Here are a few suggestions, garage wise...

"Living is the Best Revenge" by the Cynics.

"61/49" by the Romantics (Don't laugh if you only remember them from their 80s heyday. This album is a kick ass garage rocker).

"Psychedelic Sunrise" by the Chesterfield Kings.

"Monkey Time" by the Maggots.

"Strange Magic" by the Charms.

"Wide Awake in the Spirit World" by Outrageous Cherry.

"Fluff and Fold" by the Launderettes.

"Les Hell on Heels" self titled debut.

"7X4" by the Gore Gore Girls.

For something other than garage rock, here are some more suggestions...

"Running with the Wasters" by the Takeover UK (A great mix of garage, glam, brit and power pop).

"We are the Pipettes (Great retro girl group).

"After Hours" by Prima Donna (Glam rock revivalists).

"More Seduction" by Manda and the Marbles (Cool mix of power pop and new wave).

"Barbarella Girl God" by the Chevelles (Good, solid power pop band).

Those are my suggestions.

Some great garage LPs that ain't too hard to find are Seeds-Raw & Alive, The Ventures in Space, The Hombres-Let It All Hang Out, Count Five-Psychotic Reaction, the original Nuggets double-LP, Sonics-Full Force, Blues Magoos-Psychedelic Lollipop, Shadows of Knight-Gloria, The Kingsmen Play Louie Louie, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs-Wooly Bully, Love s-t, ? & the Mysterians-96 Tears, and the Music Machine-Talk Talk.

SarahJayne said:

Groovy 60s lp's you can start with. :

1) The Shadows of Knight - Gloria
2) 13th Floor Elevators - the psychedelic sounds of....
3) Love - s/t

4) the Monks - Black Monk Time
5) the Music Machine - turn on...
6) the Birds - s/t
7) the Sonics - here are the Sonics
8) the Sonics - boom
9) Q65 - revolution
10) the Creation - we are paintermen

Compilation series' I highly reccomend:

1) Garage Beat '66
2) Nuggets
3) That Driving Beat
4) Girls In The Garage
5) Back From The Grave
6) Ils Sont Fous Ces Gaulois
7) English Freakbeat
8) (if you can find 'em) Ultra Chicks
9) Pop A Paris
10) GS I Love You

you can't go wrong with a Dano-I have 3 and I can't wait to find more. Hold off on the Jazzmaster-you really can't appreciate that line of Fenders unless you can get a good, 'merican one. I was lucky enuff to get a '62 Jaguar, and it ills everything, both in sound and playability. BUT, it can't dial in that Dano sound...

Probably helps that I've never seen them live then. Only heard a few songs off the new one but it's looking pretty good so far. Well, I'll soon find out, I guess.

I didn't care for their new album at all. I liked maybe one track off of it. Live, they were GREAT (at the Scion garage fest), but the new record just didn't capture their live sound at all.

Of course...BFTG is still top of the range, but try the Teenage Shutdowns...really profound Garage...but lookingt at G45s selection (http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/g45/) I still miss so many...

Gonzo said:

I'm diggin the back from the grave albums atm. Seem a bit more raunchy than the nuggets/pebbles counterpart.

I'm diggin the back from the grave albums atm. Seem a bit more raunchy than the nuggets/pebbles counterpart.

Alex said:

I second that choice. Fantastic comp. It's got a young, unknown Jimmy Page as session musician, it's got the Muswell Ravens (the Kinks before they were the Kinks), and a ton of great tracks by bands like Q65, The Outsiders, etc.


Hey i thought you might like to know there's a book coming out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) published by Ugly Things magazine.
greetz Pim

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Isabella Gloria said: 'Searchin' in the Wilderness' is a comp of faaar out European garage.

Prima Donna and Nick Curran and the Lowlifes. I also recently discovered some older bands, the Skirts and the Little Girls.

I'm not that good of a songwriter and I don't take my band very seriously, so I doubt I could impress you. We do make money though so I guess I'm doing something right. Anyway, I just wanted a to put up a fun little post, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. Hideout Admin said:

Also, if you're in a band and you want to impress me with your live show, don't open your set with a cover. Knock me out with your originals and keep your covers few and far between. In fact, I wouldn't play more than a handful at the most. That's just my two cents.

Start with "Rumble" Link Wray, now that would be cool!

Also, if you're in a band and you want to impress me with your live show, don't open your set with a cover. Knock me out with your originals and keep your covers few and far between. In fact, I wouldn't play more than a handful at the most. That's just my two cents.

You completely missed my point, man. Consider this: Even the '60s "garage" bands didn't cover "garage rock" songs. They covered R&B, rockabilly, beat music or otherwise good old rock'n'roll of one form or another. Often they were covering the pop hits of the day. That's why we have umpteen different versions of songs like "Hey Joe" or "Land of 1000 Dances" out there. How many times was Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis covered? Yet they're not "garage rock." Get my point yet?

I've seen and heard great garage/rock'n'roll bands cover all sorts of bizarre shit and make it good, rockin' and rollin'. So my point (again) is why limit it to garage? R&B, rockabilly, country, soul, punk, hardcore, new wave, swamp rock, power pop, glam, funk, psych, freakbeat, mod... all have plenty of great songs you can cover to open a set. Even complicated songs can be simplified and made into a great, trashy rocker.

Inbreeding is about as deadly in music as it is in living creatures.

John White said:

I use the term "garage rock" because that's what I am interested in, I like melody in my music. Most punk bands tend to scream the lyrics and don't work very hard on the melody. It's just a style thing for me, I'm trying to limit the answers to that style. I'm sorry you despise the term, but garage is the first word in the name of your website. My band was thinking about learning a cover to open a show with, I just wanted to get some ideas for songs that I may have never thought about before.
Hideout Admin said:

"Garage rock" song? I'm starting to really despise that term. It's just way too contrived and too limiting. After all, any band can take any song (any genre) and cover it, and turn it into something that's completely unique and their own, and open a set with that. Why does it have to be a "garage rock" song?

IMO Roky Erickson & Gerry Roslie

yummmm, I agree with "Love Me" & "Stop It Baby" for suuuure

Dana V. Hatch said:

I dig most of the screams mentioned and also The Phantom on Love Me, Suicide - Frankie Teardrop, Slits - Shoplifting, Patty Waters - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (not r&r i guess but pretty crazy), The Heard - Stop It Baby, Contortions - Contort Yourself, James Brown - Maybe the Last Time, and Monoshock - Let's Hear It for the Singer!

Much prefer the earlier stuff but overall it's got some decent tunes on it. Still one of the crazier live bands out there.

No but am quite interested in The Black Lips, I have a 7" Short Fuse which is a decent tune, I am keen to hear more!

Much better than the Almighty Defenders but I only really like this last album. Worth the $5.99 from emusic

Hey thought you might like to know there's a book out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) Published by Ugly Things magazine. check out the video: Q65 playing the Marathon in 1966.
greetz Pim

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-97/Q65--dsh--Th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9d17h4Xl4

I get almost all my interesting music from this site so I'm going to keep following this thread. Cheers for the stuff so far.

Speaking of obscure downloads, I've spent some time trying to track down most most of the songs listed on the G45 rarest records list. I have about 300 I think. If you have any obscure ones that would be great.

I don't care. I'd recommend sticking strictly to the really obscure, out-of-print stuff, though. The worst thing that could happen is that someone who owns the distribution rights to a particular track finds out and has their lawyer send a "cease and desist" asking us to remove it.

The Wailers, The Weeds,

Hey thought you might like to know there's a book out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) Published by Ugly Things magazine. greetz Pim http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-97/Q65--dsh--The-Book/Detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9d17h4Xl4