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The song starts at the 13:24 mark on Mindrocker, Vol. 12. THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 925) Rock’n’Roll Gypsies – “(It’s a) Love-In” After listening to this gentle paean to love-ins for the first time, I had a sneaking suspicion it is a hilarious, but also a bitContinue reading “Rock’n’Roll Gypsies – “(It’s a) Love-In”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 16, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 924) David McNeil — “Space Plane” This is not your daddy’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane”! ‘68 UK B-side by Marc Chagall’s son is “a wholly surreal and twisted mantra and one of the more original and eccentric releases of the psychedelic era.”Continue reading “David McNeil — “Space Plane”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 15, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 923) The Tokens — “The Bathroom Wall” This is 1968’s greatest rock and roll tribute to public bathrooms, where “[p]eople from the finest homes come to write their finest poems” (though the Stones would have put up a fight had they been allowedContinue reading “The Tokens — “The Bathroom Wall”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 14, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 922) Syd Barrett: “Two of a Kind” (Peel Session) A few nights ago, I saw the sad, wistful Syd Barrett doc Have You Got It Yet. While it provides terrific insights into Syd, he still remains an enigma to me.* I do loveContinue reading “Syd Barrett: “Two of a Kind” (Peel Session): Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 13, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 921) Paper Bubble — “You’re Feeling Sleepy” A hypnotic baroque lullaby. A response to the Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping” or S&G’s “Feelin’ Groovy”? David Wells says that Paper Bubble’s first album Scenery (see #626) was composed of “elegiac, post-psychedelic baroque pop soundscapes .Continue reading “I Shall Be Released: Paper Bubble — “You’re Feeling Sleepy”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 12, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 920) Pete Dello and Friends — “There Is Nothing I Can Do For You” Delightful whimsy from a Honeybus-man’s holiday. Pete Dello tells us that “[T]his really is a joke song. Lewis Carroll type stuff I enjoyed writing for my girl friend atContinue reading “Pete Dello and Friends — “There Is Nothing I Can Do For You”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 11, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 919) Bobby Womack — “Lillie Mae” Since I featured Bobby Womack and his brothers yesterday, I thought today I’d turn to a favorite from Bobby’s first solo album. It is a “quick tempo’d example [of] countrified funky soul at it’s finest”. (Dunderbeck1980, https://andresmusictalk.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/anatomy-of-the-groove-lillie-mae-by-bobby-womack-1968/)Continue reading “Bobby Womack — “Lillie Mae”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 10, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 918) The Valentinos — “It’s All Over Now” The song that quite possibly broke the Rolling Stones in America was this Bobby Womack-penned stunner that the Valentinos (the Womack brothers) had released as a single about a month earlier. Impresario and disc jockeyContinue reading “The Valentinos — “It’s All Over Now”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 9, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 917) Dayaks — “So Long, Sad Sack” Nasty middle America garage rock — nasty vocal, nasty guitar, nasty attitude. Wait, this is from Belgium? Well, they sure put the twerp in Antwerp. “One of the coolest Euro 60s trax… EVER!!!!! Private release andContinue reading “Dayaks — “So Long, Sad Sack”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 8, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 916) The Mourning Reign — “Satisfaction Guaranteed” Alec Palao writes that the Reign “rose rapidly in [San Jose’s] pecking order with a patented repertoire of Anglified raunch, which their deput waxing . . . with its twin guitar leads and angst-ridden vocal, articulatedContinue reading “The Mourning Reign — “Satisfaction Guaranteed”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 7, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 915) The Free-For-All/The Great Scots — “Show Me the Way” It’s been said that the Beatles inspired untold thousands of teenagers across the Americas to buy guitars and head to their garages. Well, if the Beatles actually were a garage band and gotContinue reading “The Free-For-All/The Great Scots — “Show Me the Way”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 6, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 914) The Sparkles — “No Friend of Mine” Straight outta Lubbock, TX, the Sparkles’ “masterpiece . . . [is] an incendiary effort distinguished by [a] snarling guitar lead and [a] remarkably anguished vocal” (Jason Ankeny, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-sparkles-mn0000431652), with “the band . . . onContinue reading “The Sparkles — “No Friend of Mine”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 5, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 913) Q’65 — “I Was Young” This January ’67 B-side by the Dutch wild boys (see #108, 557) is a slow-burner garage classic (assuming there were garages in the Hague). Bruce Eder gives us some history: The Dutch quintet could have held theirContinue reading “Q’65 — “I Was Young”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 4, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 912) The Plague — “Go Away” The Kinks were a snotty garage band from Albuquerque, New Mexico? Well, no, but if they had been, “Go Away” would have been their song. The A-side of the Plague’s only single is an “organ punker withContinue reading “The Plague — “Go Away”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 3, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 891) Edwards Hand — “New York City Rain” (see #151, 663, 813) For song #911, how could I not play “New York City Rain”, a melancholy but brimming with hope soft rock classic by the exquisite Edwards Hand? “NYC Rain” is from theContinue reading “I Shall Be Released: Edwards Hand — “New York City Rain”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 2, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 910) Thor’s Hammer — “I Don’t Care” Thor’s Hammer (see #518)— from Iceland, of course — went by the name of Hljómar (The Sound of the Chords) back home. The band gave us mortals this “brash mod stomper[] . . . with snarlingContinue reading “Thor’s Hammer — “I Don’t Care”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 1, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 909) Hendrickson Road House — “I Wondered If You Knew” On gossamer wings, this song takes off for a brief moment, and then the flight is over. It’s from then 19 year old Sue Eakins’ “lost classic of the West Coast psychedelic folkContinue reading “Hendrickson Road House — “I Wondered If You Knew”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 31, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 908) Donovan — “The Land of Doesn’t Have to Be” This “brilliant” (Diego Olivas, https://peanutbutterpope.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/special-review-26-a-gift-from-a-flower-to-a-garden-donovan/), “dreamy and whimsical” (Lorne Murdoch, Donovan: Breezes of Patchouli: His Studio Recordings: 1966-1969) song comes from “Donovan’s 1967 hippie epic ‘A Gift From a Flower to a Garden’.Continue reading “Donovan — “The Land of Doesn’t Have to Be”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 30, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 907) Ralph McTell — “Daddy’s Here” From the “Streets of London” comes a stunning and poignant from the first note song from McTell’s second album (Spiral Staircase). The autobiographical folk song “expresses well [a] child’s anxiety that accompanies the increasingly rare visits ofContinue reading “Ralph McTell — “Daddy’s Here”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 29, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 906) Los Shakers — “Rompan Todo”/”Break It All” I’ve played songs that I’ve called Beatlesque, and I’ve played a song that I called “the greatest early Beatles imitation I have ever heard” (see #849). But hands down, the greatest Beatles fascimile of allContinue reading “Los Shakers — “Rompan Todo”/”Break It All”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 28, 2023″