Three D Radio announcer, Megan Cat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat) lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula.
Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs on Three D Radio 93.7fm
, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station.
Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming" , watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage,
surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Peter Brat

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Peter Staben, aka Peter Brat, influential and much loved presenter of Technicolour Dreaming and Obscured By… and member of The Brats and Rashamra. Peter passed away Thursday, July 16 2015 surrounded by his family. Rest in peace our friend, you will be sorely missed.

See http://www.threedradio.com/vale-peter-staben/ for a bio written by Megan Cat on Peter's colourful life.

Many thanks to Harry for filling in and keeping the show going during this time.  Where to from here?  The show shall continue, and the Cat looks set to return.

Watch this space.

RIP Peter Brat.



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Ch-ch-ch-changes.

As you may have heard, mutually agreed changes are afoot with the shows.  This week's Technicolour Dreaming and Obscured By... are the last in the current format. 

As from January 1 2013, the two shows will be combined into one, in the Tuesday 2-4pm (Adelaide time) timeslot that till now was occupied by Obscured By...

It will now be a musical combination of the shows as well - psych, surf, punk etc etc, new and old, as you've come to know and love.  Obscurities and 60s Australian rock won't be forgotten either.

The new show will usually be hosted by The Cat & The Brat, with Michael Hunter joining in as needs be!  However - we're thinking it needs a new name to go with the other changes; something memorable and appropriate to the styles played.  Because that's usually the hardest part of the process, any suggestions will be welcome!  Please just put any such ideas as a comment to this post.

If we go with a suggestion from here, the lucky winner will get to listen to the show for free!!  (OK yes, that's the best we can do, but think of the bragging rights too...)

In any case, keep listening Tues 2 to 4, Three D Radio 93.7FM and streaming all over the web!



Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Obscured By...


On this final edition of ‘Obscured by...’ in its current format, all three "dots" were joined by Yours Truly, a duo comprising Ken Stewart (Urban Guerillas) and local performer David Robinson, chatting and playing live in the studio.  Also featured were some tracks from the 3CD compilation which accompanies Julian Cope’s new tome “Copendium”.... Rock Hudson rocked us (gently) ...Swedish psych legends Baby Grandmothers’ only single during their long career (and they went to Finland to make & release it!).... Electric Moon’s Germanic spacerock drone, some Dirty Filthy Mud and Kak with Mothers Love.... and everything else listed below!  We’ll be back on the first day of 2013 with a new format show, but with more similarities than differences to what has gone before!
Rev. Black & the Rockin’ V’s – Sugar Train      (7”single b-side [to Down to the Last 500] 1968 Australia)
Quinn – Mighty Quinn [Dylan/Manfred Mann cover]      (7”single 1969 Aust.)
Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues – If I Had a Ticket      (7”single 1966 Aust.)
Procession – Listen      (7”single 1968 Aust.)
Running, Jumping, Standing Still – Diddy Wah Diddy [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single 1966 Aust.)
Baby Grandmothers – Being Is More Than life      (7”single b-side [to Somebody Keeps Calling My Name] 1968 Sweden)
Eero Koisvistoinen – Small Games Inside an Urban Limousine      (‘Valtakunta’ LP 1968 Finland)
Electric Moon – Gefaehrliche Planetengirls      (‘Lunatics’ LP 2010 Germany)
Yours Truly – Where Did You Go?       (Performed “live” in the 3D Radio ‘on-air’ studio 18/12/2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Yours Truly – Here Come the Americans [orig. Urban Guerillas song]          (Performed “live” in the 3D Radio ‘on-air’ studio 18/12/2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Yours Truly – Shining Light      (‘Very Together’ 2012 Aust.)
Lord Buckley – Supermarket      (‘Way Out Humour’ LP 1959 USA – taken from ‘Copendium’ compilation 2012 UK) 
Cold Sun – Fall      (‘Dark Shadows’ LP 1970 Texas, USA)
Rock Hudson – Things Bright & Beautiful      (‘Rock, Gently’ LP 1968 USA)
the Plugz – La Bamba [Richie Valens cover]      (‘Electrify Me’ LP 1979 USA)
Brian Eno – The Lion Sleeps Tonight      (7”single 1975 UK)
Liquid Visions – Mt Olympus      (‘Liquid Visions’ 1998 Germany)
the Purple Merkins – Ain’t Got Enough      (‘Merkinmania’ LP 1997 Tuscon, Arizona, USA – taken from cover-mount CD  of ‘Rumble Skunk Vol. 2’ fanzine 2010 Greece)
Dirty Filthy Mud – The Forest of Black      (7”single 1968 California, USA)
Kak – Trieulogy      (‘Kak’ LP 1969 USA)
William Sheller – Living East, Dreaming West      (7”single b-side [to She Opened the Door] 1970 France)
Mother’s Love – Saint Without Glory      (‘Take One’ LP 1968 Holland)
Vincent Blake Shadow – Child of Orion      (‘Vincent Black Shadow’ LP 2005 Baltimore, USA)

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Obscured By...



What did the penultimate show in the current format have in store?  Well, there were folky Beatles covers and some rather lengthy tracks by Godley & Creme and Robert Wyatt (or a previously unreleased extended version in the latter case).  There was some rare "prog pop" for the want of a better term, from a little known 60s Boston band with the wonderful name of Phluph.  Also, brand new Scott Walker and a  Market Square track yet to see release.  Mask featured ex-Curved Air singer Sonja Kristina in a different format.  And... the rest is as mentioned below, painstakingly prepared by Michael Hunter & Cat and Brat.

Steve & the Board – Little Miss Rhythm’n’Blues      (‘Steve & the Board... and the Giggle Eyed Goo’ LP 1966 Sydney, Australia)
Johnny Hawker Orchestra – Spicks & Specks [Bee Gees cover]      (‘Out Front’ LP 1967 Aust.)
Dave’n’Lee – I Can See the Colours of the Butterfly      (7”single 1969 Aust.)
Thursday’s Children – It’s Love      (unreleased single, recorded 1970 Brisbane, Aust. – taken from ‘A Magical Mystery Tour : the David Fraser Tapes 1967-71’ compilation 2001 Aust.)
Trevor McNamara – Joseph Blackwell      (‘Yeah Captain’ LP 1969 Adelaide, Aust.)
Phluph – Dr Mind      (‘Phluph’ LP 1968 Boston, USA)
Phluph – Lovely Lady      (‘Phluph’ LP 1968 Boston, USA)
Dickens – Genocide      (‘Royal Incarnation’ LP  1969 France)
Godley & Creme – The Party      (‘Ismism’ LP 1981 UK/USA)
Scott Walker – The Day the ‘Conducator’ Died [an Xmas song]      (‘Bish Bosh’ 2012 UK/USA)
Gene Clark – No Other      (‘No Other’ LP 1974 California, USA)
Robert Wyatt – I’m a Believer [Monkees cover]      (extended version – taken from ‘the EP’s boxset’ 1974 UK)
June Tabor – In My Life [Beatles cover]      (recorded  December, 2005 on BBC Radio 2 – taken from ‘Rubber Folk’ comp. 2006 UK)
Show of Hands – If I Needed Someone [Beatles cover]      (recorded  December, 2005 on BBC Radio 2 – taken from ‘Rubber Folk’ comp. 2006 UK)
the Higher State – Smell of Incense [West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover]      (‘California’ EP 2008 UK)
Suzi Chunk – For the Millionth Time      (‘Girl From The Neck Down’ LP 2012 Wales, UK)
the Market Square – Afternoon Tide      (7”single 2013 USA/UK – advance promo copy)
the Galileo 7 – The Man Who Wasn’t There      (‘Staring at the Sound’ LP 2012 UK)
the Higher State – I Just Pretend      (7”single 2012 UK)
XTC – Blame the Weather      (7”single b-side [to Senses Working Overtime] 1982 UK – taken from ‘Rag & Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers’ compilation 1990 UK)
Mask – Blue Words      (‘Heavy Petal: The Tenebrous Odyssey of Jack & Virginia’ 2006 UK)
Suns of Arqa – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      (‘Solar Activity 1979-2001’ anthology 2001 UK)
Svensk – Dream Magazine      (7”single 1967 UK)
Larry’s Rebel’s – Halloween      (7”single b-side [to Everybody’s Girl] 1968 New Zealand/Aust.)
Sealing Smoke – Rubber Rapper      (unreleased single, recorded 1970 Memphis, USA – taken from ‘Feeling High: the Psychedelic Sound of Memphis’ compilation 2012 USA) 


Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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)

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Obscured By...


Normally we wouldn’t play quite so many songs from a pair of albums, but the 40th 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 – 99th 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)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Obscured By...


 Perhaps it was the weather, but the majority of today’s show came from the currently cooler climes of the northern part of the planet where it is approaching winter, whilst here in Adelaide it was a very warm 37 degrees C - yet still the music brought to you by the Cat & the Brat was hot regardless of locale! We went from New Zealand via Australia with the Cleves and heard Steve Kipner’s Tin Tin before heading over to Europe with Deuter and venturing into the Swedish psychedelic underground of the late 80’s with S.T.Mikael before returning to the UK and the Human League. It would not of course be Obscured by...  without a few ‘odd’ tracks which this week included songs about puppies, both dead and alive, plus Nico’s take on all things Germanic. We also investigated US punk/new wave from, primarily, Boston and Cleveland and then, dropping back a decade, looked mainly at the Californian hotspot which gave us so many great bands like the Electric Prunes and the Turtles, before finishing with a Davy Jones from the UK who was not a Monkee, but instead a certain Mr David Jones who later traded under the surname of ‘Bowie’...
So far so good, so now check out the full playlist.....

the Sundowners – Baby Jane [Applejacks cover]      (7”single 1964 Auckland, New Zealand)
the Feelgoods – Le Soliel      (7”single 1966 Australia)
the Cleves – Don’t Turn Your Back      (7”single b-side [ to Sticks & Stones] 1969 NZ/Aust.)
Tin Tin – She Said Ride      (‘Tin Tin’ LP 1970 Aust.)
Buffalo Drive – Morning Good Day      (7”single 1972 Adelaide, Aust.)
Stafford Bridge – Passing Lines      (7”single b-side [ to Song for a Blind Man] 1972 Aust.)
Mythos – Oriental Journey      (‘Mythos’ LP 1972 Germany)
Deuter – Soham      (‘Aum’ LP 1972 Germany)
S.T. Mikael – Bom Bom Mahedev      (‘Visions of a Trespasser’ LP 1989 Sweden)
the Human League – Dreams of Leaving      (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)
Locomotive – Mr Armageddon      (7”single 1969 UK)
Napoleon XIV – Photogenic, Schizophrenic You      (‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!’ LP 1966 USA)
Odgen Edsel – Dead Puppies      (‘Stuffed’ LP 1977 Nebraska, USA)
Walter Steding – Hound Dog [Elvis cover]      (‘Walter Steding’ LP 1980 USA)
John Cale – Heartbreak Hotel [Elvis cover]      (‘June 1st, 1974’ live LP 1974 UK/France)
Nico – Das Leid Der Deutschen      (‘The End’ LP 1974 UK)
the Lyres – I want to help      (7”single 1983 Boston, USA – taken from ‘DIY –Massachusetts Avenue: The Boston Scene 1975-1983compilation 1993 USA)
Neats – 6      (‘Propeller Product’ EP 1981 Boston, USA)
Thrills – Hey! [not another face in the crowd]      (7”single 1979 Boston, USA)
Harry Toledo & the Rockets – Busted Chevrolet      (‘Harry Toledo & the Rockets’ EP 1977 New York, USA)
Pere Ubu – Final Solution      (orig. 7”single 1976 Cleveland, USA – taken from ‘Max’s Kansas City’ compilation LP 1976 USA)
the Mirrors [aka the Styrenes] – Drano in my Veins      (demo 1975 Cleveland, USA – taken from ‘Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978’ boxset compilation 2007 UK)
the Electric Eels – Jaguar Ride      (demo 1975 Cleveland, USA)
DMZ – You’re Gonna Miss Me [Roky Erikson cover]      (‘DMZ’ EP 1977 Boston, USA)
the Trillium – Queen Alice      (7”single 1968 Rochester, New York, USA)
the Lexington Avenue – The Bird Collector      (7”single 1968 Canada)
the Electric Prunes – Hideaway       (‘Underground’ LP 1967 California, USA)
the Turtles – Grim Reaper of Love      (7”single 1966 California, USA)
Nunchez’s – Open Up Your Mind       (7”single 1966 Chicago, USA)
W.C.Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator       (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)
Davy Jones & the Lower Third – You've Got a Habit of Leaving      (7”single 1965 London, UK)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Obscured By...


So obscure, it was:
a) brand new, only delivered to the station during the show (local band Alpha Beta Fox),
b) an unusual US act who took his lyrics from the Adult Personals section of his local paper (Amil Byleckie),
c) a little-heard B-side (Galadriel, Whistler's Mother, Bill Fay, Sparks etc.),
d) an early recording by a Czech band who were not allowed to record or legally perform during the first 5 years of their existence (Uz Jsme Doma),
e) late 70s UK punk from the Beggars Banquet label (The Doll, The Lurkers, Tubeway Army),
f) hard to find a performance video for!
Altogether, it was this week's Obscured By... with Cat & Brat & Michael Hunter.  As you may have suspected.
 
King Fox – Hourglass      (recorded 1970, released on ’70-2-07: the [un]forgotten album’ 2007 Sydney, Australia)
Human Instinct – Nile Song [Pink Floyd cover]      (live on ‘GTK’ – ABC-TV show 1971 Aust./New Zealand)
Galadriel – Working      (7”single b-side [to Standing in the Rain] 1971 Aust.)
Whistler’s Mother – Mister Big      (7”single b-side [to Steamboat Willie] 1971 Aust.)
Ray Brown & Moonstone – Flight of the Gulls 2      (‘Mad House’ LP 1970 Aust.)
Uz Jsme Doma – Uprostred Slov [in the middle of words]      (‘Uprostred Slov’ LP 1990 Czech Republic)
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO – Loved and Confused      (‘Electric Heavyland’ 2002 Japan)
Tony Burello – There’s a New Sound       (7”single 1953 USA)
Alpha Beta Fox – Pins & Needles      (CD-single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Sparks – Lost & Found      (7”single b-side [to Amateur Hour] 1974 USA)
Eighteenth Day of May – Eighteen Days      (‘Eighteenth Day of May’ 2006 UK)
the 23rd Turnoff – Michael Angelo      (7”single 1967 Liverpool, UK)
Bill Fay – Screams in the Ears      (7”single b-side [to Some Good Advice] 1967 London, UK)
Amil Byleckie – Mistress Seeks Property      (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)
Amil Byleckie – Watch Me Watch You      (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)
the Doll – Trash      (‘Streets’ compilation LP 1977 UK)
Tubeway Army – That’s Too Bad      (7”single 1978 UK)
the Lurkers – Ain’t Got a Clue      (7”single 1978 UK)
Amil Byleckie – Are You Cruel?       (‘Amil Is Personal’ 2004 Phoenix, USA)
the Dandy Warhols – Cherry Bomb [Runaways cover]      (‘Take It Or Leave It – A Tribute to the Queens of Noise: The Runaways’ compilation double-LP 2011 USA)
the Otherside – Haunted House       (‘The Otherside’ EP 1985 Utrecht, Holland)
Les Thugs – Femme Fatale      (‘Femme Fatale’ demo 1984 Angers, France – taken from ‘Road Closed: 1983-1999’ anthology 2003 Belgium)
the Surfadelics – Bad Little Girl      (‘Bad Little Girl’ EP 1986 UK)

Les Klepstones – She’ll Always Be Mine [Customs cover]     (recorded 1985 Orleans, France – taken from ‘Battle Of The Garages, Vol. 4: Tomorrow The World!’ compilation LP 1986 USA)

the Zodiac/Cosmic Sounds – Taurus: the Voluptuary      (‘The Zodiac/Cosmic Sounds’ LP 1967 USA)

Zendik – I’m So Tired Again      (‘Hair’ LP 1969 Holland)

Timebox – Gone is the Sad Man      (7”single b-side [to Girl Don't Make Me Wait] 1968 UK)

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Obscured By...


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)