Sometimes there are highlights on Technicolour Dreaming that are selected for any number of reasons.
Take, for instance, the
Merry-Go-Round … “Listen, Listen” is a great slice of pop-perfection, but take a
look at those groovy clothes!! (our clip shows their ill-fated appearance
on “the Dating Game” in 1967). New
London outfit Weird Dreams made the grade due to their sheer delicious musical wooziness, and seeing as it had been stuck in our heads
all week, we just had to play the catchy track “Lucifer” by the Salt (in reality a studio-only band headed by Joey Levine, who also made Chewy, Chewy and Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!) Other
picks included a Kim Fowley classic, co-written
with Michael Lloyd of the West
Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (who coincidentally also played with
the late Darryl Cotton, as featured in last week’s tribute), and cool cover versions by the Barbarellatones and the Church (of Jan and Dean, and Hawkwind, respectively). The Adelaide artists featured this week
included local legends the Dagoes and Lizard Train and, of course, the late great Baterz, our current “Artiste of the Month,” who concluded the set.
And here is the playlist…
Lizard Train –
Explosion in a Room (‘Thirteen Hour Daydream’ EP 1986
Adelaide, Australia)
the Black Angels
– Manipulation (‘Passover’ 2006 Texas, USA)
the Knickerbockers
– Lies (7”single 1965 USA)
Penetration –
Don’t Dictate (7”single 1977 UK)
the Merry-Go-Round –
Listen, Listen (7”single 1967 USA)
the Green Circles
– Brown House in Stepney (‘Brass knobs, bevelled edges [and in 23
different positions]’ 2003 Adelaide, Aust.)
Jefferson Airplane
– We Can Be Together (‘Volunteers’ LP 1969 USA)
Marc Bolan &
T.Rex – Teenage Dream (‘Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of
Tomorrow – A Creamed Cage in August ‘ LP 1974 UK)
Scott Walker –
The Old Man’s Back Again [dedicated to the neo-Stalinist regime] (‘Scott
4’ LP 1970 UK)
the Church –
Silver Machine [Hawkwind cover] (‘Box
of Birds’ 1999 Aust.)
the Dagoes –
Little Blackie (7”single b-side [to We Sell Soul] 1980 Adelaide, Aust. –
taken from ‘Supreme’ anthology)
the Readymades –
Big Shoe Shuffle (‘Handmade’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Suzi Chunk –
Tripwire (7”single b-side [to Look Back and Laugh] 2012 UK)
the Barbarellatones
– Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover] (‘Confessions
of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2011 USA)
Tea – Birthday
Boy (pre-release/demo 2012 Adelaide,
Aust.)
? and the Mysterians – 96 Tears (7”single 1966 Michigan, USA)
Kim Fowley –
Strangers from the Sky (7”single 1967
California, USA)
the Salt –
Lucifer (7”single 1968 USA)
City Riots – Wait
For You (‘Sea of Bright Lights’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Weird Dreams –
Vague Hotel (‘Choreography’ 2012 London, UK)
Baterz –
Darling (‘Out of Hell’ 2000 Adelaide, Aust.) #
# “Artiste of the Month”
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