Technicolour Dreaming

As usual, it was a veritable smorgasbord of psychedelia, new & old, which we shared with you this week, including long-time faves such as Espers, Black Box Recorder, the Sunchymes, the Loved Ones and the Twilights. An array of new tracks from the Amazing, Semool and Vibravoid rounded out the set, and of course not forgetting the delights contained within our “Compilation of the Week”! Our selection this time round was the Dirty Water series – 2010’s "Dirty Water : The Birth of Punk Attitude" and the following year’s release "Dirty Water 2 : More Birth Of Punk Attitude" a matching pair of 2-disc treats complete with sumptuous booklets. As can be seen from our selections, the tracks on this series, curated by Kris Needs, are all about the “Attitude” of the title that influenced the later Punk movement, particularly in the UK and US, and it can be seen that psychedelia played a significant role in this regard also. So until next week.....

.....here is the playlist, with some educational visuals for your perusal.....

Espers - Dead King      ("Espers II" 2006 USA)

H.P. Lovecraft - Spin Spin Spin      ("H.P.Lovecraft II" LP 1968 Chicago, USA)

Elephant Stone - Setting Sun      ("Elephant Stone" LP 2013 Montreal, Canada)

Polska Radio One - To the Delta of Aquarius      ("Cosmos Inside" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

the Sunchymes - Uncle Albert's Slide Show      ("Let Your Free Flag Fly" 2014 UK)

Semool - Essai 10      ("Essais" LP 2015 France)

the Loved Ones - Magic Box      ("Magic Box"  LP 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Sons of Hippies -The Soft Parade      ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 Germany)

Glass Family - Guess I'll Let You Go      (7" single b-side [to Agorn] 1968 California, USA)

Vibravoid - Raga Baya      (7" single b-side [to Rheinflow] 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Twilights - Blue Roundabout      ("Once Upon a Twilight" 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

Spontaneous Generation - Up in My Mind       (7" single 1968 USA)

Prince Rupert’s Drops - Sesame Seed      ("Climbing Light" 2014 USA)

the Triptides - Moonbeams     ("Colors" EP 2014 Indiana, USA)

the Iguana - California My Way       (7" single 1968 Australia)

 

Compilation of the Week - "Dirty Water: The Birth of Punk Attitude" 2010 and "Dirty Water 2: More Birth Of Punk Attitude" 2011

the Seeds - Evil Hoodoo      ("The Seeds" LP 1966 Los Angeles) Vol 1 Disc 1

the Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Hot City Symphony - Part 1: Vambo      ("The Impossible Dream" LP 1974 Scotland UK) Vol 1 Disc 2

the Human Expression - Love at Psychedelic Velocity      (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA) Vol 2 Disc 1

Patti Smith - Piss Factory      (7" single b-side [to Hey Joe] 1974 USA) Vol 2 Disc 1

Faust - It's A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl      ("So Far" LP 1972 Germany) Vol 2 Disc 2

the Mind Flowers - Japanese Hills      (digital single 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Black Box Recorder - The School Song      ("Passionoia" 2003 UK)

the Amazing - Picture You        ("Picture You" 2015 Sweden)

Obscured By...August 2 2011

A diversity of tracks from Soviet Russia ranging from MOR to boy band to rock - then some Japanese 60s pop.  Combined with the usual mix of Australasian single rarities, along with Patti Smith singing You Light Up My Life, Flo & Eddie with guest vocalist Shirley Strachan, some Krautrock and obscurities old and new.  This week's Obscured By..., presented by Michael Hunter, was - in the words of the Flying Lizards song played - "very... very... very..."

Tony & The Initials  The Girl Of My Best Friend  (45, NZ 1961)
Newfolk  Today  (45, NZ 1967)
Chaos & Co  Seven Golden Daffodils  (45, Aust 1966)
The Strangers  Put Yourself In My Place  (45, Aust 1966)
The Gremlins  You Gotta Believe It  (45, NZ 1967)
Jim Keays' Southern Cross  Undecided  (45, Aust 1976)

Selection of Russian tracks:
Unknown artist & song - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvYyA_jGhA for the full horror
Kino  Peaceful Night  (Blood Type 1988)
Steklovata  Novi God  (single c 2007)
Noid  Kattepajo  (Arranged Traditional Vepsian Songs  2009)

Selection from Go Go Group Sounds Japan - 1965-69:
The Lind & Linders  Crap (sic) Your Hands
The Tigers  C-C-C
The White Kicks  Alligator Boogaloo
The Voltage  Shakin' My Soul

A trip through the crevices of the "V" section of Three D's music library:
Monte Video  Hypnosis  Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang  (mini-LP Aust 1984)
Virgin & Rumour  Stranger   Virgin & Rumour  (Aust 2004)
Voice Of The Beehive  I Walk The Earth  (UK/US 45 1986)

Craig Collinge  Free The Sugar Plump Fairies / Tchaikovsky's Electric Revolution  Evolution 2 Revolution  (Aust 2011)
Guru Guru  Oxymoron  Kanguru (Germany 1972)
Patti Smith & Joe Brooks  You Light Up My Life  (US TV 1979)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo
Flying Lizards  TV  Flying Lizards  (UK 1979)
Flo & Eddie  Guns  Moving Targets    (US 1976)
Hermans Hermits  Here Comes The Star  (45, UK 1969)
Grass Roots  Let's Live For Today  (45, US 1967)  RIP lead singer Rob Grill
McPhee  Out To Lunch  McPhee  (Aust 1971)

Technicolour Dreaming

On this week’s show, we ranged from the debut 7” singles by mid-70’s New Yorkers, Patti Smith and Blondie (the original version of ‘X Offender’ and, in our opinion, superior to the better known album take!), to more recent tracks from San Francisco’s fantastic Thee Oh Sees, Toronto’s brilliant psych band, the Hoa Hoa’s, and Melbourne’s all-girl punk rockers, the Spazzys. We interviewed two members of Adelaide band Van Cleef, Chris and Mike, who also chose an eclectic set for us to play... including a song from the sound-track to Dario Argento’s 1982 movie, ‘Tenebre’, to a Roger Taylor-sung Queen track, to the Stooges. Naturally, we also played a number from the current ‘Album of the Month’ by Belles Will Ring... plus much more...

...so here is the playlist...

Dean & Britta – Incandescent Innocent     (13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol’s screen tests)

Dallas – I sold myself to the Devil & he told me I was cheap [Odd remix]     (‘4 Top Ten Hits’, cdEP 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)

Julian Cope – Safesurfer     (Peggy Suicide)

Patti Smith – Piss Factory     (7”single 1974 USA)

Blondie – X Offender     (7”single 1976 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Ruby Come Home     (Help)

the Spazzys – I don’t want to go to the party     (‘Paco Doesn’t Love Me’ cdEP, 2004 Aust.)

the Hoa Hoa’s – Feels So Good Inside     (Pop/Drone/Pedals)

the Rolling Stones – We Love You     (7”single 1967 UK)

Firewater – Paint It Black     (Songs We Should Have Written)

Goblin – Waiting Death     (soundtrack from ‘Tenebre’ 1982 Italy)

Queen – Fight from the Inside     (News of the World)

Van Cleef – Outrider     (Where the River Meets the Rock)

Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch     (Where the River Meets the Rock)

White Knuckle Fever – White Knuckle Ride     (demo 2010 Sydney, Aust.)

Isolation Valve – Virus Envy     (‘Dear Warren Ellis’ – demo 2011 Adelaide)

the Stooges – Down on the Street     (‘Fun House’ LP 1970 USA)

Belles Will Ring – Redwood Hill     (Crystal Palace)  #

    # “Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming - 20th April 2011

Peter Brat here... I hosted this week’s show without the help of my Cat, and so started with Patti Smith’s “Ain’t It Strange” which summed it up! However I played one of her (and my) fave current bands, the Sand Pebbles plus her favourite Models’ song, knowing she was listening in... The show wandered, as is our wont, from the Australian 60s psychedelia of the Dave Miller Set, through the Swedish 80s garage rock of the Wylde Mammoths, to the 21^st century sounds of the Telescopes, Death In June, Black Box Recorder and Adelaide’s Green Circles... plus of course this week’s Monkees song and another track from our album of the month, Moon Duo’s “Mazes”...

...so here is the playlist...

Patti Smith – Ain’t It Strange (Radio Ethiopia)

Pere Ubu – Non-Alignment Pact (the Modern Dance)

the Models – Atlantic Romantic (Cut Lunch e.p. 1981 Melbourne, Aust.)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide (Worst of Black Box Recorder)

Death In June – Peaceful Snow (Peaceful Snow)

the Higher State – Know That You Know (Shindig! It’s Happening Vol.1)

the Mynd Gardeners – The Psychedelicatessan (I Can See Through My Own Time e.p. 2009 Adelaide)

the Wylde Mammoths – Help That Girl (Real Cool Time Revisited [comp.])

the Telescopes – Another Sky (Hungry Audio Tapes)

the Sun Blindness – Panta Rhei (Like Pearly Clouds)

the Zen Circus & Brian Ritchie – Punk Lullaby (Villa Inferno)

the Green Circles – Given Time (Brass Knobs, Bevilled Edges)

3DTV – A summation of all these burdens (Burn Your Fingers on the Sun [comp.])

Perpetual Motion Workshop – Won’t Come Down (Psychedelic Disaster Whirl [comp.])

the Dave Miller Set – Mr Guy Fawkes (Peculiar Hole In The Sky [comp.])

Moon Duo – Fallout (Mazes) #

the Sand Pebbles – Black Sun Ensemble (Ghost Transmissions)

the Monkees – Auntie Grizelda (Monkees Music Box) *

# April Album of the Month

*the Monkees Song of the Week