Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s edition with a tribute to the Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who passed away last week, by playing ‘Crystal Ship’, a classic example of a brilliant single b-side, before moving off on an exploration of location, era and genre under the (often tenuous) shadow of ‘the psychedelic’, with artists as diverse as Psychic Ills, Jacques Dutronc, the Murlocs and the Koobas, plus a great new cover  of Tyrnaround’s classic ‘Colour Your Mind’ by Germany’s Vibravoid. Later in the programme the Cat & the Brat were joined in the studio by Mark from the Arch Menaces, to talk about their album launch this weekend at the Enigma Bar here in Adelaide... during the interview we also discussed all things ‘power-pop’ and a mutual admiration for ‘the Medway Sound’, as well as playing some selections he’d brought in by bands such as the Len Price 3, the Happy Hate Me Nots and an obscure 60’s Australian single by the Familiars extolling the virtues of ‘the hula hoop’... so go see them if you can, it should be a great show!

.....and here is the full playlist plus some moving pictures.....

the Doors – Crystal Ship      (‘The Doors’ LP 1967 USA)

 

Mark Fry – Mandolin Man      (‘Dreaming with Alice’ LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Jacques Dutronc – L’idole      (7”single 1967 France – taken from ‘Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi: Jacques Dutronc 1966-1969’ anthology 2009 France/UK)

 

Deerhunter – Neon Junkyard      (‘Monomania’ 2013 USA)

 

Palms – This Last Year      (cd-single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Vibravoid – Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensi’  2013 Germany/Italy)

 

the Pretty Things – Bracelets of Fingers      (‘S.F.Sorrow’ LP 1968 UK)

Inside Looking Out – Long Live Sivinanda      (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Splashh – Headspins      (‘Comfort’ 2013 Aust./NZ/UK)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out      (‘One Track Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Social Cell      (7”single b-side [to Time Will Come] 1967 Australia)

the Happy Hate Me Nots – You’re an Angel      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

 

the Parasites – When I’m Here With You      (‘Punchlines’ 1994 New Jersey, USA)

 

the Len Price 3 – She’s Not Really There      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2007 UK)

the Familiars – Go-Go Hula-Hoop      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Arch Menaces – Not In My World/the Link      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

 

          Interview with Mark from the Arch Menaces

 

the Lighthouse Keepers – Seven Years      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – 25 O’Clock      (’25 O’Clock’ mini-LP 1985 UK)

Giobia – Jaws      (7” EP 2010 Milan, Italy)

the Arch Menaces – Hearing the Sounds      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Prisoners – Whenever I’m Gone      (‘The Last Fourfathers’ LP 1985 UK)

the Moods – Rum Drunk      (7”single 1966 Melbourne – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers – I’m Your Witchdoctor      (7”single 1965 London, UK)

the Murlocs – Rattle the Chain      (cd-single 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

 

the Rolling Stones – The Last Time      (‘Out Of Our Heads’ LP 1965 London, UK)

the Koobas – Barricades      (‘The Koobas’ LP 1969 UK)

 

Moon Duo – Sleepwalker      (‘Circles’ 2012 San Francisco, USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s been a while since we played a song-suite, so the five tracks that compose the opus that is ‘In Held Twas I’ from Procol Harum’s second album seemed to fit the bill. From there it was off on a trip through eras and locales, fed by more of the goodies that have appeared in our post-box recently, plus a few old favourites like the Twilights, Eno and Jacques Dutronc. Highlights included songs from the debut album by Dean Allen Foyd, the Citradels, Beaulieau Porch and local heroes the Systemaddicts, as well as from older albums by Sweden’s the Works and criminally neglected 60’s L.A. garage-girls the Daisy Chain, plus a cool version of D.A.F.’s “Der Mussolini” by Green Hornet and a classic from nick nicely. Throw in the Wondermints, Jeff Duff, the Millennium and loads more and it’s another episode done and dusted by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

Procol Harum – In Held Twas I [suite]      (‘Shine On Brightly’ LP 1968 UK)

the Wondermints – Truth or Consequences      (‘Kaleidoscopin’: Exploring Prisms of the Past’ anthology 2009 USA)

the Systemaddicts – Sad Dark Eyes [Loved Ones cover]      (‘Do You Really Want My Love?’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Jeff Duff – Ziggy Stardust [Bowie cover]      (‘Fragile Spaceman’ 2011 Australia)

Psychic Ills – Mind Daze      (‘Hazed Dream’ 2011 USA)

nick nicely – Hilly Fields [1892]      (7”single 1982 – taken from ‘Psychotropia’ anthology 2010 UK)

the Seeds – I Can’t Seem to Make You Mine      (7”single 1965 Los Angeles, USA – taken from reissue of 1966 debut LP ‘The Seeds’ 2013 USA)

the Works – I Saw The Ocean      (‘The Works’ 2005 Sweden)

Dean Allen Foyd – Queen Machine      (‘The Sounds Can Be So Cruel’ 2012 Germany)

the Works –  Not The Same      (‘The Works’ 2005 Sweden)

the Rolling Stones – My Obsession      (‘Between the Buttons’ LP 1967 UK)

the Twilights – Comin’ On Down      (7”single b-side [to Tell Me Goodbye] 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

the Millennium – To Claudia on Thursday      (‘Begin’ LP 1968 California, USA)

the Beacon Street Union – The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens      (‘The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens’ LP 1968 Boston, USA)

the Daisy Chain – Zzotto      (‘Straight or Lame’ LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Doors – Wishful Sinful      (‘The Soft Parade’ LP 1968 USA)

the Gosteleradio – Crimean War Song      (‘Great Deeds Against the Dead’ 2010 Melbourne, Australia)

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

 

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow      (‘Psych-Out’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

the Citradels – Let’s Do the Mindwarp Again      (‘Psychotic Syndrone’ 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

fell – Beacon      (‘Incoherent Lullabies’ 2009 Sydney, Australia)

Green Hornet – Der Mussolini [D.A.F. cover]      (‘So Much To Give’ 2007 Groningen, Netherlands – taken from ‘Little Next Big Things - Subroutine Records’ compilation 2006 Netherlands)

Roxy Music – The Bob [medley]      (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

Eno – Driving Me Backwards      (‘Here Come the Warm Jets’ LP 1973 UK)

 

Jacques Dutronc – et Moi et Moi et Moi      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1966 France)

Christine Pilzer – Ah Hem Ho Hu Err      (7”single 1967 France)

Sullivan – Hashish Faction      (7”single 1966 France)

the Bee Gees – Coalman [demo 1966]      (‘Morning of my Life: 1965-1966’ anthology 2013 Australia)