Obscured By...

It was a largely Australian show today, beginning with our regular selection of 60’s and early 70’s sounds by artists as diverse as Barrington Davis, Love Machine and Adelaide’s the Hergs, and including the weird single from an equally weird yet iconic Aussie movie, Stork. Then it was time for some examples of the particularly Antipodean take on post-punk which flourished here after 1977, featuring, amongst others, the Fabulous Marquises, Tactics, the Moodists and Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Then it was overseas to Germany, the USA and even Japan, where we heard a long piece from Terahara Taka’aki, better known as J.A.Caesar, taken from the wonderful ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ series... and not forgetting the UK, which provided a couple of songs from the very cool reissue of the first 3 albums by the Bee Gees, which was our featured boxset. We finished with our “Letter of the Week” segment, diving blindly into the C sections of the 3D library and finding... Colostomy Bag Lady, for instance! Great stuff! All these rarities and forgotten gems presented for you this week by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

White Spirit – Going Away     (‘Scene : ABC-TV’ LP 1970 Tasmania, Australia)

Love Machine – May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone [Toys cover]     (7”single b-side 1969 Aust.)

Hans Poulsen – Stork’s Theme     (7”single from ‘Stork’ soundtrack 1971 Aust.)

the Meating – Back Home     (7”single b-side 1970 Aust.)

18CQ – I’m Gonna Treat You Good     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Frog Hollow – Slowish One     (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ EP 1972 Aust.)

the Hergs – Style of Love     (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Barrington Davis – Raining Teardrops     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Limit – Happy Life     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Jetsonnes – Newspaper     (7” split-single [with International Exiles] 1980 Aust.)

the Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons     (7”single 1980 Melbourne, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind     (“5MMM’s Compilation Album of Adelaide Bands 1980” LP 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Moodists – Six Dead Birds     (‘Double Life’ EP 1985 Aust. – taken from ‘Two Fisted Art’ anthology 2005)

the Sunday Painters – Rebel, Rebel [Bowie cover]     (7”single b-side 1981 Wollongong, Aust.)

the International Exiles – Let’s Be So     (7”split single [with the Jetsonnes] 1980 Aust.)

Ugly, Ugly, Ugly – Pride     (‘Et in Arcadia ego’ EP 1983 Aust.)

Tactics – Watch My Hands     (‘Long Weekend’ EP 1979 Aust.)

Amon Duul ll – Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse     (‘Wolf City’ LP 1972 Germany)

Faust – It’s a rainy day sunshine girl     (‘So Far’ LP 1972 Germany)

J.A. Caesar – A Psychedelic Opera... excerpts     (live 197? Japan - taken from Vol. 9 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset: for more information see  http://jrs.paullee.ru/jrsb2c10.htm )

Black Sabbath – Behind the Wall of Sleep     (‘Black Sabbath’ LP 1970 UK)

            “The Bee Gees : The Studio Albums: 1967–1968” boxset  (2007 UK/Aust.)

 

  the Bee Gees – Mrs Gillespies’ Refridgerator     (unreleased 1968 – bonus track on reissue of ‘Horizontal’ LP 1968)

  the Bee Gees – Craise Finton Kirk, Royal Academy of Arts     (alt. version – bonus track on reissue of ‘Bee Gees 1^st’ LP 1967)

the Smoke – Cowboys and Indians     (7”single 1968 USA)

 Colours – Lovin’      (7”single 1968 USA)     #

Colostomy Bag Lady – diGESTiCiDe     (‘Electro-convulsive Therapy for All’ 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)     #

cooperblack – Spanish Waltz     (‘My Art Is Bleeding’ 2008 Adelaide Aust.)     #

     #  “Letter of the Week”

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show once again delivered a diverse listening experience, ranging from the ‘comedic goth’[?] of the Scary Bitches and the ‘psychedelic poetry’ of 60’s US radio host Dave Diamond with the Higher Elevation, to the instant pop catchiness of the Merry-Go-Round and the 80’s Aussie punk attitude of the Hitmen. Then there were the playboys – the James Bond twang of 60’s instrumentalists and Normie Rowe backing band, the Playboys, and the garage grit of current Australian rockers, the Intercontinental Playboys. We also heard the woozy stirrings of Beach House and the latest demo from Adelaide’s All The Leaves Have Fallen as well as a few covers from the likes of Ashram Poets, the Brood and the She Creatures, finishing with our current “Band of the Month”, the awesome Thee Oh Sees... all brought to you by a solo Peter Brat.....

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

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Mark of the Beast     (‘Shindig: It’s Happening Vol.1’ compilation 2010 UK)

the Hitmen – I Don’t Mind     (7”single 1981 Australia)

 

the BoobyTraps – Dig Your Attitude     (‘Makin’ It With the BoobyTraps’ 2008 Australia)

the Scary Bitches – Lesbian Vampyres from Outer Space     (‘Lesbian Vampyres from Outer Space’ 2002 UK)

 

the She Creatures – Hungry [Paul Revere and the Raiders cover]     (‘She Creatures Invade’ 2009 UK)

 

the Brood – I’ve Been Thinking [Riffs cover?]     (unreleased 1989 – from ‘Lost in Tyme Vol. 4’ magazine compilation 2008 Greece)

the Merry-Go-Round – Listen, Listen     (7”single 1967 USA)

Travis Wellington Hedge – Hey Bulldog [Beatles cover]   (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

the Twilights – Blue Roundabout     (‘Once Upon a Twilight’ LP 1968 Adelaide)

the Playboys – Theme from Dr No [James Bond soundtrack cover-composer disputed]     (‘The Playboys’ LP 1965 Aust.)

the Surfer Girls – Draggin’ Wagon     (7”single 1964 USA – from “Female Surf and Drag ’61-‘66” compilation)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Blue Day     (7”single 1964 Aust.)

Best Coast – When I’m with You     (‘Crazy For You’ 2009 USA)

Beach House – Norway     (‘Teen Dream’ 2010 USA)

 

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Because I could not stop for death     (demo 2012 Adelaide)

Ashram Poets – Are Friends Electric? [Gary Numan cover]     (‘Corpios’ 2012 Australia)

Almost Numan – Me, I Disconnect from You [Gary Numan cover]     (‘Almost Numan: disc 1 – OFF’ 2011 Adelaide)

the Higher Elevation – The Diamond Mine     (from Dave Diamond’s radio show 1967 USA – taken from ‘Pebbles Vol.3’ compilation)

the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature     (7”single 1967 USA)

Adjeef the Poet – leek, I’m a Freak     (7”single 1967 Holland)

the Outsiders – Doctor     (‘CQ’ LP 1968 Holland)

 

the Intercontinental Playboys – No Answers     (‘Hymns of the Flesh’ 2009 Australia)

Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime     (‘Warm Slime’ 2010 USA)     #

 

     #  “Band of the Month”