Monthly Archives: April 2024

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,172) Los Brincos (The Jumps) — “Flamenco” Trigger Warning — if you are from Spain, read no further! For I am talking about “The Spanish Beatles”, who hit #1 with this song in ‘64, the first flamenco rock hit? It “revealed the swaggerContinue reading “Los Brincos — “Flamenco”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 11, 2024″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,171) One in a Million* — “Fredereek Hernando” The Scottish band’s ’67 Christmastime 45 (with “Double Sight” as the B-side) is truly one in a million: “one of the very greatest obscure British psychedelic singles” (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/double-sight-mw0001743746), “one of the jewels ofContinue reading “One in a Million — “Fredereek Hernando”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 10, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,170) Giles, Giles & Fripp — “One in a Million” This ’68 A-side, representing King Crimson in the womb, sounds a lot like the offspring of Syd Barrett and Monty Python — “very English music hall psych … the sort of track doneContinue reading “Giles, Giles & Fripp — “One in a Million”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 9, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,169) Caleb Quaye — “A Woman of Distinction” I played the A-side (see #807) — here’s the B-side, “just as good . . . though certainly not as mind numbingly lysergic!” (AnorakThing, https://anorakthing.blogspot.com/2010/10/second-greatest-british-60s-psychedelic.html?m=1) The songs together make a “magnificent 45” (liner notes toContinue reading “Caleb Quaye — “A Woman of Distinction”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 8, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,168) Harry Nilsson — “Love Story” A sweet story, told by a man in love pondering a life of happily ever after . . . all the way to the end: “We’ll play checkers all day / ’til we pass away”. WTF? IsContinue reading “Harry Nilsson — “Love Story”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 6, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,167) The Daughters of Eve — “Help Me Boy” This song twice charted in ‘66 — Cleveland’s Outsiders reached #37 and Eric Burdon’s Animals reached #29 (#14 in the UK), both in October. But the best version was issued a year later (withContinue reading “The Daughters of Eve — “Help Me Boy”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 6, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,166) Damon — “Poor Poor Genie” A Lounge Lizard becomes Lizard King and gives us a mystical and almost mythical LP that “just oozes lysergia” (Tymeshifter, https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DDDE08017204B40), consisting of “tranced out gypsy Arabian acid fuzz crooner psych with deep mysterious vocals, a captivatingContinue reading “Damon — “Poor Poor Genie”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 5, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,165) Ambrose Slade/Slade– “Pity the Mother” The first song to be written by Slade’s future songwriting team of Noddy Holder and Jim Lea., this “hauntingly folky” (Dave Thompson, https://www.allmusic.com/album/beginnings-mw0000849687) “SAD song [is] about a pitiful lonely single mum, featuring stunningly heart-rending violin byContinue reading “Ambrose Slade/Slade — “Pity the Mother”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — March 4, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,164) Q’65 — “I Despise You”  The dutch punks’ nasty ‘66 A-side reached #19 in the Netherlands. High Times calls the ‘65* (see #108, 557, 913) ugly, slobs, and less intelligible than a New York cab driver, and it means that as aContinue reading “Q’65 — “I Despise You”: (Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 3, 2024”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,163) Earth Island — “Doomsday Afternoon” Another helping of stellar sunshine pop from Earth Island’s sole album (see #448, 653). Ecologically-aware, but from when sunshine was still a good thing! The album is a “Sunshine Psychedelic gem”. (https://psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.com/2009/02/earth-island-we-must-survive.html) By all accounts, Curt Boettcher mustContinue reading “Earth Island — “Doomsday Afternoon”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 2, 2024”