Obscured By...

Beginning again with a clutch of 60’s Australian rarities, including the 1961 collaboration of Vicky Simms, a 13-year-old indigenous boy, with perennial instrumental band, the Joyboys, an unreleased recording by Procession and a great Tony Worsley single, this week’s presenters, the Cat and the Brat, ranged through time and place, vinyl and CD, to bring you the late 70’s/early 80’s electronic delights of Ultravox! and the Human League, some Finnish psychedelia from Eero Koivistoinen and a couple of tracks from the classic 1981 film “Urgh! A Music War”. We raided the extensive 3D Radio Library to pick random G selections for our regular “Letter of the Week” feature, which included the Welsh sunshine pop of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and a children’s song by Professor Elliot Gnash, and ending this week’s episode with the Dandy Warhols take on the Cure....

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

the Echomen – Ski Run     (7”single 1963 Australia)

Chris Hall and the Torquays – Don’t ask me why     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Procession – I Love My Dog [Cat Stevens cover]     (unreleased : from ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Australia)

Vicky Simms and the Joyboys – I wanna bop     (7”single 1961 Australia)

Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays – How Can It Be     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Blue Day     (7”single 1964 Australia)

the Godz – Turn On     (‘Contact High With the Godz’ LP 1966 USA)

Galliard – Ask for Nothing     (‘New Dawn’ LP 1971 UK)

Eero Koivistoinen – Small Games inside an Urban Limousine     (1968 – taken from ‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974’ CD compilation 2006 Finland)

Kim Fowley – Strangers from the Sky     (7”single 1967 USA)

Hans Poulson – Comin’ Home the Long Way     (‘Lost and Found’ LP 1972 Australia)

Shel Silverstein – Have another Expresso     (‘Inside Folk Songs’ LP 1962 USA)

the Human League – WXJL Tonight     (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)

Kollectiv – Rambo Zambo     (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Ultravox! – The man who dies everyday     (‘Ha! Ha! Ha!’ LP 1977 UK)

Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse     (recorded 1980 NYC – taken from ‘Urgh! A Music War’ double-LP compilation 1981 USA)

the Au Pairs – Come Again     (recorded 1980 London – from ‘Urgh! A Music War’)

Green On Red – Death and Angels     (‘Green On Red’ EP 1982 USA)

the Rain Parade – You are my friend     (‘Explosions in the Glass Palace’ LP 1984 USA)

the Long Ryders – Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today     (‘State of our Union’ 1986 USA)

Thee Wylde Maniacs – Why (love ain’t fair)     (7” single 1966 USA – taken from ‘Bam Caruso Waxworks Vol. 1’ compilation CD)

George W. Bush – El Dorado     (split 7” EP with the St Alban Kids 2003 Adelaide, Australia)   #

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Miss Trudy      (‘Llanfwrog’ EP 1998 Wales, UK)   #

Professor Elliot Gnash – It’s Heaps Good in the Garden     (‘The most groovy album ever’ 2004 Adelaide, Australia)   #

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Dead-Beat     (‘Willoughby Beach’ 2011 Australia)   #

Redd Cross – Disco Bitch     (‘Jimmy’s Fantasy’ cdEP 1993 USA)

the Dandy Warhols – Primary [Cure cover]     (‘NME: Picture This - a tribute to the Cure’ CD 2009 UK)

       # “Letter of the Week”

Obscured By...

Peter Brat and Michael Hunter were briefly joined by third ‘DOT’, Megan Cat, via a phone link for one of the airbreaks, so technically there were three presenters on today’s show... and we were glad of her imput when she gave us a brief rundown on early 80’s Adelaide band the Metronomes, pointing out that local legend, Ash Wednesday, had played on the single we had picked from the 3D library as part of our ‘M’ bracket, today’s ‘Letter of the Week’. Apart from all that, we played the usual variety of obscurities and rarities from Australia and around the world, featuring a bunch of singles from 60’s Holland by bands such as the Phantoms, one from an album by Guatemalan band Electronicos La Fuente released in 1969, and a 1981 demo from Bauhaus. We also played music from the “Paisley Underground” scene of early 80’s L.A. which revolved around bands such as the Salvation Army (later renamed the 3 O’Clock) and the Bangs (who of course evolved into the Bangles), and we added one of Australia’s equivalents, the Church. Throw in some Manson Family and Graham Bond for Halloween, plus some Taman Shud and lots more, and you have another “Obscured by...”

..... so here is the full playlist...

Red Onion Jazz Band – My baby     (‘Red Onion Jazz Band’ LP 1964 Melbourne, Australia)

Autumn – Goblin’s Gamble     (7”single 1971 Sydney, Aust.)

Alison Gros – If I ask you     (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Taman Shud – They’ll take you down on the lot     (‘Goolutionites and the Real People’ LP 1970 Aust)

Young Modern – She’s got the money     (‘Live at the Grace Emily Hotel’ CD 2011 Adelaide)

Blue Bird – Goin’ Down     (7”single b-side 1971 USA)

Paper Blitz Tissue – Grey Man       (7”single b-side 1967 UK)

the Sorrows – Same Old Road        (7”single 1969 UK)

Revelation – Cotton Candy Weekend     (7”single 1968 USA)

the What’s New – Up So High     (‘Up So High’ EP 1967 USA)

Harper and Rowe – Love Machine     (7”single 1968 USA)

Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust [rough demo version]     (‘Mask’ Omnibus Edition boxset – originally recorded 1981 UK)

the Manson Family – Get On Home     (‘The Manson Family sings the songs of Charlie Manson’ 1970 USA)

Graham Bond – Abracadabra: the Word of the Aeon     (‘Holy Magick, We Put Our Magick On You’ LP 1971 UK)

the Beach Boys – Heroes and Villains [alt. version]     (recorded 1967 but unissued – played from ‘L.A. Nuggets: 1965-68’ boxset comp.)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Pale and Precious     (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)

Electronicos La Fuente – La Mosca     (‘Electronicos La Fuente’ LP 1969 Guatemala)

the Sevens – Run Me Down     (7”single 1966 Switzerland)

Rob Hoeke – When People Talk     (7”single 1965 Holland)

Fun Of It – Drollery     (7”single 1966 Holland)

the Phantoms – Someday I’m Somebody     (7”single 1965 Holland)

the Mo – Nancy     (‘Mo’ LP 1980 Holland)   #

Machinations – Hit by a missile     (7”single b-side 1988 Australia)  #

the Metronomes – Closed Circuit     (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)  #

Masongreystrange – Untitled#2 with Clarinet     (‘Interstate’ CD 2000 Adelaide)  #

the 3 O’Clock – With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend     (‘Baroque Hoedown’ EP 1982 Los Angeles, USA)

the Salvation Army – She Turns to Flowers     (‘Salvation Army’ LP 1982 L.A.)

the Bangs – Getting Out of Hand     (7”single 1981 L.A.)

the Church – Is This Where You Live     (7”single 1981 Australia)

     #  ‘Letter of the Week’  chosen randomly from the various CD/vinyl sections of the 3D library