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THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,498) Thundertree — “Summertime Children” Minneapolis/St. Paul Christian rock band’s “bouncy [secular] pop-psych ditty . . . was the[ir] album’s most atypical song and also the standout performance”. (RDTEN1, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/thundertree/thundertree/) I love it, like manna from heaven! RDTEN1 tells us: [S]inger Bob Blank,Continue reading “Thundertree — “Summertime Children”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 19, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,497) Spencer Mac – “Ka-Ka Kabya Mow-Mow (Sing A Little Love Song)” Fabulous UK blue eyed funk — no way was I expecting this. “Funkin’ groovy man, this tune is really doing it to me”. (bodhiapurva3887, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bn_KltWlZo) Yeah, me too. Gazfunk tells us:Continue reading “Spencer Mac – “Ka-Ka Kabya Mow-Mow (Sing A Little Love Song)”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 18, 2025”

“Liza” starts at 8:05 THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,496) Steve & Stevie — “Liza” A perfect pop song from downunder, “dancefloor friendly, funky piano pop . . . which would have made a killer single”. (Peter Gough, https://biteitdeep.blogspot.com/2014/06/steve-stevie-steve-stevie-1968.html?m=1) Peter Gough tells us: Steve & Stevie aka Steve Kipner and Steve Groves were an AustralianContinue reading “Steve & Stevie — “Liza”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 17, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,495) Bob Dylan and the Band — “I’m Your Teenage Prayer” Well, we go from a great Dylan parody/rip-off to a glorious doo-woo parody by Dylan himself with the Band from what else but The Basement Tapes. I kept trying to find theContinue reading “Bob Dylan and the Band— “I’m Your Teenage Prayer”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 16, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,494) Dick Campbell — “Where Were You” A great and haunting song from a polarizing LP — Dick Campbell Sings Where It’s At — EITHER “the sole masterpiece of the fake-Dylan field” (Gene Sculatti, https://paul-pearson.blogspot.com/2015/08/song-20150801-dick-campbell.html), “ar­guably the most amaz­ing ‘elec­tric Dylan’ sounda­like ever,Continue reading “Dick Campbell — “Where Were You”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 15, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,493) Jimmy Campbell — “In My Room” A door into his room, a door into his soul. A wonderful, “insightful”, and “plaintive” song with orchestration to match from Campbell’s Half Baked LP that “name checks the great master painters and authors that sparkedContinue reading “Jimmy Campbell — “In My Room”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 14, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,492) The Orange Machine — “Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room” This ’68 B-side is the Dublin, Ireland band’s (see #1,240) “finest moment, with superb fuzz guitar and vocals” (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited), “ace”, “[a] sinister psychedelic popbiography of an American physicianContinue reading “The Orange Machine — “Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 13, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,491) The Seeds — “Up in Her Room” (not really live at “Merlin’s Music Box”) From “one of the best Fake Live Albums ever . . . [this] almost-ten-minute rave-up . . . is some sort of crazed triumph” (Mark Deming, https://www.allmusic.com/album/raw-alive-the-seeds-in-concert-at-merlins-music-box-mw0000678031), “fiveContinue reading “The Seeds — “Up in Her Room” (not really live at “Merlin’s Music Box”): Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 12, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,490) The Fallen Angels — “Room at the Top” From the Fallen Angels (see #814),”Washington D.C.’s greatest contribution to 60s rock” (Jason, https://therisingstorm.net/the-fallen-angels-the-fallen-angels/), here is a ’67 B-side and track from their first LP with “sublime psychedelic power” (Jason again), a “brilliant dynamic psychContinue reading “The Fallen Angels — “Room at the Top”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 11, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,489) The Ali Baba Revue — “Rats in My Room” Unlike yesterday, today we have neither a gorgeous nor whimsical song about a room at the top of the stairs. Rather, we have “a rather amazing, incredibly strange tune” (Patrick Lundborg, The AcidContinue reading “The Ali Baba Revue — “Rats in My Room”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 10, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,488) Timothy Blue — “Room at the Top of the Stairs” Here is a gorgeous and whimsical song sung (by Timothy) Blue of Glasgow, written by future Alan Parsons Project co-founder and fellow Glaswegian Eric Woolfson. David Wells tells us that: It hasContinue reading “Timothy Blue — “Room at the Top of the Stairs”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 9, 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”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,480) Turquoise — “Tales of Flossie Fillett” From neighbors and friends of the Kinks in Muswell Hills, here is a “Kinks-flavored . . . supremely commercial piece of vinyl” (Stefan Granados, liner notes to the CD comp Turquoise: The Further Adventures of FlossieContinue reading “Turquoise — “Tales of Flossie Fillett”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 31, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,479) Thoughts and Words — “And the Tears Fall Like Rain” From Looks Like Rain to “And the Tears Fall Like Rain”, beguiling UK folk rock by Thoughts and Words (see #237, 580). “Communication is my problem” They must have been watching CoolContinue reading “Thoughts and Words — “And the Tears Fall Like Rain”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 30, 2025”