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)   #

 

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Technicolour Dreaming

As we gear up here for next week’s 3D Radiothon 2012, we felt we should up the local and Australian quotient in preparation, which was easy since there were so many new releases fitting that bill which demanded to be played! There were new singles from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the Demon Parade, EPs from a bunch of local acts including the Sunbirds, Steering By Stars and Sleeptalker, as well as albums from Wolfmother/redsunband offshoot Good Heavens and the Laurels. But it was not all new stuff... as always, we parted the mists of time and played lost gems by Lotus, the Psychedelic Furs and Echo & the Bunnymen, plus a track by the Popinjays from their 1992 ‘covers’ EP,and one from Canada’s High Dials, taken from Psychedelica 4, the most recent of Northern Star Records excellent compilation series before finishing with our current “Artiste of the Month”, the late great Baterz.....

... so here is the full playlist from your curators, the Cat & the Brat...

the Sand Pebbles – Altered Images      (‘Atlantis Regrets Nothing’ 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

the Flower Machine – LA in the Rain     (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 USA)

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

Steering by Stars – Shallow Breath     (‘Ties That Bind’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Swimming – Like Minds Colliding     (‘Swimming’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Lotus – Lotus 1     (7”single 1971 Australia)

the Selfish Cales – Psychedelic Eyes     (‘the Selfish Cales 11’ EP 2012 Italy)

the Demon Parade – She’s Gonna Be a Star     (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Marlow – Always there     (CDsingle pre-release 2012 Aust.)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody 70’s Love     (7”single 2004 USA)

Sures – The Sun     (‘Stars’ EP 2012 Sydney, Aust.)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Elbow     (CDsingle 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Headset – Action Man     (‘Antipodean Screams - Vol. 1’ compilation 2003 Aust.)

the Laurels – This City is Coming Down     (‘Plains’ 2012 Aust.)

Good Heavens – Are You Sick?      (‘Strange Dreams’ 2012 Aust.)

Sleeptalker – Wolves     (‘Sleeptalker’ cdEP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Napoleon XIV – They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Popinjays – Rain [Beatles cover]     (‘I’m a Believer’ cdEP 1992 UK)

Echo & the Bunnymen – People are Strange [Doors cover]      (12”single 1987 UK)    

the Teardrop Explodes – Strange House in the Snow      (‘Kirimanjalo’ mini-LP 1980 Japan-only release/UK)

the Psychedelic Furs – Imitation of Christ     (‘the Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)

the High Dials – Space Hobo     (‘Moon Country’ 2008 Montreal, Canada  – taken from ‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)

the See See – Keep Your Head     (7”single 2009 UK)

Baterz – Spider Mother     (‘Out of Hell’ 2000 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

     #  “Artiste of the Month”