Apparently, my Vox Continental used to belong to The Damned, & came out of their studio... (at least thats what the woman who i bought it off told me... & it was just a sidenote to the sale, so have no particular reason to disbelieve her...)

 But that's nothing to do wit this thread so i'll mention that ive probably got more Skatalites stuff than any other band, cos i like ska.
 
Mike said:

The Damned followed by the Ramones. Mostly because they both have released so many damned (get it?) records and 7" sleeve variations etc etc that sucker a collector nerd like me to buy. No picture of me, but a set a photos I'd snapped for another forum. I have to give credit though to an old friend who sold me his entire Damned 7" collection back in the 80's. I knew it hurt him, but he knew it was going to a good home. That's where a good chunk of my Damned and Capt. Sensible singles came from.

Elvis ,  Jerry Lee . 2/3rds of the $750,000 Trio. Of course , I have a lot on Carl and The Man who made like Elvis and left the building......Cramps , Roky , Iggy. Other stuff, I forget.

The Damned followed by the Ramones. Mostly because they both have released so many damned (get it?) records and 7" sleeve variations etc etc that sucker a collector nerd like me to buy. No picture of me, but a set a photos I'd snapped for another forum. I have to give credit though to an old friend who sold me his entire Damned 7" collection back in the 80's. I knew it hurt him, but he knew it was going to a good home. That's where a good chunk of my Damned and Capt. Sensible singles came from.

I own more Billy Childish stuff than any other artist. He is not necessarily my favorite artist, but the sheer volume of releases over the years, and the fact that any B.C. record is a "safe bet", is the reason I have amassed such a huge collection of his work. 

KISS and the Rolling Stones.  

I have the first six studio albums by KISS, along with "ALIVE" and "ALIVE II," along with with "Creatures of the Night" and "Psycho Circus."  KISS was the first band that I ever got into, so I guess that's why I have so many of their releases.  It's a combination of nostalgia and sentimentalism.

As for the Rolling Stones, I've been getting reacquainted with them, so I recently acquired all of the studio albums that were released between 1968 and 1972, along with "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!," "It's Only Rock'n'Roll," and "Some Girls."  I bought "England's Newest Hitmakers" and "12x5" a while back, and I still enjoy them.  This is open to debate, but I have to agree that the Stones truly are the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world, because of the standards they set and their influence.

This is one of the most interesting questions anyone has ever asked around here:)

Bob Dylan. Years back I gave a guitar lesson to the son of a family friend and they paid me with a big box of records. Was about the same time another family friend uttered the words "We've got everything we want on CD now. Have a look in the attic and take what you want." Heaven. No garage, no punk, but a shed load of Dylan, Neil Young and other great stuff like that.

Cheap Trick for more reasons than makes sense to post. Great songs, great musicians - I love pretty much everything there is about CT.

Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie.

Not exactly garage punk, but most killer garage bands have very few recordings.

As much as I love the Ramones and Radio Birdman, the artist I own the most records by, is Ty Segall.  His guitar shredding and the sound of his voice are awesome, and he's a great songwriter.  Plus, he's absurdly prolific and the quality just doesn't drop.  At this point, I own pretty much all of his solo stuff and side projects, save for one or two 7" singles.

What about you?  Maybe we can post photos of ourselves with our "most by this artist" records?

I'd have to go with "I'm not a loser" by the Descendents. I sang the song with ALL in the 90's and just mumbled through the homophobic part. I've heard it was supposed to be tongue in cheek or some shit but it sounds pretty bad to me. :)

I wouldn't call this band "politically incorrect".  "Depraved" is a more apt description.

Barney Rubble and The C*nt Stubble - Retarded Chicks

Yikes!  This is not for the faint of heart!  The web site is old but anyone interested can probably hear/download the music here:

http://www.thestubbles.com/stubblemusic.htm

Personally I HATE when bands bitch about being famous or being on tour. I've been on tour a lot and it's been hard but at the end of the day I would never complain about it, cuz I love it. The WORSE offender at this is BOB SEGER complaining about being a rock star in "turn the page". Boo Fucking Hoo BOB, we all feel sorry for you for having to play your tunes in front of hundreds of fans. And screw Metallica for covering that song as well...they are just as bad. Everytime I hear that song I get pissed.

Yeah, those lyrics to The Byrds tune are nowt short of terrible, but when it comes down to it, if you write decent lyrics and have a great tune to back it up, does it matter if you're just moaning about something? Obviously stuff inside the music industry is generally of no importance to anyone, but there are still some people who pull it off. I think Weezer's Pork & Beans is an example, which they wrote after their label told them to go back and write some hits. Arctic Monkeys' Fake Tales Of San Francisco is another lyrically fine tune that's basically moaning about bands in England pretending to be American in the wake of the rise of The Strokes, and the soap opera that is The Libertines pulled off the whole in-band fighting thing to great aplomb on Can't Stand Me Now. 

Are there any decent garage bands out there at the moment who are commenting on bigger issues, and how well are they doing it? I remember hearing The Jeevas How Much Do You Suck? for the first time and thinking that the lyrics were just plain embarassing, but you could argue that sometimes songs like that have to be lyrically very simple in order to connect with the masses, well, they don't always have to be so simple I guess, but sometimes it might be called for. British Sea Power did it well on their last album though with Who's In Control?, which was also asking why people weren't on the street fighting about what was happening in the UK. "Sometimes I wish protesting was sexy on a Saturday night."

Oh, and Axl, basically a complete tool, but with an ace backing band.

Good points! A few random thoughts:

I don't really think the music (movie, etc.) industry gives a shit about what sells as long as it sells. It's not an "entertainment-provider" so much as a $ machine. If people still want to buy shit music, they don't have a problem with providing it.

I don't really think that the masses of top-40 types think about what they could be listening to. As an example, I grew up listening to the Beatles and disco mainly, I didn't even hear oldies 'til after high-school graduation. Someone once told me, "If there are only 3 channels on TV, and 2 of 'em go off the air, you know what people will be watching."

Also, um, hip music is for the hip, the masses will always be a bit clueless.

Demographics are changing too, the kids in the future will likely prefer various types of dance music.

Once in a while, something will pop up in the square world that's like a pale, washed-out version of some type of punk, i.e the Strokes (not saying that 1st lp wasn't fun, but it's not punk) or the White Stripes, etc. That's about as good as they can hope for 'til they wake up (as we did) and realize there's better music out there. I can't see most people I've known rockin' out to the Oblivions or Watchband.

The public has blinders on.

I would have to say that it is a combination of all of those things. The music industry is focused on what sells. For some reason the masses are suckers for really shitty, talentless, music without substance. If you even want to call it music that is. It seems that they target very young teenagers that are very impressionable...between the ages of 12-15, because they know those kids are going to listen to anything.. if the airwaves suggest that its cool to like it or television advertises it as so...it isn't about putting good music out there anymore...it's about making money and not the quality of the music. So basically the cycle goes like this...radio plays shitty music, younger kids are told its cool to like shit music, they listen to it to fit in, those kids that are musically inclined immitate the shitty music they are told is cool on the radio, which exposes the shitty music to other people, and it spreads like a wild fire, until its all over the place, so the record industry makes their money, the promoters promote the shitty music that the record industry puts out, and the kids play this shitty music out at the clubs. the cycle repeats...and its going to keep going that way...until the people at the top are removed and replaced by people that give a damn about good music.

The choice is there and so much better than it has ever been. 

People might be goods at reminising on the 50s and 60s especially those who haven't lived through them but unless they were giving away records in well stocked shops my guess is that both decades sucked compared to now. I mean if I want to listen to a Russian ska band, African jazz, Bolivian garage punk it's possible with the internet in seconds. Neglecting the fact that much of the music we enjoy today wasn't even in existence back then, you would have needed a phd in music studies to find you the choice you now have with the net.

Those that listen to mainstream radio probably treat music in the same way as I treat cars. I couldn't give a crap as long as they do their job. You can't be a coneseur in everything.

I know this is a battered and worn discussion over the years but I am still perplexed at why some fantastic, high energy, cool bands are not even getting a whiff at success over the radio airwaves. I know, I know, some bands want to keep their "cool underground" rep and don't want to be seen as "sell outs" but you would think that at least "some" would surface mainstream. Is our society so lame and bland that Coldplay and Bruno Mars dominate the air waves? I know back in the 50's and early 60's, radio DJ's (Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack etc)  could spin their own records, before the payola scandal. I really wish new DJ's could be given that choice again and depending on the music format, I am sure the general public would be welcome to discovering new music. But alas, that is just a dream. I know that alot of college and pirate radio stations (not to mention this website's GREAT podcasts) that try to get the music buzz out there, but it makes up a very small percentage of the casual music fans who are subjected to the same homogenized radio all the time because they don't know any better.

In recent history I would say that the White Stripes are the closest that a band has come to reaching the mainstream charts. I also know that with satellite radio we are given a bigger choice of radio stations that are not driven by commercials but they are also getting paid by subscribers.  So my question is this.....is it the music/radio industry promoters, the bands/artists themselves or the fans that are to blame?

Like the "Da Bruddahs" once sang..."Do you remember Rn'R Radio?"

@LastofmyKind_ Not sure how many of those groups were about from 1976- 1981? When I was out there in Brisbane I saw a group called "The Lazy Sods" who had an English drummer, that was back in 1995. I know there is still a minority following of Punk in Aussie, with young kids starting garage bands, but my experience with a lot of Aussie groups is that they mainly do cover songs, very few write their own material like 'No FX' for example :) Thanks for the info, I will do a bit of research on those listed and have a listen. Didn't mean to offend my antipodean cousins :) Not sure if that helps SEAN who posted the original question, tho?

LastofmyKind said:

Heineken Shot said:

"let's face it, there ain't exactly a lot of punk groups from Oz, eh?"

No offense man but have you heard of some of these Aussie Punk/Garage Bands? Some quite seminal...

The Saints
Radio Birdman
The Lime Spiders
The Scientists
The Celibate Rifles
Beasts of Bourbon
The Psycho Surgeons
The Victims
The Hitmen
The Lipstick Killers
The Visitors
The Passengers
The Fun Things
The Sunnyboys
New Christs
New Race
Hoodoo Gurus
Minutmen
The Screaming Tribesmen
Died Pretty
Decline Of The Reptiles
The Eastern Dark
The Exploding White Mice
The Hard-Ons
The Psychotic Turnbuckles
The Stems
The Some Loves
The Ohilistines
The Headstones
The Stems

Great!  Thanks Al!

The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Try this : 

http://kogarsjunglejuice.blogspot.com/

 

This is Kogar's own blog.  I believe you may find the last volumes around. Just scroll down...and see.

 

Kogar has a Hideout profile too, not sure he's around these days, but you still you can try and add him as Gpunk friend ! http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/Kogartheswingingape

Kogar has been offering remastered versions of these oh-so-nifty collections.  He hasn't posted all volumes yet but the ones he has sound great!  A couple of weeks ago he gave us "Lux Lives"... a commemorative CD issued to coincide with a yearly celebration of Lux.  It's still available and very much worth grabbing...

Thanks for the info!

Zero Hour Records said:

The Dangtrippers from Iowa.  Their first album Days Between Stations is a must have.. it's on iTunes now as it hasn't been available since 1989.

The Dangtrippers from Iowa.  Their first album Days Between Stations is a must have.. it's on iTunes now as it hasn't been available since 1989.

My knowledge of how this here internet works would pretty much put me at ludite status, so didn't know that you couldn't move things around with ning...in fact had never heard of ning until I saw it here. A brave new world indeed. 

Show #363: "Bands & Artists Starting With S, Part 6" playlist:

Shyster - "Tick Tock"
The Si-Dells - "Watch Out Mother"
Sidan - "Gobaith"
Side Three - "Every Now And Then"
The Sidekicks [UK] - "And She's Mine"
The Sidekicks [US] - "Not Now"
The Sidetrack - "Baby"
The Sidewalk Sounds - "Make The Music Pretty"
The Sidewinders - "It Hurts"
Sidro's Armada - "Little Girl From Greenwood, Georgia"
Paul Siebel - "Louise"
Siegel-Schwall Band - "I Wouldn't Quit You"
Sight And Sound - "Alley, Alley"
The Sights And Sounds - "You Keep Me Hanging On"
The Significant Other - "Ode To Carrabasset Flats"
Signs Of The Zodiac - "Gemini: Planetary Motivations"
Sikiot - "Side One"
Silence - "Devil Woman"
The Silhouettes [GER] - "Crying Over You"
The Silhouettes [US] - "Get A Job"
Silk - "Skitzo Blues"
Silk Winged Alliance - "Flashback"
The Silkie - "The Keys To My Soul"
Judee Sill - "Jesus Was A Cross Maker"
Billy Sills - "Nightmare"
Silmaril - "Song Of The Apocalypse"
Siluetler - "Lorke Lorke"
Silver [CA] - "Memory"
Silver [WI] - "Children Of The Lord"
Silver Apples - "A Pox On You"
The Silver Byke - "Who Needs Tomorrow"
Silver Eagle - "Theodore"
Silver Fleet - "Look Out World"
Silver Lining - "Bye Goodbye"
Silver Metre - "Naughty Lady"
Silver Sand - "Kaw-Liga"

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