Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a journey around the current world of psychedelia, plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 – 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!), fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging – it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....

..... until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals.....

Sula Bassana - My Blue Guitar      ("Dreamer – 10^th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012 Germany)

the Lovetones - Journeyman (Anton Newcombe mix)      ("Dimensions" 2008 Melbourne Australia)

Gary Walker and the Rain - Francis      (7" single b-side (to Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia) 1969 UK)

the Electric Prunes - Dr Do-Good      ("Underground" LP 1967 USA)

the Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke      (7" single 1989 London UK )

the Black Angels - Never/Ever      ("Directions to See a Ghost"  2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13      ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)

 

the Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat      (demo 2015 Hawaii USA)

the Velvet Underground - Ocean      (recorded 1969, released on "VU" LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Noble Krell - Never Ever      (7" single 2015 Baltimore USA)

the Smoking Trees - Trips      ("Home in the Morning" EP 2015 California USA)

the Surfing Arcanis - Tenbrosa Silhouetta      (digital single 2015 Region Metropolitana, Chile)

Los Explosivos - Larga-te de Aqui!!!      (7" single 2009 Mexico)

 

Surf School Dropouts - Should Have Known Better      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Pretty Lightning - The Rainbow Machine      ("A Magic Lane of Light and Rain" 2015 Saarbrucken, Germany)

the Rolling Stones - Connection      ("Between the Buttons" LP 1967 UK)

Compilation of the week:  Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 - 71

 

Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer      (7" single 1970 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3” compilation 2015 France)

Les fleurs de Pavot - A 'degager      ( "Les fleurs de Pavot" LP 1969 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 1”)

Bruno Leys - Hallucinations      (7" EP [unreleased] 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

Papy - Toi Le Shazam     (7" single 1967 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3”)

Zorgones - Herr Doktor Reich      (7" single 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

the Deep - Colour Dreams      ("Psychedelic Moods"  LP 1966 USA)

Morgan Delt - Mr Carbon Copy      ("Morgan Delt" 2014 USA)

Jacco Gardner - Another You      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands)

the Wands - Totem Part II      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

Trolley - Love the Way you Look      ("Things that Shine and Glow" 2011 UK)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 / Lovely Lady Deb-O-Nair      (" 2001 – 15^th Anniversary re-mastered edition" 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

Being Record Store Day later in the week, we thought it appropriate to feature a number of vinyl singles and LPs, past and present, so we dug out a few favourites and obscurities including a classic from Big Star’s first album, some Australian 60’s-era singles from the likes of Mike Furber and former Masters Apprentices guitarist, Peter Tilbrook, a French tribute to Dr Wilhelm Reich by the Zorgones and a cut from the brand new LP by Paul Messis, released this week on the UK independent label, State Records. We also featured some of the artists appearing at the upcoming Austin Psych Fest, including organisers the Black Angels and Adelaide representatives Ride Into The Sun, plus some classic pop-psych from the Association and the Seeds as well as tracks from current purveyors such as Vibravoid and Clinic. Regular listeners will be aware of our fondness for  ‘suites’ of songs [most recently one from Procol Harum] so how could we resist playing - in full - the ‘audio-storybook LP’ tale of “Eyes Like The Sky”, narrated and written by Australian legend Broderick Smith [Carson/Dingoes etc] accompanied by the psychedelic/spaghetti western/surf sounds of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – brilliant stuff! On a more sombre note, we celebrated the lives of Chris Bailey and Annette Funicello, both of whom passed away recently, by playing some of their music and video-clips – R.I.P. Chris and Annette!

..... and so here is the playlist for this week’s show, plus some clips.....

Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo      (‘# 1 Record’ LP 1972 Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

 

the High Dials – Space Hobo      (‘Moon Country’ LP 2008 Montreal, Canada)

Mike Furber – Watch Me Burn      (7”single b-side [to I’m on Fire] 1969 Australia)

Peter Tilbrook – All Mine To Play With      (7”single b-side [to Stop the Time] 1969 Aust.)

Bobby & Laurie – Every Second Day      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Clinic – Harvest [within you]      (‘Visitations’ 2006 UK)

Vibravoid – The White Ship [HP Lovecraft cover]      (7”split-single [with Drug Free Youth] 2011 Germany)

the Seeds – Girl I Want You      (‘The Seeds’ LP 1966 USA)

Headband – Stay With Me      (7”single b-side [to Country Lady] 1973 Adelaide, Aust.)

     *  R.I.P.  Chris Bailey  1950-2013 (bassist - Headband/Red Angel Panic/the Angels/GANGajang etc)

Pleasure [feat. Billy Elder & Tandyn Almer] – Don’t take the night away      (7”single 1968 USA)

the Koolaid Electric Company – Over the Mountain      (‘Random Noises & Organised Sounds’ 2012 USA)

the Association – Message of our Love      (‘And Then... Along Comes the Association’ LP 1966 California, USA)

Tommy James & the Shondells – Crimson & Clover [LP version + reprise]      (‘Crimson & Clover’ LP 1969 USA)

the Picture – Evolution      (7”single b-side [to I’ll Be There] 1969 USA)

the Zorgones – Herr Doktor Reich      (7”single 1968 France)

the Barbarellatones – Gothic City      (‘The Breakup Ghost’ 2009 California USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard [with Broderick Smith narrating] – Eyes Like The Sky [suite {in its entirety}]      (‘Eyes Like The Sky’ EP 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Black Angels – War On Holiday      (‘Indigo Meadow’ 2013 Austin, Texas, USA)

Ride Into The Sun – Lost At Sea (love story)      (CD-single 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Tame Impala – Mind Mischief      (‘Lonerism’ 2012 Aust.)

Paul Messis – Happy This Way      (‘Case Closed’ LP 2013 UK)

Annette Funicello & Fishbone – Jamaica Ska      (‘Back to the Beach’ soundtrack LP 1987 USA)

    *  R.I.P.  Annette Funicello   1942-2013 (Mouseketeer/actor/singer etc – USA)