Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning and ending with some woozy psychedelia from the Lucid Dream and Wooden Shjips respectively, this Xmas Eve show continues our rundown of highlights & faves from 2013 and beyond including that great Space Agency single, the new Limiñanas LP, the latest Asteroid #4 opus, new finds such as Sudden Death of Stars, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Mystic Brew and the Dandelion alongside older faves like Mick Ronson, the Human Expression and the D-Coys, plus some cool compilations and reissues such as Psychedelica 5, Down Under Nuggets, the Bee Gees anthology and the Procol Harum & Strawberry Alarm Clock’s reissued 1^st albums. Again, too much music from all around the globe to play in one show, or even three, but we try! So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with some visual nuggets.....

the Lucid Dream – Sweet Hold on Me      (“Songs of Lies & Deceit” 2013 Carlisle, UK)

Tandyn Almer – Sunset Strip Soliloquy      (“Along Comes Tandyn” anthology 2013 USA)

Mr Elevator & the Brain Hotel – Are You Hypnotised?      (7”single 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Woods – Be All, Be Easy      (7”single 2013 USA)

Buried Feather – Maybe      (“Buried Feather” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – The World’s On Fire      (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 USA)

Mystic Brew – Zig Zag Wanderer [Capt Beefheart cover]      (demo EP 2013 Russia)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Those Drawings I Told You About      (“I Need You Bad” compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

les  Limiñanas – Liverpool [LP version]      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Sudden Death of Stars – This Vision of You       (bonus track on “Sudden Death of Stars” EP 2010 Brittany, France)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Evil Man / Fort Whipple / the God Man’s Goat Lust      (“Eyes Like the Sky” LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Singapore Sling – Nothing Inside      (“Never Forever” 2011 Reykjavík, Iceland)

People’s Temple – Brand New Thing      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Medicine – Changing of the Times      (“Psychedelica 5” compilation 2013 UK)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 UK)

Mick Ronson – Only After Dark      (“Slaughter on 10^th Avenue” LP 1974 UK)

the Bee Gees – Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Sydney, Australia – taken from “Morning of my Life – the Best of 1965-66” anthology 2013 Australia)

the D-Coys – Bad Times      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-67” compilation 2013 Australia)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound      (7”single b-side [to Calm Me Down] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Tombstones – Times Will Be Hard      (7” single 1967 USA)

Procol Harum – Conquistador      (“Procol Harum” LP 1967 UK)

the Hook – Show You the Way      (7”single b-side [to In The Beginning] 1969 USA)

the Asteroid #4 – Back of Your Mind      (“the Asteroid #4” LP 2013 USA)

the Dandelion – Toxic Flower Power  & The Ascension To Infinity      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Wooden Shjips – Everybody Knows      (“Back To Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

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.)