Monthly Archives: February 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,487) Gold — “When I Saw You” From a San Francisco Mission District band with “a great raw sound. . . . something like a cross between Santana and The Jefferson Airplane” (Klemen Breznikar, https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/08/gold-interview-with-ed-scott-guitar-and.html) but only a lone 45 to its name,Continue reading “Gold — “When I Saw You”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 8, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,486) The Tickle — “Subway (Smokey Pokey World)” The band’s only A-side is a “minor masterpiece” (liner notes to the CD comp Chocolate Soup for Diabetics: Volumes 1-5: 82 UK Psych Classics), an “urgent, thrillingly hard-edged chunk[] of Beatles-inspired studio psychedelia produced byContinue reading “The Tickle — “Subway (Smokey Pokey World)”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 7, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,485) Sharon Tandy — “Daughter of the Sun” This incredible ’68 B-side by the incredible Sharon Tandy (see #371, 441, 442, 741) with her “delightfully twisted vocal” (Vintage Vinyl Via Valves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9PqjxiB7_0), captures her “in full [Julie] Driscoll-styled [see #1,032, 1,033, 1,312] psychedelicContinue reading “Sharon Tandy — “Daughter of the Sun”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 6, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,484) Steve Aldo —  “You’re Absolutely Right” “Merseybeat’s own black R&B/soul guy [with] a cracking voice” (Simsy, https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-archives/rip-steve-aldo-r3572/) turned this Nicholas Ashford, Valerie Simpson and Josephine Armstead number into a “Hot UK Northern Dancer”. (Vintage Vinyl Via Valves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9JtroL-JY) It is absolutely aContinue reading “Steve Aldo —  “You’re Absolutely Right”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 4, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,483) Buddy Miles — “Funky Mule” Buddy Miles (see #112, 221, 366, 629, 853) was a “force of nature as a drummer, vocalist, and bandleader” (Jamie Ludwig, https://chicagoreader.com/music/buddy-miles-wrings-every-drop-of-emotion-from-the-segment/), and this “raucous” and funky instrumental is it’s own force of nature, one of the “highlights”Continue reading “Buddy Miles — “Funky Mule”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 3, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,482) The Love Generation — “Love Is a Rainy Sunday” The Love Generation don’t get no respect, but their unapologetically sunshiney pop is so groovy. “Perhaps it was the instrumentation which included strings, or the mildly jazzy trumpet solo, but [“Rainy Sunday”] wouldn’tContinue reading “The Love Generation — “Love Is a Rainy Sunday”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 2, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,481) The Untouchables –– “Don’t Go I’m Beggin’” Here is more “classic garage punk from the Pacific Northwest, [from] the Untouchables from Olympia, [or maybe Elma] WA . . . . [g]reat stuff” (Dave, https://davesstrangeworld.com/2013/08/21/dont-go-im-beggin-the-untouchables/), with “great fuzztone and . . . organ”Continue reading “The Untouchables — “Don’t Go I’m Beggin’”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 1, 2025”