Having just rediscovered a
favourite TV cartoon, the Brat just had to
start with the New York Dolls version of its
theme song and dedicate it to his Cat! But
it was not all frivolity this week – we had some seriously fine music to share,
including a track from Ben Mason’s lovingly crafted re-creation of the Zombies’
classic ‘Odessey
& Oracle’ LP which he has released as a very limited vinyl edition –
we’ve included his Youtube “Making Of...” mini-movie to give you more details.
We also played the long opening song from the excellent new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard release, further
tracks from the brilliant new Lumerians
album and the White Fence and Permanent Clear Light vinyl singles, plus another
from the second instalment of groovy Geelong label Anti-Fade’s
“New Centre of the Universe” compilation
series, as well as a Spizzenergi cover from
the latest EP by Canberra surf punks, Space Party.
There was some 60’s psychedelic excellence in the form of songs by H.P.Lovecraft, the End
and Keith, a track from the Teardrop Explodes’
second album, Bow Wow Wow’s ode to cassette recording .... and lots more
before we ended with yet another in our ongoing quest for ‘alternative versions’,
this one of a Byrds’ standard. And there it
was – the sound of Technicolour Dreaming on 3D Radio, Adelaide,
Australia.....
...... and here is
the playlist with links and clips for your perusal.....
the New York Dolls
– Courageous Cat [TV cartoon theme cover] (recorded 1974 New York: unreleased –
taken from “Rock’n’Roll” anthology
1994 USA)
Lumerians – Life
Without Skin (“The High Frontier” 2013 USA)
Suede – Can’t Get
Enough (“Head Music” 1999 UK)
Electric Moon –
Kleiner Knaller (“The Doomsday Machine” 2011 Germany)
the Stoneage Hearts
– Sick of You [Stooges cover] (“Guilty
as Sin” 2004 Australia)
Turtlenecjk – The
Same (“New Centre of the Universe, Vol.2” compilation 2013 Geelong,
Australia)
Brown Recluse –
Paisley Tears (“Evening Tapestry” 2011 Philadelphia, USA)
Permanent Clear Light
– Afterwards [Van Der Graaf Generator
cover] (7”single b-side [to Higher Than The Sun] 2013 Finland)
H.P.Lovecraft –
Spin, Spin, Spin (“H.P.Lovecraft II” LP 1969 USA)
the End – Shades
of Orange (“Introspection” LP 1969 UK)
Jésus –
L'électrocuté (7”single 1967 France
– taken from “Midnight Massiera : the
B-Music of Jean-Pierre Massiera” anthology 2009 France/UK)
Space Party –
Where’s Captain Kirk? [Spizzenergi
cover] (“Future Surf” EP 2013 Canberra, Australia)
Bow
Wow Wow – C-30, C-60, C-90, Go!
(7”single 1980 UK)
Big
Richard Insect – Death to the Animals
(“Big Richard Insect” EP 2013
Adelaide, Australia)
Ben
Mason – Time of the Season [Zombies
cover] (“The Odessey Odyssey” LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
Starling
Electric – St Valentine’s Day Massacre
(“Clouded Staircase” 2008
Michigan, USA)
Gothic
Chicken – Pita Bread Man (‘Shindig!’ magazine covermount-CD
compilation “It’s Happening Vol.1”
2009 UK)
King
Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Head On/Pill (“Float
Along – Fill Your Lungs” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
the
Hidden Masters – Into The Night Sky [alt.
version] (‘Shindig!’ magazine covermount-CD compilation “It’s Happening Vol.1” 2009 UK)
the
Teardrop Explodes – Passionate Friend
(“Wilder” LP 1981 UK)
Pink
Floyd – Matilda Mother [alt. version] (recorded 1967 – bonus track on disc 3 of
“Piper at the Gates of Dawn” reissue
boxset 2007 UK)
Keith
– Charley Cinders (“The Adventures of Keith” LP 1969 New
York, USA)
David
Bowie – The Bewlay Brothers (“Hunky Dory” LP 1971 UK)
White
Fence – Fragility (7” single
b-side [to Pink Gorilla] 2013
California, USA)
the
Byrds – Eight Miles High [alt.
version] (recorded 1966 – bonus
track on “5th Dimension”
reissue 2004 USA)
