Monthly Archives: July 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,649) Lee Lynch — “A Bad Time to Stop Loving Me” How was this grand ballad not covered a million times? Well, maybe not as a wedding song! County Galway’s Lee Lynch does it proud, as does The Avengers‘ Linda Thorson. Irish ShowContinue reading “Lee Lynch — “A Bad Time to Stop Loving Me”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 11, 2025″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,648) The Smoke — “My Friend Jack” My friends, here is all-time classic UK pop psych, with “almost facetiously excessive reverb and shameless lyrical celebration of the underground community’s predilection for using sugar cubes to ingest [LSD]” (David Wells, Record Collector 100 GreatestContinue reading “The Smoke — “My Friend Jack”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 10, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,647) The Orange Bicycle — “Competition“ This “gorgeous” (David Wells, liner notes to the CD comp Come Join My Orchestra: The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73) “Pop-Sike gem” (Bam-Caruso, https://www.45cat.com/record/imp200013) made its only appearance on the B-side of a French EP. Written byContinue reading “The Orange Bicycle — “Competition”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 9, 2025″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,646) Mighty Baby — “Egyptian Tomb” Here is an “immortal” (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited) “great piece of [UK] psych with early prog leanings”. (ProgFan97402, https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5961) Psychedelic Paul muses: We’re in Raiders of the Lost Ark territory for the glorious openingContinue reading “Mighty Baby — “Egyptian Tomb”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 8, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,645) Little Milton — “Twenty-Three Hours” The legendary bluesman Little Milton (see #1,470) turns soulward on a “decidedly funky note with th[is] splendid stomper”. (soulmakossa, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/little-milton/grits-aint-groceries/) He “would develop a rawer, funkier sound as the ’60s progressed. This fusion of blues and funkyContinue reading “Little Milton — “Twenty-Three Hours”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 7, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,644) The Other Four — “Once and for All Girl” If the Byrds were a garage rock band . . . a “top notch Byrds-inspired track bordering on psychedelia” (Tony Sanchez with the help of Mike Stax, liner notes to the CD compContinue reading “The Other Four — “Once and for All Girl”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 6, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD A glorious, delirious, hallucinatory walk down a circus midway, through the sideshows. What could be more 60’s than that?! I don’t know which is better, the writer’s version, or the Creation’s heavier cover. 1,642) John Wonderling — “Midway Down” John Wonderling and LouContinue reading “Midway Down Special Edition: John Wonderling/The Creation: “Midway Down”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 5, 2025″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,641) The American Revolution — “Opus 1” Following the British Invasion comes an American Revolution . . . apparently for the benefit of Mr. Kite . . . “a real mindblower” (Psychedelic Guy, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-american-revolution/the-american-revolution/reviews/2/) Electric Sound Shoe tells us: Starting out as theContinue reading “The American Revolution — “Opus 1”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 4, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,640) Maurice Gibb — “Silly Little Girl” Another lovely buried treasure from Maurice Gibb’s (see #353, 354, 466, 861, 1,336, 1,584) lost solo album recorded during the Bee Gees’ split. With a “topflight vocal and melody” (Brian Doherty, https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/with-the-sun-in-my-eyes-brothers-gibb-bee-gees-andy-gibb-song-by-song-thread.1188605/page-337) very reminiscent of John Lennon,Continue reading “I Shall Be Released: Maurice Gibb — “Silly Little Girl”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 3, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,639) The Saxons – “Things Have Been Bad” The singer’s girlfriend has abandoned him, and man is he bummed. From West Palm Beach, Florida, this A-side to the band’s second and last single has a riff to die for — “[g]reat garage sound-Continue reading “The Saxons – “Things Have Been Bad”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 2, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,638) Roberto Carlos — “Você Não Serve Pra Mim”/“You’re No Good For Me” Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos (see #1,506), the King of Jovem Guarda, rocks out on the “first song recorded in Brazil with guitar distortion (fuzz)” (josenivaldosousa7044 (courtesy of Google Translate), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-C8iAbEL4),Continue reading “Roberto Carlos — “Você Não Serve Pra Mim”/”You’re No Good for Me”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 1, 2025″