Technicolour Dreaming

I don’t know whether I was thinking on a subconscious level about Australia’s change of Prime Minister the previous evening, when making musical selections for the show, but the tracks by Scott Walker, The Lovetones, Jason Crest and Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. all seemed to fit the feel of the moment! I played a couple of recent Adelaide releases - Black Coral, whose EP, “The Big Nothing” came out in August, and the very new, very exclusive “Ya Dig?” EP by Snobby Oxalis; plus a good assortment of Melbourne bands featured also - Murlocs, Witch Hats, and the inimitable King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.  A great melody has always been a Technicolour Dreaming favourite, with tracks from The Left Banke, The Turtles, The Monkees  and The Story UK and Quilt all fitting the bill nicely, and proving that there are still bands today carrying on the tradition. Speaking of The Turtles, I’ve included a clip from the trailer of “Guide for the Married Man”, their second foray into the land of movie music, the first being a track for the 1966 movie “Out of Sight” a spoof of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." - look it up, it’s so bad it’s good!   

…so here’s the playlist for the show, with (a hell of a lot of) associated visuals…

The Lovetones - Genius     ("Meditations" 2006 Australia)

The Story UK - A Stone's Throw Away     ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again [Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime]     ("Scott 4" LP 1969 UK)

Jason Crest - Black Mass     ( 7” single b-side [to “A Place in the Sun”] 1969 UK)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford     ("Ya Dig? EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Octopus Syng - It's Not a Coincidence     ("Reverberating Garden Number 7" 2014 Finland)

Black Coral - Chemical Reasoning     ("Big Nothing" EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Below Your Deepest Expectations     ("8" 2014 Denmark/France)

The Turtles - Guide for the Married Man   (7” single 1967 USA)

and the trailer for the movie:

Sons of Hippies - The Soft Parade [the Doors]     ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 Germany)

The Turtles - Chevrolet Camaro Commercial     ("Save the Turtles - Greatest Hits" compilation 2009 USA)

The Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head     (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache     (“Paper Mache Dream Balloon” LP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Lumerians - Burning Mirrors      (“Transmalinnia” 2011 Oakland, California USA)

Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor     (“Mutilator Defeated at Last” 2015 San Francisco, USA)

The Greek Theatre - Frozen Highway     (“Lost Out At Sea” LP 2014 UK)

Quilt - Eye of the Pearl     (“Held in Splendour” 2014 Boston USA)

July - The Way     (7” single b-side [to “Hello, Who’s There?” 1968 Ealing, London UK)

Momus - Poison boy friend     (7” single b-side [to “Right Hand Heart” 1988 Scotland, UK)

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 USA)

Terry Manning - Guess Things Happen That Way      (“Home Sweet Home” LP 1967 USA)

The Monkees - Daily Nightly [alternative version]     (“Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd” LP  1967 USA)

Witch Hats - Slow Eyes     (“Pleasure Syndrome” 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - It's a Happening Thing     (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967  California USA)

Daddy Dewdrop - March of the White Corpuscles     (7” single 1972 Los Angeles, USA)

Murlocs - Control Freak     (“Loopholes”  2014 Melbourne, Australia)

New Dream - You've Got That Certain Style     (7” single b-side [to “Catchin’ Up On Fun”] 1969 Australia)

Blair Smith - Echoes     (7” single b-side [to “Vision of Molly”] 1968 USA)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - The Worlds on Fire     (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

And an extra clip, cos I felt like it!

The Story UK - Standing in the Rain  ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)