' Back    (‘Psychedelic Pill’ CD 2012, Canada)

Ben Sollee - Electrified  ('Inclusions' CD 2011, US)

Elena - Poso Thelo  (How I)  (7" single 1972, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip' compilation CD 2011 Spain)
The Daltons - O Trellos (Mad)  (7" single 1972, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')
Elpida - Koita To Fos (Look At The Light)  (7" single 1974, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')

Vassilis Dimitriu- Omologia (Confession)  (7" single b-side 1974, Greece - taken from 'Plato's Trip')
Flied Egg - I'm Gonna See My Baby Tonight  ('Dr Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine' LP 1972, Japan, taken from reissue CD)
Keith Lynn, The SPMs and Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - My Sweet Lord  ('Reggae Tribute To The Beatles' CD 1999, Jamaica)
Svetlyo Zhilev - Purple Haze (provenance unknown, c2008, Bulgaria)

Barat Dangdut - Terpopuler '95 - Hotel California  ('Ola Ole Ole' CD c1995, Indonesia)
Jonathan & Darlene Edwards - I Am Woman  (7'single 1979, US)

Tully - Syndrone  ('Sea Of Joy'  orig 1971, taken from 2012 reissue CD, Australia)
Tiny Tim - The Other Side  ('God Bless Tiny Tim' LP 1968, US)
 
Airlord - Earthborn Pilgrim  ('Clockwork Revenge' LP 1976, NZ/Aust)
Anima - Feel Like A Bone  ('Sturmischer Himmel' LP 1971, taken from reissue CD Germany)
Noosha Fox - Judy Blue  (unreleased track c 2006?, Aust/UK)

Velociraptor - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night  ('Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations Of The First Psychedelic Era' compilation CD 2012, Aust)

Obscured By...

Normally we wouldn’t play quite so many songs from a pair of albums, but the 40^th anniversary re-issue of the original 1972 Nuggets compilation has prompted a couple of Australian releases to join the on-going series and thankfully didn’t just contain ‘the hits’ or ‘oft-comped’... so we felt free to plunder! Of particular interest were the ‘versions’ by current bands... some interesting interpretations indeed [though why so very few bands from outside the Sydney/Melbourne axis, hmmm?] To balance this outpouring of Australiana, we threw in a bunch of Swedish psych/freakbeat singles from the 60’s, an obscure Luke Haines recording, a 17 minute Neil Young track from his new album [yes, he’s hardly ‘obscure’, but well, who else but we three DOTS would play such long songs on radio?], plus a brand-new demo from garage/surf kings Dieselwitch...

... so here is the playlist...

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

Derek’s Accent – Ain’t Got No Feelin’      (7”single 1966 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Bee Gees – Like Nobody Else      (rec. 1966, released on ‘Inception/Nostalgia’ double-LP anthology 1970 Germany – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

Barrington Davis – Raining Teardrops      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Sunsets – Hot Generation [soundtrack version]      (rec. 1967 for film but unreleased until ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Straight Arrows – Lies [Knickerbockers cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era’ compilation 2012 Australia)    

Step-Panther – Liar, Liar [Castaways cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)     

Pond – Hey Joe [Leaves cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)    

Montero – My World Fell Over [Sagittarius cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)    

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Open My Eyes [Nazz cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)     

Good Weather For An Airstrike – the Beginning of the Rest of our Lives [reprise with Inachus]      (‘A Summer’ 2011 Scotland, UK)

Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Ramada Inn      (‘Psychedelic Pill’ 2012 USA)

the Hounds – Summertime      (7”single b-side [to Portrait of my Love] 1969 Sweden)

the Bootwigs – Outside Civilization      (7”single 1966 Sweden)

the Most – This is our Family      (7”single 1967 Katrineholm, Sweden)

the Moderations – Hard to Forget       (7”single 1966 Malmo, Sweden)

the Shakers – Sing This All Together [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”single 1968 Gothenburg, Sweden)

the Stockings – Good Luck       (7”single 1981 Perth, Australia)

Ross Ryan – the Ballad of the Double Bay Batman      (7”single b-side [to Hello Stranger] 1981 Aust.)

TNT – 99^th Floor [Moving Sidewalks cover]      (‘TNT: Mod Psych Power Pop from Central Pennsylvania – the Complete Studio Recordings 1974-76’ anthology 1995 USA)

Pandora – Space Amazon       (rec. 1974 – released on ‘Space Amazon’ 1997 USA)

Gina X – Drive My Car [Beatles cover]      (12”single 1984 Germany)

Luke Haines – The Upper Classes      (rec. live at the BBC 1994 – taken from ‘Luke Haines Is Dead’ anthology 2005 UK)

Dieselwitch – The Pit of the Morning      (demo - November 2012  Adelaide, Australia)