Technicolour Dreaming

Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”... This time it was “Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!] because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts such as Lumerians, the Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....

.....until then, here is the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!

Lumerians - Hook for an Eye      ("Transmissions from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)

Elephant Stone - Between The Lines      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation 2015 UK)

Les Annees - Freaktown Stars      ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break      ("A Letter to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Moods – ‘Cos of You       (7”single b-side [to Say Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)

the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby      (7"single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Hugo - Girl in the Garden      (7"single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Quilt - Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]      ("The Magical Mystery Psych Out - A Tribute to the Beatles" compilation 2015 USA)

Deep Sea Arcade featuring Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]      ("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Peoples Temple -   Twice Burned       (7"single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 USA)

Clinic - The Lion Tamer      ("Bubblegum" 2010 UK)

the Myrrors - Juana Laguna      ("Arena Negra" LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird     ("Yeti" LP 1970 Germany)

Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...      ("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - House of Glass      ("Rise and Fall" 2001 USA)

      “Compilation of the Week”

  “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968”

WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator       (7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action          (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Monkees - Daily Nightly    ("Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from Disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Leaves - Doctor Stone      ("Hey Joe" LP 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1968 USA – taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles      (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon      (7" single 2011 USA)

Toy - Motoring      ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God      ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

Technicolour Dreaming

Rather than concentrate on some of the fine music played on this week’s  show, like the 7”singles by bands such as the Black Hollies and Peoples Temple, or new albums from the Luck of Eden Hall, Soft Hearted Scientists and [at last!] the very cool debut from Adelaide’s Slingshot Dragster, or even ‘blasts from the past’ by the Bee Gees and Tin Tin, we’d like to draw attention to a wonderful short film by Alex Innocenti that we’ve posted after the Red Angel Panic track. It centres on an iconic Adelaide venue from the 60’s that he ran, “the Cellar” in Twin Street in the city, and features great footage of some of the bands [including of course the abovementioned Red Angel Panic] that played there and some of the events associated with it. Of course, the building is no longer there, demolished recently as part of yet another upmarket ‘project’ – sigh! – though it emerged in its final decade as another Adelaide icon, the Jade Monkey, which continues in another location to provide great, local independent music... But do take a look at this fascinating slice of Adelaide music history, and while you’re at it, check out the final clip – an interview [plus some music] with Russia’s brilliant Messer Chups.....

..... so here is the playlist, along with some viewing pleasure.....

the Warlocks – Dead Generation      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

David Bowie – We are the Dead      (“Diamond Dogs” LP 1974 UK)

the Beep Seals – Stars      (7”single 2007 Manchester, UK)

the Sunnyboys – You Need a Friend [original rough mix]      (“Our Best Of” anthology 2014 Australia)

Dean Allen Foyd – Insects       (“Road to Atlas” EP 2012 Sweden)

Sky Picnic – The Good Humor Man (he sees everything like this) [Love cover]      (recorded 2013 USA – taken from “The Active Listener Sampler 13” compilation 2013 New Zealand)

Anton Barbeau – Out Of My Mind On Dope & Speed [Julian Cope cover]      [“Psychedelic Mynde of Moses” E.P. 2012 UK)

Slingshot Dragster – UTI      (“Bite the Bullet” 2014 Adelaide, South Australia)

the Citradels – Take It Out      (“Our Lord’s Secret Service” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

les Limiñanas – Funeral Baby      (“Les Limiñanas” LP 2010 France)

the Green Pajamas – Such a Lovely Daughter      (recorded 1988 USA – taken from 7” flexi-disc  with “Unhinged Magazine” 1989 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Song From The River      (“False Lights” 2013 Cardiff, UK)

8x8 – Azalia’s Room      (“Azalia’s Room” 2013 USA)

Red Angel Panic – Private Investigator      (7”single b-side [to Viet Rock] 1971 Adelaide, Australia)

 

the Black Hollies – Here Comes The Rain      (7”single included with “Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere“ LP 2013 USA)

Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Old Man Arthur-Dragon Fly      (recorded 1999 – taken from “Retrospectoscope : 1966-70” faux-anthology 2008 UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Collapse of Suzy Star      (“Victoria Moon” 2014 USA)

Peoples Temple – Twice Burned      (7”single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 Michigan, USA)

Tin Tin – Swans on the Canal       (“Tin Tin” LP 1970 Australia/UK)

les Fleurs de Pavot - A Dégager      (“Les Fleurs de Pavot“ LP 1968 France) 

Les Fleurs de Pavot à l'émission Bouton Rouge 1968 by Tushratta

the Bee Gees – Playdown      (“Spicks and Specks” LP 1966 Australia – taken from “Morning Of My Life: Best of 1965-1966” anthology 2013 Australia)

Ted Mulry – Julia      (7”single 1970 Australia/UK)

White Fence – Chairs in the Dark      (“Cyclops Reap” 2013 California, USA)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Just Like Me      (7”single 1965 USA)

the Barbarellatones – I am Verwolf      (recorded 2013 California, USA)

Messer Chups – Diabolik Boogie      (“Crazy Price” 2005 Russia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Trawling through the 3D Radio library’s “new releases” section provided us with a huge pile of music to add to the already large stack we’d chosen to bring in, way too much for just one show, so we cherry-picked, but just had to start with the insidiously catchy pre-release single from the upcoming new Jim Jones Revue album. From there, it went all over the place... from Geelong we played a track by the Citradels, from the Central Coast of NSW we heard the Mandelas, all the way from San Diego some psychedelic grooviness courtesy of the Koolaid Electric Company, from England came the title track from the debut LP by the Galileo 7 and from here in Adelaide, the True Detective and a demo from Rocket Frog. Throw in a variety of styles and sounds, including the psych drone of Lumerians and Crystal Stilts, both from the USA circa 2011, plus our current Band of the Month, Adelaide’s own Ride Into The Sun, and it was another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, done and dusted.....

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

the Jim Jones Revue – It’s Gotta Be About Me      (pre-release from ‘Savage Heart’ 2012 UK)

the New Invincibles – Barnaby       (‘Hear Some Evil’ 2012 Perth, Australia)

Rocket Frog – Secretly      (‘Avuncular 9’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Rescue Ships – Joan      (CD-single 2012 Sydney, Aust.)

the Citradels – Lost at Sea      (‘the Citradels’ EP 2012 Geelong, Aust.)

the Warlocks – Shake the Dope Out      (‘Phoenix’ 2002 USA)

the True Detective – Don’t go messing with my Rock’n’Roll [Molting Vultures cover]      (‘Hammer’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Barbarellatones – Transvestobilly Boogie      (‘Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2010 USA)

the Bombay Royale – You Me Bullets Love      (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Mandelas – Baja-Ha      (‘the Mandelas’ Last Stand’ 2012 NSW, Aust.)

the Wondermints – The Party [Henry Mancini cover]      (‘Shots in the Dark’ tribute compilation 1996 USA)

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

the Dunes – Bay Window      (‘Between Midnight & Dawn’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Koolaid Electric Company – Invasion of the Skies      (‘Random Noises & Organised Sounds’ 2012 California, USA)

Crocodiles – Sunday [Psychic Conversation #9]      (‘Endless Flowers’ 2012 San Diego, USA)

brillig – The Hearse Song      (CD-single 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Lammas Tide – The Murky Deep      (‘CD-single 2012 Perth, Aust.)

Crystal Stilts – Shake the Shackles      (‘In Love With Oblivion’ 2011 Brooklyn, NY, USA)

Lumerians – Gaussian Castles      (‘Transmilinnia’ 2011 San Francisco, USA)

Galileo 7 – Staring at the Sound      (‘Staring at the Sound’ LP 2012 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Redneck      (from ‘the album that never was’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)  #

      # “Band of the Month”