Well I don't go to any specifically garage punk festivals (not that I don't want to) and was wondering if a similar problem happens with the Beatles at those places ie. there always needs to be a Beatles type band because that's what's cool at the moment.

Having said that though I wonder if the Beatles have a sound specific enough for a band to be playing as a Beatles influenced band rather than just a British invasion influenced band. So ignore the question it's a bit dumb.

melissa scott said:

Hey Mike: What I took away from the Record Detective's reply (and others') to the thread is that even discussing Britpop, or charts, or the Beatles doesn't belong at the GPH. There are plenty of other sites to do just that.

Your point about the in-escape-ability of influence runs right up against the above-mentioned sentiment.

Can you clarify your last paragraph? I don't follow...

After nearly having a memorabilia overdose every time I go into any tourist shop in London I try my best to avoid their music. I can never visit Liverpool for fear of total overkill of nostalgic nick nacks.

Hey Mike: What I took away from the Record Detective's reply (and others') to the thread is that even discussing Britpop, or charts, or the Beatles doesn't belong at the GPH. There are plenty of other sites to do just that.

Your point about the in-escape-ability of influence runs right up against the above-mentioned sentiment.

Can you clarify your last paragraph? I don't follow...

I have to say that cuts both ways as they have inspired some real shit (as have all the big ones) and although the most logical response would be only listen to the good stuff and not the bad it can sometimes be a bit tricky. It seems British popular culture is set on an 8 or 10 year timer where every decade there's a British invasion/ Britpop resurgence and the charts get completly dominated by "Beatles fans".

Like I said it surely can't be too hard just to avoid this stuff and really it isn't well I noticed a weird phenomenon here in Europe a year or 2 ago with this "Irish punk" crap. For about 2 years every little rock festival has some Dropkick Murpheys type band playing songs that I find hard to work out whether they are more insulting to English or Irish people.

To get this back on topic, would this sound similar to garage based festivals with the Beatles? I have to ask as I generally go to more punk/hardcore and general rock fests.

dying slowly said:

conversley the amount of garage bands they inpired must earn them a few brownie points (the knickerbocker for example) also the fact they populerised the concept of poppy groups wrighting there own tunes and also the musical magpie nature of the group means it is near immpossible to not like one beatle song.

I for one will always have a soft spot for them as they where the band that got me into music and inspired nearly everyone one way or another

i think a lot of people here may find the beatles too melodic, also the whole cutsey image could be considerd contrieved and overtly comercial for fans of raw anti commercial RnR. Also some people may consider them unoriginal, al the things they popularised (asian music ,psychedelia ,RnR with pop harmonys etc) had alredy been donethats how they where relevent for nearly 8 years.

conversley the amount of garage bands they inpired must earn them a few brownie points (the knickerbocker for example) also the fact they populerised the concept of poppy groups wrighting there own tunes and also the musical magpie nature of the group means it is near immpossible to not like one beatle song.

I for one will always have a soft spot for them as they where the band that got me into music and inspired nearly everyone one way or another

Hey RD -- no need to apologise at all.

You said: Garage punk and the Beatles don't belong on the same page"

I was making an observation based on what people have been posting on this thread, not a personal opinion statement. I never said it did. I DID say I don't 'hate' the Beatles. Don't care one way or t'other.

But I will defend the right for someone to think so if they choose, even if I don't agree.

Sick and tired of discussions of old masters? Hey as long as being 'un-reasonable' generates some kickass new music, I'm all for it.

cheers, mel

the Record Detective said:

My apologies to melissa scott, but the time for being reasonable is long past. Garage punk and the beatles don't belong on the same page, nor the same chapter. I for one am sick and tired of the hideous putrid drivel. Sure there were moments of brilliances (spelling), but the beatles are long dead. Go to a mccartney or starr show and you can say i've seen a living beatle, but that's not the same. It was John Lennon who said "Why call it rock and roll? When you could call it chuck berry?" (paraphrase) (sorry)

My apologies to melissa scott, but the time for being reasonable is long past. Garage punk and the beatles don't belong on the same page, nor the same chapter. I for one am sick and tired of the hideous putrid drivel. Sure there were moments of brilliances (spelling), but the beatles are long dead. Go to a mccartney or starr show and you can say i've seen a living beatle, but that's not the same. It was John Lennon who said "Why call it rock and roll? When you could call it chuck berry?" (paraphrase) (sorry)

http://yougotgoodtaste.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

Which feed are you submitting?

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:

I submitted my feed to iTunes years ago and it still hasn't been made into a page, I've tried re submitting but it just says this feed has already be submitted! What do I do?

I submitted my feed to iTunes years ago and it still hasn't been made into a page, I've tried re submitting but it just says this feed has already be submitted! What do I do?

I knew it. Fucking itunes had some kind of parental lock on.  Doesn't it know the difference between immature and underage?   I'm good now.  Thx

Yeah, the "Subscribe for free" link in iTunes works for me on Way Past Cool. It's the button that appears directly below the show art... which, by the way, is the generic iTunes podcast art. Steve, you should fix that. Make it your logo. Add that in Feedburner.

ixnayray said:

That's pretty weird Bill. I just followed the link to iTunes and I was given the option to subscribe... Not sure what I can tell you...

Bill Z Bub said:

When I try to go to some of the links you've posted such as (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/way-past-cool/id416243586) I can listen on that particular page.  

But when I click View in iTunes, subscribe is disabled for all of the episodes.  

Thx! 

Bill Z Bub said:

When I try to go to some of the links you've posted such as (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/way-past-cool/id416243586) I can listen on that particular page.  

But when I click View in iTunes, subscribe is disabled for all of the episodes.  

Thx! 

They're all great , I don't think you can go wrong....I love that song "Listen Girl" - "I'll shoot YEW in tha HEAD ! You better listen, girl !"...

Hey , Mole . You probably won't remember me , but , I saw The Embrooks once in New York and twice in Chicago , and hung out with the lot of yez. You sounded great. Hope you've been all right. John.
 
Mole said:

Thank you that man!

kopper said:

THE EMBROOKS

Their "new sound" was originally a side-project of the band called The Mystery Action. I still have a copy of The Mystery Action CD on MuSick, and it's exactly the same kind of style that the BMs changed to (I think it was even the same band members if I remember correctly). I guess Evan didn't like the idea of having two separate bands going at once, because he ditched the whole Mystery Action idea and just incorporated that sound into the BMs. Not sure why he decided to do that... I think, if he wanted to change styles like that, he should've kept going as The Mystery Action and dropped the more surf'n'drag/garage-sounding "Boss Martians" name instead, but that isn't obviously what happened. Go figure.

I LIKED THEIR FIRST ALBUM , KIND OF CONTRIVED , MAYBE LIKE A FAR SLICKER EARLY HENTCHMEN (BOTH BANDS WERE PATTERNED LARGELY ON THE RIVIERAS....NOT A BAD THING.)...But , this was in the 90's when the economy only sucked audibly , not OUT LOUD....AND , LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE , i WAS BUYING ALMOST ANY NEW GARAGE BAND'S LPs.....Then , trading a lot of them back , including THE BOSS MARTIAN'S DEBUT. NOT THAT i THOUGHT IT WAS BAD , BUT i KNEW i WOULD'NT LISTEN TO IT FOR 5 TO 10 YEARS.....

I SAW THE BOSS MARTIANS IN 2006 , WHEN THEY SEEMED ON THE VERGE OF GETTING SOME OF THOSE GARAGE ROCK DOLLARS.....I WAS THERE TO SEE THE SIRENS , MAKING A RARER - THAN - HEN'S NUTS APPEARANCE OUTSIDE OF DETROIT. THEY KILLED , BOSS MARTIANS WERE'NT BAD , BUT , I WAS'NT SOLD ON THEIR NEW SOUND.......

Then , much later , there was "Be Cool , Dave or Jimmy or somebody (I forget) Is Dancing with a Sissy " , which takes a decidedly un - 70's "That's coool , different strokes " approach.

For all the talk we hear about how "Open" the 70's were , you could'nt sell a "Gay" themed song , unless it was a Novelty , like Rod Hart's "C.B.Savage". Then , of course , years later , you had Josie Cotton (Who , if it were possible to turn a Gay man Straight , she could have done it.) with her (Novelty) hit , "Johnny , Are You Queer" , which later became something of a pro - Gay anthem....It was'nt concieved in hatred , just for laffs. Same with Reverend Horton Heat's "Cowboy Love".
 
IDON MINE said:

Joe is one of the weirdest out there! His early rough soul tracks make me wonder someone ever had him record a love balad. PNEUMONIA also come to mind, where he is love sick and says he's "gonna blacken both of her eyes!" He has some other really psycho ones, can't think of them now.

G'DAMN CREEP! 

swt said:

Ona recent episode of The Big Enchilada, I played "Davy, You Upset My Home" by Joe Tex. It's about a guy who's jealous because his girl is really into Davy Crockett. (I think this is from the late '50s when Davy Crockett was a very popular TV show.)

 

The girl even buys Davy Crockett false teeth because, Joe sings, "I punched her in the mouth last night."

 

Another line: "I whipped her so until she went insane. And now she wants to buy herself a Davy Crockett brain."

 

I always thought "Bodies" was an anti - BACK ALLEY abortion song , but , since Lydon was raised Catholic , it was derided as an anti - abortion song , in general...Never heard Lydon's story you mention , but , it makes sense. He does'nt seem to want to talk about it , asking questions from the stage like "Should abortions be illegal ? GOOD QUESTION." AND LEAVING IT AT THAT.
 
Tris Burns said:

good point, well made... maan

 

the only thing I'd disagree with on this discussion, and no offence is intended, but BODIES is a compassionate song, Lydon wrote it for the girl Pauline who turned up outside his house one day, she was a mentally disabled lass who'd been abandoned, mistreated, ignored and fucked over by the glorious state... a fucking disgrace but not a surprise...

 

There's a ton of outrageous racist folk music in a lot of Northern UK towns, SEND THE BUGGERS BACK kinda shit...lots of twats blacked up  "for family fun"...

 

o well
Tris Burns said:

Andyuzz said:

If we're going down that line then good ol' Chuck 'eye in the sky' Berry  - My ding-a-ling (!)

or Jerry Lee 'marry my infant cousin' Lewis - Great Balls of fire

 

goodness gracious!

Tris Burns said:

here's two seemingly innocent songs but remember that the guys singing them are fucking paedos

 

je suis un rock star  - Bill "young stuff" Wyman

 

Do You Wanna Be In My Gang - "Up The" Gary Glitter

 

makes me gag just thinking about it

 

There are literally thousands of anti women songs out there in shit - hop land, to the point of total boredom

 

My personal fave and I am NOT calling Lemmy a kiddy fiddler,(unlike those two shitheel creeps above) is JAILBAIT by MOTORHEAD. VIBRATOR is a very funny song too...

 

You know this kinda forum could get folk into some serious trouble ha ha ha 

 

 

This is awesome news! The Oblivians are an awesome band and In the Red is an awesome label. I can't wait for this sucker to hit my turntable!

Matthew's comment saved my GaragePunk Hideout day!

I am glad there is a spot on the internet "The GaragePunk Hideout" where people can argue for the Oblivians!  If I brought it up any where, where I live 1 out of 10,000 people would have no idea what the Hell I was talking about. I also saw them down in Lawrence, KS and would love a new album but that might just be the plate in my head talking.

Aw, damn. Looks like "Hot Pockets" deleted his profile. One less asshole to worry about!

About 15 minutes late starting due to the snow … Download or stream the entire Feb. 10 show right here. Find Zero Hour on Facebook here.


Cocktails for Three – Terry Allen
One, Two, Three & I Fell – Tommy James & the Shondells
Three Years – Harold L. & the Offbeats
Three Cheers for the Losers – Wynn Stewart
Three Times a Fool – Otis Rush
Three Long Years – Sugar Shack

Insane – Shoutless
Whatever – Troll Control
Tie Me Up – Spanking Charlene
Night Time – The Chayns
Baby Doll – The Connection
Anytime You Want Me – The Moto-Gators
Baby, I Love You – The Wild Ones

Local Lunchbox
Wild One/Tin Star – The Mystery Girls
Blue Tar – Head On Electric
Later Than You Think – Wanda Chrome

Who’s Gonna Break the Ice – The Plimsouls
Kiss Me – Kurt Baker
Do You Wanna Dance – Del Shannon
Right or Wrong – The Sprague Brothers
Dance on Your Problems – The Riots

Take Me Back – Hot Knives
Hung Over – The Martinis
Everything I Do is Wrong – Reigning Sound

Bhaji Blues – Tandoori Knights
Wild Wild East – Tandoori Knights
Devil in Me – Two Bit Dezperados 
Back to You – Bazooka
You Will Always Bring Me Flowers – Shannon & the Clams

50’s French Move – The Chrome Cranks
I Kill Me – The Ills
Hang Loose – Thee Exciters
The Jinx – The Dustaphonics
Love Theme for a Twisted Mind – Kill, Baby … Kill

Lock Me Up – The Flip-Tops
Fadin’ Luv – Sonic Avenues
Upside Down – Mind Spiders
Diet, Crime & Delinquency – Personal & the Pizzas
Peint en Noir – Curlee Wurlee
Ballroom Disasters – The Barreracudas
Riot Girls – Bleed

It’s Cold Outside – Stiv Bators
That Girl – The Go-Wows
In the Street – Get-Set
Not Man Enough – The Electric Stars
I Woke Up – Trolley
I’m Gonna Try – The Purple Hearts

OK, it now looks like we'll have plenty of good tracks for not only Vol. 7, but Vol. 8 as well! You can still continue to submit songs for Volumes 8 and, hopefully, 9. I'm also now taking suggestions for name and cover art for Vol. 8. See the GRGPNK Records group "Cover Art" topic for details.