Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes we just can’t resist playing the old favourites, and this was one of those weeks, with songs by the Dead Skeletons, the Monks, the Flower Machine, Kelley Stoltz and Wooden Shjips peppering the playlist (and just what is a “Kim Chee Taco” the Cat has often wondered??) Our choice for “Compilation of the Week” was similarly a particular favourite of ours, Scott Walker‘s “BoyChild : the Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970”. Strictly speaking it’s an anthology rather than a compilation, but hey, who’s making up the rules – we are! The collection in question covers Scott’s first four LPs, “Scott”, “Scott2”, “Scott3” and “Scott4” plus 1970’s “'Til the Band Comes In” and was originally released in 1990 and then re-mastered and re-released in 2000, which is the version we used. So, until the next instalment of “Technicolour Dreaming” next Tuesday.....

..... here is the playlist, with a few visual goodies, including a full episode of the 60’s TV show “Adventures in Paradise”, whose memorable ‘surf instro’ theme song has been covered by a number of bands, including Normie Rowe’s backing band, the Playboys, who included it on their 1965 LP.

Dead Skeletons - Psychodead      ("Dead Magik" 2011 Iceland)

Molting Vultures - Insane Jane      ("Drop in and Go"  2009 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Zakary Thaks - A Passage to India      (acetate recorded 1966, released on "Passage to India" anthology 2010 Texas, USA)

Sons of Hippies - The Soft Parade (Doors cover)      ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" compilation 2014 Germany/USA)

H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship      ("H.P. Lovecraft" LP 1967 Chicago, USA)

Neighb'rhood Childr'n - She's Got No Identification     ("Neighb'rhood Childr'n" LP 1968 Oregon, USA)

the Silhouettes  - All a Lie     ("Psychedelica 5" compilation 2013 UK)

the Janitors - Aside (Outside)      (recorded 2013 Sweden – taken from "Trip Inside this House, Summer Solstice Vol. VI" compilation 2013 Missouri USA)

the Flower Machine - In A Play Anyway      ("Marmoset Meadow" EP 2010 USA)

the Fallen Angels - Introspective Looking Glass     ("The Fallen Angels" LP 1967 USA)

the Monks -  I Hate You    ("Black Monk Time" LP 1966 USA/Germany)

Sheetah et les Weissmuller - Pire que le silence      ("!Hola Ye Yeah! " 2007 France)

the Cool Ghouls - Insight      ("A Swirling Fire Through the Rye" 2013 USA)

the Playboys - Adventures in Paradise [TV theme cover]      (“The Playboys” LP 1965 Australia)

the Gothic Archies - Crows      ("The Tragic Treasury: Songs From "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" 2006 UK)

                        ### “Compilation of the Week” ###   

 “BoyChild : the Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970”

Scott Walker - The Plague      ("Scott 2" LP 1968 - taken from "BoyChild - The Best of Scott Walker 1967 - 70" anthology 2000 UK)

Scott Walker - Girls from the Streets ("Scott 2" LP 1968 – taken from “BoyChild” anthology)

Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People     ("Scott 2" LP 1968 – taken from “BoyChild” anthology)

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime)         ("Scott 4" LP 1969 – taken from “BoyChild” anthology)

Scott Walker - Prologue      ("'Til the Band Comes In" LP 1970 – taken from “BoyChild” anthology)

Kelley Stoltz - The Kim Chee Taco Man      ("Double Exposure" 2013 USA)

Paul Parrish - Walking in the Forest (Of My Mind)      ("The Forest of My Mind" LP 1968 USA)

Sonny and the Sunsets - Alice Leaves for the Mountains      (“Talent Night at the Ashram" 2015 USA)

Wooden Shjips - Down By the Sea      ("Dos" 2009 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

On this, our final show of 2014, we’d hoped to complete our “Best of the Year” picks in the categories of album, single, anthology, re-issue, compilation and boxset, which we started last week.... but because there are so many, we’ll probably be adding some more on our first show of 2015, because it truly was a great year for psychedelia. Indeed the past few years are now being hailed as “the third wave of psychedelia”, with a world-wide upsurge of young [and some not-so-young] musicians re-inventing and experimenting with their influences to make music that is all their own, not just a pale copy of the original 60’s garage/acid-punk/psych template, and a growing audience who are discovering these sounds, past and present, as witnessed by the popularity of “psych fests” around the world, while some bands such as Temples and Ty Segall [coincidentally our “Artiste of the Week”] are even gaining “mainstream” acceptance with commensurate record sales. So 2014 was an exciting year for new psychedelic music, which is reflected in the difficulty we had trying to play all of our favourites, as we mentioned at the start, because there were simply so many brilliant releases.  

So, all the best for 2015 to you from the Cat & the Brat and 3D Radio 93.7fm and let’s see if this “third psychedelic wave” continues to gather force in this coming year....

..... so here is the playlist, with some associated visuals.....

Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills      ("Songs for Mara" 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing      ("Sallies Forth" LP 1968 UK)

the Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties     ("The Velvet Underground and Nico" LP 1967 New York - taken from 2014 re-issue/boxset)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      ("Psych for Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 USA)

Sagittarius - In My Room [Brian Wilson cover]      ("The Blue Marble" LP 1969 California, USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard  - Indigo      ("Abandoned Meander" 2006 Canada)

the Monks - Complication      ("Black Monk Time"  LP 1966 Germany USA)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen      ("They Worshipped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine     (7"single b-side [to Something Better] 1969 London, UK)

the High Dials - Our Time is Coming Soon      ("War of the Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)

Groep 1850 - Mother No-Head      (7"single 1967 Netherlands)

the Expression - Quicksand      (7"single 1970 Melbourne, Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK )

the Twilights - Time and Motion Study Man      (7"single [b-side to Young Girl] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Nonesuch - Ride the Wind Away     (7"single 1968 Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK)

Paul Messis - Nightmares      (7"single 2014 Kent, UK)

    ###  “Artiste of the Week”   TY SEGALL   ###

Ty Segall - Manipulator      ("Manipulator" 2014 California, USA)

Ty Segall - She Don't Care     ("Sleeper" 2013 California, USA)

Ty Segall and White Fence - The Black Glove/Rag      ("Hair" 2012 California, USA)

Ty Segall - Children of Paul      (“I Can't Feel It” EP 2011 USA)

Dodson and Fogg - Entrepreneur In the Garden      ("In A Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

the Dunes - Badlands      ("Bad:Lands" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Apricot - Aristocratic Appetite      ("A Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)

New Electric Ride - I Can't Help But Smile      ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - TK16  Part 2      ("8"  LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Balduin - Mirror, Mirror      ("All in a Dream" LP 2104 Switzerland)

the See See - As The Morning      ("Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Sealed Scene       ("Chambers" 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)