Kosmik Radiation Radio - January 31, 2014 Playlist

January 31, 2014 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
13th Floor Elevators "Easter Everywhere" 1967 (USA)

Roky Erickson is coming to town next week, on tour with The Black Angels. In the 1960's Roky (short for Roger Kynard and pronounced "Rocky") was the lead singer and lead guitarist of The 13th Floor Elevators, one of the very first psychedelic rock groups (their debut from 1966 was one of the first albums with "Psychedelic" in the title). Furthermore, the Elevators stood out because they hailed from Austin, the hippest town in the very conservative state of Texas. Easter Everywhere was their second, best, and in some ways final, album. A third and fourth record appeared in the following years, but they consisted of fake live recordings and unfinished tracks polished up with idiosyncratic horns and such. For the group ground to a halt in 1968 when Roky was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for electroshock "treatments" (he kept trying to escape so was then incarcerated in another hospital for the "criminally insane.") His music career resumed in 1974, and he has been sporadically releasing music ever since. In recent years he has begun performing his old rock tunes with younger musicians, including the current tour with The Black Angels (Austin's top psychedelic group of the 21st century).

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
The Sex Pistols	Holidays In The Sun	Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols	1977	UK
The Black Angels	Doves	Directions To See A Ghost	2008	USA
Roky Erickson	The Interpreter	single (The Best of Roky Erickson CD)	1977	USA
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	Surreal Teenagers	Wig Out At Jagbags (N)	2014 (Matador)	USA
Wooden Shjips	These Shadows	Back To Land (N)	2013 (Thrill Jockey)	USA

The 13th Floor Elevators	I've Got Levitation	Easter Everywhere CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
The 13th Floor Elevators	Slip Inside This House	Easter Everywhere CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
The 13th Floor Elevators	Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)	Easter Everywhere CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
The Black Angels	Manipulation	Passover	2006	USA
Roky Erickson	Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)	single (The Best of Roky Erickson CD)	1980	USA

Mogwai	Repelish	Rave Tapes (N)	2014 (Sub Pop)	UK (Scotland)
Public Image Ltd.	I Must Be Dreaming	This Is PiL	2012	UK
Chrome	Fukushimi (Nagasaki)	Half Machine From The Sun: The Lost Tapes 1979-80 (N)	2013 (Pledge Music)	USA
Beefus	The Beast Came Down	Can't Find The Milk (N)	2014 (YS)	USA
Cibo Matto	Lobby	Hotel Valentine (N)	2014 (Chimera)	Japan/USA

Frank Zappa & The Mothers	Cheepnis (live)	Roxy & Elsewhere	1974	USA
Budgie	You're The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk	Never Turn Your Back On A Friend	1973	UK (Wales)
MC5	Sister Anne	High Time	1971	USA
Van der Graaf Generator	Whatever Would Robert Have Said?	The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other	1970	UK
Vangelis	Chung Kuo - The Long March	China	1979	Greece

George Russell	Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (part two)	Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature	1969	USA/Norway

John Coltrane (with McCoy Tyner & Elvin Jones)	A Love Supreme, second movement: Resolution	A Love Supreme	1964	USA
McCoy Tyner (with Elvin Jones & Ron Carter)	Impressions (John Coltrane)	Trident	1975	USA
Magma	Coltrane Sundia	Kohntarkosz	1974	France

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