With
all three DOTS on board again this week, it was
another excursion into the absorbingly odd world of
rare, forgotten and overlooked music that we so enjoy sharing with
you... music such as an unreleased Gary Young
[Daddy Cool et al] track or a bunch of
exceedingly obscure 1960’s singles from bands such as Adelaide’s Bentbeaks or the UK’s David
McNeil, not to mention the plethora of B-sides
(often superior to the A-sides!) from the
likes of the Gibsons and Vivien Goldman (the dub version of which we played
recently). And let’s not forget the Stranglers’
Swedish language version of “Sweden (All Quiet on
the Eastern Front)” and other obscure
delights from faraway places such as tracks from Hungarian band Omega’s 1968 debut LP, Germany’s Emtidi and Japan’s wittily (?) named Flied Egg.
Ah yes, business as usual here in “Obscured by...”–land!
..... and here is the playlist.....
the Dark Ages –
Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover] (7”single b-side [to Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day] 1965 New Zealand)
the Bentbeaks –
Raining Sunshine (7”single b-side
[to Caught Red-handed] 1967 Adelaide,
Australia)
the Executives –
Summerhill Road (7”single 1968
Sydney, Aust.)
Beaut – Goodbye
Judy (7”single 1976 Aust.)
Gary Young & the
Rockin’ Emus – Rockabilly Heaven
(recorded, unreleased 1980 Aust.)
Mick Hadley & the
Shakers – Rescue Me (‘That’s Queensland, That’s 4IP’radio station
compilation LP 1980 Aust.)
the Gibsons – You
Know I Need Your Lovin’ (7”single
b-side [to Magic Book] 1967 Aust./UK)
Dave Berry – And
I Have Learned to Dream (7”single
b-side [to Forever] 1967 UK)
the Majority –
Wait By the Fire (7”single b-side
[to I Hear a Rhapsody] 1967 UK)
David McNeil –
Linda (Belgium-only release 7”single
1968 UK)
Robbie Curtice [with Tom Paine] – Gospel Lane (demo 1969 UK)
Noosha Fox – Judy
Blue (from unreleased ‘Wartime Spirit’ album 1986 Aust.)
XTC – The
Loving (7”single 1989 UK)
the Stranglers –
Sverige (Sweden-only release
7”single 1978 UK)
the Residents –
Sinister Exaggerator (‘Duck Stab’ LP 1978 USA)
the Lemon Kittens
– Shakin’ All Over [Johnny Kidd & the
Pirates cover] (‘Spoonfed & Writhing’ EP 1979 UK)
Audience – The
House on the Hill (‘The House on the Hill’ LP 1971 UK)
Emtidi –Saat (‘Saat’ LP 1972 Germany)
Flied Egg – Dr
Siegel’s Fried Egg Shooting Machine
(‘Dr Siegel’s Fried Egg Shooting
Machine’ LP 1972 Japan)
Linn County –
Moon Food (‘Proud Flesh Soothsayer’ LP 1968 Ohio, USA)
JK & Co – Magical
Fingers of Minerva (‘Suddenly One Summer’ LP 1968 Canada/USA)
Omega [aka Omega Red Star] – Rettenetes (‘Trombitás Frédi és a rettenetes
emberek’ [‘Trumpeter Fredi & the
Terrible People’] LP 1968 Hungary)
Ola & the
Janglers – What a Way to Die
(7”single 1969 Sweden)
Hobbit –
Everything Turning Out Fine
(7”single b-side [to Only Friends]
1972 UK)
Vivien Goldman –
Private Armies (7”single b-side [to Laundrette] 1981 UK)
