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'The Songs We Were Sensing' - The Roots of the Dukes comp - UPDATED

"25 O'Clock" the song (updated):

Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"
Pink Floyd - "Scarecrow"*
The Mickey Finn - "Garden Of My Mind"
The "E" Types - "Put The Clock Back On The Wall"
The Mystery Trend - "Johnny Was A Good Boy"
Pink Floyd - "See Emily Play"
The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind"
The Animals - "When I Was Young"
The Animals - "Monterey"*
The Rolling Stones - "Paint It Black"


"Bike Ride To The Moon" (updated):

David Bowie - "The Laughing Gnome"
Tomorrow - "My White Bicycle"
Pink Floyd - "Bike"
Pink Floyd - "Scarecrow"*
The Move - "Cherry Blossom Clinic"
The Move - "Yellow Rainbow"


"My Love Explodes" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Happening Ten Years Time Ago"
The Yardbirds - "Heart Full of Soul"
The Yardbirds - "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"*
The Electric Prunes - "Get Me To The World On Time"
Love - "7 and 7 Is"
Pink Floyd - "Astronomy Domine"
The Doors - "My Eyes Have Seen You"


"What in the World?" (updated):

The Beatles - "Only A Northern Song"
The Beatles - "It's All Too Much"
The Beatles - "Rain"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"
Zager and Evans - "In The Year 2525"
The Bee Gees - "In My Own Time"


"Your Gold Dress" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Turn Into Earth"
The Yardbirds - "He's Always There"
The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow"
The Rolling Stones - "Citadel"
The Hollies - "Stop, Stop, Stop"
The Nazz - "Open My Eyes" *
Tomorrow - "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop"


"The Mole From The Ministry" (updated):

The Beatles - "I Am The Walrus"
The Moles - "We Are The Moles"
The Aquarian Age - "10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box"
The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields"
The Beatles - "Lovely Rita"


"Vanishing Girl" (updated):

The Hollies - "You Need Love'
The Hollies - "Schoolgirl"
The Hollies - "Look Through Any Window"
The Hollies - "Dear Eloise"
The Hollies - "Pay You Back with Interest"
The Hollies - "Carrie Anne"
The Hollies - "On A Carousel"
The Hollies - "Everything Is Sunshine"
The Rolling Stones - "Gomper"


"Have You Seen Jackie?" (updated):

Pink Floyd - "Arnold Layne"
Keith West - "Excerpt From A Teenage Opera"
The Yardbirds - "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"*
The Rolling Stones - "2,000 Light Years From Home"
Pink Floyd - "Vegtable Man"
Tomorrow - "The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase"
The Idle Race - "The Skeleton and the Roundabout"


"Little Lighthouse" (updated):

The Rolling Stones - "19th Nervous Breakdown"
Love - "Alone Again Or"
Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"*
Electric Prunes - "Get Me To The World On Time"*
The Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"


"You're A Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)" (updated):

Tomorrow - "Colonel Brown"
The Yardbirds - "Stealing, Stealing"
The Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron"
The Kinks - "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina"
The Kinks - "Mr. Pleasant"
Traffic - "Berkshire Poppies"
Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday"
Small Faces - "Happy Days Toy Town"
Small Faces - "The Universal"
Small Faces - "Rene"
Pink Floyd - "Corporal Clegg"
David Bowie/Oscar - "Over The Wall We Go"
Whistling Jack Smith - "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman"


"Collideascope" (updated):

The Move - "Blackberry Way"
The Beatles - "Hey Bulldog"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite"*
The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping"*
The Beatles - "I Am the Walrus"*
The Small Faces - (??? songs pending...)


"You're My Drug" (updated)

The Nazz - "Open My Eyes"*
The Poets - "That's The Way It's Got To Be"
The Yardbirds - "He's Always There"*
The Animals - "Monterey"*
The Byrds - "So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star"
Traffic - "Dealer"


"Shiny Cage" (updated):

The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping"*
The Beatles - "We Can Work It Out"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite"*
The Beatles - "The Inner Light"


"Brainiac's Daughter" (updated):

The Beatles - "Lovely Rita"*
The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"/"Octopus's Garden"
The Beatles - "Lady Madonna"
The Beatles - "Martha My Dear"
The Turtles - "Sound Asleep"
Thunderclap Newman - ??????


"The Affiliated" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Ever Since The World Began"
Unit 4+2 - "Concrete And Clay"
The Kinks - "Two Sisters"

Influential songs that can't be pinned on a specific Dukes song:

The Smoke - "My Friend Jack"
Traffic - "Hole In My Shoe"
Manfred Mann - "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James"
The Rolling Stones - "In Another Land"
The Rolling Stones - "The Lantern"
The Rolling Stones - "On With The Show"

* Duplicate - used on another Dukes song.


Anymore for "Collideascope" or "You're My Drug" or "Shiny Cage" or "Brainiac's Daughter" or "The Affiliated"??? I think we could flesh these out more. Anybody?

Also, any songs you want to nominate for the Influential songs that can't be pinned on a specific Dukes song category?

Next song up is the LAST song up:

"Pale and Precious"

 

"Help Me Rhonda" and "Good Vibrations" are the obvious influences.

Edit: I'd also argue that "Heroes and Villians" is there. As well as the beginning of "California Girls" and the melody to "Let Him Run Wild," although the latter may be stretching it.

 

Wow, I had thought "Pale and Precious" would have a lot more people chiming in.

Anymore?

 

Bump?

 

'The Songs We Were Sensing' - The Roots of the Dukes comp - UPDATED

"25 O'Clock" the song (updated):

Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"
Pink Floyd - "Scarecrow"*
The Mickey Finn - "Garden Of My Mind"
The "E" Types - "Put The Clock Back On The Wall"
The Mystery Trend - "Johnny Was A Good Boy"
Pink Floyd - "See Emily Play"
The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind"
The Animals - "When I Was Young"
The Animals - "Monterey"*
The Rolling Stones - "Paint It Black"


"Bike Ride To The Moon" (updated):

David Bowie - "The Laughing Gnome"
Tomorrow - "My White Bicycle"
Pink Floyd - "Bike"
Pink Floyd - "Scarecrow"*
The Move - "Cherry Blossom Clinic"
The Move - "Yellow Rainbow"


"My Love Explodes" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Happening Ten Years Time Ago"
The Yardbirds - "Heart Full of Soul"
The Yardbirds - "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"*
The Electric Prunes - "Get Me To The World On Time"
Love - "7 and 7 Is"
Pink Floyd - "Astronomy Domine"
The Doors - "My Eyes Have Seen You"


"What in the World?" (updated):

The Beatles - "Only A Northern Song"
The Beatles - "It's All Too Much"
The Beatles - "Rain"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"
Zager and Evans - "In The Year 2525"
The Bee Gees - "In My Own Time"


"Your Gold Dress" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Turn Into Earth"
The Yardbirds - "He's Always There"
The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow"
The Rolling Stones - "Citadel"
The Hollies - "Stop, Stop, Stop"
The Nazz - "Open My Eyes" *
Tomorrow - "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop"


"The Mole From The Ministry" (updated):

The Beatles - "I Am The Walrus"
The Moles - "We Are The Moles"
The Aquarian Age - "10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box"
The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields"
The Beatles - "Lovely Rita"


"Vanishing Girl" (updated):

The Hollies - "You Need Love'
The Hollies - "Schoolgirl"
The Hollies - "Look Through Any Window"
The Hollies - "Dear Eloise"
The Hollies - "Pay You Back with Interest"
The Hollies - "Carrie Anne"
The Hollies - "On A Carousel"
The Hollies - "Everything Is Sunshine"
The Rolling Stones - "Gomper"


"Have You Seen Jackie?" (updated):

Pink Floyd - "Arnold Layne"
Keith West - "Excerpt From A Teenage Opera"
The Yardbirds - "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"*
The Rolling Stones - "2,000 Light Years From Home"
Pink Floyd - "Vegtable Man"
Tomorrow - "The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase"
The Idle Race - "The Skeleton and the Roundabout"


"Little Lighthouse" (updated):

The Rolling Stones - "19th Nervous Breakdown"
Love - "Alone Again Or"
Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"*
Electric Prunes - "Get Me To The World On Time"*
The Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"


"You're A Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)" (updated):

Tomorrow - "Colonel Brown"
The Yardbirds - "Stealing, Stealing"
The Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron"
The Kinks - "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina"
The Kinks - "Mr. Pleasant"
Traffic - "Berkshire Poppies"
Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday"
Small Faces - "Happy Days Toy Town"
Small Faces - "The Universal"
Small Faces - "Rene"
Pink Floyd - "Corporal Clegg"
David Bowie/Oscar - "Over The Wall We Go"
Whistling Jack Smith - "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman"


"Collideascope" (updated):

The Move - "Blackberry Way"
The Beatles - "Hey Bulldog"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite"*
The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping"*
The Beatles - "I Am the Walrus"*
The Small Faces - (??? songs pending...)


"You're My Drug" (updated)

The Nazz - "Open My Eyes"*
The Poets - "That's The Way It's Got To Be"
The Yardbirds - "He's Always There"*
The Animals - "Monterey"*
The Byrds - "So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star"
Traffic - "Dealer"


"Shiny Cage" (updated):

The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping"*
The Beatles - "We Can Work It Out"
The Beatles - "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite"*
The Beatles - "The Inner Light"


"Brainiac's Daughter" (updated):

The Beatles - "Lovely Rita"*
The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"/"Octopus's Garden"
The Beatles - "Lady Madonna"
The Beatles - "Martha My Dear"
The Turtles - "Sound Asleep"
Thunderclap Newman - ??????


"The Affiliated" (updated):

The Yardbirds - "Ever Since The World Began"
Unit 4+2 - "Concrete And Clay"
The Kinks - "Two Sisters"


"Pale and Precious" (updated):

The Beach Boys - "Surf's Up"
The Beach Boys - "Help Me Rhonda"
The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
The Beach Boys - "Heroes and Villians"
The Beach Boys - "California Girls"
The Beach Boys - "Let Him Run Wild"
Procol Harem - "Whiter Shade Of Pale"


Influential songs that can't be pinned on a specific Dukes song:

The Smoke - "My Friend Jack"
Traffic - "Hole In My Shoe"
Manfred Mann - "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James"
The Rolling Stones - "In Another Land"
The Rolling Stones - "The Lantern"
The Rolling Stones - "On With The Show"

* Duplicate - used on another Dukes song.


Anymore for "Collideascope" or "You're My Drug" or "Shiny Cage" or "Brainiac's Daughter" or "The Affiliated" or "Pale and Precious"??? I think we could flesh these out more. Anybody?

Also, any songs you want to nominate for the Influential songs that can't be pinned on a specific Dukes song category?

 

I'm blanking out on Collideascope, but it sound really familiar to some song I've heard not listed here

 

Love this. so many songs to check out. Here are a couple of additions:

You're My Drug - Beatles/Back in the USSR (airplane)
My Love Explodes - Monkees/Last Train to Clarksville (Bass Guitar Part)
Albert Brown - Beatles/All Together Now (rising group vocals at the end)

 

ok one more - honestly, for Mole from the Ministry (1985): Julian Lennon/Valotte (1984) - listen to the vocal tremolo, the overall pace of the song, the use of piano.

 

I'm glad 1977ub contributed to this thread today, since I was unaware of it! I'm a huge XTC/Dukes fan, and look forward to perusing this thread!

My love of the Dukes releases was largely responsible for me getting the Rhino box sets "Nuggets" and "Where The Action Is! - Los Angeles Nuggets" which are indispensable parts of my CD collection!

 

On "Braniac's Daughter" I'd add that the lyric "One bag, two bag, three bags full, sir" was taken from "Yes, Sir, No, Sir" by the Kinks.

 

Wonderful forum dudes!
I only wanted add some of songs that maybe influenced the Dukes...

Rush Hour by BLUES MAGOOS and Made Of Sugar Maid Of Spice by MOUSE & THE TRAPS for My Love Explodes...
Scream Thy Last Scream by PINK FLOYD for Bike Ride To The Moon (the gnome voice);
Look At Me I'm You by BLOSSOM TOES for What In The World (bassline...);
Real Life Permanent Dream by TOMORROW & Lucifer Sam by PINK FLOYD for Your Gold Dress banjo line (here with sitar and easter guitar...);
Humanoid Boogie by The BONZO DOG BAND for Have You Seen Jakie? (psyc-organ chords, listen it...);
Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl by The BARBARIANS and Blues Theme by DAVE ALLEN AND THE ARROWS on Little Lighthouse;

More psych compilations that are likely to have heard could be THE GREAT BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC TRIP VOL. 2 on LP or VOL. 3 on CD, includes Tomorrow, Idle Race, Locomotive, Keith West & Mark Writz, The Moles, Pretty Things, July and The Yardbirds...

 

Since this thread was brought back to life; anybody up for discussing the influences for these other Duke tracks now available on the 25O'clock remaster?
Nicely, Nicely Jane (demo)
Susa Revolving (demo)
Black Jewelled Serpent of Sound (Radio Caroline Edit)
Open a Can of Human Beans
Tin Toy Clockwork Train

 

The fog horn at the beginning of 'Little Lighthouse' is obviously an homage to the intro of Steve Miller Band's 'My Friend'.

 

Duh...I meant "Song for Our Ancsetors"

 

i think it's more about the sound of the farfisa organ. very wright-like.

cheers.
rob

 

this is an incredible thread- just the sort of thing i love- but my knowledge just isn't deep enough to play......phooey!

cheers,
rob

 

tere's something about the echo on the vocal (and the vocal itself) for 'collideascope' that's reminding me of 'instant karma'- perhaps it's the stomping of the percussion, too.

cheers,
rob

 

Yes i also like to play so...!!

 

My Friend Jack (esque) by THE SMOKE maybe is on 25 o'Clock;
Hole In my Shoe by TRAFFIC is on Moles From The Ministry;
Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James by MANFRED MANN is on What In The World (the voice melody...);
On With The Show by The STONES on Albert Brown.

On 25 O'Clock we can listen a guitar riff a là Child In Time by Deep Purple and a dig in the final at David Bowie Ziggy Stardust Aladdin Sane, "Time"...

 

Awesome! Glad somebody found this old thread of mine! Still haven't finished this project (or my Mellotron compilation that I was working on at the same time). After finishing a project I'm working on now, I should really get on this. I want to be able to sit in my backyard listening to this compilation this summer!

 

I heard what reminded me of early era Syd Barrett Pink Floyd, Electric Prunes, some Beach Boys, I
didin't hear any Beatles. But I never thought of any particular Dukes song, as being written as a hommage
or derived from any song in particular, I just thought there was a general feeling of Syd Barrett or Brian Wilson
or Procul Harem. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe each Dukes song was written with a particular sixties song
in mind. Did XTC ever say that was the case?

 

The guitar solo section of "25 O'clock" (starting at about 3:15) reminds me a whole lot of the guitar solo section of Frank Zappa's "Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" from "Burnt Weenie Sandwich. It's mainly the drums+tambourine sound and rhythm.

 

The guy who wrote (all but one of) these songs really did a brilliant job. I wonder if XTC ever did them live.

 

Yes they did, on the Oranges & Lemons tour.



Just kidding.