Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with some modern psychedelia from Italy. Sonic Jesus released this debut EP on Fuzz Club Records last year and more recently have done a split 10” single with the Black Angels on the same label. They were just one of some great new bands we played on the show today, including Sydney’s Aether Beach and Los Tones, and the UK’s Violet Woods. Needless to say there were also a bunch of our regular faves such as Balduin, the See See, Singapore Sling and the Dandelion, as well as some brilliant music by the Rolling Stones, the Throb, the Bee Gees and others from the mid-1960’s, since acknowledged as ‘the first psychedelic era’. This then led us into our new feature, “Compilation of the Week”, which we debuted by playing a bunch of classic singles taken from that original garage psych compilation, the one which has since spawned a plethora of successors, namely the 1972 double-LP, “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era, 1965-1968”, which was compiled of course by Lenny Kaye, who later found renown in the Patti Smith Group, though Nuggets will probably be his real legacy, and thus a fitting start to our new feature. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with visual extras.....

Sonic Jesus - Monkey On My Back      ("Sonic Jesus" 10" EP 2014 Lazio, Italy)

Toy - To a Death Unknown      ("Join the Dots" 2014 UK)

the Dandelion - Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      ("Strange Case of The Dandelion" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Aether Beach - Friends      ("The Aether Beach EP" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Okko - Painted Sails on Ganges      ("Sitar and Electronics" LP 1971 Germany)

Davie Allen and the Arrows - Experiment in Terror [Henry Mancini cover]    ("Shots in the Dark" compilation 1996 USA)

the Throb - Black      (7"single 1966 Australia)

the Rolling Stones - Citadel      ("Their Satanic Majesties Request" LP 1967 UK)

Balduin - Love is You       ("All in A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Bronco Bullfrog - Listen to the Sky [Sands cover]       ("Time Waits for Norman" EP 2014 UK)

Jim Jenkin - Bike [Syd Barrett cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" double-CD compilation 2014 UK)

the See See - The Rain and the Snow      (7”single 2013 UK – taken from "Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head       ("Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina" LP 1967 New York, USA)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from "Psych For Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 Germany)

the Spyrals - Sunflower Microphone      ( 7"single 2011 San Francisco USA)

Sun Eater - Twin Peaks      (digital single b-side [to Wild Arum] 2014 Tacoma, Washington)

Cheval Sombre - She Went Walking in the Rain       (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

              ###   “Compilation of the Week”   ###  

      Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

the Strangeloves - Night Time      (7"single 1965 USA – taken from “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard      (7"single 1966 San Francisco, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction      (7"single 1966 San Jose, California USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Third Rail - Run, Run, Run      (7"single 1967 New York, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down      (7"single 1967 Los Angeles, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Davey Lane - Molty [Barbarians cover]     (recorded 2012 Sydney – taken from "Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1967" compilation 2012 Australia)

Los Tones - Speedboat      ("Psychotropic" LP 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Singapore Sling  - Who Put the Ebb in the Ebbebbeb      ("The Tower of Foronicity"  2014 Reykjavik, Iceland)

Violet Woods - Cyanide Suns       (7"single [b-side to "Raw Love"] 2014 Cambridge, UK)

the Carnaby - Jump and Dance      (7"single 1965 UK)

the Bee Gees - Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Australia, unreleased – taken from "Downunder Nuggets" compilation 2012 Australia)

Orange Seaweed - Pictures in the Sky      (7"single b-side [to "Stay Awhile"] 1968 UK)

Mona Lisa Overdrive - It's Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Wands - Sound of the Machine     ("The Dawn" 2014 Denmark)

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the final show for 2013 and it was on New Year’s Eve, so it was appropriate we wrapped up our series of “Favourites of the Year” with what was certainly a highlight of 2013 – the new Wooden Shjips LP. Before we got there though, there was a plethora of other faves to be played, though of course some slipped through the cracks and these will no doubt ooze into our early 2014 shows! Anyway, we hope you all have a great New Year – one that promises to build on the growing eruption of excellent psychedelia that seems to be overtaking us... 2014 should hold some very intriguing new music! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist plus a bunch of eye-candy to enjoy.....

Sundial – She’s Looking All Around      (“Other Way Out” LP 1990 UK)

Me & My Kites – Isis’ Adventure      (7”single b-side [to The Band] 2013 UK)

Brenton Manser – Dogged Old Joy      (“The Edge of Forgiveness” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Easybeats – Amanda Storey      (recorded 1968, unreleased – taken from “The Definitive Anthology” 2-CD box 2003 Australia)

the Sufis – I’ll Come to See You      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

Plastic Penny – Give Me Money      (“Currency” LP 1969 UK)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer      (“A Web of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Corey – Come On, Let’s Go      (7”single b-side [to Is It Really Really Real?] 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane      (“Peter Sarstedt” LP 1969 UK)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius/Ivy League cover]      (“Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” compilation 2013 Australia)

Sendelica – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Buddha      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (pre-release from forth-coming “Sun Structures” LP 2014 UK)

the Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 UK)

the Lovetones – Was I There In Your Future?      (“Meditations” 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya       (7”single 1967 UK)

France Gall – Teenie Weenie Boppie      (“Teenie Weenie Boppie” EP 1967 France)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted      (split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Lost At Sea [a love song]      (“Ride Into The Sun” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – The Day      (“Indigo Meadow” 2013 Texas, USA)

Warm Soda – Waiting For The Man [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Crystal Stilts – Future Folklore      (“Nature Noir” 2013 USA)

Fuzz – Sunderberry Dream      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Monkees – Mary, Mary      (“More of the Monkees” LP 1966 USA)

Kak – Rain      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “The Gathering of the Tribes” compilation boxset 2013)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Espers – Blue Mountain [Michael Hurley cover]      (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

Olly Holmes – Mercedes Benz [trad. cover]      (“Whiskey Barrel” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Warlocks – Dead Generation      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Ghouls      (“Back to Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

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)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week the Cat & the Brat featured a track from Gary Numan, who is scheduled to play a sold-out show here in Adelaide next Monday, focusing on his second album, ‘The Pleasure Principle’. We also played several singles, album tracks and demos from local bands, new and old, as well as the usual array of ‘headswirlers’: psych, garage or otherwise. Naturally, we also featured tracks from our ‘Album of the Month’ (“Meat the ZomBeatles”) and the “Monkees Song of the Week”...

...so here is the play-list...

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Loveday Carter (demo 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

The Bad Poets – Crash Sweet Crash (5MMM’s Compilation Album of Adelaide Bands 1980 : LP)

Donovan – Sunny South Kensington (Psychedelia at Abbey Road 1965 – 69 : comp.)

The Doors – Moonlight Drive (‘the Doors’ [re-issue] bonus track)

The Beacon Street Union – Recitation/My Love Is (The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Child’s Guide to Good and Evil (Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol 1 : comp.)

The Masters Apprentices – Living In a Child’s Dream (7” single 1967 Adelaide)

The Zoot – Eleanor Rigby (Zoot Locker)

Gary Numan – Airplane (The Pleasure Principle)

Nekkro Electro – Level 22 (‘Obscene Horrorfist’ demo 2011 Adelaide)

Shake 288 – Beaten to A Pulp (demo 1984 Adelaide)

The Hollies – King Midas in Reverse (The Hollies at Abbey Road : 1966 – 69)

The Dolly Rocker Movement – Memory Layne (Our Days Mynd the Tyme)

The Bees – Voices Green and Purple (‘Nuggets’ box-set comp., Disc 2)

The Atlantics – Come On (Ugly Things : Aust. 60’s comp.)

The Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action (Best Of...)

The Zombeatles – She Dead (Meat the Zombeatles) #

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood (pre-release from forth-coming CD ‘Cheap and Nasty, Soiled and Sleazy’)

Captain Beefheart – Beatle Bones and Smokin’ Stones (Before the Fall compilation)

July – I See (The Great British Psychedelic Trip Vol.1 : comp.)

Van Cleef – Kick the Hick (Where the River Meets the Rock)

the Monkees – I’m Gonna Buy Me a Dog (Monkees Music Box) *

# May ‘Album of the Month’

* ‘Monkees Song of the Week’