Obscured By...

At last, all 3 ‘DOTS’, Michael and Megan and Peter, were together again to present this week’s edition of “Obscured by...”! Needless to say, with the imput of all three hosts it was an even more eclectic show than ever, ranging from Abba songs done Ramones-style, a bit of Tiny Tim, the 60’s sunshine psych of the David and a sitar-drenched instrumental by famed session drummer Hal Blaine, the original composer’s demo of a Cindy Lauper hit, the first 7” by ‘lost’ UK post-punkers Scars through to the post-LSD ramblings of self-appointed guru Kit Ream and the musings of Mr Spock. There were a cool bunch of bands featuring this week’s letter I and our usual opening set of 60’s Australian recordings... all very, dare we say it, obscure!

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

Carson – Don’t Worry     (‘Australian Rock 1971-72’ LP 1972 Australia)

the Id – In the Midnight Hour [Wilson Pickett cover]     (‘Big Time Operators’ LP 1967 Aust.)

the Dymond – Ice Cream Machine     (7” single b-side 1968 Aust.)

Lynne Randell – An Open Letter     (7” single b-side [US-only release] 1968 Aust.)

Magic – I Want To Fly     (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Gabba – Mamma Mia     (‘Gabba Leave Stockholm’ 1999 UK)

Robert Hazard – Girls Just Want to Have Fun     (demo 1979 USA)

the Zombeatles – She Dead     (‘Meat the Zombeatles’ 2009 USA)

Dread Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love     (‘Un-Led-Ed’ 1990 USA)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! [movie theme cover]     (‘Hymns of the Flesh’ 2009 Aust.)

Gabba – S.O.S.     (‘Gabba Leave Stockholm’ 1999 UK)

Kit Ream – Introversal Jam/Don’t Be So Holy Poly Over My Soul-y     (‘All That I Am’ LP 1978 USA)

the Real Don Steele – Cecil, the Unwanted French Fry     (7”single 1965 USA)

Tiny Tim – Just a Gigolo [Bing Crosby cover]     (‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips/Resurrection’ LP 1987 USA)

the David – Another Day, Another Lifetime     (‘Another Day, Another Lifetime’ LP 1968 California, USA)

Hal Blaine – Hallucinations     (‘Psychedelic Percussion’ LP 1967 USA)

I-de-al – Blaue Augen     (7”single 1982 Berlin, Germany)

Inspiral Carpets – This is how it feels [Flood remix]     (12”single 1990 Manchester, UK)

Imperial Teen – Mr and Mrs     (‘On’ 2002 USA)

Inflatable Scooterz – Willpop      (demo 2006 Adelaide, Australia)

the Velvet Underground – The Murder Mystery [alt. mix]     (taken from ‘the Velvet Underground: What Goes On’ boxset – originally recorded 1968 USA)

Gang Of Four – [Love Like] Anthrax     (7”single 1979 UK)

Scars – Horrorshow     (orig. 7”single – taken from ‘Fast Records’ compilation LP 1979 UK)

William Sheller – Living East, Dreaming West     (7”single 1970 France)

Leonard Nimoy – Highly Illogical     (‘Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy’ LP 1968 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week the Cat & the Brat featured a track from Gary Numan, who is scheduled to play a sold-out show here in Adelaide next Monday, focusing on his second album, ‘The Pleasure Principle’. We also played several singles, album tracks and demos from local bands, new and old, as well as the usual array of ‘headswirlers’: psych, garage or otherwise. Naturally, we also featured tracks from our ‘Album of the Month’ (“Meat the ZomBeatles”) and the “Monkees Song of the Week”...

...so here is the play-list...

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Loveday Carter (demo 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

The Bad Poets – Crash Sweet Crash (5MMM’s Compilation Album of Adelaide Bands 1980 : LP)

Donovan – Sunny South Kensington (Psychedelia at Abbey Road 1965 – 69 : comp.)

The Doors – Moonlight Drive (‘the Doors’ [re-issue] bonus track)

The Beacon Street Union – Recitation/My Love Is (The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Child’s Guide to Good and Evil (Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol 1 : comp.)

The Masters Apprentices – Living In a Child’s Dream (7” single 1967 Adelaide)

The Zoot – Eleanor Rigby (Zoot Locker)

Gary Numan – Airplane (The Pleasure Principle)

Nekkro Electro – Level 22 (‘Obscene Horrorfist’ demo 2011 Adelaide)

Shake 288 – Beaten to A Pulp (demo 1984 Adelaide)

The Hollies – King Midas in Reverse (The Hollies at Abbey Road : 1966 – 69)

The Dolly Rocker Movement – Memory Layne (Our Days Mynd the Tyme)

The Bees – Voices Green and Purple (‘Nuggets’ box-set comp., Disc 2)

The Atlantics – Come On (Ugly Things : Aust. 60’s comp.)

The Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action (Best Of...)

The Zombeatles – She Dead (Meat the Zombeatles) #

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood (pre-release from forth-coming CD ‘Cheap and Nasty, Soiled and Sleazy’)

Captain Beefheart – Beatle Bones and Smokin’ Stones (Before the Fall compilation)

July – I See (The Great British Psychedelic Trip Vol.1 : comp.)

Van Cleef – Kick the Hick (Where the River Meets the Rock)

the Monkees – I’m Gonna Buy Me a Dog (Monkees Music Box) *

# May ‘Album of the Month’

* ‘Monkees Song of the Week’

Technicolour Dreaming

We played a lot of 60s garage and psych goodies this week as we often do, as well as some current coolies and more. Sad to hear of the passing of Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex... Peter Brat was lucky enough to see them in 1978 at ‘the Roundhouse’ in London – a great show, which also featured [‘Dirk wears White Sox’-era] Adam & the Ants and the Adverts! We also decided on our May “Album of the Month”... and it’s “Meat the Zombeatles” by the Zombeatles! It’s the first album from “the Fab Gore”, the “undead pop combo” who are purveyors of the “No-Mercybeat Sound” and you can see a trailer for their new movie on youTube! Are they the Rutles of the 21^st century? You decide! And of course we finished this week’s show with the Monkees ‘Song of the Week’...

...so here is the playlist...

the Frantics – Just for a While (Green Crystal Ties Volume 6 : US compilation)

the Blues Magoos – Ain’t got Nothin’ Yet (Kaleidoscope Compendium)

Marty Rhone – Every Minute of You (Pretty Ugly : Aust. comp.)

the Syssys – Cadillac (Devil’s Children Volume 3 : Aust. comp.)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Time Will Come (It’s a Kave-In : Aust. comp.)

Johnny Young – Hold On (Surprises LP 1968 Aust. [recorded in UK])

the Mourning Reign – Satisfaction Guaranteed (San Francisco Nuggets - ‘Love is the Song We Sing’ : US comp.)

the DrabDooRiffs – Hot Tanya (Postcards from Uranus!)

DieselWitch – Lost in the Desert (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.))

Thee Wylde Oscars – White Light, White Heat (Right, Yeah)

the Stranglers – Something Better Change (The UA Singles: 1977 – 1982)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane (Drop In and Go)

the Systemaddicts – You Make Me (Live at the 3D Radio ‘Sound Lounge’ Dec.2010 Adelaide)

Fluffy – Nya Nya (Fluffy Loves You ... In the Baddest way)

the Zombeatles – Brain (Meat the Zombeatles) #

the Residents – A Day in the Valley of the Life (The Third Reich and Roll)

Zombina and the Skeletones – Nobody Likes you [when you’re dead] (demo 2005 USA)

Zombie Ghost Train – Girl U Want (Glad Rags and Body Bags)

Roxy Music – Amazona (Stranded)

T Rex – Ballrooms of Mars (The Slider)

X-Ray Spex – Identity (Germ Free Adolescents) R.I.P. Poly Styrene 2011

Love – 7 and 7 is (‘Forever Changes Concert’ 2005 UK)

the Monkees – Daydream Believer (Monkees Music Box) *

# May ‘Album of the Month’

* ‘Monkees Song of the Week’