MC5's "Gold" is more jazzy than "LA Blues".

The James Taylor Quartet - One Way Street 

at 0.53

The James Taylor Quartet - The Cat (It's a cover version of, maybe, Jimmy Smith Quartet.)

Crud, I just remembered this:

The King Sound Quartet (Mick Collins, Tim Kerr, Alex Cuervo & Stephanie Paige Friedman) did a great cover of Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place" on The Get-Down Imperative LP.

Most of the best examples of garage-y jazz would probably come from B-flicks, mostly 60s spy movies like Fantastic Argoman, Mission Stardust, Diabolik, and the like. Another good example would be in Teenage Tupelo, the song "One More Hit" during D'lana's dream sequence. Aside from stuff like that, I can't really think of any actual bands that try to make that kind of music. Methinks there's a void to fill.

sure, as a full-blown genre the term is a bit of a stretch (aren't they all, really?), but here's what I'm thinking about:

John Zorn (ie, Spy vs Spy, the Masada stuff)

The Lounge Lizards

some of James Chance & the Contortions material

a lot of the projects Skerik is associated with: Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois, Crack Sabbath, the Dead KennyG's, etc.)

Any others? Would love some help in compiling a larger list...

Some vids:

Leiber & Stoller are in fact the best song writing pair ever.  http://www.leiberstoller.com/Discography.html as one can see even The "black bad boy" Beatles, Mr. "Pass me the pills Doc" Presley...  most of the gods on this thread did versions of their songs.

True the Beatles are easy targets i don't hate them, the older I get the more easy I am on them. .....

 

Lennon and McCartney were one of the best song writing pairs ever. Name another with more hits. They would have had even more if they hadn't released so many albums with multiple number one hits that often competed against other songs from the same album. 

They have a bunch of songs that can make great punk songs also. 

Hey Mardy Pune: love your turn of phrase here; "... some of their chord structures are beautiful nightmares to try to play." Kewl.

"Hate stuff for the sake of hating stuff"? I think some people who are saying "I hate x" do have their reasons -- but maybe aren't providing enough of them to those of us reading their posts?

Or, it may be fun to just hate the old stuff to piss other people off. The Beatles and the other 'biggies,' perhaps what you might call 'foundational' groups are Big Targets?

Or some people just like to stiiiiiir. :-) I can relate to the last one when I think back a bit...

Mel

Mardy Pune said:

Let's clear this up now:

Elvis isn't God, Elvis is the King baby!

I don't like The Beatles and I don't hate The Beatles. I won't argue that they weren't an important or influential band, cause they were. They were incredibly crafty song writers, some of their chord structures are beautiful nightmares to try to play. I don't understand why people hate stuff for the sake of hating stuff, morons.

Let's clear this up now:

Elvis isn't God, Elvis is the King baby!

I don't like The Beatles and I don't hate The Beatles. I won't argue that they weren't an important or influential band, cause they were. They were incredibly crafty song writers, some of their chord structures are beautiful nightmares to try to play. I don't understand why people hate stuff for the sake of hating stuff, morons.

Born Bad Records

XVIII records

Teenage Menopause records

all from Paris !

Am Rep... what a fearless label they were!!! Another label in the same vein was Trance Syndicate.

Robert Bell said:

Touch and Go

Fat Possum

Amphetamine Reptile

 

Double crown records

This little label from Memphis, Sun Records, put out some records I enjoy listening to. And I'm not just talking bout Orion ;-)

Axel

YESSSSS

Alison said:

All of the above and more currently,

• Trouble in Mind
• HoZac
• Dirtnap
• Slovenly
• Hardly Art
• Goner
• 1234 Go!
• Douchemaster
• Tic Tac Totally
• Castle Face

Touch and Go

Fat Possum

Amphetamine Reptile

BOMP!

Thanks for giving Little Steven some credit. I like his label too.

Andrew Malcolm said:

Estrus 

Redrum

Past & Present

Daptone

Rhino

Sundazed

Major Label, Ecco-Fonic, and anything Deke Dickerson related!

Get Hip

Numero

Wicked Cool (Hey, you have to give Steven Van Zandt at least a little credit)

Nice to see a couple of people mentioning Get Hip.

Estrus 

Redrum

Past & Present

Daptone

Rhino

Sundazed

Major Label, Ecco-Fonic, and anything Deke Dickerson related!

Get Hip

Numero

Wicked Cool (Hey, you have to give Steven Van Zandt at least a little credit)

Rip Off records (DEP)

Rumble Records

No Tomorrow

Blondes must die

Discos Humeantes

Love the Biters

i don't really keep up with my scene (Philadelphia) as much I used to when I was a super cool 19 year old haha. Now I'm into older garage/punk/soul stuff, plus the scene is lacking IMO, but here are a few that i think are alright...

The Pussy Dogs

Slutever
 

Dry Feet

Cousin Brian
 

And here's our brothers GIUDA!

...the best glam rock act in Italy! We have the same producers.

Here's my own band, SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK!

...Rome's finest BOOOOGIEPUNK combo! B)

There's a good hardcore/punk rock scene in Rome but few garage bands.

I'm not really a newbie, I was a long time member of the old forum.  But I am new to the Hideout!  And loving it.   Great site.