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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”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,478) Mickey Newbury — “T Total Tommy” Call it folk rock or call it progressive country, but call it “a great song”, “[b]ouncy on the surface with some undeniably catchy lyrics”, “[t]oo low key to be a hit but ….” (Franco, https://whatfrankislisteningto.negstar.com/americana/mickey-newbury-looks-like-rain-mercury-1969/), “folky,Continue reading “Mickey Newbury — “T Total Tommy”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 29, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,477) The Sonics — “Strychnine” Aristotle’s favorite tune! “If you listen to what I say You’ll try strychnine some day Make you jump, it’ll make you shout It’ll even knock you out” The Sonics were “flame-throwing” (Cub Koda, https://www.allmusic.com/album/here-are-the-sonics-mw0000245191), as “Gerry Rosalie, theContinue reading “The Sonics — “Strychnine”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 28, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,476) The Perishers — “How Does It Feel?” “This obscure quartet’s uplifting 45 is one of the most instantly catchy songs of the era” (liner notes to the CD comp Chocolate Soup for Diabetics: 82 UK Psych Classics), “[a]bsolutely brilliant given it wasContinue reading “The Perishers — “How Does It Feel?”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 27, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,473) John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band — “God” While Lennon (see #29, 113, 520, 522 ) proclaims in “God” that he doesn’t believe in the Bible or Jesus, he says the same about Elvis, Dylan and the Beatles. Rather than anContinue reading “OMG Special Edition: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band/David Peel and the Lower East Side/The Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band — “God”; David Peel and the Lower East Side — “God”, The Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9: “Hey Lord”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 26, 2025″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD Here’s a tale of two singles: Brooks O’Dell’s powerful ’65 soul classic that somehow didn’t chart in the U.S. and the Koobas’ mod cover the following year which, you guessed it, somehow didn’t chart in the UK. 1,471) Brooks O’Dell — “You BetterContinue reading “Make Up Your Dang Mind! Special Edition: Brooks O’Dell/The Koobas — Brooks O’Dell — “You Better Make Up Your Mind” (65) (US) (soul), The Koobas — “Better Make Up Your Mind”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — January 25, 2025”