Best Standells Song other than Dirty Water

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White	9
Medication	4
Why Pick on Me	3
Riot on Sunset Strip	2
Try It	1
Rari	1
There's a Storm Coming	0
Animal Girl	0
Can't Help But Love You	0
All Fall Down Listen	0
Black Hearted Woman	0
Barracuda	0
Little Sally Tease	0
Have You Ever Spent the Night in Jail	0
Mainline	0
Mr. Nobody	0
Don't Say Goodbye	0

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:46 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJnqN20y8nI

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5kdJSTH_7Y

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWxIAbpbyrA&feature=related

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

this one's killer - it's between this one and Try It for me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8XMedD6jOE

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

my first thought is "Barracuda", good excuse to relisten.

― sleeve, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White

― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 March 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

GREAT POLL. "Why Pick on Me" is awesome too.

― Band Fag X (u s steel), Monday, 29 March 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, Standells have so many great ones - and Ed Cobb wrote most of em

― Brio, Monday, 29 March 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

Try It!

― ithappens, Monday, 29 March 2010 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

'Sometimes Good Guys Dont Wear White' was a mixtape fave

― Michael B, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

Love this band. Particular faves, other than DW, being "Riot on Sunset Strip", "Good Guys", "Try It", "Barracuda" and the long version of "Rari". Gone for "Riot" because the vocals + words are so feckin' great.

― Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:12 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

medication

― cb, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:55 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

They're gonna be performing near me shortly. What do they sound like live circa 2014?

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:09 (eleven years ago)

eleven years pass...

It just doesn't seem fair
To bug you 'cause you got long hair
Even the parents are beginning to scaaaaare
Because of the sirennnns
On our STREET!
It used to be NEAT!
But now it's just a place
For black-and-white cars to race!

― peace, man, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 16:37 (five days ago)

OTM

― Tony Bubbles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 November 2025 16:47 (five days ago)

^ co-written by John Fleck, who also co-wrote "Can't Explain" with Arthur Lee for the first Love album

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 17:05 (five days ago)

I have a bootleg VHS of Riot On Sunset Strip. can't play it, I did have a VHS player but it had a pin code lock on it and the remote stopped working so I couldn't enter it. iirc it was a terrible copy anyway and has since been released on DVD so I could probably torrent it if I want to see it.

I'd probably go for Why Pick On Me, but my favourite song by them is probably Someday You'll Cry which isn't on this

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 21:00 (five days ago)

wow, yeah that’s a good one

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 23:04 (five days ago)

ok, not sure how i’m only now learning that Russ Tamblyn’s brother Larry was in the Standells. that’s who wrote and sang that tune

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 23:06 (five days ago)

I just pieced that together yesterday myself!

― peace, man, Thursday, 20 November 2025 13:07 (four days ago)

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