Obscured By..

Original 60s psychedelic rock taking in classical, country and Merseybeat elements, followed by modern gypsy thrash.  David Bowie sings The Beatles - or does he?   Endearingly awful song poems (lyrics written by amateurs and put to music on a disc for a fee by bored session musos), preceded by 80s Japanese electronica.   60s Adelaide beat.  60s beat from elsewhere.  Remembering the 5th anniversary of Billy Thorpe's passing.  Plenty more.  It all makes perfect sense, at least in the Obscured By... universe - hosted this week by Michael Hunter.

The Sunsets  Bye Bye Goodbye  7" single  1965  Australia (NSW)
The Feelgoods  Le Soleil  7" single 1966  Aust (NSW)
The Groove  With This Ring   7" single (B of Simon Says)  1967 Aust (Melb) 
The Mixtures  Music Music Music  7" single 1967  Aust (Melb)
Hush  Get The Feeling  7" single 1973  Aust  (Syd) 

The United States Of Existence  Volunteer Fireman  "Introducing"  1986, US
The Cornflake Zoo  Rainy Day  "The End Of The Beginning" EP  1986, Sweden

Tyrnaround  Suicidal Flowers  "Colour Your Mind" EP  1986  Australia (Melb)
The Chesterfield Kings  Satisfaction Guaranteed   "Here Are The Chesterfield Kings" 1983, US

The Satelliters  She Got All The Cards  "Shapes Of Sound"  1997, Germany
Vanilla Fudge  Phase One:  Eighteenth Century: Variations on a Theme by Mozart: Divertimento No. 13 In F Major / Nineteenth Century: Old Black Joe / Twentieth Century: Don't Fence Me In -  In The Mood - Hound Dog  -  Beatles medley  "The Beat Goes On"  1968, US
The Crooked Fiddle Band  What The Thunder Said  "Overgrown Tales"  2011, Australia (Sydney)
The Blue Streaks  Take It Easy  single c.1964  Aust (Adelaide)
Machine Gun Kelly's Rejects  I'm Going Back  "Big Beat Cellar Scene" demo 1967  Aust (Adelaide)
The Syssys  Take A Heart  single 1966 Aust (Adelaide)
Animation Unlimited  Big Bad Woman  "Big Beat Cellar Scene" demo 1967  Aust (Adelaide)
The Twilights  If She Finds Out   single 1966 Aust (Adelaide) 

Greyhound  Black And White  single, 1971  UK / Jamaica

David Bowie  Penny Lane  "Hits '67" UK, 1967  There is some debate as to whether this is Bowie or a different, anonymous session singer.  It does sound like him though...

Cromagnon  Crow Of The Black Tree  "Cave Rock" (AKA "Orgasm")  1969  US
Ryuchi Sakamoto  Riot In Lagos  orig. 12" single 1980, from "Ongaku 80" comp 2011, Japan
Lizard  Modern Beat  "Lizard" 1979 / "Ongaku 80" comp 2011, Japan
Bobbi Blake  Rock Rock Beat  song poem 7" single   released ?  US
Dick Kent  Smiling Farmer - The President  song poem 7" single   released ?  US
Ira Cook  What Is A Girl?  7" single, 1958  US
Forest  Don't Want To Go  "Forest"  1969, UK
Billy Thorpe  Marakesh  "Tangier"  2010, Australia

Obscured By...

The main highlight of this particular Obscured By... was a chat and a couple of live to air songs by Yours Truly (Ken Stewart & David Robinson) - but a solo Michael Hunter also presented a brand new recording by the reformed 1960s Aztecs, a track by Mayfield's Mule featuring Andy Scott on guitar (pre-The Sweet) from an album only released in Uruguay, an unreleased Roaring Jack demo, Flaming Lips covering Radiohead as part of an exploration of rarities from the F section of the Three D library, some UK 60s psych and much more.   (Was that the longest sentence ever?)  And there was much rejoicing.

The Twilights  Found To Be Thrown Away  'Once Upon A Twilight'  orig 1968
La De Da's  Civic Pride  'The Happy Prince'  NZ, orig 1969
Celibate Rifles  Boys! (What Did The Detective Say?)  'Earth Music' EP 1994
Flowers  Send Somebody  live, Melbourne 1980, via the Icehouse Facebook page (though apparently unavailable for download now)

Harry Young & The Original Aztecs  Sick & Tired  'At The End Of The Rainbow'  2011 - a brand new CD by the original 60s Aztecs with new lead singer, mix of old and new songs.

In studio interview with Ken Stewart and David Robinson - Yours Truly - in town to launch their CD "Shining Light" - Ken was interviewed by phone earlier this year as part of the Urban Guerillas.
Live to air songs - 1. I Will   2. Say Goodbye
Roaring Jack  We Don't Play No Elton Fucking John  demo, late 1980s
Urban Guerillas  Taking My Ball  'And The Wind Brought Change' 2007
David Robinson  Monday Bloody Monday   'A Drop In The Ocean'  2000
Yours Truly  Shining Light  'Shining Light'  2011


Okkervil River  April Anne  Daytrotter Studios 2007
Mayfield's Mule   Here Comes The Rain  'Mayfield's Mule'  UK 1970
Tomorrow  My White Bicycle  UK, orig single 1967

Syd Barrett  Octopus  UK, orig single 1969 / 'The Madcap Laughs' 1970 

Nirvana  Rainbow Chaser  UK, orig single 1968

Tyrannosaurus Rex  Once Upon The Seas Of Abyssinia  UK, various comps, rec c 1968



Five Style  Waiting On The Eclipse  US, single 1994
Flaming Lips  Knives Out  'Fight Test' EP,  US 2002

The Four Tops  Light My Fire  US, 'Soul Spin'  1969
Foreshore  Wannabe  demo, Adelaide band 2001

Cressida  Munich  'Cressida / Asylum'   (2CD reissue of both the band's LPs)  UK, orig rel 1971

Obscured By...

Another  jumble of genres and eras was exposed for your listening pleasure again this week by your hosts, Michael Hunter and Peter Brat... from rare Australian 60’s singles such as the Union’s tribute to a Melbourne discotheque, through a batch of songs for fans of Northern Soul from the likes of Tommy Hunt and Eartha Kitt, to some surfabilly courtesy of Continental magazine... and from the European beat of the Shake Spears to psychedelia from Indonesia and Iran, with some New Orleans voodoo from Dr John, the Night Tripper on the side! We dug into the 3D Radio Library for J, our “letter of the week” and also played some tracks in tribute to the late Jackie Levens ...

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

the Union – The Thump     (7”single 1965 Melbourne, Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Zip a Dee Doo Dah     (‘On Stage’ EP 1965 Australia)

the Vibrants – The Letter Song     (7”single 1967 Aust.)

the La De Das – Come and Fly with Me     (‘The Happy Prince’ LP 1965 New Zealand)

Sons of the Vegetal Mother – Love is the Law     (‘Garden Party’ EP 1970 Aust.)

Jack Montgomery – Don’t turn your back on me     (7”single 1965 USA)

Tommy Hunt – Just a little taste of your sweet loving     (7”single 1968 USA)

Roy Hamilton – Let the music play     (recorded 1966, released 1997 on ‘Rare, Collectible and Soulful’ CD compilation USA)

Garnet Mimms – It was easier to hurt her     (7”single 1965 USA)

Eartha Kitt – There Comes a Time     (7”single 1965 USA)

         ... 3 Tracks from the ‘Continental’ magazine bonus CD 2004 USA :

   Los Derrumbes – MK 11     (unreleased)

   Pollo Del Mar – Charlie Don’t Surf     (7”single on the MuSick label)

   the Hexxers – Knockin’ on Gravestones     (7”single on the Golly Gee label)

the Bunnys – Moanin’     (7”single 1964 Japan)

the Shake Spears – I Can’t Tell     (7”single 1965 Belgium)

Doll By Doll – Caritas     (‘Doll By Doll’ LP 1981 UK)

Jackie Leven – Call Mother a Lonely Field     (‘The Mystery of Love is greater than the Mystery of Death’ CD 1994 UK)

Robert Wyatt – At Last I am Free     (7”single 1980 UK)

Johnny Average Band – Ch-Ch-Cherie     (‘Some People’ LP 1980 USA)  *

the Jumpers – Girl and Toy     (‘Galimatias Amoureaux’ EP 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)  *

Jock Hobbs League – Your Charm is Fictional     (demo 2005 Adelaide)  *

Robert James – Painted Room     (‘Suzanna Suite’ CD 1999 Australia)  *

AKA – Suez War     (‘Hard Beat : 1971-1977 anthology’ CD compilation 2011 Indonesia)

Kourosh Yaghmaei – Ashiooneh     (‘Back from the Brink : Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran 1973-79’  CD compilation 2011)

Dr John, the Night Tripper – Familiar Reality     (‘The Sun, Moon and Herbs’ LP 1971 USA)

Web – Love You     (‘i Spider’ LP 1970 UK)

the Pacifics – Slowly But Surely     (7”single 1964 Australia)

     *    ‘Letter of the Week’

Obscured By... Sept 27 2011

Diversity within obscurity.  Japanese post punk, a dodgy Dylan cover, recently unearthed Indonesian and Iranian psych rock, a dodgy Rock Hudson song, some rare Five Sided Circle recorded live in Adelaide 2 days previously, early Ian Dury and Joe Strummer, a dodgy mash-up, a visit to the "Q" section of the Three D library - and more.  All on the critically acclaimed show known as "Obscured By...", hosted this week by Michael Hunter.   (Critical acclaim entirely made up.)

Gene Pierson  Reach Out I'll Be There  (single Aust 1970)
Bakery  Holocaust  ("Momento" LP Aust  1972)
Spectrum  Soul Man  ("Breathing Space As Well" CD Aust 2011)
Five Sided Circle  Jackie's Thing  (live, Adelaide Sept 25 2011)  The song was written by 5SC guitarist Trevor McNamara for the band Musick Express in 1970 but he had not performed it live himself until this gig.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crOqKb3S5og

Tracks from "Ongaku 80" comp CD (2011) - Japanese post punk etc:
Riuichi Sakomoto  Riot In Lagos
Portray Heads  Elaborate Dummy
Phew  Urahara
PTAs  Woo-Guy After Dark

Q Feel  Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be Bop)  (single UK 1982)
Denis Quinn  Journey To A Remarkable Place ("Open Secret" CD UK 1987)
Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band  Half A Boy & Half A Man  ("Caught In The Act!" LP 1985)

Kilburn & The High Roads  Rough Kids  ("Handsome" LP UK 1974)
The 101ers  Letsagetabitarockin'  ("Elgin Avenue Breakdown"  LP UK 1975)
Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club  Video Killed The Radio Star (original version)  ("English Garden" LP UK 1979)
DJY Alias JY  Don't Let It Be In Anger  (Beatles vs Oasis mash up)
Urban Guerillas  Here Come The Americans  (CD single Aust 2005)

AKA  Glenmore  ("Hard Beat"- comp 2011 of Indonesian band's recordings 1971-77)
Chetarca  Chetarca  ("Chetarca" LP Aust 1975)
Kourosh Yaghmaei   Niyayesh (Praise)  ("Back From The Brink" 2CD of pre-revolution Iranian psych artist)

Rock Hudson  Blessings In Shades Of Green  ("Rock, Gently" LP US  1970)
Les Miserables  Une Lettre (The Letter)  (single Canada 1967)
Serge Gainsbourg  Initials BB  (single France 1967)
Messieurs Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta  La Drogue  (single France 1967)
Chris Roberts  Blowin' In The Wind  ("Love Me" LP Germany 1972)

Sevil And Ayla  Irgat  ("Turkish Freakout 2" comp CD 2011)

Technicolour Dreaming - 27th April 2011

The Cat & the Brat took the name ‘Technicolour Dreaming’ in tribute to the legendary London ‘musical happening’ at Alexandria Palace, “the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream”, on April 29^th 1967... therefore it seemed appropriate in the week of its 44^th anniversary to play one of the songs featuring the name... hence the track by Status Quo. We also played a bunch of 60’s Australian singles plus some modern psych successors such as Les Annees, the Asteroid Belt, Brightblack Morning Light and the now-defunct Mona Lisa Overdrive; plus, of course, ‘the Monkees song of the week’ and the final showing of the April ‘Album of the Month’ by Moon Duo... hmmmm, wonder what will be May’s?

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

the Human Beinz – April 15^th (Ah Feel Like Ahcid : US Psych from EMI vaults – comp.)

the Koobas – Barricades (Insane Times : UK Psych from EMI vaults – comp.)

Johnny Young – Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You (Surprises LP 1968 Aust.)

Normie Rowe – Going Home (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – Ain’t It Strange (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Hugo – Girl in the Garden (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Aust.)

Terry Britten – 2000 Weeks (7”single 1969 Adelaide)

the Executives – Movin’ in a Circle (7”single 1968 Sydney Aust.)

the Throb – Black (7”single 1966 Sydney)

Running Jumping Standing Still – Diddy Wah Diddy (7”single 1967 Melbourne Aust.)

Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man (Cave of Clear Light – UK comp.)

Status Quo – Technicolour Dreams (the Technicolour Dreams of Status Quo – comp.)

the Asteroid Belt – Slant Six (Blank Horizon)

Brightblack Morning Light – Past a weather-beaten fence post (Motion to Rejoin)

Les Annees – Vermillion Days (Les Annees)

Trespassers William – Vapour Trail [Ride cover-version] (Different Stars)

Bikini Atoll – Then Amplify (Moratoria)

the Merry-Go-Round – Listen, Listen (LA Nuggets: Where the Action Is – comp.)

Procession – Listen (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Moon Duo – When You Cut (Mazes) #

Mona Lisa Overdrive – It’s Just Too Much (demo 2009 Adelaide)

the Monkees – Last Train to Clarkesville (Monkees Music Box) *

# April Album of the Month

* Monkees Song of the Week

Obscured By... April 19th, 2011

Michael Hunter & Peter Brat were the ‘dots’ this week on “Obscured by...”, once again presenting the rarely heard, obscure or forgotten music they enjoy bringing to their listening audience’s attention. From Paul McCartney’s 2000 project with Super Furry Animals and Youth et al, “Liverpool Sound Collage”, to Australian 60’s pop singles, through UK and US late 60s psych and more, finishing with an out-take by Gary Numan, it’s an eclectic mix...

...so here is the playlist...

Johnny Young & the Strangers – Club Seventeen (theme from TV show 1965 Perth, Aust.)

Treo+1 – What you gonna do (unreleased acetate 1967 Aust.)

Lloyd’s World – Pinky Lamour (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Lloyd’s World – Goodbye, Goodbye (7”single b-side 1968 Aust.)

Toby Jugg – Dawn (7”single b-side 1970 Aust.)

Patsy Biscoe – Baby Hold Me (7”single b-side 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Paul McCartney et al – Plastic Beetle (Liverpool Sound Collage)

Thrust – Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (Hard to Beat: Aust. Tribute to the Stooges, comp. LP)

Exploding White Mice – Down on the Street (7”single 1986 Adelaide, Aust.)

Seminal Rats – I Need Somebody (Hard to Beat...)

the Nomads – I’m Five Years Ahead of my Time (7”single 1985 Sweden)

the Crimson Shadows – Even I Tell Lies (A Real Cool Time Revisited, comp.)

Comus – Song to Comus (First Utterance)

Mungo Jerry – I Just Want to make Love to you (Mungo Jerry)

John Kongos – Confusions About a Goldfish (Cave of Clear Light, comp. UK)

the Perfection – 3 Rooms & Running Water (7”single 1968 Melbourne, Aust.)

Denise Drysdale – Baby Weemus (7”single 1967 Melbourne)

Silk’n’Dreams – Leave Me Be (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Bobby Bright – Midnight Preaching (7”single 1967 Melbourne)

Zeptepi – Ace of Spades (live at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide 2011)

Nino Tempo & April Stevens – I love how you love me (LA Nuggets: Where the Action Is, comp. US)

Noel Harrison – Life is a Dream (7”single 1967 USA)

Rick Nelson – Marshmellow Skies (Another Side of Rick)

Del Shannon – I think I love you (The Further Adventures of Charles Westover)

Gary Numan – M.E. (out-take from ‘The Pleasure Principle’ LP)