I can't pick my favorite band, album, song, or even genre. I've never been able to do that. It's just too difficult and I don't view music in that way. Every day can be different, every mood can produce a different result. One song can be perfect for one situation or instance but terrible for another. It's like asking what your favorite food or movie is. If you can seriously narrow it down to just one, then you're not living life to the fullest. That's my two cents, anyway.

Yeah, true, of all time won't work for me, it changes too often. This weekend it definitely was "Mella Mella" by The Woggles.

I, too, find it impossible to pick one favorite, but most of the music I listen to would probably not exist if not for the Kinks' You Really Got Me, so I'll say that.

Just one?
It changes every month.
Today it is O.B.I.T by the Hex Dispensers.

Red Headed Woman - Panther Burns

yeah, it's hard
i've always flerted with the idea of "my favorite"
search for that feeling of "HOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLYYY SHIIIIIIIIIT"

Slade is awesome.

And I honestly can't pick just one all-time favorite, that's such a hard thing to do for me! :D

Mine is:

I thought it was Supercharger.... The Raws said:

forget'bout everything,ThEraWs is the worst one!
the worst is the best,the best is the worst;!

forget'bout everything,ThEraWs is the worst one!
the worst is the best,the best is the worst;!

well before I saw this I would say Graffiti Island but this is more painful to listen to.

They'd probably say the same thing about a lot of garage punk bands. I'd have to say, however, that they are indeed the STUPIDEST band on the planet.

Redeldededeldedelde dum dum!

Well...I guess in my opinion, a DJ isn't going to get anyone to buy a ticket like a band would. DJ's and bands are kind of apples and oranges. I wouldn't take it personal, it's easier to just turn the offer down if it's not doable.

i haven't experienced this same thing exactly, but i DO get the feeling that djs get no respect. i have been on shows here in my hometown and sometimes when it gets advertised the dj gets left off entirely. last nite i dj'ed a show and there was some sort of technical difficulty where there was a loud (very annoying!) hum because of the turntables. the sound guys didn't even try to fix it, they just shrugged and said, "you have do just put up with it." when a friend of mine with some technical know-how walked up to me and looked at the equipment, he said, "sounds like a faulty cable." he even knew which one because of which speaker the hum was coming from. none of the sound guys tried replacing any cables or even took a look at the problem enough to diagnose this rather simple problem. if it were a band having technical issues, it would have been fixed immediately, obviously. but the dj just has to deal with crap sound all nite long...it totally ruined my nite and my experience.

this is one trend that i would really love to see come back into popular culture! kids these days are too cool to dance, when it used to be that you were sooooo uncool if you didn't know how to dance! watching a group of people line up and dance to "the stroll" at a throwback doowop show was one of the best things i've ever SEEN!

Another thing that spawned this is my brother made me a comp with two tracks that may or may not have been titled: "Hully Gully Time" and "Let's Do the Hully Gully." These are both pretty damned cool instrumentals with the occasional vocal lines thrown in (titles). I feel these were thrown together in the studio and enhanced with genuine fake live crowd background noise (which was the style of the time).

Don't worry...my mom use to spell potato the same way. I don't understand why the plural adds an e which probably adds to the confusion. This is a great discussion by the way. I was reading in my local paper (for Vashon, WA) that they cancelled the high school prom due to low ticket sales. Why low ticket sales? Because the school banned grinding, which isn't even dancing as far as I'm concerened. I can't understand how it is that kids can't learn real dancing, even Washington DC go go styles. I'm starting to think that watching Shindig and Hullabaloo should be a school requirement. DammitDave said:

Kopper - That's either the British spelling or my s must have blown off. That usually happens after a night of draught ale and cauliflower cheese. I should have used spell cheque. Either way, colour me embarressed (rosy red with severe shame).

Kopper - That's either the British spelling or my s must have blown off. That usually happens after a night of draught ale and cauliflower cheese. I should have used spell cheque. Either way, colour me embarressed (rosy red with severe shame).

ooh, i just love dance crazes! when our radio station had its radiothon last year one of the premiums i offered was a 2-disc "dance craze" cd..it was so fun to make!

Seeing the Sonics in 2008, Larry didn't retune or switch guitars during the show but they might not have been playing in the same key as the old records either since Gerry can't really sing inthose high pitches anymore. But the Witch is in the key of G (almost all their songs are) but Larry was one of the first guys to use barre chords as opposed to more standard style (like those used by country and western guys or rockabilly). So he did get a deep sound, like on Louie Louie for example. The Music Machine did use a drop D for Talk Talk though. Be careful though if you learn garage songs straight off of sixties comps or singles. They didn't have electronic tuners to get correct pitch. A lot of the time they relied on a Keyboard player or sax to tune a guitar to. But a lot of groups that didn't have those instruments did a lot of guessing. I had to worry about my guitar strings snapping so I could learn Psychotic Reaction. Jamie said:

I read somewhere that Larry Parypa used drop-D for "The Witch" with a Jaguar or Jazzmaster. I have no idea if that's true.

I also have to remind myself not to care so much and just play. But then again why not put some work into the things you love to do.

first off you need some real vintage equipment... buy the worst 60's guitar you can find out there and the cheepest rotten tube amp. i swear nothing will sound more rotten garage then that. no need for high price guitars or amps, you can through that junk right out the window, and the best tuning is being untuned. as for the treble part, i agree, varies from amp to amp but i just crank it all the way up just to make sure.

Double posts are great. It'd be great if some people here posted who they agree with who were already mentioned as well as new mentions. That way, there could actually be a tally. NoHitWonder said:

...okay, some more, mostly modern-era stuff (yep, some double-posts for sure, but who cares?):
CRYPT RECORDS
JOHNNY THUNDERS/HEARTBREAKERS/NEW YORK DOLLS
THE MOORAT FINGERS
GUITAR WOLF
BLACK LIPS
THE SPACESHITS/KING KHAN/BBQ
BLUES EXPLOSION
NEW BOMB TURKS
JEFF EVANS/68 COMEBACK/GIBSON BROS.
PVC
TEENGENERATE...

hey there fellow garage freaks!!! let me add Johnny Walker from the Soledad Brothers, the mighty Billy Childish and Arso Vivo from the Fuzztones (it means burnt alive in italian, how sick is that!?)