Technicolour Dreaming

Which to go with, the old or the new? With so much great music to choose from, both from our own collection, and Three D Radio’s massive vinyl and CD library, we often find it hard to decide which songs will make the cut each week! Two hours just never seems to be enough, especially when there are so many great new bands we want to introduce to you, the listener, without sacrificing the old favourites, the obscure gems, and those that deserve to be known better. But all in all, we think that we manage to pick a pretty great bunch of tracks for your listening pleasure each week – we hope you agree!

...... so here is this week's playlist plus a few visuals we hope will divert/intrigue/amuse .....

Lou Reed – Berlin/Lady Day         (‘Berlin’ LP 1973 USA)

Wooden Wand – Baby, You’re a Rich Man [Beatles cover]         (recorded 2012 USA – taken from ‘Mojo Presents: Yellow Submarine Resurfaces’ compilation 2012 UK)

Steve Mason – A Lot of Love        (‘Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time’ 2013 Scotland, UK)

the Demon Parade – Open Up Your Mind         (CD-single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Wire – A Mutual Friend         (‘154’ LP 1979 UK)

Jason Falkner – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More [Eno cover]       (‘Can You Still Feel?’ vinyl LP 1999 USA)

the Black Hollies – The Autumn Chateau         (‘Casting Shadows’ 2008 Philadelphia, USA)

Jacco Gardner – Puppets Dangling        (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 UK)

 

the Straight Arrows – Can’t Count         (‘The First 2 7”s’ vinyl EP 2013 Sydney, Aust.)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Trench Foot         (‘New Centre of the Universe’ compilation 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Love Parade – Doorful of Windows         (‘King Me’ 2013 Sydney, Aust.)

Del Shannon – New Orleans [Mardi Gras]          (‘The Further Adventures of Charles Westover’ 1967 USA)

Normie Rowe – She Used to be Mine         (‘It Ain’t Necessarily So, But it Is…Normie Rowe!’ LP 1965 Aust.)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Leiyla         (‘Part 1’ LP 1967 USA)

Michel Polnareff – Le roi des fourmis         (‘Ame Caline’ 7”EP 1967 France)

the Lemon Pipers – Love, Beads and Meditations         (‘Jungle Marmalade’ LP 1968 USA)

Dark Ocean Colours – My Barbara Closed the Door         (‘Dark Ocean Colours’ 2012 USA)

the Moles – Ginger Tom         (‘Future Sounds of Ashton’ 2011 Wales, UK)

the Gooch Palms –Participant No. 9         (‘RU 4 Sirius?’ vinyl EP 2013 Sydney, Aust.)

Happyland – Do You Know Who I Am?         (CD-single 1996 Aust.)

Prisoners – For Now and Forever         (‘The Wisermiserdemelza’ LP 1983 UK)

Lene Lovich – I Think We’re Alone Now [Tommy James cover - Japanese language version]         (‘Stateless’ LP [Japanese Release bonus track] 1978 UK)

Jim Noir – The Cheese of Jim’s Command         (‘Jimmy’s Show’ 2013 UK)

nick nicely – Treeline         (7”single b-side [to DCT Dreams] 1980 UK – taken from ‘Psychotropia’ anthology 2003 UK)

Ultravox! – The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned         (‘Ultravox!’ LP 1977 UK)

Django Django – Skies over Cairo         (‘Djamgo Django’ 2012 UK)

the Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Spontaneous Apple Creation          (‘The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’ LP 1968 UK)

Carlton Melton – Photos of Photos         (‘Photos of Photos’ 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was another stylistic and regional meander this week. Beginning with a spot of late 70’s electronic rock from John Foxx’s Ultravox, Suicide and the original Human League, plus a couple of current Adelaide purveyors of similar ilk, Nekkro-Electro and Radio Spectacular, we then ventured into more psychedelic waters, featuring, amongst others, the Dolly Rocker Movement, Colour TV, the Deaths and a track from the wonderful  new Higher State album. Add some songs from a clutch of new releases including the Molting Vultures, the Hives and Major Tom & the Atoms plus a few 60’s singles from the likes of the Seeds before closing with the final appearance of the Lovetones as our ‘Band of the Month’ and there it is... another edition of  Technicolour Dreaming from the Cat & the Brat.....

.....and here is the full playlist.....

Ultravox – Rock Wrok     (7”single 1977 UK)

the Human League – Only After Dark [Mick Ronson cover]     (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)

Nekkro-Electro – Fiends     (‘Terminal Crazies’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Radio Spectacular – Tricks Are For Kids     (demo 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)

Suicide – Creature Feature [live]     (‘First Rehearsal Tapes 1975’ – taken from bonus disc with ‘Suicide’ [2^nd album] reissue – New York, USA)

the Deaths – Turn for the Worst     (‘Centralia’ 2008 Minnesota, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Gaz Hilarant     (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

Les Liminanas – I know there’s an answer [Beach Boys cover]    (2012 France – taken from ‘Mojo: Pet Sounds Revisited’)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – My Heavenly Way     (‘Our Days Mind The Tyme’ 2009 Aust.)

the Higher State – These Things Take Time     (‘Freakout at the Gallery’ 2012 UK)

the Byrds – Why     (7”single b-side 1966 USA – taken from ‘Full-Flyte: 1965-1970’ Australia-only anthology 1990 on Raven Records)

Colour TV – Malacoota      (‘Lisp’ 2006 Melbourne, Aust.)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Bad Blood     (‘Beat the Devil’s Tattoo’ 2010 USA)

Stonefield – Bad Reality     (‘Bad Reality’ 2012 Aust.)

the She-Creatures – Radar     (‘the She-Creatures’ EP 2009 UK)

the Hives – 1000 Answers     (‘Lex Hives’ 2012 Sweden)

Major Tom & the Atoms – Last Dance of the Lizard King     (‘Shake It Till You Break It’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Ashram Poets – Mirage     (‘Corpios’ 2012 Aust.)

the Molting Vultures – Drop In & Go     (album version – ‘Get On Board’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Seeds – Bad Part of Town     (7”single 1970 USA)

the Ron-De-Vous  – Trip So Wild     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Bedroom Philosopher – Sudanese     (‘Songs from the 86 Tram’ 2010 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Lovetones – Journeymen [Anton Newcombe mix]     (‘Dimensions’ 2005 Aust.)   #

       #  “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

Beginning again with a clutch of 60’s Australian rarities, including the 1961 collaboration of Vicky Simms, a 13-year-old indigenous boy, with perennial instrumental band, the Joyboys, an unreleased recording by Procession and a great Tony Worsley single, this week’s presenters, the Cat and the Brat, ranged through time and place, vinyl and CD, to bring you the late 70’s/early 80’s electronic delights of Ultravox! and the Human League, some Finnish psychedelia from Eero Koivistoinen and a couple of tracks from the classic 1981 film “Urgh! A Music War”. We raided the extensive 3D Radio Library to pick random G selections for our regular “Letter of the Week” feature, which included the Welsh sunshine pop of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and a children’s song by Professor Elliot Gnash, and ending this week’s episode with the Dandy Warhols take on the Cure....

.....and here is the full playlist.....

the Echomen – Ski Run     (7”single 1963 Australia)

Chris Hall and the Torquays – Don’t ask me why     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Procession – I Love My Dog [Cat Stevens cover]     (unreleased : from ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Australia)

Vicky Simms and the Joyboys – I wanna bop     (7”single 1961 Australia)

Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays – How Can It Be     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Blue Day     (7”single 1964 Australia)

the Godz – Turn On     (‘Contact High With the Godz’ LP 1966 USA)

Galliard – Ask for Nothing     (‘New Dawn’ LP 1971 UK)

Eero Koivistoinen – Small Games inside an Urban Limousine     (1968 – taken from ‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974’ CD compilation 2006 Finland)

Kim Fowley – Strangers from the Sky     (7”single 1967 USA)

Hans Poulson – Comin’ Home the Long Way     (‘Lost and Found’ LP 1972 Australia)

Shel Silverstein – Have another Expresso     (‘Inside Folk Songs’ LP 1962 USA)

the Human League – WXJL Tonight     (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)

Kollectiv – Rambo Zambo     (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Ultravox! – The man who dies everyday     (‘Ha! Ha! Ha!’ LP 1977 UK)

Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse     (recorded 1980 NYC – taken from ‘Urgh! A Music War’ double-LP compilation 1981 USA)

the Au Pairs – Come Again     (recorded 1980 London – from ‘Urgh! A Music War’)

Green On Red – Death and Angels     (‘Green On Red’ EP 1982 USA)

the Rain Parade – You are my friend     (‘Explosions in the Glass Palace’ LP 1984 USA)

the Long Ryders – Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today     (‘State of our Union’ 1986 USA)

Thee Wylde Maniacs – Why (love ain’t fair)     (7” single 1966 USA – taken from ‘Bam Caruso Waxworks Vol. 1’ compilation CD)

George W. Bush – El Dorado     (split 7” EP with the St Alban Kids 2003 Adelaide, Australia)   #

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Miss Trudy      (‘Llanfwrog’ EP 1998 Wales, UK)   #

Professor Elliot Gnash – It’s Heaps Good in the Garden     (‘The most groovy album ever’ 2004 Adelaide, Australia)   #

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Dead-Beat     (‘Willoughby Beach’ 2011 Australia)   #

Redd Cross – Disco Bitch     (‘Jimmy’s Fantasy’ cdEP 1993 USA)

the Dandy Warhols – Primary [Cure cover]     (‘NME: Picture This - a tribute to the Cure’ CD 2009 UK)

       # “Letter of the Week”