Garage Rock Faves

1. Monoshock - always very near chaos, something really dark about what they're doing, seems to make good on the "out-there" promise of "wild" garage stuff - like Crazy Horse if they were starving to death & had been clinically depressed for years

2. The Mummies - everything they ever did makes me laugh & awakens the "I'm not interested in it if it's not funny" impulse in me, which I think is a good impulse

3. The Cheater Slicks - seem to have actually listened to pre-'67 Rolling Stones albums, like, really really hard

Night Kings, for sure. Great melody. Unbelievable guitar tone. Often, all is said and done in under two minutes. "Black Fluid" is a highwater moment for that particular garage revival.

the gories - the pinnacle of this genre

billy childish/headcoats/headcoatees - british-style 2/3 chord garage stomp

april march - pre-francophile era, solo or with the pussywillows or the makers

Monoshock - always very near chaos, something really dark about what they're doing

yes, it's called "heavy psychedelic drugs".

Cheater Slicks were no slouches either.

I'm like, "you're the reason I'm trying to find a new job."

Christ, if the worst thing about my job was some newbie thinking they were the bollocks cos they liked the Dirtbombs, I might be tempted to actually do some work instead of posting on here...

i THINK i like garage when it's less schticky and closer to metal/punk. but again, no guarantees.

Christ, if the worst thing about my job was some newbie thinking they were the bollocks cos they liked the Dirtbombs, I might be tempted to
actually do some work instead of posting on here...
Well, but that's the ONLY band he ever buys, and he always has to leave the city (and usually the country) before he actually BUYS anything. And he's more appreciated than me.

Of the immediately preceding wave, The Deadly Snakes are tops but they haven't toured or anything since "Ode To Joy" so I'm not sure what's going on with them. The Clone Defects broke up, I heard. nice that they went out on their best record anyway.

and even though i wasn't that nuts about "time bomb high school", the reigning sound were really great last time they played here.

anyone heard The Buff Medways stuff yet? I'm always curious to hear what Billy Childish is up to...

Second the Mummies - yeah largely for the reasons J0hn states ("MYYYY Loooove is stronger than dirt!!").

Second The Nights and Days/Night Kings - totally invigorating, ragged songs that sound like they're going to fall apart at any time. First heard them on that Sub Pop 200 comp, and they just sounded so wild and unlike everything else on there. There was a great interview with Rob Vasquez in some briefly-available fanzine - "Bad Vibe" I think it was called?

I loved the Fall-Outs, too - good tuneful stuff. Girl Trouble were great. Their records were good fun - especially liked that covers EP Stomp and Shout and Work it On Out.

The Gories - ridiculously great and the band that got me into this stuff in the first place.

Gibson Bros have to count right? So, them, for sure; also, Bassholes. Didn't like '68 Comeback as much.

I like all of the above to the point of actively seeking out and playing their recordings. There are tons of other bands that I don't mind, and certainly enjoy when I hear them, but can't really be arsed to collect all the records. Just too many in this style, really.

that "live in paris" record w/ "the dreg" and "when the night falls" is fucking great.

i wouldn't call the cuts garage, really, at least the studio recording isn't. closer to jellyfish or something.

Broke down raw blues from toledo by way of detroit. The early records are good, but they testify live.

goddamn, I hate when rock bands get all into that quasi-racist "brothas and sistas!" minstrel show preacherman bullshit ... it sounded like a joke when the MC5 did it 1969, it sounded like more of a joke when the fucking Make-Up did it and it sounds like a fucking knock knock joke when the soledad brothers do it now.

*i am not opening pandora's box of older bands

The Bellrays have one great song - "Blue Cirque," which makes up for all the boring stuff.

Boss Hog's S/T album

Cheater Slicks are also great. Do Teengenerate count? They make me want to dance. And by dance, I mean explode.

Whoever said the country fags I mean teasers, you don't know shit about garagepunk. They're unlistenable wannabe "wierd" records were when Crypt started sucking, and now In The Red's fallen for the same crap. Take your Fall records over to some indie label, mates, there's about a million of 'em.

Check out these sites for more garagepunk info:
www.grunnenrocks.nl
www.garagepunk.com/forums

Whoever said Deadbolt,
FUCK YEAH!

These guys your own personal Killing Joke, Chuck? (I mean this with affection!)

Hey Fritz, have you heard Break Up, Break Down? It's miles away from Time Bomb High School and what Cartwright does live, but fan-fucking-tastic nonetheless. Includes a haunting cover of the Everly's "So Sad" and about four or five of their best originals.

as far as the Clone Defects breaking up goes, yeah that's just record store gossip so who knows. I was wrong about the Deadly Snakes, though. According to In The Red site they're on tour in Europe now.

(Oh, "one" more thing -- as Dave Q would gladly tell you, ZZ Top sound WAY more IDM these days than Brooks and Dunn. Maybe more garage-rock, too, which serves them right seeing how they used to be the Moving Sidewalks and all.) (Though Clone Defects sort of sounded Detroit techno in their own way, come to think of it.)

The A-Bones too.

(first sentence of my first post, in fact!)

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0329/kogan.php

from the Detroit Metro Times: 15 bands to watch

David Allen's comments might make it a little more clear about who would be doing the punching if you told The CD's they were techno.

The reason I know is because I used to get drunk in Ian Ammon's Mom's basement with Tim Laampanen in about 1993. I used to hang around that guy in highschool. I have run into him randomly all over town for years. That is how I know.

Frankly, my guess is that David Allen probably said something they did not agree with and they were not particularly nice about it. Tim is (or was, I was particularly shocked when I read about that mitsubishi commerical) probably the most punk rock and roll person I have ever seen and I don't think that he would ever be caught dead with a Red Planet record in his collection. I would have bet a weeks pay that he would have gone out like Laughner until about a year ago.

Tim is a rocker, he gets it from his older brother who raised him on Punk. I don't claim to have too many insights into his soul, I would not even claim to be a friend, but I do know that guy well enough to know that techno plays no role in anything he is involved with it. The electronics might have come into play through Allen Ravenstien, but they definitely did not come by way of Kevin Saunderson.

All I am saying is that the roots of those two scenes are worlds apart. All music comes down to us from Manuel Gottsching, and just because the promotional strategies, social consumption patterns, ideological beliefs, and key players do not cross over whatsoever does not mean that there isn't a connection, right?

http://people.ucsc.edu/~humanfly/hme/

I originally posted this on a Flamin Groovies thread--

I saw Flamin Groovies guitarist Cyril Jordan with his current garage and a bit of power pop band Magic Christian last night. Fun fun fun. Eddie Muñoz from L.A. band The Plimsouls is on bass and Clem Burke from Blondie is drumming. They closed with a great version of "Shake Some Action." The singer is real good too---effective voice and banging away on the tambourine.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:01 (5 hours ago) Permalink

Truly - does this thread go without a single mention of the Mono Men ... I'm blown away - seek 'em out - truly an on-fire garage band on Estrus for quite a while.

oi this thread.

As far as "Sonics/Stooges inspired rock", to avoid the mess above with the genre name, even though they are no longer, The Beguiled from Orange County were superb. Their one album is easy to find, and it's fantastic. Good sideslice of Stooges and Cramps type stuff.

Also, Girl Trouble from Tacoma are worth checking out if ya haven't already done so.

All this stuff seems to be best heard on 45. I've only heard most of it on obscure small pressing multi-artist 45's that would have come with magazines. 4 bands doing covers recorded for radio or something.

never forget Gorilla!

Also, this is veering deep into the Sympathy For The Record Industry flavors of garage rock (i.e. awesome)..

but i really really miss Jacknife, the L.A. three piece. They put out an excellent EP on Imp Records.

LOL at this impersonator:

As far as IDM goes, I'm really into the new Books CD and definitely Four Tet still, and I'm going to mention Brooks and Dunn (as well) who maybe don't count (though they probably should (am I (of course) right?) since they erase all genre boundaries). I played them at this IDM party I DJed. I DJ, you know, don't know if I mentioned that before, I'm still hep w/ the kids, new Dirtbombs is boring, etc.
― charley, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:19 PM (5 years ago)

What a dipshit. (Like I wouldn't have put brackets within the parentheses, for Crissakes.)

Anyway, kinda funny how there's no music from the '60s on this thread.

"Sonics/Stooges

Nope. What it says up there is "Sonics/Stooges inspired rock", not the same. (There is one stray mention to "The Garage Punk Unknowns' series on Crypt," admittedly. But I still think it's hilarious that a Martin who found this thread via Google would conclude the genre didn't exist before the '80s.)

(or a Martian, even.)

(Actually, I also mention the Moving Sidewalks, Standells, and Mouse and the Traps in passing, too. But only to compare them to country rock bands.)

J0hn's second post indicates he's looking for "neo-garage" recommendations which kind of eliminates the whole Nuggets' school of stuff.

(or for that matter old-school garage)

compulsive gamblers

"(or for that matter old-school garage)"

Hah I ignore everything in paranthesis. It works better that way.

i saw the reigning sound last night w/the ettes (vv good) and a band called death hymn number 9 opening for both of them, and they were pretty awesome, definitely on the more early oblivians side of garage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwR8SPVDP0

and greg cartwright has a new side project with coco hames of the ettes called the parting gifts, they played a mini-set after the reigning sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4H3zwD0QPQ

this guys are great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cGNuA17i4I&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOBDhsoIInY
https://www.facebook.com/SubsonicsATL

Really surprised there's no thread on the Subsonics (maybe I'm just bad at searching? they aren't on wikipedia either) but I saw them last night and it was really great. I think I first saw them at a house show about 10 years ago and they have consistently been a not-to-miss act for me. I'm not sure how long they've been around (pretty sure 20+ years by now) but they absolutely ruled. The drummer plays standing up and she has a minimal style that sort of makes me think of VU, only rocking way much harder. The lead singer is great and has this very slight vampire thing going for him imo and the songs are all pretty raw two-chord or three-chord rock. Dude can play a mean 3-note guitar solo!

1966, Eindhoven NL

The Phantoms covering "Roadrunner" (Bo Diddley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3t_RVwzjI