Kosmik Radiation Radio - March 8, 2016 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Monkees "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones ltd." 1967 (USA/UK)

Happy 71st birthday George Michael "Micky" Dolenz! He was the funniest Monkee with the best voice, the singer of immortal sixties hits like "The Last Train To Clarksville", "I'm A Believer", "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone", "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and of course "The Theme From The Monkees" (...here we come, walkin' down the street...) The Monkees recording career can basically be divided into three stages: stage one is the first two albums produced by Don Kirshner and featuring The Wrecking Crew of studio pros (all those cats who played on Sonny & Cher's hits, etc.) Stage two is the sequence of (mostly hit) albums where the group was more-or-less in charge of the recording process, commencing with Headquarters, continuing with this weeks CAOTW (their third LP released in the year 1967), and then The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees and the soundtrack to their brilliant flop movie Head. The final stage was the waning popularity years after the TV show was cancelled and members began to quit (Peter was first to go, and Mike left before their final album was recorded as a duo of just Micky & Davy -- the joke was that if one more of them quit, the last guy remaining would have to bill himself as "The Monkee"!) PAC&J is one of the most notable Monkees albums for several reasons; when they had played all the instruments on their previous record, the result was basic garage rock that was more endearing than "groovy", so bringing back the session pros (and songwriters like Carole King) widened their musical palette considerably. The "historical footnote" attached to this album is that it was one of the very first pop records to feature the moog synthesizer (two years before the Beatles used them all over Abby Road). The story there relates back to our birthday boy: Micky attended the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, where he saw the amazing new technology being demonstrated by the fellows from Beaver & Krause and immediately put his filthy TV lucre to good use and purchased one of the very first moog synthesizers.

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Eleanor Friedberger	Sweetest Girl	New View (N)	2016 (French Kiss)	USA
Deadnote	She's A Hipster	Deadnote EP	2013	USA
Hooton Tennis Club	...And Then Camilla Drew Fourteen Dots On Her Knee	Highest Point In Clifftown (N)	2015 (Heavenly)	UK
Death By Unga Bunga	Make Up Your Mind	Pineapple Pizza (N)	2016 (Jensen Plateproduksjon)	Norway
Dungen	Finns Det Någon Möjlighet	4	2008	Sweden

Yuck	Hearts In Motion	Stranger Things (N)	2016 (Mamé)	UK
Ringo Deathstarr	Acid Tongue	Pure Mood (N)	2015 (Vinyl Junkie)	USA
Useless Eaters	Hidden Fees (live)	Live In San Francisco (N)	2015 (Castle Face)	USA
Dr. Dog	Badvertise	The Psychedelic Swamp (N)	2016 (Anti-)	USA
Ty Segall	Breakfast Eggs	Emotional Mugger (N)	2016 (Drag City)	USA

Charles Bradley	Changes (Black Sabbath)	Changes (N)	2016 (Dunham)	USA
Black Sabbath	Planet Caravan (alternate version)	Paranoid (N - reissue bonus CD)	1970 (2016 Rhino)	UK

The Monkees	Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky --> Pleasant Valley Sunday	Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones ltd. CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA/UK
The Monkees	Daily Nightly	Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones ltd. CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA/UK
The Monkees	As We Go Along	Head (original soundtrack)	1968	USA/UK
Love	Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale	Forever Changes	1967	USA
The Monkees	Goin' Down	B-side 7" single	1967	USA/UK
Sly & The Family Stone	Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)	A-side 7" single (Greatest Hits LP)	1969	USA

Al Kooper / Mike Bloomfield / Stephen Stills	You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobb)	Super Session	1970	USA
Cream	Sitting On Top Of The World (Howlin' Wolf - live)	Goodbye	1969	UK
Blue Cheer	The Hunter (Booker T. Jones)	Outsideinside	1968	USA
Steve Miller Band (featuring Paul McCartney)	My Dark Hour	Brave New World	1969	USA
Jethro Tull	A Song For Jeffrey	This Was	1968	UK
The Residents	Infant Tango	Meet The Residents	1974 (1977 stereo reissue)	USA

The Besnard Lakes	Tungsten 4: The Refugee	A Coliseum Complex Museum (N)	2016 (Jagjaguwar)	Canada
Octagrape	Ono Cyclone	Aura Obelisk (N)	2015 (Sounds Familyre)	USA
The Moonlandingz	Anti Vernacular Pipsqueak (EMS Synthi a experiment #1) --> Lay Yer Head Down On The Road	Expanded EP (N)	2015 (Chimera)	UK/USA
.e	Click	Of Crashing Symbols (N)	2015 (self release)	USA
David Bowie	I'm Afraid Of Americans	Earthling	1997	UK

Electric Eye	Heavy Steps On Desert Floor	Different Sun (N)	2016 (Jensen Plateproduksjon)	Norway
Cavalier Song	Stones For Throwing	Blezard (N)	2015 (God Unknown)	UK
Battles	Tricentenial	La Di Da Di (N)	2015 (Warp)	USA
Linear Downfall	It's Always Ending / Memory Prison	Sufferland (N)	2015 (self release)	USA

Red Transistor (Von LMO)	We're Not Crazy	7" single	1977	USA