Good Garage tunes
UnconSci
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I've been kinda getting into this genre and am pretty out of the know. I have been really looking for The Leaves - Other people 45 and the sneekers - Sneaker talk. Anyway... I was just curious what are some classics within the genre and who has some 45s to sell me! hehe. I just really dig the gritty big beat kinda sound and really wanna get more of this shit in my crates.
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- Gentrys - "Keep On Dancing" (MGM)
- Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - "Wooly Bully" (MGM)
- Chartbusters - "She's The One" (Mutual)
- Kingsmen - "Money," "Louie Louie" (Wand)
- Human Beinz - "Nobody But Me" (Capitol)
- Five By Five - "Fire"/"Hang Up" (Paula)
- Paul Revere & the Raiders - "Just Like Me," "Kicks," "Steppin' Out", "The Great Airplane Strike" (Columbia)
- ? & the Mysterians - "96 Tears" (Cameo)
- Leaves - "Hey Joe" (Mira)
- Five Americans - "I See The Light" (HBR)
- Standells - "Dirty Water" (Tower)
- Music Explosion - "Little Bit O'Soul"/"I See The Light" (Laurie)
- Shadows Of Knight - "Gloria" (Dunwich)
- Premiers - "Farmer John" (Warner Bros.)
After you get past the hits, there are the lesser-knowns like the Sonics, Swamp Rats, Squires, Del-Vettes, Unrelated Segments and others...but here it's either get a reissue (lotta good compilations out there) or pay more for the originals.
that can give you your fix and also a few clues to
where to find some OG's. I really like the Fuzz, Flaykes & Shakes
series on Dionysous. You can pick each one up
for under $10, and they are a great mix of stuff you'll
never find and things on labels you know that might turn up
with just a little effort. The Teenage Shutdown! series is
great, too, although the tracks on those will be harder
in general to track down if you want an OG.
A great cheap 45 along the lines of the Leaves:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330152402235
and this one is a cheapie that's a total killer:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110214555728
Richard & The Young Lions - You Can Make It & Nasty on Philips
Blue Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothing Yet on Mercury
The Bugs - Twist & Shout on Hit
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction on Double Shot
Five By Five - Apple Cider on Paula
Max Frost & The Troopers - Free Lovin' on Tower (this actually may be a push to call garage, cool 45 though, I think I'm thinking of something else on Tower, that whole label's rock band roster is worth a listen if you find a bunch at a store with a listening post).
Bobby Fuller Four - Take your pick with these dudes, some cool 45s, in New Zealand they are on London in the US I think they are on a label like Charger or Mustang??
The Illusion - Don't Push It & Did You See Her Eyes on Steed - again maybe pushing the boundary of garage, but good, cheap rockers.
Tommy James & The Shondells - Heaps of their stuff is cheap, some of it is good.
The Kingsmen for sure, some great 45s
The Knickerbockers - Maybe something like Lies or One Track Mind
Magic Lanterns - maybe Shame Shame or Biding My Time
Thee Midniters - Land Of 1000 Dances etc.
The Mojo Men - Some of their 45s are cool-ish
Music Explosion - Little Bit O Soul cosign also the Sunshine Games 45
The Nightcrawlers cosign on that 45
Noel Odom & The Group - Come On Down To Earth on Tower killer(I think this is the one I was thinking about above, regardless, this 45 is the shit).
Music Machine - Talk Talk & Double Yellow Line on Original Sound
The Outsiders - Respectable on Capitol
? & The Mysterians - add I Need Somebody/8 Teen to your list
Paul Revere & The Raiders - cosign on these dudes too, inconsistent at times but there are so many worthwhile 45 sides of theirs worth exploring.
Shadows Of Knight - there are some great sides on Dunwich
The Shaggy Boys - Stop The Clock on Red Bird - listened to this today, it's cool.
The Standells - cosign on Dirty Water, it's a classic.
Syndicate Of Sound - Little Girl, Rumors etc.
The Wailers - Tears on UA & You Can't Fly on Bell are just a couple of the good ones by these dudes.
The kind of Beatles-inspired rock music from the sixties (roughly '64-68) that foreshadowed punk.
And, I should add, this sound was called garage long before it became another genre of dance music.
anna black - the chicken thief woah!
Riddles - its one thing to say this one smashes too, though less gritty.
also got "Cast of Thousands - carters grove" though thats not garage but still a cool one from the same seller.... sabastian i think.
Here's a garage record I picked up this past weekend. It's killer, IMO.
I think the Rolling Stones (and to a lesser extent, the Yardbirds) have
a pretty healthy claim to the paternity of garage - the R&B sounds that
dominate the genre are directly drawn from the Stones. Of course, the
Beatles are huge in the "everybody start a band" movement of 65 onward,
and most bands knew and played the Bealtes catalog at every show, but
the "punk" of garage punk was the very essence of the Stones fanboy.
http://www.shingaling.com/ebay12a/annablack.mp3
theres that chicken theif song. The vocals hit me so hard and the whole thing is so chunky.
AKA "the rockabilly rule"
Not to take away from the Stones and the Yardbirds, but I chose the Beatles because chronologically they came first as far as America was concerned, and not everything that was inspired by them was blatantly poppish. Listen to the Beau Brummels' "That's If You Want Me To" - yeah, they were normally known as a Beatlesque folk-rock band, but they brought the raunch on that one song.
And Chicago's Noblemen might take the cake for rawest scream ever!
Still, garage bands always seem to me be more directly
influenced by the Stones and even the Byrds than the Beatles.
Again, not dismissing the overall hold the Beatles had on
music throughout the era, but garage as a genre is just
more aptly described (and of course over-simplified) as
a bunch of Stones wannabees than a bunch of Beatle biters.
I dig that!
Definitely not. The Quicksilver Messenger Service are psychedelic without sounding garagey; the Sonics were garagey but were miles away from psychedelia. Garage and psych don't always mean the same thing.
They weren't, but you can definitely hear a difference between the styles.
DUDE.
STRYCHNINE!
The Sir Douglas Quintet, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, and the Bobby Fuller Four - to name three garage bands - sounded nothing like the Beatles, Stones, Byrds OR Yardbirds. Yet they were just raunchy enough that they wouldn't be out of place on a garage compilation.
You callin' THAT song "psychedelic"? Never THAT, son... ((grin))
They were actually on quite a few labels, but had their hits on Mustang.
I won't argue about them being garage bands, but all three of
these bands share the fact that they started earlier than the
timeline we were discussing, so it would make sense that they
would not have a sound based upon the British Invasion, although
the influence of the Beatles on the name and approach of the Sir
Douglas Quintet has been well-documented.
No small coincidence that they are all from Texas, too. If anything,
the argument could be made that these 3 acts were influential on
the garage bands we were discussing, especially in Texas, Louisiana,
etc. And I can certainly say that the Byrds were influenced by Doug Sahm,
although not really evident in their recordings until the late 60's.
Yeah, a lot of those Southern bands may have grown their hair long, but still held on to their heritage. They didn't take the UK worship but SO far. Sam the Sham probably had more firsthand knowledge of the blues than Jim Sohns from the Shadows of Knight (which is saying something considering that Chicago, where the Shadows are from, has as big a blues heritage as Texas or Memphis, where Sam relocated).