Did you ever get your ax together??

Well last year there was a christmas split 7" with the Black Lips doing a song called Christmas In Baghdad and King Khan & BBQ Show doing an instrumental called Plump Righteous.

What's your favorite garagepunk Xmas tunes?

The Fleshtones recently released a Christmas album called Stocking Stuffer that's not bad.

There's a new Little Steven's Undnerground Garage Christmas a Go Go collection. Like his show, there's really just a small portion of actual garage music there, but there's some fun stuff: Soupy Sales doing "Santa Claus is Surfing to Town" The Chesterfield Kings doing a Chuck Berryish song called "Hey Santa Santa," a cool Bob Seger tune called "Sock it To Me Santa." The best stuff here though are a couple of soul Santa songs: Rufus Thomas' "I'll Be Your Santa" and Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa."

Last year there was an album called Christmas 1979 by Billy Childish (actually Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire) I've downloaded a couple of those from eMusic.

And there's that classic Christmas song by The Sonics, "I Don't Believe in Christmas" and The Dirtbombs' "My Last Christmas."

What else we got?

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sounds good to me

I've been hearing lots of bands from the 60s garage scene of New Zealand. It's great to do it, choose a country and then search for it's musical scene (good musical scene, for sure) 'til you get tired, and then you choose another country and so it goes... But yes, hearing all the good stuff available around the world would take a lot more then a lifetime.

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Is anyone else here taking notes?? Yep. i am....and this is one of the most interesting topics that's been in the garage punk hideout for ages...it actually woke me up! Lately i've been digging the really primal modern stuff like Bloodshot Bill...he's a one man band that they call rockabilly, but there's SO much more to what he does...he almost yodels when he sings while bashing a primitive drum kit and slashing a beat up guitar...it's totally wild. And in a slightly similar style is The Venus Flytrap One Girl Band....again, one person band with primitive guitar and drums...but the way she sings is like she's just visiting us from another planet...so far out there. Both of these people have myspace sites that feature music and vids...and from their myspace sites are links to lots more cool one man bands. I'm also getting more and more into African music these days, Fela Kuti and all of his offspring, west coast psyche music from the 60's and 70's...anything that's out there. Saw an African Pygmy band a couple of years back at a local world beat fest and they just blew me away....absolutely NO connection to the modern world. They did some kind of chants that were almost hypnotic...no records or CD's of them at that time. Wish'd i'd tape that, but it probably wouldn't be quite the same without the visuals of this line of very short people, arranged from shortest to tallest wearing totally Non-North American apparel...couldn't call what they were wearing as clothes in the conventional form. And yes, i'm constantly searching for more stuff that's way out there to keep me satisfied.

hey guys...

yeah yeah yeah... for sure this is getting interesting.

SWT: thanks for the tips, will be looking into those...

Howie: I just checked out pics of you in your record romper room, wow! I've had the pleasure of some of my best friends having collections like you. And you are right, it's usually the best source to find something wacky and weird for sure. What I would totally dig from you is just a tip or two, just point a few weird records out. Maybe some South America Samba gospel garage jazz sampler that recently came out...

Stig: Thermos Malling is one of the true great artists and one of my biggest inspiration! The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree sounds interesting, gonna dig around for that one right now, thanks!!

Is anyone else here taking notes??

maaan...there's so much! i have like 30,000 records & whenever i go to another record collectors place (especially norton records HQ or Dick Blackburn's pad) i find hundreds of records i have never heard of...also there's wild garage, soul, rockabilly, weirdness from poland, china, everywhere! i could sent ya links for years to come just from ebay alone...ya gotta look elsewhere...everywhere...and meet likeminded lunatics! and raid their record collection...

fuck, that's it! this video proves there is something out there, doesn't matter if it's 50's greek or 30's mayan, this is the direction i was hoping for... does anyone want some sausage?

I also like this:

...or from 8ts and today bands?

would you be interested in greek beat - greek garage from the 6ts?

Wow, this is getting good. My feeling is that teen angst is universal (As well as adult-angst) but since our culture has tried to make a product from this music, forms and structures get quickly copied and you get recording waves like Rockabilly, Surf, Garage to whatever... I'm loving where this is thread can go because I believe there is this 'red line' going through all kinds of music which is created by the younger musicians having to prove themselves to the elders. Call it tribal punk if you want, that's what I think I'm looking for to some extent.

Great responses so far!!

Some of my obscure favorites: 1) Polish rocker KAZIK STASZEWSKI, who sometimes records with his band KULT. I don't understand the language, but he's like the Polish Nick Cave. Some great stuff. He's done "tribute" albums to Tom Waits and Kurt Weil (except that one has a version of Cave's "Mercy Seat" for some reason. Sometimes he strays off into a weird style of Polish hip hop, which I'm not crazy about. But basically Kazik rocks. I was playing Kazik on my iPod in my car when I stopped to get gas this morning. A cop was there filling up in front of me. Boy did he look at me weird as Kazik bellowed some strange drunken Polish lament. 2) Punk Polka. The music of bands like Polkacide and The Polkaholics is great fun. Also I enjoy Waila, a style of polka performed by American Indians in southern Arizona. I'm not kidding. 3) Los Tigres del Norte -- pioneers of Narcocorrido, are great. 4) Fooling around on the Calabash Music site, I discovered some weird twisted blues from Turkey and Romania, both of which use elements of their native folk musics mixed in with good old American blues. Here's my review of that a couple of years back: http://steveterrell.blogspot.com/2006/01/terrells-tune-up-internati... The bands are Nightloser (Romania) and Istanbul Blues Kumpanyasi (Turkey) After I do my Christmas podcast in a couple of weeks I'm going to do a world music podcast with some of this stuff. It definitely won;t be yor typical world-beat weenie show.

While I don't have any interesting examples of genre mashups to offer, I've posted some myspace links to recent Oz bands in the Antipodean Attacks Group if anyone's interested.

Gotcha. I'll be keeping an eye out for additions here and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres Looking forward to the undiscovered genre gems. Sorry I have none. I always wanted to hear a band play in a real cave though. Definitely can rock out to weird African Tribal rhythms, but can only tolerate Russian folk music (certainly not to be confused with Russian doom metal) in limited doses unless I'm the one singing it torturing others -- then I can stand on the rooftop all night. My first taste of this was at church masses spoken & sung in Russian Ukranian followed up by God awful stuff that made me cringe. The only redeeming factor was the fact that it was unheard and very different from what I like/d. Think the Russians, for me, are better off just doing drinking songs. Radio Moscow would probably not be a station I'd frequently turn on. It's funny talking about metal though, too, because alot of countries NOW, are really known for that industrial, dark sounding music and it's really, really hard to find what rocks me there. Way back, especially Communist countries, would probably pique my interest with the stuff they weren't allowed to play inspired by U.S. bands - with a Russian (for instance) take on songs. I like that certain music being restricted (not that this is a good thing at the core) was the catalyst for an underground hub which is where the nuggets I'd like to hear, but never have, hide. Now I'm curious to see what will surface. What about Yiddish?

i'm not saying i've heard it all, but i'm ready for more... and I'm just talking plain good stuff, music that rocks ya a little but in a new unheard of style... North African Metal, you know?

I don't think it's possible to hear it all in a lifetime.

There's other continents if you've exhausted this one. Many genres. French Ye Ye, Singapore, Mexicali, Australia, Germany...

To be able to hear it all is an illusion. Use Your Illusion. Which reminds me, I can boast I've heard all Guns N Roses albums since Appetite For Destruction.

Howdy Folks...

I think the part I really like about this community is that we have a pretty focused taste in music, surely based around garage punk. But damn, I've been listening to '66 garage since I was a kid. And I've been around the block and thought I heard it all. SO, in this day and age i am still digging in record bins looking for eras of lost styles from Surf to Blues to Country to Swing to Psych to Punk to Trash to whatever...( i could keep going on here )

My point being, Is there any cool undiscovered stuff?? Have we heard it all?? Weird African Tribe records or Russian Folk music has been turning me on so much lately because I NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE!! I would love to turn you on with my records via Sonic Nightmares radio show here at GaragePunk.com so if you think you might have something tasty, i dunno, some cajun hillbilly soul music or something, post it here in this discussion so we all can take a leap into some muddier waters. We all deserve it, so put on your thinking caps and let's blow each others minds... and hopefully stop talking about the new Guns N Roses release...

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Brother Panti-Christ

Hi Bruce, Looks like you're covered on your requests. This messageboard is also a great resource. Folks are helpful & there's lots of Aussie stuff to weed through. http://pub44.bravenet.com/forum/3725630012

Thanks so much! Is there anything you need in exchange? I'm uploading my list of CDs. I also could copy and paste my iTunes page into a Word doc, but it's mostly 70s-early 80s punk rock at this point, so not sure if any of that would interest you.

I can help out with Fortune Teller. It's on 60s Downunder Vol 2. on Raven. The tracklistings of all 4 volumes are at: 60s Downunder if you want to check whether there are other tracks on there that you might want. I know I've got something by the D-Coys but don't have it to hand. Will let you know if it's what you're after.

The new Dirtbombs is their weakest yet, and I sure hope the new Fuzztones is better than their Gutter Island show - by far the worst gig of the year.

Eddie Current Suppression Ring is way too good to be considered rigid garagewank.

The Hideout goes beyond only one common type of music. Run, run while you can. Trash said:

What am i doing in this Ning if i liked..........