Obscured By..

A Mexican Byrds cover, a Beatles cover from Ghana and Europop from the like of the Tee Set and Charlotte Walters.  Also, Boomer & Travis, incl Michael Martin Murphey with a Quincy Jones country song.  As part of an exploration of the E section of the Three D library, we found The Electric Chamber Orchestra - an Australian group of the 80s, as opposed to the 60s US group of the same name.  Roy Wood and The Wombles combining their seasonal songs.   An unreleased song by Noosha Fox (of Fox / SSS-Single Bed fame), along with German and NZ prog.  The last Obscured By... of the year, hosted by Michael Hunter, was no less eclectic than any other.  Just as it should be!

Carolyn Young  Ordinary Guy  45, Aust 1962
Marcie Jones  You Can't Bypass Love  45, Aust 1967
White Wine  The Train Song   45, Aust 1969 
Lloyd's World  Brass Bird  45, Aust 1968

Hans Poulsen  Comin' Home The Long Way  "Lost and Found, Coming Home The Long Way Round"  LP Aust 1972
Boomer & Travis  Foul Owl On The Prowl  "In The Heat Of The Night" soundtrack US 1967
Five Day Week Straw People  Sunday Morning   "Five Day Week Straw People" LP UK 1968

Federal Duck  Peace In My Mind  "Federal Duck" LP US 1968
Schizo  Paraphrenia Praecox  45, France 1972
Message  Painted Lady  45, Germany 1971
The Tee Set  She Likes Weeds  45, Holland 1970

Charlotte Walters  Angel Of Sin  45, France 1969

Los Locos Del Ritmo  Hey Joe   prob 45, Mexico c 1966
Hermanos Carrion  Todo A Su Tiempo (Turn Turn Turn) prob 45, Mexico c 1966

Noosha Fox  Judy Blue  unreleased demo via her abandoned website
Gabba  Knowing Me Knowing You  "Gabba Leave Stockholm"  CD, UK 1999
Roy Wood & The Wombles  I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Christmas Everyday  single UK 2000

Kris Demeanor  Back Door  "Lark"  CD Canada, 2002
Yours Truly  Fall To Pieces  "Shining Light" CD  Australia 2011
Joe Egan  Tell Me All About It  "Map"  LP UK 1981
Matt Elliott  Let Us Break  "The Mess We Made"  CD, UK 2003 
Electric Chamber Orchestra  Nocturne  "Morning (Opus One)"  LP Aust 1988
Euphemism  Candle Stick Holder  demo, Adelaide c 2000 
Birth Control  Let Us Do It Now  "Operation"  LP Germany 1971
Airlord  Ladies Of The Night  "Clockwork Revenge"  LP NZ/Aust 1977
Charlotte Dada  Don't Let Me Down  Ghana 1971, from "Money No Be Sand" comp 1995

Technicolour Dreaming

As our nod to the holiday season, we thought we’d feature a pile of songs about ‘The Trip’, and as you can imagine, there was no shortage to choose from... from Dr Timothy Leary to Kim Fowley, with Dantalion’s Chariot, the Intercontinental Playboys and Bobby and Laurie thrown in as a tongue in cheek warning against the perils of travelling.  For this penultimate show of the year, we also played a slew of Cat and Brat favourites including Black Cab, Black Mountain, the soon-to-be-touring Australia Thee Oh Sees and Sun Araw, and Canada’s Andrew Douglas Rothbard...  and of course, another pick from our “Band of the Month”, 60’s hit makers Paul Revere and the Raiders...

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

Black Cab – Church in Berlin     (‘Call Signs’ 2009 Australia)

 

the Sand Pebbles – Altered Images      (‘Atlantis Regrets Nothing’ 2006 Aust.)

the Warlocks – Zombie Like Lovers     (‘Heavy Deavy Skull Lover’ 2008 USA)

Shadow Reichenstein – Borgo Pass/Dracula     (‘Three More Haunted Hits’ cdEP 2003 USA)

the Beasts of Bourbon – Drop Out [Scientists cover]     (‘Axeman’s Jazz’ LP 1984 Aust.)

Go-Go Sapien – Hatewind     (‘This Body is Wrong for Us’ 2011 Aust.)

 

Sun Araw – Fit For Caesar     (‘Ancients Romans’ 2011 USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Rabbit Hole     (‘Abandoned Meander’ 2009 Canada)

Tame Impala – Lucidity    (‘Inner Speaker’ 2010 Aust.)

Black Mountain – Angels     (‘In The Future’ 2008 Canada)

Thee Oh Sees – Crack In Your Eye     (‘The Dream’ EP 2011 USA)

 

Donovan – The Trip     (‘Sunshine Superman’ LP 1965 UK)

Kim Fowley – The Trip     (7” single 1966 USA)

the Morning After Girls – The Trip [Kim Fowley cover]     (‘He Put The Bomp In The Bomp: Tribute to Greg Shaw’ compilation 2007 USA)

Park Avenue Playground – The Trip     (7” single 1967 USA – taken from “2131 South Michigan Avenue... USA and Destination Records” compilation 2009)

Dr Timothy Leary – Freakout/Turn On, Tune In     (‘Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out’ LP 1967 USA)

Dantalion’s Chariot – Madman Running Through the Fields     (7” single 1967 UK)

 

Bobby and Laurie – Hitchhiker     (7” single 1965 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Driving Sideways     (‘Hymns of the Flesh’ 2009 Aust.)

the Seeds – Can’t Seem to Make You Mine     (7” single 1965 USA)

 

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Just Like Me     (‘Just Like Us!’ LP 1965 USA)   #

 

     # “Band of the Month”

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

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with MontereyFestival-era Animals and ending with the Wooden Shjips, we spun a psych-skewed show this week, from Adelaide’s Ride Into The Sun to New Zealand’s Look Blue, Go Purple, from  Black Cab to the obscure ‘On Sunset’ by the Decades from 1967 and ‘Into the Night Sky’ by the Hidden Masters... Throw in some LeighStarDust, an Eno classic and the Go-Betweens first single, with a track from our “Feature Band of the Month”, the sorely under-rated Paul Revere and the Raiders, plus lots more to diversify the sound... and there it was – this week’s edition of Technicolour Dreaming with the Cat and the Brat...

..... so here’s the full playlist.....

Eric Burdon and the Animals – Paint It Black [Rolling Stones cover]     (‘Winds of Change’ LP 1967 UK)

Black Cab – Surrender     (‘Jesus East’ 2007 Australia)

Wright of Waye – Sun God     (7”single 1968 Australia)

the Mondo Phase Band – Equaliser     (7”split-single [with Nothing People] 2011 Adelaide, Australia/USA)

Ride Into The Sun – Drown Your Soul     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

 

the Screaming Tribesmen – Talk Another Language     (‘Bones and Flowers’ LP 1987 Australia)

Super K – Recurring Nightmare     (7”single 1982 Australia)

Look Blue, Go Purple – Circumspect Penelope     (‘Bewitched’ EP Flying Nun Records 1987 New Zealand)

 

the Milky Bar Kids – Flaming Star     (orig. released on ‘Regular Rockabilly’ Australian compilation LP 1984 – taken from ‘SouthBound’ compilation 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Violent Femmes – Country Death Song      (‘Hallowed Ground’ LP 1984 USA)

LeighStarDust – Here Comes Violence     (‘Every Other Bumblebee’ EP 2007 Adelaide)

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

the Molting Vultures – Drop In and Go      (7”single 2010 Adelaide)

the Decades – On Sunset      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from ‘Psychedelic Unknowns Vol. 8’ compilation)

the Bomboras – Little Drummer Boy     (‘Happy Birthday Baby Jesus: the second coming’ LP compilation on 10” white vinyl 1994 USA)

the Uncalled For – Do Like Me     (7”single 1967 USA)

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Kicks     (7”single 1965 USA)   #

 

Ramases (and Selket) – You’re the Only One     (‘Space Hymns’ LP 1971 UK [and ancient Egypt?])

Ballistic Kisses – Domestic Servants     (‘Total Access’ LP 1982 NYC, USA)

the Go-Betweens – Lee Remick     (7”single 1978 Brisbane, Australia)

the Hidden Masters – Into the Night Sky     (Shindig magazine compilation : ‘It’s All Happening’ 2009 UK)

Wooden Shjips – Motorbike     (‘Dos’ 2009 San Francisco USA)

    #  “Feature Band of the Month”