EARLY ACCESS: DRUNK BYAMPOD!
Added 2022-12-11 13:37:58 +0000 UTCThis week, we're blowing off steam after a run of heavy episodes... by drinking (though there's some debate over who has drunk the most).
We also discuss Marillion's Half Empty/Full Jam, and whether it has a place on Happiness Is The Road Volume 1. We also read some of your letters. Oddly, it's a more focused episode than most of the ones we record sober, but we still manage to be a bit NSFW...
We also recorded a bonus ep which will be with you early next week.
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Hah, now there's a dangerous request where I'm concerned, I have form for some horrific vandalism of shared playlists I've been asked to contribute to. A vague "off the top of my head" mixture of psych, freak and general weirdness from the late '60s... Blue Banana - Spicks and Specks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgvbX3YIQU), lovely cover of an early Bee Gees song. Felius Andromeda - Meditations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22uPRTuLno4), I've always sort of wanted to hear someone play A Whiter Shade Of Pale on a proper big church organ and this lot got pretty close borrowing some church in North London. Rupert's People - I've Got The Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwoXtpsrxE), one of the lesser-known singles with that flanged, phasey sound as per Itchycoo Park Edwards Hand - If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrZGB-xvR8), one of surprisingly few records in the genre to be really obviously Beatles-influenced, sharing George Martin probably helped there. The Epics - Blue Turns To Grey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10FnZilPWA), one of about a million covers of the Stones original and with typically iffy taste the public tended to buy Cliff Richard's uninspired effort instead. This one is better. Beckett Quintet - (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOOmwNCUxY), another "million covers of this exist" song and the 13th Floor Elevators have the famous psych cover that was supposedly Dylan's favourite but I like this as a laid-back, more garage rock-ish version. Pinkerton's Colours - Magic Rocking Horse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwBkLgR9eU), a band who changed their name pretty much once per single release and had one of the earliest singles with some noticeable psych-tinged elements, Mirror Mirror. Nirvana - June (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuNfnFNcjn0), no, not THAT Nirvana. One of those really soft, pastoral folky songs which got sort of caught up in the same category for convenience. Think this might have been unreleased and only unearthed later when people started turning over every stone they could in the name of making psych compilations. Unit 4 + 2, 3.30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cr20CnKDsw), somehow they only get remembered for Concrete and Clay despite it being one of their least interesting singles Jason Crest - Charge of the Light Brigade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03uKYlWoaI), another unreleased one with some very "found in a shed" sound quality. Band who recorded the original song Champs-Elysées is based on. I should probably stop there. I have work to do, and I'm also not sure if this is something you might get arrested for doing in enough quantity in a notionally public space.
Matt Kimber (TimberwolfK)
2022-12-14 14:36:17 +0000 UTCUh-oh... is getting a couple of minutes into this podcast a bad time to admit that 1960s psychedelia is kind of my musical specialist subject? Especially the mid-tier stuff beloved of compilations that are at least 60% failed freakbeat or garage rock singles. The good stuff I can take or leave, but that solidly mediocre rubbish where the band's ambitions clearly exceeded their musical abilities by quite some margin, that's where it's at for me. Best be ready with the "mute participant" button for the next Biffo's Brain, lest something remind me and get me started...
Matt Kimber (Timberwolf)
2022-12-13 18:14:28 +0000 UTCListened to the first half of the new ep on a walk just now - lovely to hear you both in good spirits again. Since you asked, I have written before but probably included my location because I seem recall that the nickname was something to do with "Cologne". Can't remember what it was, though. Thank Christ. Great to hear that Half-Full Jam wasn't on the album originally - that allows me to bin it with a clear conscience!
Ian Winick
2022-12-12 11:21:07 +0000 UTC
