Last snowy Saturday of the season and the end to the first month of the new year, and so far 2022 is psychedelic too! Getting the wild weekend started on Saturday morning by sleeping in exactly one hour!
Tuned into 90.5 WKHS The Coach while walking to Normals to pick up the latest issue of Ugly Things and saw Chris Stadler sweeping snow outside with James, the employee of the shop.
Oh this day in rock n roll, Jon Swift of the infamous San Francisco band The Icky Boyfriends was born now, everyone go wish him an icky birthday!
It's a beautiful blueberry morning here in Baltimore as I finish up breakfast and walk to work listening to the new psychedelic CDs my friends gave me. Here's a berry good playlist to start your day...
Blueberry Pie - Chameleon Church
"Picking faces for pies, the berries will be blue this time..." Chameleon Church is a slightly spookadelic, relatively unknown band from Boston featuring a then-undiscovered Chevy Chase on vocals and organ!
Blueberries for Breakfast - The Mamas & The Papas
"Blueberries for breakfast, love in the afternoon..." What a wonderful way to wake up! This single from 1971 sure is fun...
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
You know you're over the hill when your thrill was on a hill! The classic song everyone knows and loves...
And now the psilocybin priestess of the village must head to work wearing this totally trippy paisley dress that makes me feel like the grooviest girl in the world!
Second snowstorm of the season coming at ya this wild weekend! Nothing to do but stay inside and cuddle with cool cats. And make playlists of course. Here's one perfect for a cold winter's day, featuring all 60's and 70's psychedelic rock and folk. Thank you to the two Toms who shared suggestions for songs. Time to party like it's Snowpocalypse 2015 in Baltimore!
Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel
"Look around, leaves are brown, there's a patch of snow on the ground" So the song's more folk than psych. However, it's a 60's classic that we all know and love, so it had to be included as the opener.
House of Glass - Glass Family
"Come inside, on a winter's day" This trippy track opens up with an invitation into the House of Glass, where "Love can be seen, and it's such a gas!" A good counterpart to this song Throw Stones by the Stratfords.
It's Now Winter's Day - Tommy Roe
"With fireplaces burning, and records that keep turning..." Bubblegum pop singer Tommy Roe slows things down with this song about the quiet peace of a winter's day.
Winter Song - The Lemon Dips
Not the Lemon Pipers (love that band!), the Lemon Dips delivering psychedelic proto-punk blues freakbeat sounds "Oh it's not safe to roam, so you better stay at home, now that winter is everywhere..."
Let the Cold Winds Blow - The Turtles
"Well let the cold winds blow, and let the chill freeze hell..." Fun fast psychedelic pop rock about the apocalypse from the Turtles. "Let the cold winds blow, across the human race" Everyone knows it's windy!
Winter Slutch - Ellison
"Winter morning, the bus is crowded, winter slutch, the snow is melting..." Sounds like my work commute on the Slopkins shuttle tomorrow morning. That 70's song on the playlist from hard-rockers Ellison (name inspired by the sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison?) with maddening effects.
Wintersong - Lindisfarne
"When winter's shadowy fingers first pursue you down the street, and your boots no longer lie about the cold around your feet, do you spare a thought for summer whose passage is complete?" UK band Lindisfarne is perfect for reflecting on the memories of yesterday and know that spring will come again...
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream
"You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever..."
A Glade Somewhere - Forest
Come the winter, she is gone, I wish I'd never met her. When will I forget her?" Favorite folk band Forest on their album Full Circle sing this sad story of a lost love and the pain that winter brings.
Do you remember rock & roll radio? My new boyfriend Tom Brown has a portable radio with a big antenna! So I started thinking, I've got to tune into the local stations more often. My record player has a built-in radio, but it doesn't pick up anything good. I need to get a cute vintage green portable radio soon. So I have to livestream some stations from the internet sometimes. Mostly music, nobody likes WYPR. Here's what I've been getting into...
A high school radio station?! Haha, I bet they like the song Rock & Roll High School. Tune in tuesday nights at 8:00 for Psyched Out serving psychedelic specialties. Then Saturday morning at 9:00 for The Coach, who will school you in prog-rock and heavy hitting sounds of the 70's! Then, tune in at 3:00 pm for the rebroadcast of the Philly radio.
Takoma Park radio does a show Sunday mornings at 9:00 Forbidden Alliance with Weasel and Robbie White playing old Marble Bar punk bands. Also check out the contemporary psychedelic showcase that starts at 4:00 "21st Pscentury Psych" with hipster supreme host Brian Horrorwitz!
Towson college radio blasting basic "alternative rock" which recently sold out to WYPR sometimes has good music if you like to stay in the loop with what's new. Saturday nights the dirty soul party starts at 9:00. If you really want to let loose, do as my 70 year old coworker does and smoke just one joint while listening to Weasel's Wild Weekend. Detour comes on Sundays at 5:00 pm to 7:00 an interesting show playing folk and world music by Paul Hartman.
90.1 WMFU
Check out Rupert from Normals Records and Books favorite station live for on New Jersey!
Bonus: SOMA.FM a commercial-free underground/alternative station broadcasting worldwide. Good programs include "Left Coast 70's", "Seven Inch Soul", ""Secret Agent" and "Underground 80's"
I've always been more of a Yé-yé girl (french 60's pop music), but I have started to discover some real gems in German from girl groups and garage bands. Compilations based on French, Japanese, and Italian female artists are aplenty at the library's music department, but I have yet to find one dedicated to German girls! The German market was big in the 1960's and 70's for Anglo and English pop stars who would make phonetic Deutsche renditions of their hits for that market. So here you go!
Sei Mein Baby - Suzanne Doucet
Bilingual cover of Be My Baby by the Ronettes is a fun find from Lost Nuggets of the 60's: Girls in the Garage. Doucet is a true German artist who gained fame with this hit single, and has since moved on to recording ambient new-age music.
Danke Schoen -Brenda Lee
This classic song of thanking a lover for an affair first appeared on my radar through listening to Las Vegas lounge music. This 1964 version by Brenda Lee captures the fun, free-spirited feel of the girly German sound.
Innenstadt - Petula Clark
Not to be confused with Ingolstadt, the town in Frankenstein, Innenstadt is the classic hit-the-town track we all know and love recorded in German released in 1964.
Weit, Weit, Weit - Marion Maerz
"Was kümmert mich des Winters Frost, Und ob es draußen stürmt und schneit? Im Auge blinkt die Träne mir, Denk’ ich an ihn, der weit, weit!" This classic song of love lost in winter sung by Marion Maerz, German girl singer who started out in the 1960's and rose to fame with her appearance on television show Ready Steady Girls!
Geh' Vorbei - Dionne Warwick
The extremely talented Warwick recorded her big hit Walk on By in german language to much aplomb! This R&B German gem is a killer track worth a listen. And I can even play it on piano!
Du Hast den Farbfilm Vergessen - Nina Hagen
This proto-punk 70's song by the superstar of the scene, Nina Hagen sang this song critiquing the bleak and grey life in the Eastern Bloc. The lyrics translate to "You forgot the color film" and was a subtle attack on the heavy-handed regime.
Ich hab das Gluck - Francoise Hardy
The queen of the Yé-yé scene not only recorded her songs in French and English but also Deutsch! This recording of J'ai de la chance was familiar to me from her reissue album Le Premier Bonheur du Jour. The song roughly translates to "I'm Lucky". Love it!
Walked over the river and through the woods to Hampden with my mom while she was in town. We scoured vintage shop Strawberry Fields for records and jewelry...
I dug up some real gems! The Partridge Family's most spookadelic album featuring heavy organ intros on I Think I Love You. Also found the Bee Gees first psychedelic album, Golden Earring Live, and Three Dog Night!
