Favoriting Optical Sound with Mike Sin: Playlist from January 8, 2011 Favoriting

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A sight for sore ears. Power pop, freakbeat, and psychedelic songs for all six senses.

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Sat. Nov 30th, 11am - 1pm: Mike Sin fills in for Michael Shelley

Favoriting January 8, 2011: Filling in for Terre T... and taking it to '11!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
David Bowie  Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed   Favoriting Space Oddity (40th Anniversary Edition)  Virgin  2009  CD box set  from 1969. 2-CD reissue with a disc of bonus tracks.    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Kids  This Is Rock 'n Roll   Favoriting The Kids / Naughty Kids  Sonik's Chicken Shrimp  2006  CD  from 1977. This CD compiles this Belgian punk band's first two LPs from 1977 and 1978, respectively.    0:06:27 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper  No More Mister Nice Guy   Favoriting Billion Dollar Babies  Warner Bros.  1973  LP  The band does it live in 1973 right HERE!    0:08:19 (Pop-up)
Catapult  Let your Hair Hang Down   Favoriting VA: Boobs - The Junkshop Glam Discotheque Top Sounds on Disc  RPM   2005  CD  from 1974. Check out this crazy VIDEO!    0:11:14 (Pop-up)
The Jam  Sounds from the Street   Favoriting In the City  Polydor  1977  LP      0:13:49 (Pop-up)
Chords  Maybe Tomorrow   Favoriting   Polydor  1979  7"  The band does it on "Top of the Pops" right HERE!    0:17:00 (Pop-up)
Letters  Nobody Loves Me   Favoriting   Heartbeat  1980  7"      0:20:14 (Pop-up)
Shoes  Too Late   Favoriting Best  Black Vinyl Records  1987  CD  from 1979. Here's the original promo VIDEO    0:22:20 (Pop-up)
Tweeds  I Need That Record   Favoriting VA: Yellow Pills: Prefill  Numero Group  2005  CD box set  from 1980.    0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Commonauts  Missing Link   Favoriting VA: New Wave Underground: U.S. Artists, 1980-83  no label  2010  CD  From 1982. Here is a PHOTO of this Boise, Idaho band.  *   0:28:11 (Pop-up)
White Mystery  White Widow   Favoriting White Mystery  White Mystery (self-release)  2010  CD  The band played LIVE on the Cherry Blossom Clinic -- Listen to the awesome ARCHIVE!  *   0:31:52 (Pop-up)
 
Fireballs  Groovy Motions   Favoriting VA: Get Ready To Fly: Pop-Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults  Big Beat  2007  CD  from 1967    0:41:37 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Lucy Leave   Favoriting Interstellar Overdrive (Alternate Masters '66-'68)  "Odeon"  2002  CD  unreleased track from the the Pink Floyd's first recording session in October 1966.    0:44:21 (Pop-up)
The Craig  I Must Be Mad   Favoriting VA: Rare 60's Beat Treasures, Vol. 2  Gone Beat  1995  CD  from 1966. Featuring Carl Palmer on drums    0:46:58 (Pop-up)
The Nerve  Satisfying Kind   Favoriting VA - Pop-In Volume One: Choice Cuts from the Other Side of Mainstream UK Pop 1966-70  Elevator Music Co.  2002  CD  from 1968.    0:49:42 (Pop-up)
Kirkbys  It's a Crime   Favoriting VA: Real Life Permanent Dreams - A Cornucopia of British Psychedelia 1965-1970  Rhino  2007  CD box set  from 1966    0:52:07 (Pop-up)
Guess Who  Use Your Imagination   Favoriting Shakin' All Over!  Sundazed  2001  CD  from 1966    0:54:14 (Pop-up)
 
P.P. Arnold  A Likely Piece of Work   Favoriting VA: Get Ready: UK Floor Fillers Vol. 3 - 20 Blue-Eyed Soul Gems 1966-71  Psychic Circle  2008  CD  from 1970    1:01:31 (Pop-up)
Miller  Baby I Got News For You   Favoriting VA: A Perfumed Garden, Volume Three  Past & Present  2003  CD  from 1967    1:03:46 (Pop-up)
Electric Prunes  You Never Had It Better   Favoriting Lost Dreams  Birdman  2000  CD  from 1967. Awesome live film clip right over HERE, people!    1:06:40 (Pop-up)
Glass Sun  Silence of the Morning   Favoriting VA: Incredible Sound Show Stories Vol. 1 - The Technicolour Milkshake  Dig the Fuzz  2001  CD  from 1968?    1:08:52 (Pop-up)
Gants  (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings   Favoriting Road Runner! The Best of the Gants  Sundazed  2000  CD  from 1966    1:14:03 (Pop-up)
MC5  Looking at You   Favoriting Back in the USA  Rhino/Atlantic  1992  CD  from 1970    1:16:33 (Pop-up)
Les Miserables  Ecoute-Moi   Favoriting L'integrale  Disques Merite    CD  from 1967. Montreal!    1:19:32 (Pop-up)
Nomads  From Zero Down   Favoriting VA: Teenage Shutdown: The World Ain't Round, It's Square! - 17 Paint-Peeling Garage-Punk Monsters!!!  Teenage Shutdown  1995  CD  From 1967    1:21:29 (Pop-up)
Humans  Warning   Favoriting VA: Back From The Grave Part 2: Garage Punkers  Crypt  1991  CD  from 1966    1:24:02 (Pop-up)
 
Lincolns  You Can't Come 'Round Anymore   Favoriting VA: It's A Kave-In! Wild Oz Sixties Punk from the Caverns of Time!!  Kustom65  1998  CD  from 1966, but unreleased at that time.    1:34:15 (Pop-up)
The Sound Sandwich  Zig-Zag News   Favoriting VA: Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych From Viva Records  Sundazed  2007  CD  from 1967. This CD features choice Snuff Garrett productions.    1:36:41 (Pop-up)
Toggery Five  I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys   Favoriting VA: Beat at Abbey Road  EMI  1997  CD  from 1965. This song was composed by Keith Richards and Andrew Loog Oldham.    1:39:50 (Pop-up)
Harbinger Complex  Time to Kill   Favoriting VA: With Love, A Pot Of Flowers  Big Beat  2010  CD  from 1967. This is CD reissue of "the classic 1967 garage-psych compilation with rare and unreleased bonus tracks from associated Mainstream artists."  *   1:42:09 (Pop-up)
Nightcrawlers  Basket of Flowers   Favoriting The Little Black Egg  Big Beat  2000  CD  from 1966    1:43:58 (Pop-up)
Sweet Smoke  Mary Jane Is To Love   Favoriting VA: Marijuana Unknowns  Stoned Records  1997  CD  from 1968    1:46:26 (Pop-up)
Os Incríveis  Giulieta   Favoriting VA: Worldbeaters, Vol. 11  Krazy World  2008  CD  from 1967. Brazil!    1:48:28 (Pop-up)
Lyres  Don't Give It Up Now   Favoriting On Fyre  Ace Of Hearts Records  1984  LP      1:50:52 (Pop-up)
Spencer Davis Group  Morning Sun   Favoriting With Their New Face On  United Artists  1967  LP  The first LP by the band after the departure of Steve Winwood.    1:54:52 (Pop-up)
 
Syl Johnson  Annie Got Hot Pants Power   Favoriting Complete Mythology  Numero Group  2010  Boxed set  from a 4-CD, 6-LP box set. A little visual overview of this great box set is right over HERE  *   2:08:08 (Pop-up)
Nouvellas  Reputation   Favoriting Nouvellas  Ernest Jenning Record Co.  2009  CD  The Nouvellas played LIVE on the Cherry Blossom Clinic -- listen to the archive right over HERE! YEAH!    2:11:14 (Pop-up)
The Wards of Court  How Could You Say One Thing   Favoriting VA: The Mod Scene  Decca  1998  CD  from 1967.    2:15:04 (Pop-up)
Charles Bradley  No Time For Dreaming   Favoriting No Time For Dreaming  Daptone  2010  CD    *   2:16:54 (Pop-up)
Generation  Nan Nan Pob Gan Tee (Long Time No See)   Favoriting VA: Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s  Sublime Frequencies  2007  CD      2:19:45 (Pop-up)
Vaselines  Overweight But Over You   Favoriting Sex With an X  Sub Pop  2010  CD    *   2:23:03 (Pop-up)
 
Devil's Anvil  Wala Dai   Favoriting Hard Rock From the Middle East  Sony/Collectables  1998  CD  from 1967. A New York band of Middle Eastern musicians produced by Felix Pappalardi.    2:33:35 (Pop-up)
Tuneful Trolley  Written Charter   Favoriting VA: Book A Trip - The Psych Pop Sounds of Capitol Records  Now Sounds  2010  CD  from 1969  *   2:36:21 (Pop-up)
Murphy & The Mob  Because You Love Me   Favoriting VA: Total Rauch - 100% Boss Garage from tthe Sixties  Manic Mustang  2004  CD  from 1966. The flipside of "Born Loser"    2:39:06 (Pop-up)
Jane Birkin  Les Langues De Chat   Favoriting Di Doo Dah  Light in the Attic  2010  CD  A bonus track on the CD reissue of her 1973 LP.  *   2:41:44 (Pop-up)
Matadors  I Feel So Lonely   Favoriting VA: Behind the Iron Curtain: Soviet-Era Rock and Pop  no label  2010  CD  from 1968. Prague, Czechoslovakia!  *   2:43:59 (Pop-up)
Chartbusters  Tomorrow Night   Favoriting VA: Psych Bites Volume Two: A Collection of Head-Expanding Psychedelic Movers From Around the World  Past & Present  2010  CD  from 1970  *   2:48:03 (Pop-up)
Gentrys  Brown Paper Sack   Favoriting Keep On Dancing  Polydor  1984  LP  Japanese reissue of a 1966 LP    2:50:46 (Pop-up)
Loose Ends  That's It   Favoriting VA: New Directions: A Collection of Blue-Eyed British Soul 1964-1969  Past & Present  2003  CD  from 1966    2:52:23 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  3:07pm
Peanut Gallery:

Way great!
  3:24pm
keef:

get some records on. maybe a little starry eyes
  3:25pm
Richard from Venezuela:

Hello Mike.
  3:29pm
Moparlarry:

Mike Sin is kick Mod/Pop ass!!!!!!!
  3:35pm
Peanut Gallery:

Take it Mike: bit.ly/g0omhL
  4:03pm
Todd 76%:

Lovin' the show today, Mike! I think Carl Palmer was in Atomic Rooster just before ELP?
  4:09pm
frenchee:

thanks Todd! I think the theme of today's show is I WANT THAT RECORD...
  4:10pm
jet:

need some NY Dolls!!!
  4:31pm
Listener Jumpy:

Good stuff today, Michael.
  4:33pm
Listener Jumpy:

Gants autographed my "Roadrunner" when they played Warsaw (the club not the city).
  4:34pm
Listener Jumpy:

I said, "Welcome to Brooklyn." And they said, "Oh, we played Brookyn in the '60s."
Anyone know where?
  4:44pm
frenchee:

Hi Jumpy! The Paramount?
  4:46pm
Doug:

I wish you weren't playing this song just now.
  4:52pm
todd:

GOOD STUFF MIKE SIN.
  4:54pm
Listener Jumpy:

I dunno, Frenchie, maybe.
  4:54pm
Listener Jumpy:

Good to hear some Lyres!
  4:56pm
frenchee:

ha ha Jumpy, I thought You KNEW
  4:56pm
Wiseacre:

I think the Gants played Trash Bar in 1967
  4:57pm
frenchee:

HI TODD
  4:57pm
todd:

i remember when i had the lyres 'on fyre' back in the 80s and my throbbing gristle listening to roommates turned up their noses. now i know which band was cooler. it wasn't TG.
  5:02pm
Peanut Gallery:

Brown liquor, I hope.
  5:05pm
pfapfap:

Damnit, you're right!
  5:07pm
Vikki V:

Hey Mike! Tuning in from Atlanta. I love that Nightcrawlers song btw!
  5:08pm
Vlorg:

You keep playing what you want. Its all good.
  5:08pm
todd:

HI FRENCHEEE
  5:13pm
Uncle Roy:

No better way to clean house...here in Kansas City, MO. Great show!
  5:13pm
Thurmond Chang:

OMG one of my fave Syl Johnson tracks-- never heard it on the reddio before!!
  5:16pm
-max-:

Really appreciating this warm-up for the party. See you all on the porch later tonight!
  5:20pm
Morning Miss L.:

GREAT segue from Syl Johnson to Nouvellas. Your entire show has been fantastic! You may be "just" be filling in for Terre T, but you're all pro, bro!
  5:26pm
seang:

this new Vaselines album rules
  5:50pm
Listener Jumpy:

I think your studio chatter is leaking into the airwaves.
  5:54pm
frenchee:

thanks, Jumpy! Actually it was the Czech band speaking, you know, CZECH. xxoo
  6:02pm
Listener Jumpy:

Mountain! The Vagrants' Leslie West got big in that band...
  11:32am
John W:

You deserve to have your own regular slot. I love each and every one of your fill-in shows.
  5:21pm
Em:

just got around to listening - i have never heard the Miller "Baby I Got News for You" track...I only knew of the Bristols' cover from the early 2000's...thank you Mike Sin!!!!!!
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