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THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 807) Caleb Quaye — “Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad” A “magnificent” (liner notes to the Chocolate Soup for Diabetics Volumes 1-5 CD comp) and “very fuzzy guitar driven song” (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited), that is an “over-phased slice of distortedContinue reading “Caleb Quaye — “Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 27, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 806) The Picadilly Line — “Emily Small” (The Huge World Thereof)” This late-Summer of Love A-side is “whimsical toytown pop-psych” (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited), “a gentle baroque-pop arrangement of strings and horns and period-perfect background vocals. . . . definitelyContinue reading “The Picadilly Line — “Emily Small (The Huge World Thereof)”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 26, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 805) Nocturnal Day Dream — “I Had a Dream Last Night” This B-side of the band’s only single (’68) is a “melodic [garage] gem” (Rog Brown, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mz3EK932w), not so much moody as eerie/otherwordly. Now that’s a sub-genre! The song deserves to be moreContinue reading “Nocturnal Day Dream —“I Had a Dream Last Night”: for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 25, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 804) Al Kooper — “Love Theme from The Landlord“ This ’70 album track and ’71 B-side and soundtrack track is a gorgeous and “haunting” song (Lindsay Planer, https://www.allmusic.com/album/easy-does-it-mw0000740238) by Kooper (see #642, 705) Kooper, the victim of a bloody, sweaty and tearful coupContinue reading “Al Kooper — “Love Theme from The Landlord”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 24, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 803) Dreams — “New York” The dream of nuclear fusion, achieved! This jazz-rock barn burner is hardly a love letter to NYC (where all the lonely, uptight people do come from). The band — filled with a Murderer’s Row of future fusion HallContinue reading “Dreams — “New York”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 23, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 802) Mojo — “New York City” ’68 sunshine pop A-side/’69 album track is a California tourist’s itinerary for New York City. “I want to go down to the Village . . . . take in a coffee shop or two.” NYC should haveContinue reading “Mojo — “New York City”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 21, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 801) Country Weather — “Fly to New York” I’ve never played a jam before, but today I give you a cool one by Country Weather, the great San Francisco band that never quite made it despite being a mainstay at the Filmore, theContinue reading “Country Weather — “Fly to New York”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 20, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 800) New York Public Library — “Got to Get Away” After yesterday visiting “the freaked-out, drugged-up street world of New York’s Lower East Side” circa 1968 (Mister Mark, http://thedirtymindofmistermark.blogspot.com/2010/11/lotti-golden.html?m=1), I thought I’d let us listen to New York Public Library — a British band!Continue reading “New York Public Library — “Got to Get Away”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 19, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 799) Lotti Golden — “Gonna Fay’s” Rock n’ roll, meet cinéma vérité, and let’s visit “the freaked-out, drugged-up street world of New York’s Lower East Side” circa 1968 (Mister Mark, http://thedirtymindofmistermark.blogspot.com/2010/11/lotti-golden.html?m=1) PATH tells us that: [Lottie Golden takes us] to Fay’s, the meet-upContinue reading “Lotti Golden — “Gonna Fay’s”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 18, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 798) Dick Hyman — “Give It Up or Turn It Loose” I give you “the most mind-blowing interpretation of James Brown’s ‘Give It Up or Turn It Loose’ you’ll ever hear” (Thom Holmes, https://moogfoundation.org/moog-a-history-in-recordings-dick-hyman-master-stylist-of-the-moog-modular/), “über-funky . . . [with] more freaky libidinousness thanContinue reading “Dick Hyman— “Give It Up or Turn It Loose”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 17, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 797) The Crazy World of Arthur Brown — “Nightmare” The most demented (and greatest) music video ever made, from the crazy mind of Arthur Brown (see #783), for a song that actually hit #56 in the UK and #107 in the U.S. Don’tContinue reading “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown — “Nightmare”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 16, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 796) The Fruit Machine — “The Wall” This ‘69 A-side by a London band (http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.com/2010/06/fruit-machine-wall.html) is fabulous —and very English — pop psych. Therefore, it was released only in . . . the States! It might have done better if it were releasedContinue reading “The Fruit Machine — “The Wall”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 15, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 795) The Answers — “Just a Fear” ‘66 A-side from their debut single is “a bona fide freakbeat classic” that was “written by guitarist Tony Hill, whose incisive, driving, at times almost raga-like fretwork is a key feature of the number – aContinue reading “The Answers — “Just a Fear”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 14, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 794) Freda Payne — “Unhooked Generation” Which soul song has the greatest, oft-samples. guitar riff? I’d suggest this ‘69 A-side by the great Freda Payne. Sally O’Rourke says that this “debut single by the First Lady of Invictus Records . . . allowedContinue reading “Freda Payne — “Unhooked Generation”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 13, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 793) Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention — “Flower Punk” Have I given you enough flower power that you’re sneezing and wheezing? Well, here is the antidote — Frank Zappa’s utterly hilarious deflowering. Son Raw says “Like the best satire, ‘Flower Punk’Continue reading “Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention — “Flower Punk”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 12, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 792) The Floor — “Hey, Mr. Flowerman” Here’s a bouncy, infectious Danish delight from the Floor’s only album (see #640). As Swingin’ Shakespeare might say, something is groovy in the state of Denmark! Richie Unterberger tells us that: Evolving out of the Hitmakers,Continue reading “First Floor — “Hey, Mr. Flowerman”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 11, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 791) Paul Parrish — “Flowers in the Park” ’68 folk rock stunner with psychedelic touches . . . from Detroit . . . with a little help from the Funk Brothers and a future Motown producer . . . WTF? Man, it works.Continue reading “Paul Parrish — “Flowers in the Park”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 10, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 790) O.P.M.C. — “Easter Song” Richie Unterberger says that this yearning and affecting folk-rocker “sounds like the late-’60s Hollies trying to go a little folkier.” (https://www.allmusic.com/album/amalgamation-mw0001282367) “Hey, come on home for Easter.” Discogs calls O.P.M.C.* a “Dutch hippy blues-folk band”. (https://www.discogs.com/artist/918956-OPMC). Unterberger dismissivelyContinue reading “O.P.M.C. — “Easter Song”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 9, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 789) Powder — “Flowers” Before Thomas and Richard Frost had a minor hit and created one of the great lost albums of the 1960s (see #209, 211, 247, 385, 595, 775), they had ignited Powder (as in gunpowder), the first and greatest U.S.Continue reading “Powder — “Flowers”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 8, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 788) The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band — “Flowers Never Cry” ’67 A-side is L.A. psych/sunshine/baroque pop heaven from the band’s first album The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band Featuring Steve Hoffman. Man, people either love or hate this band. In the former category, AlbethContinue reading “The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band — “Flowers Never Cry”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 7, 2023”