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Show 78, 07-24-2024

The temperature is over 100F today, again - 40C - good weather for staying inside and listening to some tunes.

Intro: Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003. Dom Mariani has been making fine music for many years in several bands, most notably with The Stems.

Hungry Town - Big Pig, released as a single in 1986. It was also on the band’s debut LP, Bonk, which was recorded in 1987 and released in 1988. This version from a 2018 compilation Crate Diggers: Pop.

Somebody That I Used To Know - Belgium-born Gotye, pronounced Go Tee Ay (real name Wouter “Wally” de Backer, and featuring New Zealander singer Kimbra. This was a 2011 single.

High And Low - Empire of the Sun, from 2016, the album Two Vines.

A 1970s set

Garden of Frenzied Cortinas - Ariel, from their 1973 album A Strange Fantastic Dream. Features Bill Putt, Mike Rudd and Tim Gaze, all veterans of several excellent bands.

Travelling South - Carson, a 1971 single, with Broderick Smith, an incredibly prolific musician, singing. His son Ambrose Kenny-Smith is a member of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and his own band the Murlocs.

Love Is the Law - Sons of the Vegetal Matter, a 1970 single. The band featured Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford, whose next band was Daddy Cool.

Three songs by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, not a 1970s band

Honey - from the album K.G., 2020.
Dirt - from a series of live authorised bootleg albums, this song from a show in Brisbane in 2021.
Hate Dancin’ - from Changes, one of their 2022 albums.

Star Parade - Sarah Carroll and the Left Wing, the title track to their 2017 album.

Don’t Drink All By Yourself (If You Can’t Be Drunk Alone) - James Ellis and the Jealous Guys, a 2024 single.

Fat Old Sun - the Silversound, it’s on their self-titled 2023 album. Dave Gilmour and Pink Floyd did it in 1970 on their album Atom Heart Mother.

Outro - Chicken Omelette, by Baby Langston, from their acclaimed 1998 album.