Murder City Nights #6 is available now! Balls-out, in-your-face garage, punk and trashy rock 'n roll from Los Angeles. SET LIST: Beef Boloney - Fear Love You More Dead - Joykiller Never Quite My Enemy - Fitz of Depression Creole Baby - The Hitchhikers Piece Of Ass - Nashville Pussy Shockwaves - Zeke Robber of Life - Backyard Babies Roky - Sonny Vincent & His Rat Race Choir Chinese Rock - The Ramones Mindless few - Chron Gen Pirate Love - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers Street Where Nobody Lives - Pagans What's My Name - The Clash The Chesterfield Kings - Are You Gonna Be There ? Not a Goddamn Thing - Lazy Cowgirls Mean Evil Child - Raunch Hands I Can't Stop Thinking About It - The Dirtbombs Ne'er do well - Lords Of Altamont Crazy Girl - Black Lips Let Yourself Go - Reigning Sound Rocker - Nick Curran and the Lowlifes R & R Nurse - The Von Bondies

Rip off Records!! Look em up and their catalog is a good reference. Also the drags were pretty great.

Whatever happened to the Playn Jane. 

One of the greatest Psych bands of the 80s never cracked it on vinyl but some of the greatest gigs at the Marquee in my memory. 

One classic friday night with the  Prisoners at the Clarendon in Hammersmith  Twas the mutts nuts !!!!!! 

I played in The Surfadelics in the mid-80s in London (not to be confused with the later, Italian band!) There was a big garage scene at the time, centered around the Clarendon at Hammersmith. I remember The Milkshakes, The Cannibals, Treatment (psychedelic)

Plan 9, Plasticland, Dream Syndicate, The Last, Vietnam Veterans, Lyres, Midnight Records, Rain Parade, The Morlocks, The Nomads, The Steppes.  Just to name a few!!!

Oh yeah, man, oh yeah. It's amazing to see how many great bands put out records then.

Glad to see the Humpers in there among those other legends. That is a lively scene those guys came from. If I'm not wrong Red Aunts come from that corner too. And you know who that is folks right? Hint: TWO TEARS.

kopper said:

Let's not forget the Drags, the Cynics, the Devil Dogs, the Revelators, the 5.6.7.8's, Bantam Rooster, Cheater Slicks, Lord High Fixers, Jack o' Fire, '68 Comeback, the A-Bones, the Dirtbombs, the Stomachmouths, the Satelliters, the Raunch Hands, Honeymoon Killers, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Chrome Cranks, the Fall-Outs, the Subsonics, Sons of Hercules, the Barracudas, the Stems, the Real Kids, Lyres, DMZ, the Mono Men, Lightning Beat-Man's stuff (solo as well as w/ the Monsters), the Joneses, Dirtys, the Swingin’ Neckbreakers, the Humpers, the Spaceshits, the Royal Pendletons, the Reatards, Country Teasers, the Screws, Bassholes, the Insomniacs, the Kaisers, the Fleshtones, the Untamed Youth, the Von Zippers, the Woggles, the Fells, the Mullens, the Hentchmen, the Boss Martians, Sugar Shack, the Dukes of Hamburg, the Mortals, the Nomads, (early) Dwarves, the Compulsive Gamblers... and the OBLIVIANS!!

Also, it should go without saying that we're also including the Cramps on this list.

I always liked me some Mudhoney.

KK Dirty Money said:

This is great! Good subject, good question, good responses. Thanks!

 

I guess I'll chime in as the "grunge guy""...

 

I always thought Mudhoney was a pretty cool band from the latter part of that era, along with some of the other Sub Pop bands from back then.

Look into the Sub Pop label for that Seattle slice of this pie. 

Let's not forget the Drags, the Cynics, the Devil Dogs, the Revelators, the 5.6.7.8's, Bantam Rooster, Cheater Slicks, Lord High Fixers, Jack o' Fire, '68 Comeback, the A-Bones, the Dirtbombs, the Stomachmouths, the Satelliters, the Raunch Hands, Honeymoon Killers, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Chrome Cranks, the Fall-Outs, the Subsonics, Sons of Hercules, the Barracudas, the Stems, the Real Kids, Lyres, DMZ, the Mono Men, Lightning Beat-Man's stuff (solo as well as w/ the Monsters), the Joneses, Dirtys, the Swingin’ Neckbreakers, the Humpers, the Spaceshits, the Royal Pendletons, the Reatards, Country Teasers, the Screws, Bassholes, the Insomniacs, the Kaisers, the Fleshtones, the Untamed Youth, the Von Zippers, the Woggles, the Fells, the Mullens, the Hentchmen, the Boss Martians, Sugar Shack, the Dukes of Hamburg, the Mortals, the Nomads, (early) Dwarves, the Compulsive Gamblers... and the OBLIVIANS!!

Also, it should go without saying that we're also including the Cramps on this list.

This is great! Good subject, good question, good responses. Thanks!

I guess I'll chime in as the "grunge guy""...

I always thought Mudhoney was a pretty cool band from the latter part of that era, along with some of the other Sub Pop bands from back then.

Look into the Sub Pop label for that Seattle slice of this pie. 

OKOK,

some 90's:

Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the source or/and the self titled first one.

New Bomb Turks - Destroy oh boy! = Classic + Nightmare Scenario.

And take a bit of GAUNT with that.

Pleasure Fuckers - For your pleasure (among their other things. They turned into the sin city six when good Kike Turmix went on to leave this world).

Teengenerate - Get Action! is a good entrance.

Guitar Wolf - Loads, but Ufo Romantics & Jet Generation will help at first. Ya can catch them play right now. It's what zen is meant to be!

The Rip Offs - Got a record + Rip off records - (Among them Greg Lowry from Supercharger. Some of these folks are to be blamed ;) for helping a band called the Donnas be the Badasses they are now)

The Flat Duo Jets - Take "Safari" or "Introducing..." if you ask me. But ya can't go wrong with the FDJ (The Romweber Family is a american RNR treasure)

The Chrome Cranks - (A bit of the Teel Family, ya know)

The Makers - Just dig thru anything leading up to "Psychopathia Sexualis"

...and a bazillion more.

Check these flicks: WILD ZERO and The Sore Losers. They have a lot 90's Rock'NRoll peeps in them.

Hell, just check Crypt records and dig thru the cake!

But as with one of them KUNG FU scrolls that leave the end of the formula out to have you find your own way , ...go out and dig this shtuff!

Yup, that about soups up the ship!

And don't let it get past you that good Gring here had a hand in some vivacious TRASH himself. Before he was in the Jackets even. The local peacekeepers might not want you to know about it, but he's in with this gang of goofs that are making this VOODOO RYTHM label. Part of the mess up that got me into the wild sounds of Rock'n'Roll back in the 90's. ;)

Gringo Starr said:

Here is my list of some of the best albums from the '80s garage revival. In no particular order:

The Miracle Workers - Inside Out
The Gravedigger V - All Black And Hairy
The Untold Fables - Every Mothers Nightmare
The Morlocks - Emerge
The Fuzztones - Leave Your Mind At Home
The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The
The Tell-Tale Hearts - The Tell-Tale Hearts
The Unclaimed - Primordial Ooze Flavored Unclaimed
The Pandoras - It's About Time
The Crawdaddys - Crawdaddy Express
The Creeps - Enjoy The Creeps
The Beguiled - Gone Away
The Outta Place - We're Outta Place
Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There

I'm just skimming the surface greatness here. There are many more great bands and albums from the 80s to discover. I also forgot to mention VOXX Records' great compilations, "Battle of the Garages" - probably the first definitive collection of the first wave of 80s Garage bands.

 

Here is my list of some of the best albums from the '80s garage revival. In no particular order:

The Miracle Workers - Inside Out
The Gravedigger V - All Black And Hairy
The Untold Fables - Every Mothers Nightmare
The Morlocks - Emerge
The Fuzztones - Leave Your Mind At Home
The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The
The Tell-Tale Hearts - The Tell-Tale Hearts
The Unclaimed - Primordial Ooze Flavored Unclaimed
The Pandoras - It's About Time
The Crawdaddys - Crawdaddy Express
The Creeps - Enjoy The Creeps
The Beguiled - Gone Away
The Outta Place - We're Outta Place
Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There

I'm just skimming the surface greatness here. There are many more great bands and albums from the 80s to discover. I also forgot to mention VOXX Records' great compilations, "Battle of the Garages" - probably the first definitive collection of the first wave of 80s Garage bands.

I agree, the book is a must. If you only read the first page of each chapter then you'll get a potted history of it.

Dude!!!?? The first big Garage Revival happened in the 80s!! Wilderness years??? Come on! Check out the above link as well as Timothy Gassen's book, "Echoes In Time" - plus his DVD's, "Knights of Fuzz". If Gories and Mummies is all you know, you are about to be pleasantly surprised! Get Googleing!

Read Eric Davidson's "We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988 - 2001."  He was the singer of the New Bomb Turks, now a music journalist, and he writes a very comprehensive overview of the scene during that time period.  Lots of interviews with the key bands, and it comes with a soundtrack.

http://www.halleonardbooks.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=331985&lid=0&keywords=we%20never%20learn&menuid=10283&subsiteid=168&;

Mellow Yellow - Donovan (?)

Cocomo - Beach Boys

Cumbersome - 7 Mary Three

Eyes without Face - Billy Idol

Karma Chamelion - Culture Club

Everybody Dance Now - C & C Music Factory

Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith

Summer of 69 - Bryan Adamss

Horse with no name - America

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ms Springolator said:

I've Never Been to Me - Charlene. Personally I really wish she'd never been to a recording studio.

American Pie - Don McLean. If all was right with the world, he would have drove his Chevy to the levy, accelerated off the edge and then sunk to the bottom of some fathomless depth of water, where neither he nor his horrendous song would be heard again.

Where Do You Go to My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt. The song makes me vomit, and that's comment enough.

Rikki Styxx is married to drummer Dusty Watson (ex-Lita Ford, Kind Diamond, Agent Orange, Dick Dale, etc.).  He's a friend of mine on Facebook.  He posted something about Rikki being in another band semi-recently.

I'd really like to know. The Woolly Bandits looked and sounded like the greatest rock band ever. Then they went on tour in Europe. Now the band has a completely different sound and lineup, instead of the coolest rock band ever, they look like Christa and her four middle aged guy friends. Anybody have any info? Anybody know what Johnny Keys, Rikki Styxx, and Tracy Lee Skull are up to?

They've got a cool sound. Your description was very accurate. Thanks for the heads up...

Billy Idol has a son named Willem, who has a band called FIM (???). Anyway, aside from the goofy name, after listening to several of their songs I have to admit that I like these guys quite a lot. They remind me of early '80s Talking Heads meets Violent Femmes. Not particularly garagey, but easily as good as most of the stuff you'll hear coming out on Vice Records these days. Check 'em out: http://fimmanifesto.com

I like to play the Black Flag version with the Richard Berry's. Simultaneously.

But my vote goes for The Sonics. It feels more like an homage to the Wailers' version, than The Kingsmen's.  I like that.

Hiya, I like this (but then again, I'm a bit biased...)

D.

http://garagepunk.ning.com/video/zombie-gogo-girl