Technicolour Dreaming

It was once again a diverse show this week, with the Cat & the Brat ranging through old favourites such as Iggy & the Stooges, Clinic and Magazine through Adelaide stalwarts the Asteroid Belt and Van Cleef, plus some recent releases from Ty Segall, Crystal Stilts and Maya. We also sadly bid farewell to a couple of our favourite Australian bands, Belles Will Ring and the Amcats, who have both announced their final performances and that they are going on an indefinite hiatus, as well as playing the Dukes of Stratosphear’s final showing as our “Band of the Month”, plus of course, much more, so without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist.....

the Church – Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox cover]      (‘Box of Birds’ 1999 Australia)

Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me      (recorded 1978 on BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from ‘...Magazine [Maybe it’s right to be nervous now]’ anthology boxset  2000 UK)

Clinic – Sunlight Bathes Our Home      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)

Maya – Running Low (On Empty)      (‘EPs 1 + 2’ 2012 Aust.)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (‘Incantations/Exultations’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch      (‘Where the River Meets the Rock’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Amcats – Why Can’t You See Her      (7”single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Belles Will Ring – Pallisade Alley      (‘Crystal Theatre’ 2011 Sydney, Aust.)

the Wild Cherries – Krome Plated Yabby      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Capt. Groovy – Capt. Groovy & his Bubblegum Army      (7”single 1969 USA)

Ty Segall & White Fence – Time      (‘Hair’ 2012 USA)

Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind      (‘Colour Your Mind’ 12”EP 1987 Aust.)

Crystal Stilts – Through the Floor      (‘In Love with Oblivion’ 2011 USA)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – A Girl Called Sandoz      (7”single b-side [to When I Was Young] 1967 UK)

the Weirdos – Life of Crime      (7”single 1977 USA)

Naz Nomad & the Nightmares – She Lied [Rockin’ Ramrods cover]      (‘Give Daddy The Knife Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)

Iggy & the Stooges – Search and Destroy      (‘Raw Power’ LP 1973 USA)

13^th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me      (7”single 1966 Texas, USA – taken from ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968’ compilation LP 1972 USA)

Lowell George & the Factory – Candy Cane Madness      (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)

David Bowie – All the Madmen      (‘The Man Who Sold The World’ LP 1970 UK)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Vanishing Girl      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

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Sadly, we again paid tribute to another late, great Australian musician.... this week it was Mick Hadley [1942-2012], vocalist with the Purple Hearts et al ... but even though the ranks of those that made all those brilliant records grow ever thinner, the music remains undimmed!  ‘Early in the Morning’, and Ray Brown’s ‘That’s Evil’ for example, still have the power to inspire, as numerous younger bands continue to testify, and in their turn inspire the next wave and so on, and thus why we include current bands such as Psychic Ills in our search for the path less trodden here on ‘Obscured by...’ – this week with just two dots to do the exploring! And it was not merely 60’s music we found, but a bunch of Los Angeles punkers such as X and the Zeros, some Krautrock from Sergius Golowin plus UK neo-psych trailblazers Echo & the Bunnymen and electronic post-punk pioneers the Human League... all in all, just another day in the [obscured] office.....

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

Normie Rowe – I Just Don’t Understand      (‘It Ain’t Necessarily So, But It Is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)

the D-Coys – You’re Against      (7”single b-side [to Bad Times] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Procession – Up, Up & Away [Jimmy Webb cover]/Happy Times     (unreleased – performed on ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – That’s Evil      (‘Heading for the Top’ LP 1965 Aust.)

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

the Purple Hearts – Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Walker Brothers – Archangel      (7”single b-side [to Deadlier Than The Male] 1966 UK)

Sparks – Ugly Guys with Beautiful Girls      (‘Lil’ Beethoven’ 2002 UK)

Lou Reed & John Cale – Trouble With Classicists      (‘Songs for Drella – a fiction’ LP 1990 USA)

the Electric Prunes – Sanctus      (‘Mass in F minor’ LP 1968 USA)

Echo & the Bunnymen – My Kingdom      (‘Ocean rain’ LP 1984 UK)

Julian Cope – Head Hang Low      (BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ 1983 – taken from ‘Floored Genius 2’ compilation 1993 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Come In, You’ll Get Pneumonia [Easybeats cover]      (‘Album No. 1’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)

the State of Mickey & Tommy – I know what I would do      (7”single b-side [to With Love From One To Five] 1967 France/UK)

the Elastic Band – Juice      (‘Expansion of Life’ LP 1970 UK)

 – unknown – #5 mystery track [+ Radio England promo]     (on disc 5 of ‘Circus Days: Pop-Psych Obscurities 1966-1972’ compilation boxset 2010 UK)

Chad & Jeremy – Sunstroke      (‘The Ark’ LP 1968 UK/USA)

Watermelon [aka the Lemon Drops] – Popsicle Girl      (rec. December 1968 – taken from ‘From the Lemon Drops to the Vibrations of Sequence in Order’ anthology 1996 USA)

Mother’s Love – Saint Without Glory       (‘Take One’ LP 1968 Holland)

the Human League – You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling [Righteous Brothers cover]      (‘Reproduction’ LP 1979 UK)

Psychic Ills – The Way Of       (‘Mirror Eye’ 2009 New York, USA)

Sergius Golowin – Die Wiesse Alm      (‘Lord Krishna von Goloka’ LP 1973 Germany)

Hoochudahn – Reefer Madness     (‘Esoteric Release 1978-1981’ LP 1981 Aust. – taken from CD re-issue 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

X – We’re Desperate      (7”single b-side [ to Adult Books] 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

the Cortinas – Fascist Dictator      (7”single 1977 Bristol, UK)

the Quick – Pretty Please      (from maxi-single ‘In Tune With Our Times’ [fanclub issue] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)

Johnny Moped – Incendiary Device      (7”single b-side [to No One]1977 London, UK)

the Zeros – Don’t Push me Around      (7”single b-side [to Wimp] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)

the Other Ends – Without You      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Oz Beat Frenzy’ compilation 2009 Aust.)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the Psychedelic Furs debut album and a track whose title says it all, we spent the next hour and a half playing songs from various eras and locales, linked in some way by that most elastic of terms, psychedelic!... “The Damned... psych?” you may be thinking, but they proudly wore their 60’s influences... and LeighStarDust’s achingly beautiful version of Brillig’s ‘Weighed Down’? Well, there are those initials! Then there’s the current crop of paisley-patterned popsters worldwide such as Pony Face, Youngteam, the Sun Blindness and the High Dials who are updating that 60’s swirl and jangle for the 21^st century... not forgetting the Monkees... or our “band of the month”, XTC in psych-pop disguise... hmmm, not such a stretch after all for the Cat and the Brat....

..... and so here is the playlist.....

the Psychedelic Furs – We Love You      (‘The Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)

the Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat      (rec. 1976 on BBC Radio ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from disc2 of ‘Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978’ compilation boxset 2007 UK)

Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine      (‘It ain’t necessarily so, but it is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)

the Factory – Path Through the Forest      (7”single 1968 UK)

Lloyd’s World – Brass Bird      (7”single 1968 Aust.)

the High Dials – Master of the Clouds      (‘War of the Wakening Phantoms’ 2005 Montreal, Canada)

the Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth      (‘The Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1966 USA/Canada)

LeighStarDust – Weighed Down [Brillig cover]      (‘Fashion’ split EP [with Brillig] 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)

Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band – Sweet Xiao Li      (‘Second Attention’ 2006 USA)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 USA)

 

Woods – Find Them Empty      (‘Bend Beyond’ 2012 USA)

Youngteam – Not From Here      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

the Dandy Warhols – The Autumn Carnival [radio edit]      (CDsingle 2012 USA)

Tame Impala – Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything That We Could Control      (‘Lonerism’ 2012 Aust.)

Moon Duo – I Been Gone      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)

Pony Face – Alabama      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ride Into The Sun – Redneck      (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Magic Bones – Gouge Out A View      (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – I Shook      (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sun Blindness – Lazy Livin’      (‘Like Pearly Clouds’ 2008 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Monkees – You Told Me      (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Affiliated      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

 

      #   “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

This week, we (Michael Hunter, Cat & Brat) played some 60s Asian obscurities that were so rare, we had no details for them at all.  Detective work now reveals their details below!  Equally rare Swedish bands of the era were also featured, and luckily videos of The Tages and Steampacket (no relation to the UK band of that name) were discovered, showing the quality of their work.  We also said goodbye to legendary session man Big Jim Sullivan, and brought things right up to date with music by the Allah-Las and Moon Duo, via strange mash-ups (RIAA) and medleys (Captain Sensible).  All in a day's work for Obscured By...

Treo + 1 – What you gonna do [Small Faces cover]     (unreleased acetate, circa 1966/67 Australia)

the Dymond – Ice Cream Man      (7”single b-side [to Anna J] 1968 Melbourne, Aust.)

Spectrum – Play a song that I know      (7”single b-side [to That’s Alright] 1971 Aust.)

Tully – Sea of Joy, Pt.1      (‘Sea of Joy’ soundtrack LP 1971 Aust.)

the Dedikation – Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith & Jones [Cryan’ Shames cover]      (‘The Dedikation’ LP 1969 New Zealand) 

Kassim Slamat & the Swallows – La-Karebna      (‘Kassim Slamat & the Swallows’ EP 1968 Singapore)

the ADD 4 – If Late, It’ll Be Serious      (‘The ADD 4 First Album’ LP 1964 South Korea)

Mike Ibrahim & the Nite Walkers – Gadis Sama Saja      (provenance unknown – circa 1970 Malaysia)

the Pearl Sisters (feat. Shin Joong Hyun) – A Cup of Coffee      (‘Nimah’ LP 1968 South Korea)

Moon Duo – High Over Blue      (one-sided 12”single 2012 California, USA – taken from Australia-only bonus CD with ‘Circles’ 2012 USA)

Allah-Las – Long Journey      (‘Allah-Las’ 2012 California, USA)

‘Big’ Jim Sullivan – She’s Leaving Home [Beatles cover]      (‘Sitar Beat’ LP 1968 UK)

Harry H. Corbett – Like the big guys do       (7”single 1963 UK)

the Rolling Stones – ‘Rice Crispies’ ad      (radio advertisement 1963 UK)

the Bee Gees – Deeply, Deeply Me      (recorded 1967 – previously unreleased bonus track on ‘Horizontal’ re-issue 2006 UK)

Captain Sensible – Damned on 45      (7”single b-side [to Glad It’s All Over] 1984 UK)

Steampacket – Bara ett par dar      (7”single 1966 Sweden)

the Tages – She’s having a baby now      (7”single 1967 Sweden)

the Objections – I’m Through      (7”single b-side [to Your Ever Changin’ Mind] 1967 Sweden)

Steve Croall – Sometimes You Stumbled      (7”single 1966 UK/Sweden)

Youngteam – Your Love      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

Bubonic Plague (feat. Ariel Pink) – Who’s That Girl [Madonna cover]      (‘through the wilderness: a tribute to Madonna’ compilation 2007 USA)

the Tyde – Hung Up [Madonna cover]      (‘through the wilderness: a tribute to Madonna’ compilation 2007 USA/UK)

the Black Angels – She’s Not There [Zombies cover]      (bonus mp3 download with ‘Watch Out Boy’ 7”single 2012 USA)

RIAA – Johnny SKAsh      (‘Tech-xotica!!’ ‘mash-up’ compilation 2010 USA)

the Fabulon Triptometer – Little Star of Bethlehem [Can cover]      (‘Padded Lounge’ LP 1992 Milwaulkee, USA)