i heard all the standards surfin bird,96 tears,too much to dream last night,etc...when i was like 9-10 helping my stepdad restore his 67 camaro...loved oldies and stuff when i was little.then as a teenage skateboarder it was like punk rock,clash 7 seconds,bad brains,cramps,crass,gun club,and hip hop like public enemy,nwa.still a skater in my 20s,tastes were more aggressive like poison idea,los crudos,nausea and so on...one day the bass player from this raging punk band i played in brought home the mummies play their own records and that was it..soon after new bomb turks destroy oh boy turned me on to so much other shit.soon after nerdiness ensued.have to say those two.although surfin bird would probably be the earliest.or the cramps.

'How to Make a Monster' by The Cramps.

...the seeds pushing too hard i meant!!!...more coffee needed!

the trashmen ,surfin bird back during my scooter boy days in the 80's along with liar,liar by the castaways.......mix that with the "biggie" the seeds...excuse,exuse & seeds......that was it for me........happy days!

"DEAD MAN" by the FREAKOUTS from Tacoma, WA.

I turned 4 in 1971 and I have to totally agree.

Brother Panti-Christ said:

It was Good Golly Miss Molly By Credence Clearwater Revival when I was 4 in 1970.

but of course... it's pussycat and the dirty johnsons, directed by Oliver Harrison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5swwI5N4w

We have some:
http://www.youtube.com/horrordeluxetv

The 5,6,7,8s on Chancellors' 'Scream'.

Paul Westerberg had a hell of a scream when he was younger. Beginning of "Anywhere is Better Than Here."

gotta be roger daltrey and the who...teenage wasteland

agreed, fo sho

MikeL said:

I still think Little Richard is the best screamer of them all.

i think the last two notes at the end are from The Sonics "psycho" ... but didn't recognize the song ! sorry my message that doesn't helping at all ! haha

Thanks. I'll keep looking

Yup, in Sheffield UK, , but we've only just started practicing and yes to decide on a name, so watch this space!

I trust 'em ... but I keep my external hard drives too.

That's it for this weeks Wrekking Hrs, come back next week for more great Rockabilly & Psychobilly music

No podcasts or recordings available - it's against the law, since we're an FCC broadcast station on FM airwaves.  The FCC requires rights licensing for internet broadcasting in addition to FM broadcasting, so our station is only able to afford the On-Air licensing.  It's a good thing, since all the artists get paid royalties for all the music we chart.

Motor is for Live performances done right in our studio which the artists personally sign over an internet broadcast release - so that we can make it available as a podcast.

So for the Wrekking Hrs you just have to tune in live.    You can also search the playlist on our site  www.whfr.fm to see what I've played.  Just search under my show name Wrekking Hours and you'll see everything from the past 12 years.

Zorch Radio said:

Motor Drive has got a girl talking and it looks like they only have recordings from Thursdays.  Are there recordings of your show?

Wrekking Hrs is ON THE AIR! tune in now online at http://whfr.fm or in Detroit at 89.3fm

  I think some of you have missed the point.  My point was that lo-fi recordings can & will hold an artist back. There are outlets, whether it be a radio station, a podcast or even a Garage Punk Hideout compilation, where a recording will be rejected because the quality is too low. Genre is irrelevant. There are plenty of hi-fidelity Garage Punk records. The Music Machine & Love are perfect examples. They both still have attitude & plenty of soul and I can hear all of the instruments.

 Another missed point. I don't necessarly consider home recordings  made on a computer as Hi Fidelity either. I record in real studios. I understand not everyone can afford that, but even recordings done in a garage can have a good "room' sound if the microphone's are placed properly.  Garage band, & basic versions of pro-tools are good for songwriting purposes and making demo's. But when I'm recording with a full band, I prefer using a good sounding room, not a virtual room.

does anyone remember bootleg tapes off the mixing desk? or the c-86 compilations? each to his own. but if we applied the same criteria of quality control to musical styles, garagepunk, punk rock, rock'n'roll, metal, thrash, hardcore, etc. would compare very unfavorably to jazz, western swing, rockabilly or classical music. and lyrically, how many bands compare to cole porter, irving berlin, hoagy carmichael, lieber and stoller, etc. i like lo-fi cos1) i can't afford expensive recording equipment 2) i like the sound. i've got plenty of brilliantly-recorded music in my record collection, and plenty of lo-fi thrashy stuff. i adore what horror deluxe are doing!

anybody can sound like a million bucks with garageband these days,but it's still the musical ideas that count. except, of course, for equipment fetishists!

Nothing wrong with melody.  I love melody myself.

electrocute your cock said:

I love lo-fi but I don't wanna hear something that sounds like shit. A little rough around the edges is great, but I also want to be able to make out the melody.

 

Melody? Man I'm getting old.

You probably meant "the words". : )

electrocute your cock said:

I love lo-fi but I don't wanna hear something that sounds like shit. A little rough around the edges is great, but I also want to be able to make out the melody.

 

Melody? Man I'm getting old.

dear natalie...., what a wonderful citation. is that john donne, or the great bard himself?

Natalie Pryce said:

But home-recording isn't the so called 'best' recording.  As top studios will have so many new pieces of technology that are meant to act as a crucible to take out all the little errors and imperfections.  Which, of course, results in all the magic being taken out because as we know it is our imperfections and our mistakes  which make us up and give us our personality.

 

"When a scholar studies something he strives,

to kill what is already alive,

and with all the parts they've lost the whole,

for the piece that's gone is the living soul"

John Spokus said:

I don't understand why somebody doesn't want to make the best sounding record they can. The technology is so accessible now, it's easy enough (for me) to do it right at home.

I guess Bloodshot Bill's allowed in America now?