Obscured By...

After our regular opening set of Australian rarities, which included a couple of songs from the ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ compilation of Adelaide 60’s obscurities which came out in 2010, plus a Janice Slater track from a very rare promotional EP for legendary Adelaide club “Big Daddy’s”, we cast our net worldwide for tracks from that era and brought you gems from acts such as Venezuela’s Ladies W.C. and Germany’s Wolfgang Dauner Quintet. Having procured a DVD copy of the classic 80’s music film “Urgh. A Music War” over the holiday break, we felt the urge to play a couple of tracks from it, including one by Magazine, which then led us to first playing a song from their new album, ”No Thyself”, their first in 30 years... irresistible! We randomly selected bands from the huge 3D Radio library featuring D in our regular ‘Letter of the Week’ segment, which gave us our first opportunity to play a song by Doris Day (a double D no less!), played some demos, including one by Adelaide’s U-Bombs, plus a single by the She Creatures, an all-girl, all-blue band allegedly from the planet Venus... the clip of whom you can see for yourself below...  and then continued our tribute to the ‘Boxset’ format by featuring some unreleased 60’s tracks from the classic Rubble series. All this and much more on this week’s Obscured by... brought to you by yet another combo of ‘DOTS’, this time Michael Hunter and Peter Brat.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Daisy Clover – Butterflies     (7”single 1969 Australia)

Janice Slater [with Little Sammy and the In People] – Downtown at Big Daddy’s     (promotional EP 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects – I’m Going Back     (acetate 1966 – taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ compilation 2010 Adelaide)

5 Sided Circle – Hungry [Paul Revere and the Raiders cover]     (live 1966 – taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’...)

Esperanto – Statue of Liberty      (’Esperanto’ LP 1973 Australia)

Original Aztecs with Harry Young – The Cruel Sea     (‘At the End of the Rainbow’ 2011 Australia)

Ladies W.C. – I’m Gonna Be     (‘Ladies W.C.’ LP 1969 Venezuela)

3 Hur-el – Aglarsa Aram Aglar [if he cries, my mother cries]     (‘Hurel Arsivi’ LP 1976 Turkey)

 

Euclid – Lazy Livin’     (‘Heavy Equipment’ LP 1970 USA)

Wolfgang Daunier Quintet – Take off your Clothes to Fool the Sun     (‘The Oimels’ LP 1969 Germany)

Magazine – The Worst of Progress...     (‘No Thyself’ 2011 UK)

Magazine – Model Worker     (‘Urgh. A Music War’ soundtrack LP 1981 USA)

Skafish  - Sign of the Cross      (‘Urgh. A Music War’ soundtrack LP 1981 USA)

 

Lene Lovich – Birdsong     (7”single 1979 UK)

 

the U-Bombs – Last Violin     (demo 1978 Adelaide, Aust.)

Doris Day – Please Don’t Eat the Daisies     (‘Doris Day Sings Her Great Movie Hits’ LP 1967 UK)  *

Devlin DorkoXxxchange – Spank Rock     (‘Couche Tard’ 2009 USA)  *

Jesse Deane Freeman Trio – Kick It Around     (‘Introducing...’ 2005 Adelaide, Aust.)  *

Del Webb Explosion – Too Late The Hero     (7”single b-side 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)  *

the She Creatures – Sexy Robot      (single download 2007 UK)

 

the Wayouts – Going All the Way [Squires cover]    (Belgium – taken from ‘Lost in Tyme Vol. 3’ compilation 2005 Greece)

 

the Higher State – Ballad of a Loner     (‘From Round Here’ 2006 UK)

Splodgenessabounds – Two Little Boys [Rolf Harris cover]     (7”single 1980)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – Here Comes Love     (demo 2005 Aust.)

Free Action Inc. – Bob Corn     (‘Free Action Inc. Plays Eddy Korsche Rock and Blues’ LP 1970 Italy)

the Mode – Eastern Music     (unreleased 1967 UK – taken from ‘Rubble’ boxset [Vol 2])

Wimple Winch – Marmalade Hair     (unreleased 1967 UK –   taken from ‘Rubble’ boxset [Vol 2])

   * ‘Letter of the Week’

Obscured By...

Welcome to the first edition for 2012, brought to you by the Cat and the Brat, this week’s combination of ‘dots’. As well as our usual selection of Australian and world-wide rarities, a large portion of the show was taken up by our tribute to the art of “the Boxset”... regular listeners will of course be aware of our fondness for the format, particularly of the compilation variety, the ‘Nuggets’ series being one of our faves and so we sampled from a couple of them... after all, Lenny Kaye’s original Nuggets compilation LP in 1972 kicked off the whole idea of salvaging great music that was in danger of being forgotten, and which we, in our small way, try to continue in Obscured by...  Another favourite is the ‘Babylon’s Burning’ punk obscurities set, which we made our ‘featured’ boxset and plundered mercilessly to bring you rarities by the likes of Rocket from the Tombs, Victim and the Rezillos. We also played several tracks from our newest acquisition, [XTC as] the Dukes of Stratosphear ‘Complete and Utter Dukes’ set, before finishing with a small taste from yet another favourite, ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 1-10’ by 60’s Adelaide popsters the Twilights .....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Wendy Saddington – Motherless Child     (Live on ‘GTK’ ABC TV 1970 Aust.)

 

  

Freshwater – Hello Sunshine     (7”single b-side 1971 Aust.)

Medium Cool – Wrist Job     (Live on ‘Scene’ ABC TV Tasmania 1970 Aust.)

Autumn – Lady Anne     (7”single b-side 1971 Aust.)

Dave Miller Set – No Need to Cry     (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Flying Circus – Turn Away     (‘Bonza Beaut and Boom Boom Boom’ LP 1971 Aust.)

Rashamra – Antelope     (7”single 1972 Adelaide, Aust.)

 

-          from “Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-78” boxset 2007    -

  the Finns – Baby’s On Fire     (Live in Cleveland 1974 USA)

  Rocket From The Tombs – Ain’t It Fun     (WMMS demo, 1975 USA)

  the Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK     (‘EMI reject’ version 1976 UK)

  the Buzzcocks – I Love You, You Big Dummy     (‘Time’s Up’ demos 1976 UK)

  the Damned – Feel The Pain     (demo 1976 UK)

  the Rezillos – (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures     (demo 1977 UK) 

 

  the Avengers – We are the One     (7”single 1978 USA)

  Victim – Why Are Fire Engines Red?     (7”single 1979 Belfast, UK)

-          from  ‘Complete and Utter Dukes’ boxset 2009 UK     -

  the Dukes of Stratosphear – You’re a Good Man, Albert Brown     (‘Psonic Psunspot’  LP 1987 UK)

 

  

  the Dukes of Stratosphear – Open Up A Can Of Human Beans      (‘Wish List’ compilation 2003 UK )

  the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Affiliated     (7”single in ‘Complete ....’  boxset 2009 UK)

the Rutles – Good Times Roll     (‘The Rutles’ soundtrack LP 1979 UK) 

 

-          from ‘Children of Nuggets’ boxset 2005 USA     -

  the Swingin’ Neckbreakers – I Live For Buzz     (‘I Live For Buzz’ LP 1993 New Jersey, USA)

  the Untamed Youth – Pabst Blue Ribbon     (‘Some Kinda Fun’ LP 1988 Missouri, USA)

 

-          from ‘Nuggets’ boxset 1997 USA      -

  the Nazz – Open My Eyes     (7”single 1968 USA)

  the Music Machine – The People In Me     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Human League – Almost Medieval      (‘Reproduction’ LP 1979 UK)

Death in June – State Slaughter     (7”single 1981 – taken from ‘Lesson 1: Misanthropy’ anthology 2009 UK/Adelaide)

the Virgin Prunes – Walls of Jericho     (12”single 1983 UK) 

  

Madroom – I Death     (‘I am for an art that takes...’ 1984 Aust.)

  the Twilights – Time and Motion Study Man     (7”single b-side 1968 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset [disc 6] 2009 UK) 

  

Technicolour Dreaming

For the final show for 2011 we played a selection of our favourite music, new and old... pretty much your regular Technicolour Dreaming really! We roamed from the new Horrors album to the debut from Adelaide’s Systemaddicts, from the psychedelic harmonies of Mikal Cronin to the garage brilliance of Clinic and from a Rolling Stones gem to a great version of a ‘wormy’ classic by Adelaide’s brillig. We also paid tribute to the late Sean Bonniwell... the Music Machine were one of the great bands of the 60’s, precursors of punk dressed in black and leather, who did the ‘one-gloved-hand’ thing way before that Jackson guy! We also featured a track from our newest boxset (though it was released in 2009)... a very groovy collection by the Dukes of Stratosphear [i.e. XTC in psychedelic disguise] packaged in purple velour and including a jigsaw puzzle... what better holiday gift could we get ourselves! And in finishing with the last pick from the current “band of the month”, Paul Revere and the Raiders, we bid our listeners/readers [i.e. YOU] a “Happy New Year” and we look forward to bringing you more great music in 2012...

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

the Horrors – Moving Further Away     (‘Skying’ 2011 UK)

Mikal Cronin – Is It Alright?     (‘Mikal Cronin’ 2011 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – I Like, I Like     (‘To Dreamers’ 2010 USA)

Grant-Lee Phillips – Spring Released     (‘Mobilize’ 2002 USA)

the Lovetones – A Place For Us      (‘Meditations’ 2006 Australia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – It Girl     (‘Thank God for Mental Illness’ 1996 USA – taken from the ‘Tepid Peppermint Wonderland’ anthology 2005 USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Discotheque     (‘Tales from the Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

DieselWitch – Gina the Gypsy     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You!’ 2011 Adelaide)

Jay Walker and the Pedestrians – Purple, Black and Blue     (demo 2009 Adelaide)

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

God God Dammit Dammit – Factory Man     (‘The Very First Day Of Sunshine’ 2011 Adelaide)

the Molting Vultures – Gulls Rock     (‘Drop In and Go’ 2009 Adelaide)

Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys – You Stole My Love     (7”single 1965 Australia)

Clinic – Walking With Thee      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)

Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (’13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’ 2010 UK/USA)

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Zabadak     (7”single 1967 UK)

the Rolling Stones – Get Off My Cloud     (7”single 1965 UK)

the Sparkles – [Ain’t] No Friend of Mine     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Mole From The Ministry     (’25 O’Clock’ EP [released on April Fool’s Day] 1985 UK – taken from “The Complete and Utter Dukes” boxset 2009)

the Music Machine – Talk Talk     (7”single 1966 USA)  * R.I.P. Sean Bonniwell  [1940-2011]

 

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

 

 the Systemaddicts – Can’t Put You Down     (‘The Systemaddicts’ 2011 Adelaide)

 

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Hungry     (7”single 1965 USA)   #

 

     #  “Band of the Month”