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

Our fondness for ‘suites’ will be familiar to regular listeners to Technicolour Dreaming, so it will come as no surprise that this week’s feature was ‘The Saga of Rodney Toady’ by Giles, Giles & Fripp in its entirety.... with recent psych and garage by bands such as les Liminanas, Vibravoid and Nothing People through some glam, courtesy of T.Rex and Shudder To Think [from the Velvet Goldmine movie], UK punk by Wire and Adam & the Ants, the odd slice of sunshine pop from a couple of Curt Boettcher-related projects plus a number of goodies from the likes of Lotus, Beaches and the Green Circles to round out the show....

..... so here is the playlist, with some visuals.....

les Liminanas – I’m Dead      (‘Crystal Anis’ 2012 France)

   

the Green Circles – Watermelon Sugar Blues       (‘Mr Cocking’s Descent’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Del Shannon – I Think I Love You      (‘The Further Adventures of Charles Westover’ LP 1968 USA)

Beaulieu Porch – Keep On Screaming      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

the Byrds – Change Is Now      (‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ 1968 USA)

Giles, Giles & Fripp – The Saga of Rodney Toady [suite] :  1)North meadow  2)Newly-weds  3)One in a million  4)Call tomorrow  5)Digging my lawn  6)Little children  7)The crukster  8)Thursday morning      (‘The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp’ LP 1968 UK)

Wire- Outdoor Miner      (‘Chairs Missing’ LP 1978 UK)

Adam & the Ants – Physical      (‘Kick’ 12”EP 1982 London, UK)

  

Lotus – Lotus 1      (7”single 1971 Australia)

the Besnard Lakes – People of the Sticks      (‘Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO’ 2013 Canada)

the Paperhead – Can’t Keep My Eyes Open      (‘The Paperhead’ 2011 USA)

Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – I Wear Black      (‘Reverse Shark Attack’  2012 California, USA)

Nothing People – Enemy with an Invitation      (7”single 2010 USA)

Beaches – Granite Snake      (‘She Beats’ 2013 Australia)

the Psychedelic Furs – It Goes On      (‘Talk Talk Talk’ LP 1981 UK)

Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk?      (7”single 1979 UK)

Shudder To Think – Hot One      (‘Velvet Goldmine’ soundtrack compilation 1998 USA/UK)

T.Rex – Ballrooms of Mars      (‘The Slider’ LP 1972 London, UK)

Bryan Ferry – San Simeon      (‘Frantic’ 2002 UK)

the Millennium – Karmic Dream Sequence #1      (‘Begin’ LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Sagittarius – The Truth Is Not Real      (7”single 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Vibravoid – Incense & Peppermints [Strawberry Alarm Clock cover]      (‘The Politics of Ecstacy’ 2008 Dusseldorf, Germany)