Technicolour Dreaming

Ok, I've very nearly caught up with the blogging duties back-log, one more to go, then all will be back on track - the darn flu-lurgy sure has a talent for putting your life on hold while you recover! Here's some more eye-candy (and ear-candy) to feast upon, until next week's instalment.....

Kelley Stoltz - Villiers Terrace ("Crockodials" 2006 San Francisco USA)

Soft Walls - Never Come Back Again ("No Time" 2014 Brighton UK)

The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Hummin' Happy ("Incense and Peppermints" 1967 USA)

Cosmic Fields - Velvet and the Moons ("Cosmic Fields" LP 2016 Argentina)

Astralasia - Johnny, Remember Me ("Fruits De Mer Annual" 2014 UK)

Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Lost in Space ("Fruits De Mer Annual" 2014 UK)

Worthless - Pizza Break ("All My Friends Are Stone" 2014 Brooklyn, New York USA)

Tor Peders - Tema Ett (Theme One) ("Brev Fran Edersdorp" 2014 Sweden)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford ("Depthcharge 15" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Gary Moonboot Masters - Be What You Are ("Depthcharge 15" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Satelliters - Gotta Get You (Out of My Head) ("More Of..." LP 2014 Germany)

The Cape Kennedy Construction Company - Armageddon (7" single [b-side to "The First Step On The Moon"] 1969 USA)

The Kinetic - Suddenly Tomorrow ("Live Your Life" 1967 UK)

Absinthe Ava - Dig ("Underground Sunshine - Your Psych Tunes Vol 4" 2008 Detroit, USA)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 (2015 version) ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Children Of Leir - Bad Little Woman ("3rd Album" 2016 Leicester, UK)

Pink Umbrellas - Raspberry Rainbow (7" single 1983 UK)

Wayne Faro's Schmaltz Band - There's Still Time (7" single 1969 Canada)

The Shivas - Mr Marmalade ("Underground Sunshine - Your Psych Tunes Vol 4" 2008 Portland Oregon, USA)

Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix - The Brothel in Rosenstrasse ("The New World's Fair" LP 1975 UK)

Baby Woodrose - Open Doors ("Freedom" 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Cleaners from Venus - Wivenhoe Bells II ("Midnight Cleaners" cassette 1982 UK)

Flared - American Dream ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 Sweden)

King Suffy Generator - Mucillanggine ("Last Night The Flowers Bloomed - Your Psych Tunes Vol 6" 2008 Italy)

Joy as a Toy - Ghost Train ("Mourning Mountains" 2016 Belgium)

Polska Radio One - New Space (Cassette Single 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Alan Avon and the Toyshop - Night To Remember (7" single [b-side to "These Are the Reasons"] 1970)

Ramblers - Ride On ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 [recorded in 1987] Orange, France)

Karova's Milkshake - Hey Girl ("Low-Cow-Motion" 2010 Russia)

Technicolour Dreaming

I don’t know whether I was thinking on a subconscious level about Australia’s change of Prime Minister the previous evening, when making musical selections for the show, but the tracks by Scott Walker, The Lovetones, Jason Crest and Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. all seemed to fit the feel of the moment! I played a couple of recent Adelaide releases - Black Coral, whose EP, “The Big Nothing” came out in August, and the very new, very exclusive “Ya Dig?” EP by Snobby Oxalis; plus a good assortment of Melbourne bands featured also - Murlocs, Witch Hats, and the inimitable King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.  A great melody has always been a Technicolour Dreaming favourite, with tracks from The Left Banke, The Turtles, The Monkees  and The Story UK and Quilt all fitting the bill nicely, and proving that there are still bands today carrying on the tradition. Speaking of The Turtles, I’ve included a clip from the trailer of “Guide for the Married Man”, their second foray into the land of movie music, the first being a track for the 1966 movie “Out of Sight” a spoof of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." - look it up, it’s so bad it’s good!   

…so here’s the playlist for the show, with (a hell of a lot of) associated visuals…

The Lovetones - Genius     ("Meditations" 2006 Australia)

The Story UK - A Stone's Throw Away     ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again [Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime]     ("Scott 4" LP 1969 UK)

Jason Crest - Black Mass     ( 7” single b-side [to “A Place in the Sun”] 1969 UK)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford     ("Ya Dig? EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Octopus Syng - It's Not a Coincidence     ("Reverberating Garden Number 7" 2014 Finland)

Black Coral - Chemical Reasoning     ("Big Nothing" EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Below Your Deepest Expectations     ("8" 2014 Denmark/France)

The Turtles - Guide for the Married Man   (7” single 1967 USA)

and the trailer for the movie:

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

The Turtles - Chevrolet Camaro Commercial     ("Save the Turtles - Greatest Hits" compilation 2009 USA)

The Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head     (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache     (“Paper Mache Dream Balloon” LP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Lumerians - Burning Mirrors      (“Transmalinnia” 2011 Oakland, California USA)

Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor     (“Mutilator Defeated at Last” 2015 San Francisco, USA)

The Greek Theatre - Frozen Highway     (“Lost Out At Sea” LP 2014 UK)

Quilt - Eye of the Pearl     (“Held in Splendour” 2014 Boston USA)

July - The Way     (7” single b-side [to “Hello, Who’s There?” 1968 Ealing, London UK)

Momus - Poison boy friend     (7” single b-side [to “Right Hand Heart” 1988 Scotland, UK)

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 USA)

Terry Manning - Guess Things Happen That Way      (“Home Sweet Home” LP 1967 USA)

The Monkees - Daily Nightly [alternative version]     (“Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd” LP  1967 USA)

Witch Hats - Slow Eyes     (“Pleasure Syndrome” 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - It's a Happening Thing     (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967  California USA)

Daddy Dewdrop - March of the White Corpuscles     (7” single 1972 Los Angeles, USA)

Murlocs - Control Freak     (“Loopholes”  2014 Melbourne, Australia)

New Dream - You've Got That Certain Style     (7” single b-side [to “Catchin’ Up On Fun”] 1969 Australia)

Blair Smith - Echoes     (7” single b-side [to “Vision of Molly”] 1968 USA)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - The Worlds on Fire     (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

And an extra clip, cos I felt like it!

The Story UK - Standing in the Rain  ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)