Obscured By... March 22, 2011

“OBSCURED BY...” this week again had a single ‘.’ at the helm – this time it was Michael Hunter – playing the usual plethora of forgotten 60’s singles from Australia and beyond plus obscure gems from other eras and genres... including a track from Brazilian legends ‘Os Mutantes’, who played here recently at ‘Womadelaide’, as well as a live recording from 2003 of the reformed ‘Masters Apprentices’.

...and here is the play-list :

Alison Durbin – Don’t come any closer (7” single 1970 Aust.)

the Brigade – As A Boy (7” single 1966 Aust.)

the Motion – Nice Girl (7” single 1966 Aust.)

the Gremlins – Coming Generations (7” single 1967 Aust.)

the Twilights - John Hardy (7” single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Os Mutantes – Baby (Os Mutantes)

9.30 Fly – Mr 509 (9.30 Fly)

Blonde on Blonde – Circles (Looking Towards the Sun – comp.)

Back Street Band - This ain’t the road (7” single 1969 USA)

Bobbi Blake – Rock Rock Beat (song poem 7” single USA)

Dick Kent - Smiling Farmer (song poem 7” single USA )

Major Bill Smith – Freddy, the Disco Frog (song poem 7” single USA )

Ira Cook – What is a girl? (7” single 1958 USA)

Evolution Control Committee – What would you do if I sang Auto-tune? (demo 2010 USA)

les Hou Lops – Vendredi m’Obsede [‘Friday on my Mind’: Easybeats cover, sung in French] (7” single 1967 Canada)

Alice Cooper – Hello Hooray (Billion Dollar Babies)

Tempest – Let’s live for today (Another Dawn)

Squeeze – Squabs on 40 Fab (7” single [b-side] 1978 UK)

Chipmunks – I ain’t no danged cartoon (7” single [b-side] 1994 USA)

Ira Cook – What is a boy? (7” single 1958 USA)

Zane & Hogan – Studio 54 (7” single USA )

Bobbi Blake – Who played house with you? (song poem 7” single USA)

the Capt Matchbox Whoopee Band – My canary has circles under his eyes (Smoke Dreams)

Peter Tilbrook – Stop the Time (7” single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – Wars or Hands of Time (2003 ‘live’ in Adelaide, Aust.)

Eero Kolvistoinen – Small games inside an urban limousine (Psychedelic Phinland – comp.)

the Charlies – On Art Criticism (Psychedelic Phinland)

Apollo – Thoughts (Psychedelic Phinland)

Lightyears Away – Yesterday (Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 5 : UK – comp.)

Bodkin – 3 Days after death, Pt 1 (Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 5 : UK)

Christie Allen – He’s my number one (Magic Rhythm)

Technicolour Dreaming - 16th March 2011

TECHNICOLOUR DREAMING this week dwelt mainly in the music of the 1970’s and 80’s, featuring bands such as the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the Revillos, TimeZone (feat. John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa), & the Go-Betweens plus tracks from Death In June, the Psychic Paramount & Girl in a Coma and a song from the new album by Adelaide band Fluffy...

...and here is the play-list :

the Stranglers – Nuclear Device (the Raven)

Time Zone – World Destruction (12” single 1984 US/UK)

the Ruts – Babylon’s Burning (Best of...)

the Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Faith Healer)

Circle Clan – Girl in a coma (demo 1999 Adelaide Aust.)

Pink Floyd – Set the controls for the heart of the sun (A Saucerful of Secrets)

LeighStarDust – Oleander (They make good pets, but I don’t have one)

the Go-Betweens – Darlinghurst Nights (Inner City Sounds - comp.)

Girl In A Coma – Femme Fatale (Adventures in Coverland)

Lou Reed & John Cale – Work (Songs for Drella)

the Manikins – I never thought I’d find someone who would be so kind (7” single 1978 Perth Aust.)

the Boys Next Door – Sex Crimes (demo 1977 Melbourne Aust.)

Fluffy – Home (Fluffy Loves You)

Super K – Recurring Nightmare (7” single 1982 Sydney Aust.)

the Psychic Paramount – N5 Coda ( II )

Higher Elevation – The Diamond Mine (Pebbles 3 : ‘the Acid Gallery’ – comp.)

the Electric Soft Parade – Come Back Inside (Psychedelica 3 – comp.)

DieselWitch – UFO Surf (Surfadelica e.p.)

the Revillos – Hippy Hippy Sheik (Rev Up)

the Moontrekkers – Night of the Vampire (Sex : Live Fast, Die Young – comp.)

Death In June – All Alone In Her Nirvana (Lesson 1 : Misanthropy)

the Monkees – Circle Sky (Monkees Music Box) *

(* Monkees Song of the Week)

Obscured By... March 15, 2011

OBSCURED BY... this week once again was presented by a solo ‘DOT’, Peter Brat, and featured the usual mix of rare, obscure and rarely-played tracks from around the world, including a focus on ‘flexi-discs’ from the UK and Adelaide in the early 1980’s...

...so here is the playlist :

the Marksmen – Tailwind (7” single 1962 Adelaide, Aust.)

Trevor Lucas – John Hardy ('See That My Grave Is Kept Clean' 1964 Melbourne, Aust.)

Patsy Biscoe (w. Doug Ashdown) – Whose fault was that babe (7” single 1966 Adelaide)

the Decoys – I don’t want (7” single 1966 Adelaide)

Ash – Sable (7” single b-side 1970 Sydney, Aust.)

Running Jumping Standing Still – Little Girl (7” single 1966 Melbourne)

the Missing Links – You’re drivin’ me insane (7” single 1965 Melbourne)

the Southern Gentlemen – I want you back again (7” single 1965 Adelaide)

Inside Looking Out – HMS Buffalo (Datura Dreamtime – comp.)

the Paisleytones – Hey, hey (she’s so good) (Happening)

the Love Flowers – Nirvana (7” single 1968 West Texas, US)

the Arkay IV – Valley of Conneaut Creek (7” single 1970 Pennsylvania, US)

the Morning Dew – Someday (7” single 1969 US – from ‘Green Crystal Ties Vol. 6’)

Gandalf – Can you travel in the dark alone? (Gandalf)

Mad River – Wind Chimes (‘Ah Feel Like Ahcid’ comp.)

Ramases – Balloon [alt. mix bonus track] (Space Hymns)

Radio Birdman – I-94 (Burn My Eye e.p.)

Johnny Thunders – Born to lose [lost ’77 mix] (Punk: Fuck Art Let’s Danse - comp.)

the Adverts – The Great British Mistake (Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts)

Black Assassins – Death Take Me Now (7” single 1981 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Avengers – Car Crash (7” single 1978 California, US)

the Young Charlatans [w. Roland Howard] – Shivers (demo 1977 Melbourne, Aust.)

Metal Urbain – Panik (7” single 1977 Paris, France)

Toyah – Sphinx (‘Flexipop’ magazine flexi-disc 1981 UK)

Altered Images – Leave Me Alone (‘Flexipop’ mag. flexi-disc 1981 UK)

the Chequers – Manila (Greasy Pop Records, Flexi-EP 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Polecats – We Say Yeah (‘Flexipop’ mag. flexi-disc 1981 UK)

the Pins – Burning Night (Greasy Pop Records, Flexi-EP 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Plasmatics – Butcher Baby (Stiff Records : Stiff, Stiffer, Stiffest – comp.)

Jane Aire & the Belvederes – Yankee Wheels (7” single 1978 Ohio, US)

Zolar X – Space Age Love (‘Dirty Water: the Birth of Punk Attitude’ – comp.)