Technicolour Dreaming

We started off this week with a classic suite from the 1977 debut album by the Stranglers which was certainly a highlight of their live shows in that period, as can be personally attested. From there we ventured far and wide, with an as-yet-unreleased Barbarellatones track kindly sent to us by Robbie, their singer/guitarist, a song from Gary Numan’s “Pleasure Principle“ LP, a dreamy psychedelic take on an early Beatles song by Jacco Gardner, the new mono reissue of a Seeds favourite, a recent Raveonettes EP cut and, near the end, the Damned’s psych/punk tour de force from “The Black Album”. We also featured, amongst others, some tracks from another Psychic Circle label ‘sike-pop’ compilation of 60’s obscurities, one from the brilliant new Hidden Masters debut, the Marty Rhone version of the Michel Polnareff song we featured last week [by Vibravoid] and finally, a classic from Todd Rundgren who is currently touring here in Australia – a must-see show!

..... and so here is the playlist plus some eye-candy!.....

the Stranglers – Down in the Sewer [suite]     (“Stranglers 1V - Rattus Norvegicus” LP 1977 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Artificially Inseminate my Love      (demo 2013 USA)

Man or Astro-Man? – Sadie Hawkins Atom Bomb      (“Is It…Man or Astro-Man?” LP 1993 Alabama, USA)

John Cooper-Clarke – Psycle Sluts 1&2      (“Disguise in Love” LP 1978 UK)

Gary Numan – Metal      (“The Pleasure Principle” LP 1979 UK)

the Ears – The Lolly Hater      (7” single b-side [to Scarecrow] 1981 Melbourne, Australia)

Jacco Gardner – You Really Got a Hold on Me      (“Mojo: We’re With the Beatles” compilation 2013 UK/Netherlands)

Cate Le Bon – The Eiggy Sea      (“Cyrk 2” mini-LP 2012 Wales, UK)

Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 Scotland, UK)

Faine Jade – A Brand New Groove      (“Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital” LP 1968 USA)

the Peanut Butter Conspiracy – It’s a Happening Thing      (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967 USA)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer [mono version]      (“A Web Of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Sight & Sound – Little Jackie Monday      (7”single b-side [to Alley, Alley] 1968 Birmingham, UK – taken from “Let’s Ride: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol.3” compilation 2008 UK)

Winston G. – Riding with the Milkman      (7”single 1967 London, UK)

Rescue Co. No. 1 – Gotta Find You      (7”single 1971 UK)

Les Irrésistibles – My Year is a Day      (7”single 1968 France/USA)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No [Michel Polnareff cover/adaption]      (7”single b-side [to Tell Me Love] 1967 Australia)

Clinic – I Wanna Get You (Woman) [Loons cover]      (7”split-single [with the Loons] 2010 UK/USA)

the Raveonettes – Night Comes Out      (“Into The Night” EP 2012 Sweden)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Girl on the Street      (“Antenna to the Afterworld” 2013 USA)

Hidden Charms – Please Give Me Something      (“A Real Cool Time” compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Mick Farren & the Deviants – Let’s Loot the Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer      (“Screwed Up” EP 1977 London, UK)

the Damned – Curtain Call       (“The Black Album” double-LP 1979 London, UK)

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Heavy Metal Kids      (“Another Live” LP 1975 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Ant and Dan from Adelaide’s conquering psych heroes, Ride Into The Sun, were welcomed back from their recent US tour, which centred on their well-received appearance at the 2013 Austin Psych Fest, as interviewees & guest programmers on this week’s show. We also previewed tracks from their new, self-titled mini-LP [available in a very limited edition on psychedelic, multi-coloured vinyl, as well as on CD] which will be launched here on Saturday 6^th July, when they play alongside the Morning After Girls and Archers at ‘Jive’ in Hindley Street... certainly a contender for ‘gig of the year’! The guys had lots of stories to share from their sojourn in the US and played tracks by some of the bands they encountered, including the Black Ryder, Singapore Sling and, of course, festival hosts the Black Angels. Also thrown into the mix of sounds were Spain’s Los Chicos, German psychedelicists Sula Bassana and the debut of Adelaide’s the Byzantines plus the latest single by Pond, a classic b-side from the Stems and a track from the new Mikal Cronin LP, finishing with a French 60’s single by Les Yper Sound which was later used in the theme for TV’s ‘Futurama’.....

..... so here is the playlist plus some visuals.....

the Byzantines – Punch On      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Mikal Cronin – Am I Wrong      (‘MC11’ 2013 USA)

Sula Bassana – Underground      (‘Dark Days’ 2012 Germany)

the Teardrop Explodes – Bouncing Babies [orig. version]      (7”single 1979 UK)

Los Chicos – War or Party      (‘In the Age of Stupidity’ 2013 Spain)

Pond – Xanman       (CD-single 2013 Perth, Australia)

Indian Puddin’ & Pipe – Hashish      (‘Fifth Pipe Dream’ compilation LP 1968 USA)

the Koala – Strange Feelings      (‘The Koala’ LP 1969 New Jersey, USA)

Dean Allen Foyd – Lovely Sort of Death      (‘The Sounds Can Be So Cruel’ 2012 Stockholm, Sweden)

Roek’s Family – Never an Everyday Thing      (7”single b-side [to Get Yourself a Ticket] 1969 Netherlands)

the Flower Machine – The Tangerine Albatross      (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 Los Angeles, USA)

Cate Le Bon – Shoeing the Bones      (‘Me Oh My’ 2009 Wales, UK)

Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser      (7”single 1968 UK)

Malibooz – Pier Pressure      (‘New Centre of the Universe Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – These Are The Ones That Shoot      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

       *  Live Studio Interview with Dan & Ant from Ride Into The Sun  *

the Morning After Girls – Run For Our Lives      (7”single 2006 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Gun Song      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Aust.)

the Stems – She’s A Monster      (7”single b-side [to Make You Mine] 1985 Perth, Australia)

Singapore Sling – Nightlife       (‘Life is Killing my Rock’n’Roll’ 2004 Reykjavík, Iceland)

the Lovetones – A New Low       (‘Provenance: Collected Works’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves      (CD-single 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – Watch Out Boy      (7”single 2012 USA)

the Black Ryder – the Greatest Fall      (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Australia)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Head Up High      (‘B.R.M.C.’ 2001 San Francisco, USA)

the Damned – White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane cover]      (extended, unreleased version recorded 1980 UK – bonus track on ‘The Black Album’ deluxe reissue 2005 UK)

the Occasional Dead Flys – Dirt [Stooges cover]      (‘A Real Cool Time - Distorted Sounds from the North’ compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Les Yper-Sound – Psyché Rock      (‘Too Fortiche’ EP 1967 France – taken from ‘Pop À Paris:  Psyché - Rock Et Minijupes,Vol.2’ compilation 2004 France)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the Psychedelic Furs debut album and a track whose title says it all, we spent the next hour and a half playing songs from various eras and locales, linked in some way by that most elastic of terms, psychedelic!... “The Damned... psych?” you may be thinking, but they proudly wore their 60’s influences... and LeighStarDust’s achingly beautiful version of Brillig’s ‘Weighed Down’? Well, there are those initials! Then there’s the current crop of paisley-patterned popsters worldwide such as Pony Face, Youngteam, the Sun Blindness and the High Dials who are updating that 60’s swirl and jangle for the 21^st century... not forgetting the Monkees... or our “band of the month”, XTC in psych-pop disguise... hmmm, not such a stretch after all for the Cat and the Brat....

..... and so here is the playlist.....

the Psychedelic Furs – We Love You      (‘The Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)

the Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat      (rec. 1976 on BBC Radio ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from disc2 of ‘Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978’ compilation boxset 2007 UK)

Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine      (‘It ain’t necessarily so, but it is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)

the Factory – Path Through the Forest      (7”single 1968 UK)

Lloyd’s World – Brass Bird      (7”single 1968 Aust.)

the High Dials – Master of the Clouds      (‘War of the Wakening Phantoms’ 2005 Montreal, Canada)

the Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth      (‘The Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1966 USA/Canada)

LeighStarDust – Weighed Down [Brillig cover]      (‘Fashion’ split EP [with Brillig] 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)

Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band – Sweet Xiao Li      (‘Second Attention’ 2006 USA)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 USA)

 

Woods – Find Them Empty      (‘Bend Beyond’ 2012 USA)

Youngteam – Not From Here      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

the Dandy Warhols – The Autumn Carnival [radio edit]      (CDsingle 2012 USA)

Tame Impala – Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything That We Could Control      (‘Lonerism’ 2012 Aust.)

Moon Duo – I Been Gone      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)

Pony Face – Alabama      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ride Into The Sun – Redneck      (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Magic Bones – Gouge Out A View      (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – I Shook      (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sun Blindness – Lazy Livin’      (‘Like Pearly Clouds’ 2008 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Monkees – You Told Me      (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Affiliated      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

 

      #   “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

We had the first three tracks by the same band under different names.  We had another sad goodbye, this time to Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys.  There were rarities that perhaps deserved to be so but we played them anyway (Bucks Fizz, Norwood Boys etc.)  We had Buddy Holly with The Hollies recorded several decades apart, along with very rare psychedelia / pop from all over the place.  Along the way were The Damned covering Jefferson Airplane, and early 70s Japanese girl group Golden Half covering The Partridge Family.  We also had all three "dots": Cat, Brat, Michael Hunter.  The whole playlist is as follows, so you can marvel at its eccentricity!

The Hi-Fi's  Step By Step  (7"single 1960 Australia)

The Cicadas  That's What I Want  (7"single 1964 Australia)

The Gibsons  City Life   (7"single 1967 Australia/UK)

Shadowfax  Sunrise To The End  (unreleased demo  c1973  Geelong, Aust)

Supernaut  Spies  (7"single 1978 Australia)

Deb Hyer  Bridge Over Troubled Water  ('One Man Band' LP 1973  US)

Norwood Boys Technical High School Fourth Year Elective Music Class 1969  In The Hall Of The Mountain King  ('Sounds Like Norwood' LP 1969  Adelaide, Aust)

Bucks Fizz  excerpts from "Bucks Fizz" LP (one-sided free promo single 1981)

Shower Scene From Psycho  Howzat  ('Exploding Hits' anthology CD 2009, rec 1985, Aust)

The Beastie Boys  Boomin' Granma  ('The Anthology: The Sounds Of Science' comp 1999, rec 1992 US)

The Actress  Good Job With Prospects  (7" single 1969 UK)

Peter & The Wolves  Smokey Wood Air  (unreleased acetate, rec 1968  UK)

Majamood  200 Million Red Ants  (7" single 1966 UK)

The Mariane  You Had Better Change Your Evil Ways  (7" single 1968 UK/US)

Arzachel (AKA Egg)   Garden Of Earthly Delights  (7" single 1969 UK)

Buddy Holly & The Hollies  Peggy Sue Got Married  ('Not Fade Away' tribute CD 1996 US/UK)

The Yankee Dollar  Reflections Of A Shattered Mind  ('Electric Coffee House' comp CD 2008, rec 1967 US)

The Black Angels  She's Not There  [Zombies cover]  (mp3 download only 2012  US)

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours  Will Ya?   (7" single B-side 1966 UK)

The Merseys  The Cat  (7" single 1966 UK)

The Happy Vegetable  Light On The Wall  (unreleased acetate 1967 US)

Evariste  Connais-Tu l'animal Qui Inventa Le Calcul Integral?   (7" single 1968 France)  

The Damned  White Rabbit  [Jefferson Airplane cover]  (7" single 1980 UK)

Fourmyula  Nature  (7" single 1969 NZ)

Apryl Fool  The Lost Mother Land (part 1)  ('Apryl Fool' LP 1969 Japan)

Golden Half  I Think I Love You  [Partridge Family cover]  ('Golden Half 2' LP c 1972 Japan)

Bodkin  Three Days After Death, Part 1  ('Bodkin' LP 1972 Scotland)

The Zoot  I'm Only Sleeping [Beatles cover]  ('The GTK Tapes Vol 1' comp CD 1994, rec 1971  Australia)

Obscured By...

Saying goodbye to Levon Helm (The Band) and Greg Ham (Men At Work) was the downside of this week's Obscured By... but the definite upside was an in-depth, live phone interview with legendary English singer-songwriter Ralph McTell.  Ralph expounded on such matters as how he acquired his first Robert Johnson LP, his love for the guitar, why a farewell tour doesn't necessarily mean goodbye, why he wasn't very happy at the time with the French & Saunders "Trial Of Ralph McTell" skit, and much more.  Also featured were some MOR versions of once great songs, a bit of US power pop and early Adelaide rock, The Damned with Lemmy on a Sweet cover et al - with host Michael Hunter somehow making sense of it all!
 
The Penny Rockets  Lovin' Woman  (Penny Rockets EP  1961 Australia, Adelaide)

Marty Rhone  Tell Me Love  (single B-side 1967 Australia)

Fraternity  Raglan's Folly  (single B-side 1971 Australia, Adelaide)

Ralph McTell  1. Blind Arthur Goes To Adelaide  (single B-side 1987 UK)  2. Moon, June & A Cajun Tune  3.  Somewhere Down The Road  4. Ghost Of Robert Johnson  5. Rosalinda (all from 'Somewhere Down The Road' CD 2010 UK)


Autumn  Kill My World  ('Comes...Autumn'  LP 1971 Australia / Aztec Music reissue CD)

Men At Work  Down Under (original recording)  (single B-side 1979 Australia)

Levon & The Hawks  The Stones That I Throw  (single 1965 Canada/US)

The Band  Chest Fever  ('Music From Big Pink' LP 1968 Canada/US)


Sensitive New Age Cowpersons  The New Australian National Anthem  (live, Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Adelaide March 2003, unreleased  Australia) 
 

The Brothers Four  Revolution  ('A Beatles' Songbook (The Brothers Four Sing Lennon/McCartney)'  LP 1966 US)

Mel Tormé  Sunshine Superman   ('Golden Throats 2' comp LP / orig. c 1966 US)

Manhattan Strings  (Theme From) The Monkees  ('The Manhattan Strings Play Instrumental Versions Of Hits Made Famous By The Monkees'  LP c 1967  US)

Mitch Miller & The Gang  Give Peace a Chance ('Peace Sing-Along' LP 1970 US)

The Nerves  Working Too Hard   ('The Nerves' EP 1976  US)

The Names  Why Can't It Be  (single 1977 US)

The Damned with Lemmy  Ballroom Blitz (single B-side 1979 / 'The Chiswick Singles... And Another Thing' comp CD 2011 UK)