What's the best Garage album? Come and vote or recommend albums you think should be on the list: The best Garage album is...

OK, I noticed something that you forgot so far, and its a big one. ? Mark & the Mysterians-96 tears, an -action. Both albums are solid from start to finish with not a bum track. These are hard to beat.

Ahhh...nevermind what I said about the HumanBeinz album. Im now onto side2 and there going terribly mellow-yellow on me. Certainly not a top contender for a kickass best garage albums list. Seriously just buy the 45 instead peeps.I want my money back. Too many 1-hit wonders in the garage genre. Thats the only thing I can say thats better about the revivalist bands. At least you get a full album of what you're paying for. We should have a list of best garage bands too avoid LPs by. Hahaa. Cus' lots of these groups ruled ass for such a brief time before switching trends.

Duke Of Earl said:

Well, I dont do lists because that means I have remember stuff, and well even then I'd usually forget something but Human Beinz-Nobody But Me is worth checkin out. Im still looking for the Leaves record. I'll bet thats good. I never find it. I gotta find the Dutch Outsiders record in this lifetime without getting ripped off too.

Rarities that give the obvious choices a run for there money are always my favorite to hear about in these postings.

I like that choice of the Ugly Ducklings LP, thats underated. What is the best Guess Who record before they got suckier, and mainstream? I saw one in the bins with yellow cover called shakin all over(johnnykidd&pirates) but I didn't snap it up because I was afraid it might have too many mellow clunkers on it like there later more common records did.

Bob Blackstone said:

The Savages - Live n Wild (1966)
The Index - The Index (1st lp from 1968)
The Rising Storm - Calm Before (1967)
The Rationals - Fan Club LP (1966/1967)
The Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)
The Sonics - Boom (1966)
The Sonics - Here Are (1965)
The Sonics - Introducing (1966)
The Wailers - Outburst (1966)
Love - Love (1966)
The Remains - The Remains (1966)
Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop (1966)
The Leaves - Hey Joe (1966)
The Shadows of Night - Gloria (1966)
The Shadows of Night - Back Door Men (1966)
The New Colony Six - Breakthrough (1966)
The Guess Who - It's Time (1966)
The Tempos - Speaking Of (1966)
The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside (1966)
Kenny and the Kasuals - Things Gettin' Better/Nothing Better To Do
The Seeds - The Seeds (1966)
The Seeds - Web of Sound (1967)
Les Sinners - Sinerisme (1966)
Sir Douglas Quintet - Greatest Hits (1966 album)
It's All Meat - It's All Meat (1969/1970)
Bent Wind - Sussex (1969)
All Of Thus - All Of Thus (1967/1968)
The Mystery Meat - Profiles (1968)
The Contents Are - Through You (1967)
The Dovers - We're Not Just Anybody (2002 reissue of singles)
The 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds (1966)
The Buckinghams - King of a Drag (1967)
The Litter - Distortions (1967)
The Other Half - The Other Half (1968)

I tried to put together a list of 60's/70's US/Canadian garage albums that are worthwhile or mostly good.

Favorite post 60's/70's garage punk/punk album? The Wipers - Youth Of America (1981)

Well, I dont do lists because that means I have remember stuff, and well even then I'd usually forget something but Human Beinz-Nobody But Me is worth checkin out. Im still looking for the Leaves record. I'll bet thats good. I never find it. I gotta find the Dutch Outsiders record in this lifetime without getting ripped off too.

Rarities that give the obvious choices a run for there money are always my favorite to hear about in these postings.

Hi!

A Medwayband that's almost forgotten and definitely shouldn't be:

THE KRAVIN' "A"'S - Krave On

As if the early Beatles and the dirtiest Sonics had written their best songs together.

And by the way, if anybody wants to get rid of the vinyl of this...

Black Lips - 200 million thousand
velvet underground - velvet underground (some might now consider that garage though)...(it is)
Dead Moon - Strange Pray Tell
Strange boys... and girls club

"The Buckinghams - King of a Drag (1967)"

You're right. The Buckinghams were King of a Drag. But the rest of that album is pretty good indeed.

The Savages - Live n Wild (1966) The Index - The Index (1st lp from 1968) The Rising Storm - Calm Before (1967) The Rationals - Fan Club LP (1966/1967) The Monks - Black Monk Time (1966) The Sonics - Boom (1966) The Sonics - Here Are (1965) The Sonics - Introducing (1966) The Wailers - Outburst (1966) Love - Love (1966) The Remains - The Remains (1966) Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop (1966) The Leaves - Hey Joe (1966) The Shadows of Night - Gloria (1966) The Shadows of Night - Back Door Men (1966) The New Colony Six - Breakthrough (1966) The Guess Who - It's Time (1966) The Tempos - Speaking Of (1966) The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside (1966) Kenny and the Kasuals - Things Gettin' Better/Nothing Better To Do The Seeds - The Seeds (1966) The Seeds - Web of Sound (1967) Les Sinners - Sinerisme (1966) Sir Douglas Quintet - Greatest Hits (1966 album) It's All Meat - It's All Meat (1969/1970) Bent Wind - Sussex (1969) All Of Thus - All Of Thus (1967/1968) The Mystery Meat - Profiles (1968) The Contents Are - Through You (1967) The Dovers - We're Not Just Anybody (2002 reissue of singles) The 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds (1966) The Buckinghams - King of a Drag (1967) The Litter - Distortions (1967) The Other Half - The Other Half (1968) I tried to put together a list of 60's/70's US/Canadian garage albums that are worthwhile or mostly good. Favorite post 60's/70's garage punk/punk album? The Wipers - Youth Of America (1981)

For me it's the "Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Desease"LP!It's a masterpiece!Over and out!

johnny goodbye said:

wow so many great albums to check out mentioned here.

i want to put forward the gories - i know you're fine...
it's definitely one of my favorites.

i gotta say tho, compilations no matter how cool or legendary shouldn't really count as albums.

I don't know if I can agree with that last statement. Except for the fact that Have Love, Will Travel got left off for some reason, and The Witch sounds attrocious, I really dig FULL FORCE by the Sonics from 1984 over HERE ARE and BOOM and I don't think you can go wrong with SURELY, THEY WERE THE SONS OF GOD with 16 Mighty Caesar tracks for a Crypt comp. Everything everyone here has chosen is a great garage album and makes me feel proud. But you did forget to mention either HOWL or HUNGER by the Makers. But that's alright. It's hard to get use to what they did to themselves over the years.

I wanna throw in the some originators from the previous era's:

A couple a BO DIDDLEY albums,
some by LITTLE RICHARD,
some of ESQUERITA,

and some spins by the TIMELES Haze.

It's out of the Genre, but without those (and a whole big bunch of others and their Albums swarming) = NO GARAGEROCK.

LOVE,
IDON

johnny goodbye said:

i gotta say tho, compilations no matter how cool or legendary shouldn't really count as albums.

Exactly!

Impact - Kenny & the Kasuals

wow so many great albums to check out mentioned here.

i want to put forward the gories - i know you're fine...
it's definitely one of my favorites.

i gotta say tho, compilations no matter how cool or legendary shouldn't really count as albums.

the litter-distortions
both shadows of knight lps on dunwich
the sonics-here are & boom
the seeds -first two lps
the yardbirds -having a rave up not really a garage lp but is a great lp to start with
the ugly ducklings- somewhere outside lp
? mark & mystreions-96 tears
there's more but these ones are the ones i like

Little Black Egg by The Nightcrawlers.

I'm really startin' to loath these lists but fuck it here go a few o' my all-time favs off the top o' my head:

SONICS "Here are..."
les SEXAREENOS "Live in the Bed" (actually a tie w/ "14 Frenzied Shakers")
DEL-GATORS "Pound Down"
the A-BONES "Life of Riley" (again a tie w/ the 7'' comp, "Daddy Wants a Cold Beer...")
the TRASHMEN "Best of"
SAM the SHAM & the PHARAOHS "Lil' Red Riding Hood"
BLEED "Motor Psycho"
the CHURCH KEYS "Work With It!!!"
the BLACK LIPS "Let It Bloom"
COCOCOMA "self-titled"
GREENHORNES "Gun For You"
& anything by thee wild Billy Childish...

Jesus...I know I'm fergetin' a few favs....how did this list get so long? (I actually left off albums already mentioned by others, too!!)

The MONKS - Black Monk Time is my all time fave.

Oh man... My favorite is likely to change every time you ask me. Here are some likley #1s:

The Cynics: Rock N Roll
The Seeds: Self Titled
Question Mark & The Mysterians (Both Cameo LPs)
Thee Headcoats: Beach Bums Must Die
The Nomads: From Zero Down (I think that's the title. The one that came out on Crypt in the 80s featuring the 60s Band. I could probably pick )
Kinks: Self Titled & Something Else

Since we seem to be moving forward in time with this discussion, here is my list of 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 Thee Milkshakes - We Came We Saw We Conqured 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 The Fleshtones - Roman Gods The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There note: for further reference check out Sonic Nightmares Podcast #3 & #4 special '80s garage revival shows (http://www.garagepunk.com/2008/01/11/sonic-nightmares-3/)

Gravedigger V - All Black & Hairy.

No wait.... Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us

no no... Count V - Psychotic Reaction

Supercharger Goes Way Out... definitely.

um... can I change that... Sonics - Boom.

Waitaminnit... Thee Milkshakes - We Came We Saw We Conqured.

on second thought...
aw, fuckit.

The Cynics "Rock and Roll" is my favourite album, bar none....and the first 2 and a half Lyres albums are hard to beat.

I'll throw another one out for the hell of it: STAY SICK by The Cramps. I know most folks probably like their earlier stuff better, but this has always been my favorite due to "Shortin' Bread," (I've used that one for a radio promo) "All Women Are Bad," "Muleskinner Blues" and especially "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns."

How the hell is a Cavegurl supposed to choose just one? Okay, Okay...I'll spare ya the obvious...like those essential Nuggets, Pebbles, Bomp, Rubble, Back from the Graves, Trash Box Set comps etc.

I adore '60's garage AND the 80's revival neo-garage.
anything by:
The Attack
The Creation
GRAVEDIGGER V
Jason Crest
We The People
Jesse Hector/ Hammersmith Gorilla's (I beg to differ with some...It IS GARAGE!

oops gotta get back to work...but my moods change on a day to day...hour to hour basis!