Technicolour Dreaming

Just when you think that the recent spate of musical heroes departing this earth has abated, along comes a very big lightning bolt from the blue - David Bowie has joined them. Not a promising start for the year, but a fitting reason to re-listen to Bowie's collected works, and play some favourites on the radio. Indeed, on the day in question, by the time 1pm had rolled around, there had been a massive 29 Bowie tracks aired, with not a single repetition amongst them! Just goes to show that Bowie's different stylistic twists and turns appealed to a very wide range of fans over the years. Sadly, so many inspirational musicians are approaching an age where their mortality is becoming more and more apparent - as a friend recently wrote, someone should go find Keith Richards and roll him up in bubble-wrap, pronto!
..and here's the playlist for this week's show, clips and all...
David Bowie - Scream Like a Baby  ("Scary Monsters" LP 1980 UK)




Vespero - Scream thy Last Scream [Pink Floyd]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 Russia)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Mount Palomar  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015 reissue Wales UK)




Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)
Crystal Jacqueline  - Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("Sun Arise" 2015 UK)



Soft Hearted Scientists - Diving Bell  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015reissue Wales UK)

Papy - Toi le Shazam  (7" single 1967 France)


Fatty Nautty - Tumba Part 2  ("Fatty Nautty EP" 1968 France)



Dodson and Fogg - Clunes the Gravedigger  ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)
Traffic - Paper Sun  (7" single 1967 UK)




David Bowie - Friday on my Mind [Easybeats]  ("Pin Ups" LP 1973 UK)



The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Leave it Alone  ("Thingy Wingy" mini-album 2015 USA)

The Hanging Stars - Golden Vanity  (CD single 2015 London UK) 

The Easybeats - Peculiar Hole in the Sky [Valentines]  (7" single 1969 Australia) 



 The Amazing - Picture You  ("Picture You" 2015 Sweden)




 David Bowie - Queen Bitch  ("Hunky Dory" LP 1971 UK)




 Dukes of Stratosphear - Vanishing Girl  ("Psonic Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)




The Monkees - Girl That I Knew Somewhere  ("Monkees Live 1967" LP 1987 USA) 



  Cherokees - I've Gone Wild  (7" single b-side (to "Minnie the Moocher") 1967 Australia) 




 Castaways - Liar Liar  (7" single 1965 USA)




 The Systemaddicts - Can't Put You Down  ("The Systemaddicts" 2011 Adelaide, Australia)


Vertebrats - Left In The Dark  ("Screaming Like a Mad Choir" 2011 USA) 


The Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg  (7" single 1965 USA) 


The Fallen Angels - Mother's Homesick Too  ("The Fallen Angels" LP 1967 USA)
 

The Black Angels - Deer-Ree-Shee  ("Directions To See a Ghost" 2008 Austin Texas, USA)


The Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free  ("The Velvet Underground" LP 1969 USA)  

 Adrian Pride - Her Name Is Melody  (7" single 1966 USA) 

Rashamra - The Love of a Woman  ("Unforgotten" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Flaming Lips - Is David Bowie Dying?  ("The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends" 2012 USA)  

Technicolour Dreaming

The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album came into our P.O. box this week so, needless to say, we felt it was a fine way to begin this week’s show before we moved into our trawl through the wonderful world of psychedelia. Also featured this week were tracks from a couple of cool Russian bands, Mystic Brew and the Spoon Box, with more to follow in coming weeks from what appears to be a very vibrant psych scene... special thanks to Dimitry of Mystic Brew for putting us onto some of the great bands there! Northern Europe also provided us with tracks by such Scandinavian bands as Octopus Syng and the Jessica Fletchers plus, from Poland, the White Kites, while from the Philippines we played D’Swooners, as well as a bunch from the USA and Britain including Flavor Crystals and Jeffertitti’s Nile from the former and Scars, the Open Mind and Schnauser from the latter, not forgetting Australia’s entries, Shining Bird and Subtract-S and New Zealand’s the Avengers, who did a great cover of “Listen, Listen”, which has to be one of our favourite 60’s classics! That’s your lot - another “Technicolour Dreaming” streamed into your ears, so until next week.....

...... here is the playlist, plus visuals......

Enjoy!

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem       (“Revelation”  2014 USA/Germany)

Octopus Syng – It’s Not a Coincidence         (”Reverberating Garden no.7” 2014 Finland)

Mind Garage – Asphalt Mother         (7”single 1968 Pittsburgh, USA)

Mystic Brew – Without You         (7”single b-side [to Don’t You Want To Stay] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

MYSTIC BREW - Without You (Official Video) from Zakharkin Oleg on Vimeo.

D’Swooners – Please Please Trina         (7”single 1968 Philippines/Hong Kong)

BB Jr – Walking with Jesus [Spaceman 3 cover]         (“Captcha Records... introducing” sampler compilation 2014 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Sharknado         (mp3 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Modern Lovers – She Crack’d         (“The Modern Lovers” LP 1976 New York, USA)

Frantic Chance – My Name is Warfare         (mp3 demo 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody Seventies Love         (“What Happened to the?” 2003 Norway)

the Green Tambourine Band – From the Seed into the Flower [Sir Psych Mix]         (mp3 – song orig. on “Let Yourself Be/Aum” LP 2014 Scotland, UK)

Cheval Sombre – You’ve got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles cover]         (mp3 2013 USA)

Three Minute Tease – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]          (“The White EP” double-7” EP 2013 UK)

Southern Boutique – Don’t Be Yourself (Cowboy Song Part 2)         (7” single 2013 USA)

Flavor Crystals – Blue Haiti         (“Three” LP 2013 USA)

Shining Bird – Can’t Stop Sleeping In         (demo 2014 Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – The Day the Sky Fell         (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

the White Kites – Percival Buck        (“Missing” LP 2014 Poland)

the Mirage – Ebenezer Beaver         (recorded 1968 UK, but unissued – taken from ”Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” CD-boxset 2013 UK)

the Open Mind – Magic Potion         (7” single 1969 UK)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]         (7” single 1969 New Zealand)

Scars – All About You         (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Tall Tales and True – Wasted Life         (“Tale Tales and True” mini-LP 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Toys Went Berserk – Guns at My Head        (7” single [b-side to Don’t Run Away] 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Subtract-S – mb ph         (“Love From Outer Space” EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Schnauser – Astral Traveller [Yes cover]         (7”single 2014 Wales, UK)

the Spoon Box – Два расиста [Two Racists]         (“The Spoon Box” EP 2012 Samara, Russia)

Technicolour Dreaming

harry here. You may remember me from such 3D Radio shows as the SoundLounge and TOP 20+1 or from my current show Audiophile on Fridays 2-4pm. This week however, I’ve donned paisley from my audio wardrobe to curate Technicolour Dreaming for the Cat & the Brat in their absence.....

..... so here is the playlist, with visual aids..... ENJOY!

the Small Faces – Here Come the Nice        (7”single 1967 London, UK)

the Murlocs – Occupied         (“The Murlocs” 2014 Geelong, Australia)

Traffic – Rock and Roll Stew         (“The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” LP 1971 UK)

Canned Heat – Sic ‘Em Pigs         (7”single b-side [to Poor Moon] 1969 – taken from “Creative Outlaws – US Underground 1962-1970” compilation 2006 Germany)

Thee Oh Sees – Tidal Wave      (7”single 2009 USA – taken from “Singles Volumes 1+2” anthology 2011 USA)

Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues      (“Vincibus Eruptum” LP 1968 USA)

Horror My Friend – Nothing      (digital-single 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Sky Saxon – Cracking Ice      (“Red Planet” 2004 USA)

Frowning Clouds – Beetle Bird      (“Whereabouts” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Yardbirds – Shapes of Things      (7”single 1966 UK)

Kahvas Jute – Free      (“Wide Open” LP 1971 Australia)

 

the Barbarellatones – Song for Siddhartha      (“Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute” 2011 USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Someplace Else Unknown      (“Who Killed Sgt Pepper?”  2010 USA)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga      (“At Home” LP 1969 Netherlands)

 

Dieselwitch – UFO Surf      (“Surfadelica” 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

Ava Torch – Big Bang         (“love blood cum” 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Zoot Money – Soma          (“Transition” LP 1968 UK)

Moon Duo – Motorcycle, I Love You      (“Escape” EP 2010 San Francisco, USA)

the Warlocks – Silver & Plastic      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Pearls Before Swine – Uncle John      (“One Nation Underground” LP 1967 USA)

the Long Ryders – And She Rides      (“10-5-60” EP 1983 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – 25 O’Clock      (“25 O’Clock” mini-LP 1985 UK)

the Posies – Apology      (“Dear 23” LP 1990 USA)

Arthur Brown – Speaknotech      (“Speaknotech” LP 1982 UK)

the Lost & Found – I’m So Hip to Pain      (“Forever Lasting Plastic Words” LP 1968 Texas, USA)

the Chateaux – Reference Man [Part 1]      (7”single 1968 North Dakota, USA – taken from “30 Seconds Before The Calico Wall” compilation 1995 USA)

the Raveonettes – The End [Doors cover]      (“A Psych Tribute to the Doors” compilation 2013 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show this week with two tracks from Eric Burdon & the Animals 1967 album ‘Winds of Change’ and finished it with one from the new album by Australia’s Cloud Control, and so it was for the music we played in-between – the old and the new, here and overseas, soft and loud, fast blasts and slow drones – all the regular ingredients you’ve come to expect in the sounds of Technicolour Dreaming. From the b-side of Temples’ debut single to the Sons of Adam’s Arthur Lee-penned 1966 single a-side via Sula Bassana, Scott Walker, the Millennium and ex-Smallgoods songwriter Ben Mason’s latest psych-pop masterpiece and through to Beaulieu Porch, Mikal Cronin and the new Mynd Gardeners vinyl release, it was a varied journey through psychedelic realms and related states, which included a tribute to long-time Devo drummer Alan Myers who passed away recently, a1966 VOX radio ad, a track from the Gang of Four’s 1980 debut LP, a very electric version of a Serge Gainsbourg classic by Deep Sea Arcade and a strange 1970 b-side by Janie Jones, the London ‘identity’ immortalised by the Clash on their debut LP. So, business as usual here on 3D Radio with the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and here is the playlist, with some visual goodies thrown in.....   

Eric Burdon and the Animals – Poem By The Sea / Paint it Black [Rolling Stones cover]         (“Winds of Change” LP 1967 UK)

Crystal Stilts – The Dazzled         (“Alright of Night” 2008 New York, USA)

Scott Walker – Get Behind Me         (“Scott 4” LP 1969 UK/USA)

Janie Jones – Psycho         (7”single [b-side to Back on my Feet Again] 1970 UK)

Gang of Four – Return the Gift         (“Entertainment” LP 1980 UK)

Devo – The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize         (“Duty Now for the Future” LP 1979 Akron, Ohio, USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted         (7”split-single [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Temples – Colours to Life         (7”single [b-side to Shelter Song] 2013 UK)

Sula Bassana – Perry Rhodan         (“Dark Days” 2013 Germany)

Deep Sea Arcade (with Megan Washington) – Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]         (“Melodie Francaise” compilation 2013 Aust.)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Hate the Taste         (“Spectre at the Feast” CD single 2013 USA)

the Cosmic Gardeners – Way of Going         (“Fortune Bells and Magic Candles” 1995 Bavaria, Germany)

Blue Effect – Snakes         (“Blue Effect” EP 1969 Czechoslovakia)

the Millennium – It’s You         (“Begin” LP 1968 USA)

the Executives – Summerhill Road         (7”single 1969 Sydney, Aust.)

Django Django – Hail Bop         (“Django Django” 2012 Scotland, UK)

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ – The Little Record Store Just Around the Corner         (“Songs from the Psychedelic Time Clock” EP 2013 Georgia, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Stairway to the Best Party in the Universe         (“Aufheben” 2012 USA)

Vibravoid – La Vie En Dusseldorf         (“Gravity Zero” 2012 Germany)

Ben Mason – I Can See Again         (“Holes and Corners” 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sufis – I Don’t Know         (“The Sufis” 2013 USA)

Love – The Red Telephone         (“Forever Changes” LP 1967 USA)

the Amazing – Evil          (“Wait for a Light to Come” 2010 Sweden)

Beaulieu Porch – We Are Today         (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

Mikal Cronin – Shout It Out         (“MC II” 2013 California, USA)

Sons of Adam – Feathered Fish [Arthur Lee cover]         (7”single 1966 California, USA – taken from “Pebbles Volume 1” compilation LP 1979 USA)

Radio Promo – VOX ‘wah-wah’ advert 1966 [featuring the Electric Prunes]         (‘mystery’ track on “Pebbles Volume 1”)

Adnan Othman and the Wanderers – Revolusi!         (7”single 1970(?) Malaysia – taken from “Pop Yeh Yeh – Psychedelic Rock from Singapore & Malaysia – 1964-1970, Vol.1” compilation 2013 Seattle, USA)

Les 5 Gentleman – LSD 25 ou les Metamorphoses de Margaret Steinway        (“Qu’as-tu Katioucha?” EP 1968 France)

Cloud Control – Promises         (“Dream Cave” 2013 Aust.)