Wow maybe I am old, but for me when around 6 or 7, my father gave me a pile of 78 to play on my little toy record player, saying those one were mine (because he didn't about old RnR). I played them a lot, but he one that hook me on music, garage or not, was Little Richard "Keep A-knockin' ". Everything in that song was, for a young who couldn't understand english, totally insane. The beat, the voice, the energy, it puts a mark on my soul. Music can be totally out of control. Next time, the other song to have such an impact one me was the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" at 11.  That was it, at this age I have decided I will never follow mainstream boring music. Still on the same path since then.

The mainstream music media have been heralding a ‘garage rock revival’ every other year for about the last 30 odd years. If it encourages a few people to explore the genre and get listening to good music then I’m all for it (it certainly worked on me…), but it’s almost always a pretty spurious link. It takes more than owning a Vox Phantom and a pair of winkle-pickers to make a garage band.

The "garage" label is trendy these days. It's sad but that's way the way media work when something sound cool and new. Like punk was kind of cool until you see it hitting the fashion runway.

Bands and musicians can say whatever they want about their music, how garage it is, in the end it is the listener to decide if it is good or not.

Any tag put to music will change the way I feel about music, I like trashy, dirty and crazy, that 's all, if something can fit in it, that's good to me.

Cheers!

That is a GREAT point Rob! There is definitely an element of danger missing in a great deal of music today. Lux from The Cramps had a lot to say about that i.e. Rock shouldn't be safe! It's about rebellion and fun with risks. That's waht we get stuck with when bands try to please everyone and don't want to "offend" anyone. I say "Offend away, Offendi!" that's what rock, garage, and punk are all about. If bands are afraid to be dangerous or offensive, they should go sing lullabies to babies or campfire songs to Boy Scouts.

Rob Wright said:

The thing I can't down with in regards to the new crop of 'garage' bands is they are all so fucking wimpy!  Where's the danger, the excitement, the punk rock?  I like psych, and I like some stoner-y kinda stuff too, but I need some energy and passion and spite and hate in my rocknroll to really get me going.  I rarely feel an element of danger bands live shows these days, it's either straight up 'bug' music (see: The Flintstones) or it's just so wimpy that I can't get behind it.  I don't need a GG Allin show, but c'mon, make me feel like I might get hurt if I get a little too close to the stage, y'know?!  GIMME DANGER LITTLE STRANGER

Point is...Rap sucks...

Cheers Depravos de la Mour and everyone, thanks for your comments. For whatever reason I keep following this thread and a thought just hit me again that I had a few days ago...If it IS trendy then why do people who listen to it constantly have to defend ourselves and LEGITIMIZE IT as though it were not even a real genre? I am thinking of some threads I read on the GPH forums a couple of years ago about how someone actually deleted the Wikipedia page saying it was just made up to get traffic to this website.  Seems like a strange contradiction. I understand that that was a little ways back, but have things really changed that much in the space of a few short years? I wonder... Additionally, think about most people's reaction when you tell them what kind of music you like (not people on here but just random people you know.) For me, most of the time they don't say anything, they don't even know what it is, or you then (again) have to legitimize it as a genre by offering The White Stripes as an example- because that is the only one they know. They will also probably only remember WS as a cultural time blip from the early 2000's. (BTW I am a huge WS fan- but think about how nowadays no one really talks about them that much any more, or I guess I should say no one talks about them in the same cultural context anymore; you still see Jack White on TV, in different music projects, ect.) Or maybe I am just tuned out to popular culture don't know :)

Bloodshot Bill and all his side projects, like the Ding-Dongs (with Mark Sultan aka BBQ), Tandoori Knights (with King Khan), Mark Sultan.

If if you have the chance to see him live, he is the true spirit of rock n roll!

Cheers!

I'm putting on a gig for The Len Price 3 in London on October 14th, absolutely mind blowing live act with three great albums out, certainly one of my favourite current garage pop mod whatever you wanna call it bands...!

Check out two videos here:

http://youtu.be/gIL8IhIngEM

http://youtu.be/-AT4H7cix_E

Two more: The (Dutch) Outsiders and Q65:

The Birds and The Sorrows, definitely. Good calls, Dead Boy.

The Birds reminded me of another modern band she should check into, too, the Embrooks (probably because they cover "Say Those Magic Words"). Here's another good one:

I actually haven't heard a lot of the Animal's tunes, but how about the Sorrows;

the Troggs;



(Hmm,) the Creation;

except the Pretties and the Yardbirds?

Also I haven't heard a lot of tunes of these bands, but how about the Artwoods;

the Birds;

the Wimple Witch;

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers?



> what is the name of that specific genre?

It's British Beat (or Merseybeat).

"Then, Now and Rare British Beat 1960-1969", this book may be good to you.(?)

You konw this version, right?

I don't know if you can still get the "Mojo Workout" double CD by Paul Revere & the Raiders, but if you can find it anywhere, GET IT. It was released on Sundazed Records 10 or 11 years ago, but I couldn't find it on their site so it might be OOP. It's one of thee most amazing early '60s live recordings I've ever heard (that one and The Shadows of Knight "Raw 'n' Alive at the Cellar").

One more: Chants R&B "Stage Door Witchdoctors" on Bacchus Archives. You won't be sorry.

Hmmm... I don't think the Monks fall in the same sound category as the Animals. The Monks really defy categorization, though. They had a lead BANJO player, fer cryin' out loud. Very unique (but great!) sound. They were sorta like the anti-Beatles. But yeah, the Pretty Things, Remains, and Yardbirds, definitely. The Who had much more of a mod sound that incorporated rhythm & blues (like so many other '60s bands). A lot of the other freakbeat stuff from England in the early- to mid-'60s is worth looking for, too, like the "English Freakbeat" comp series on Bomp/AIP (there's another comp series along the same lines but the name is escaping me at the moment). You should also check out early Stones if you haven't already, as well as the Kinks, Shadows of Knight, Dave Clark Five, and hell, Paul Revere & the Raiders for that matter. I'd also recommend the Flamin Groovies. You should check out a San Diego-based band from the '80s called The Crawdaddys (on Bomp), The Tell-Tale Hearts, Poison 13 from Texas, a Swedish '80s band called The Creeps, and one from late '70s Minneapolis called the Hypstrz (look for their live album... AMAZING). Another no-brainer for the '80s: The Gories. And for more modern stuff with bluesy/R&B leanings, I'd recommend The Greenhornes, The Mystery Girls, The Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, Reigning Sound, Compulsive Gamblers, Mr. Airplane Man, The Deadly Snakes, Lord High Fixers, the Woggles, Fleshtones, Chesterfield Kings, etc.

If people aren't too snobby around here, we can get you a really huge list that'll keep you busy for the next ten years. Here's five of my faves from that era.

1. The Pretty Things

2. The Remains

3. The Monks

4. The Yardbirds

5. The Who

Lately I've rediscovered The Animals who's distinct sound led me to discover and fall in love with Them (Van Morrison). Do any of you out there know of bands that would also reflect that specific sound? And what is the name of that specific genre? I've heard it called Blues Beat...idk.

Thanks to All...

Julia

GG's early stuff is the sort I can take to any indie disco and people'll cut a rug to it. It's just good power pop, simple as that. Some of it's even quite humourous. Gimme Some Head and Assface make me laugh, just for their utter ridiculousness.

 

The later stuff is so bad it's good, just for its gonzo comedy value.

Hey M'Man,

I think it's Uniform Choice off of Region Of Ice. Look that up and see if it isn't a match for you.

Cheers,

FNS

Funhouse Skull said:

I had to hunt the tape down & blow the dust off (these Maxell metal tapes are amazingly enduring) I'm having a hard time making out certain parts, but some of the lyrics are:

      I remember never letting pain remain

      forever lost, falling pieces of a fallen man

      for me & then it comes.

      It happened so long ago, below my clear sight

      Broken pieces of a broken heart as autumn fades to white.

 

     Still a chill in the air, broken skies are everywhere

     But I can't complain. The cold keeps out the rain.

     Gotta fight a fire from a spark inside my mind.

     Can't seem to learn the dreams that seem to burn.

 

    Looking back to the forests & fields again

    I'd make you understand if I could only dreams remain where I stood.

 

There's more, I'm just not sure how much stopping, rewinding & playing a 20 year old cassette tape will tolerate. Again, I'm fairly certain I have some of these wrong, but it's the best I can decipher.I guess my next move is to figure out how to turn a track from a cassette into a file that I can upload to my playlist.

 

Frank N. Stroud said:

Got any more lyrics?..........this is tantalizing.

OK, first of all, you should probably post this in the Destroy All Music group forum. I'm not sure why you posted it in this regional forum, other than the fact that you might think the band may be from a Midwestern town, but then again you didn't mention that in your post, so who knows! So yeah, post this in that other group (esp. since it's probably an '80s hardcore band, anyway). A lot more members there and people who may be able to help you out.

By the way, if you really want to find out who did the song, rip an MP3 of it and upload it to your profile or attach it to your topic. That way people can actually HEAR the song. It's quite easy these days to take a simple mini plug and run it from a cassette deck into a computer with Audacity (PC) or GarageBand (Mac) and do a digital recording, then export the file as an MP3.

I had to hunt the tape down & blow the dust off (these Maxell metal tapes are amazingly enduring) I'm having a hard time making out certain parts, but some of the lyrics are:

      I remember never letting pain remain

      forever lost, falling pieces of a fallen man

      for me & then it comes.

      It happened so long ago, below my clear sight

      Broken pieces of a broken heart as autumn fades to white.

     Still a chill in the air, broken skies are everywhere

     But I can't complain. The cold keeps out the rain.

     Gotta fight a fire from a spark inside my mind.

     Can't seem to learn the dreams that seem to burn.

    Looking back to the forests & fields again

    I'd make you understand if I could only dreams remain where I stood.

There's more, I'm just not sure how much stopping, rewinding & playing a 20 year old cassette tape will tolerate. Again, I'm fairly certain I have some of these wrong, but it's the best I can decipher.I guess my next move is to figure out how to turn a track from a cassette into a file that I can upload to my playlist.

Frank N. Stroud said:

Got any more lyrics?..........this is tantalizing.

Oops, I was forgetting that those "Locked in to Surf" comps are out of print. :(  I found MP 3 samples at Amazon.

CD's Vol.2

"16 Black To Fade - Eigth Ball Scratch"

CD's Vol. 1 and 2 include (I think) all tunes of LP's Vol. 1, 2 and 3.

Some sellers sell LP's the Discogs now, but the prices...

stiv rippengal said:

 that's gonna be the hard part :(

Picked up an album of theirs years ago...  Dang now I feel like listenin to it... I'll have to dig thru some boxes to find it tho....

kopper said:

WHAT?!?!?!!!

Mina said:

Never heard of them... I'll look some of their stuff up. :)

I saw him play with the E Street Band in 1981. Though I wasn't much of fan of his, this show knocked me on my ass. 5 1/2 hours performance, the band smoked, so did he. Still never bought any records of his since then but he'll always be dear to my heart.

LOL!  Well, don't feel too bad.  Like I said, this article is eerily convincing.

Axel Björnsson said:

I have a confession. I thought he was actually releasing this album.. Than friend of mine point to me that this website was a joke. I have been searching for it for download for several days lol..

I have a confession. I thought he was actually releasing this album.. Than friend of mine point to me that this website was a joke. I have been searching for it for download for several days lol..

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