Obscured By... Nov 15 2011

Possibly the first time Adelaide power pop band Young Modern has shared a double play with classical composer and folk song collector Percy Grainger!  The link being a detailed interview with YM guitarist Mark Carroll, who has co-edited a book on the life of Grainger!   Throw in some Hispanic interpretations of punk classics, some cardboard postcard discs from the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair (they had a monorail!) and some little heard Australian singles by the likes of Babeez, The Jet Set and the very obscure Terryfoot - and a few random choices from the K section of the Three D Radio library - and you have yourself another fun-filled and informative Obscured By...    Your host this week: Michael Hunter.


The Jet Set  What Did The Man Say  (single, Aust 1966)
The Newfolk  Today  (single NZ 1966)
The Gibsons  Magic Book  (single Aust / UK 1967)
Paradise  Sin  (single Aust (Adel) 1970)

Interview with Mark Carroll from Young Modern, with tracks:
Young Modern  The Big Beat  Play Faster 25th Anniversary Edition  (CD Adelaide, orig 1980 reissue 2005)
Young Modern  Girl Of Mine  How Insensitive  (CD 2007)
Percy Grainger  From 'Cowboys and Old Fiddler's Breakdown'  Pleasant And Delightful: Percy Grainger Plays Folk Songs  (orig piano roll 1921, reissue CD 1999)
Young Modern  Girl Of Mine /  Baby You Lied  Live At The Grace Emily 22.12.2010  (CD 2011)

Manic Hispanic  Mummy's Little Cholo / I'm So Bored With You Esse  The Recline Of Mexican Civilization  (CD  US 2001)
Spectrum  Brunswick St  Breathing Space As Well  (CD Aust 2011)
Ariel  (I Am) The Laughing Man  live 11.11.75  unreleased, Aust
Babeez  Nobody Wants Me  (single Aust 1977)
Terryfoot  Surfside 6  (single Aust 1980)

Kid Creole & The Coconuts  I Am  Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places  (LP US 1981)
The Kinks  How Are You  (single UK 1986)
Karate  New Martini  In Place Of Real Insight   (CD US 1997)
Tim Koch  Binoce  Please Don't Tell Me That's Your Volvo  (CD Adel 2000)


Seattle Worlds Fair 1962 cardboard discs:
Joe Juma  Invitation To The Fair  
Kelly Gates  Cafe In The Sky
The Frantics  Gayway Twist


Clear Blue Sky  The Rocket Ride  Clear Blue Sky  (CD, orig UK 1970)

Technicolour Dreaming

In the absence of the Brat, the show was presented this week by the Cat and the... Bryan. There were bands from various periods of yesteryear, such as the Purple Hearts, the Revillos and Buffalo Springfield, music from this century by the likes of Joy Zipper [when are they doing a new album? ] and Sun Shepherd and including local bands such as the Molting Vultures, Kamikaze and All The Leaves Have Fallen, plus a few favourites from whenever/wherever like Shearwater, Shower Scene From Psycho and the Monkees... and finishing with a track from the current “Album of the Month” by DieselWitch [who are one of the bands playing at this weekend’s surf festival on Kangaroo Island!]...

..... so here is the full playlist.....

Sun Shepherd – Prevails the Beast     (‘Procession of Trampling Hoof’ 2011 Perth, Australia)

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Sic Itur Ad Astra     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jay Walker & the Pedestrians – Underground St Blues     (demo 2009 Adelaide)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane     (‘Drop In & Go!’ 2009 Adelaide)

Buffalo Springfield – Go and Say Goodbye     (‘Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1967 USA)

the Chocolate Watchband – Let’s talk about girls     (‘No Way Out’ LP 1967 USA)

Mona Lisa Overdrive – Obviously Sally Mae     (‘The Up-Tight Sessions’ cdEP 2008 Adelaide)

Five Sided Circle – Cadillac    (recorded in Adelaide 1966 : taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ compilation 2009 Adelaide)

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Hugo – Girl in the Garden     (7”single 1969 Adelaide : taken from ‘Devil’s Children Vol.2’ compilation)

Donovan – No Man’s land     (Neutronica)

Russell Morris – Part 3: Into Paper Walls     (7”single 1970 Australia)

the Purple Hearts – Early in the Morning     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Shearwater – Seventy Four, Seventy Five     (Palo Santo)

Joy Zipper – Alzheimers     (American Whip)

the Monkees – Can you dig it     (‘Head’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

David Vandervelde – Nothin’ No     (The MoonStation House Band)

the Revillos – Call me the Cat     (‘From the Freezer : demos & rarities’ compilation)

the Shower Scene from Psycho – Cara-lyn [Johnny Young cover]      (‘Exploding Hits : 1982-2000’ compilation)

DieselWitch – Octopus     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)     #

     # “Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat were back again this week, with both new and old favourites... Amongst the Australian selection, we played a track from the re-issue of the Reels classic 1979 album “Quasimodo’s Dream”, some Screaming Tribesmen and a Ray Brown and Moonstone psych gem, plus hometown tracks from Roo Shooter and Isolation Valve. We visited Peter Sellers’ movie The Party via the Wondermints, went to 70’s UK with the Normal, went Scandinavian with Serena Maneesh, revisited a Canadian deejay’s 1965 bogus band doing ‘Like a Dribbling Fram’ and checked out, from the 60’s, the Knack (same label but no relation)... And we finished with ‘DieselWitch Will Kill You’, our new ‘Album of the Month’, by local surf/garage heroes DieselWitch...

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

Serena Maneesh – Selina Melodie Fountain     (Serena Maneesh)

the Fall – Totally Wired     (7”single 1980 UK)

Isolation Valve – Virus Envy     (‘Dear Warren Ellis’ demo 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

the Screaming Tribesmen – Date with a Vampyre     (‘Date with a Vampyre’ 12”EP 1985 Aust.)

the Normal – Warm Leatherette     (7”single 1978 UK)

Devo – Be Stiff     (12” mini-LP, Stiff Records 1978 US/UK)

Roo Shooter – My Pal [God cover]     (People Gather Round for the Sound of Slaughter)

the Barracudas – His Last Summer     (7”single 1980... taken from ‘Drop Out with the Barracudas’ LP 1982 UK)

the Aves – Thick as Thieves     (‘the Aves’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide)

Wild Rocket – Dewey Decimal System     (Salad Days)

Blondie – In the Flesh     (‘Plastic Letters’ LP 1978 USA)

the Reels – Kitchen Man     (‘Quasimodo’s Dream’ LP 1979 Dubbo, Aust.)

Quasi – Poverty Sucks     (When The Going Gets Dark)

Ray Brown and Moonstone – Start of a New Day     (‘Mad House’ LP 1970 Aust.)

Chapta – Journey to the Sun     (7”single 1970 New Zealand – taken from ‘A Day in My Mind’s Mind’ compilation of 60’s NZ psych)

the Third Bardo – 5 Years Ahead of My Time     (7”single 1967 USA)

 the Double Agents – I Want, Need, Love you [Black Diamonds cover]     (‘Wild About You’ comp. 2004 Aust.)

the Race Marbles – Like a Dribbling Fram      (7”single 1965 Canada – taken from ‘Pebbles Vol.3’ comp.)

the Wondermints – The Party [cover of theme song from Peter Sellers’ 1968 film]     (‘Shots In The Dark’ : Henry Mancini tribute compilation 1996 USA)

the Electric Prunes – Hideaway     (‘Underground’ LP 1967 USA)

the Knack – Time Waits for No-one     (7”single 1967 USA)

Kahli Bahlu – How Can I Tell My Guru     (‘Kahli Bahlu Takes the Forest Children On a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance’ LP 1968 USA – taken from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ compilation boxset)

DieselWitch – Jack It All In     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)    #

     #   “Album of the Month”      

Obscured By... November 1 2011

Featuring some faux-psychedelic music from artists cashing in on the style (101 Strings?) - mashed Burt Bacharach - eclectic UK performers such as Bonnie Prince Billy and Robert Wyatt - Australian power pop from The Aliens and Young Modern - James Last and band with pleasant versions of popular songs, but without worrying much about the actual lyrics - the usual rare Aust singles from the 60s - a visit to the "L" section of the Three D library that brought us Welsh pop, John Lennon and more...  Yes, another genre-hopping edition of Obscured By..., presented this week by Michael Hunter.


Pam Oakley & The Viscounts  I Want To Be A Surfer Girl  (Aust single 1964)
The Valentines  Sookie Sookie  (Aust TV recording c 1968)
Phil Jones & The Unknown Blues  Loving You Is Better Baby  (Aust single B side 1967)
Railroad Gin  Ruby Tuesday  (Aust, rare EP handed out at a rock mass held at St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane circa 1973.)
The Aliens  Follow That Girl  (Aust single 1980)
Young Modern  Red Dress On  Live At The Grace Emily  CD rec 2010 rel 2011, Aust, Adelaide
The Id  Boil The Kettle Mother  The Inner Sound Of The Id  (US LP 1967)
The Mesmerizing Eye  The War For My Mind  A Musical Lightshow  (US LP 1967)
Bokaj Retsiem  Something's Wrong With Bokaj   Psychedelic Underground  (US LP 1968)
101 Strings Orchestra  Karma Sitar  Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000  (US LP 1968)
The Folkswingers  Eight Miles High  Raga Rock  (US LP 1968)
Limp Bizkit / Burt Bacharach  Always Somethin' Rollin'  (RIAA mashup Dirt Bacharach)
Sex Pistols / Burt Bacharach  Reach Out For The Queen  (RIAA mashup Dirt Bacharach)
Web  I Spider  I Spider  (UK 1970 LP  reissued on CD 2008)
John Lennon / Yoko Ono  Born In A Prison  Sometime In New York City   (LP 1972)
Kirk Lorange  Hooked On You  No Apostrophe  (Aust LP 1983)
Los Campesinos  Broken Heartbeats  Hold On Now Youngster (Wales CD 2008)

Liquid Phoenix  Game Of Love  self titled demo Adelaide c 2006
Hot Knives   Lovin' You / Silver Threads & Golden Needles  self titled CD  rec 1976, released 2011

Painters & Dockers  The Nips Are Getting Bigger  Earth Music (Aust CD EP 1994)
Mental As Anything  Bucking Hard  Tent's Up  (Aust CD 2009)

Sensational Alex Harvey Band  Compliments To The Chef  Zalvation: Live in the 21st Century  (UK, CD 2006)

Robert Wyatt  Heaps Of Sheeps  His Greatest Misses  (UK, compilation CD 2010)
Bonnie Prince Billy  Black Captain  Wolfroy Goes To Town  (UK, CD 2011)
Trembling Bells  To See You Again  The Constant Pageant  (UK, CD 2011)
James Last  Be My Baby / Immigrant Song / Have You Ever Seen The Rain / My Sweet Lord  Non Stop Dancing 12  (UK LP 1971)