Junior High School, 9th Grade 1977: I was a huge Kiss, Led Zep, Ted Nuge fan. Was reading newspaper articles about some new cutting edge "punk" bands, and it got my curiousity. I bought Never Mind The Bollocks, but didn't get it at first, even tried to take it back to the record store and swap it for the new Styx album (thankfully they wouldn't let me do it). I finally got it on the 4th or 5th listen. Then during a big snowstorm in the Winter of '78, where we were off school for an entire week, I discovered college radio, while bored, turning the dial (back when radios had hose things). WCVT, Towson (then State) University had a punk/ new ave show, Friday evenings from 5:00-7:00. DJ Rod Misey played all the latest, Clash, Costello, Patti Smith, Damned, UK Subs, as well as the proto puk classics from Stooges, MC5, Dictators, Amboy Dukes, Velvet Undeground. I was getting "schooled" every Friday evening, and buying a whole new genre of records, trying to catch up. I wrote songs, formed the first all original music band to play at my high school's annual variety show. I'm still playing and enjoying this type of music today.

i was born  punk.Honest.So the first time i heard a punk song it was like a shock it was so new yet so familiar!!

A bummer to say the least....I hope he gets thru the intensive therapy :( :(

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=b6fef9f4-d010-46f2-864a-50efc0acc1be

Greetin's Cretins,

I've been meaning to post here about my old radio show, The Wayback Machine, that I (and for a while, my buddy Jaimz) used to host on KDHX FM 88.1 in St. Louis. The show lasted from Nov. 1995 through Aug. 2006, almost 11 years. This show was actually the reason GaragePunk.com was born! Back in 2001, I wanted to create a website where I could post info & playlists from the show online for informational purposes, and I wanted to have a corresponding message board so people could post about bands & music and crap.

Well, when I went checking for potential domain names, nothing with "Wayback Machine" was available (such as waybackmachine.com), so I just decided on a whim to grab garagepunk.com. So, for the first year or so, GaragePunk.com was merely the online home to my radio show with info, playlists, and a really primitive message board/commenting system on it.

Then, in late 2002 I added the GaragePunk Forums message board, and the site sort of took on a mind (or identity) of its own, leaving my show behind. I kept posting my playlists to the site, though, and then, after I quit doing the show in '06, I transformed the old HTML site into a WordPress blog, with a different blog post for each episode. It took forever for me to accomplish this (several months of copying & pasting in playlist after playlist), but I finally got it finished sometime in 2008. I ALSO started digitizing old CD-R and cassette-tape recordings of some of the episodes, and posted MP3 links on those episode posts. So some of the episode posts on the blog not only have the playlist for the show, but also links to any available audio files (along with a player to listen online).

I'm still in the process of digitizing a bunch of cassettes as well as a small stack of CD-Rs, but I should be nearing completion of that by sometime this spring. In the meantime, you can check out what I already have up on the site. If you click on the "Audio" category from the menu on the right, it will bring up a listing of only those episodes with available recordings attached, if you want to actually listen to some of them.

If you were ever a fan of my Savage Kick or Noise Annoys podcasts here, you should check 'em out. I'll try to remember to post a reply here as I continue to add new audio files (old recordings of the show) as I continue to digitize this stuff. Enjoy, and STAY SICK!

Bookmark it: http://waybackmachine.garagepunk.com

Thanks!
kopper

Anything here http://www.hangmanbooks.com/records.html . But I would recommend Medway Powerhouse Vol 4. Loads of sample stuff on Youtube.

Tandoori Nights on Norton Records Bloodshot Bill and BBQ Shows latest congrab.

For a while noe I'be been listening a lot to The Church Keys- Work With It, & Tav Falco & the Unapproachable Panther Burns- Songs For Deranged Lovers. I'm really excited for the new Chrome Cranks album to come out next. 

Tony Jonaitis said:

The first Modern Lovers LP!  Or...the first Velvet Underground LP...or The Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight...or....hey, this question is too hard to answer!!!!  You tell us what you would suggest!"

 

LOL!!!

Ghislaine Korb / THE PUSH-BACKS said:

Alice cooper revisted by Disneyland or Starbucks hahahaha

The Ultimatemost High said:

First video that pops to mind is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqcL0mjMjw&ob=av2e

Alice cooper revisted by Disneyland or Starbucks hahahaha

The Ultimatemost High said:

First video that pops to mind is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqcL0mjMjw&ob=av2e

nahh I was talking about kopper's video. 

in this video its only the chick/dude singing..

Good idea Dan!

There are a couple of albums on vinyl which feature shared live sets by the Prisoners and the Milkshakes - 'Last Night At The MIC' and 'Thee Milkshakes Vs The Prisoners' which to my limited knowledge weren't even re-issued on CD (tell me if I'm wrong). I'd especially like to see these reappear on vinyl as IMHO the Prisoners completely outshine the Milkshakes on these recordings and add evidence to my theory that Graham Day is criminally under-rated compared to the omnipresent Billy Childish.

Matt

Hi

you are definitly right.

Eric

I was thinking today whilst listening to a prisoners live tape that what with vinyl sales up and all that it's time to re issue the prisoners lp's and 7"s etc.
There has been some awesome vinyl re issue's available of late but no prisoners...even the cd re issues aren't all that available to the average record shopper.
There may well be a reason as to why this is that I don't know, but I'd be keen to if there is.
If there's not, please, let's get these records back out there.
With the recent renewed interest in garage and vinyl, I'd bet that there's a bunch of listeners out there who like I did (all those years back) would flip there wigs at first hearing one of the greatest garage bands.

Try the Washouts on Golly Gee Records.

The Magnetix

The Mummies, The Spaceshits, Les Sexareenos, The Morlocks, Thee Milkshakes, The Mortals, The Kitchen Cinq, The Spits, most of the 60s comps. If I think of any more, I'll add them later.

Tunnel of Love on Black Gladiator Records is pretty damn good and pretty damn gnarly. Recorded on a way-too-far-in-the-red cassette 4-track.

Have you tried compilations like Highs in the Mid-Sixties, the Big Itch (more wacky/instro, but still essential), Back From the Grave, I was a Teenage Caveman?

Get Hip or Dionysus have online catalogs, as does Crypt. John Battles will have plenty o' info for ya, as well.

Not pure Garage but a lo-fi fav:

The Clean plus most of the other Dunedin Bands. Check out the Flying Nun Compilation!

Has anybody mentioned Jay Reatard beore?

Hi,

with my bands SOnic Angels, we are going to tour in Us next march 2012. We have yet contacts around the country, but still looking for shows and gigs to do.

our tour will be in 5 weeks :

start in New York - Detroit - chicago -

go down to the south by van : Memphis, Louisianne, Austin

flight to california

up top the north

and New York again

I know its a long way but we love to drive and be on the road....

We never been in Us, so we don't know how its work, we just know its dificult to be paid even for the gaz sometimes and there is no food, no drinks, nothing sometimes....., anyway we have some friends everywhere who can give us a place to stay.

just want to have fun and do some promotion for our band, trying to not loose too much money.

if somebody can give us contacts or can directly book us a gig....

facebook event :

http://www.facebook.com/events/270856436285662/

Bandcamp :

http://sonicangels.bandcamp.com/album/hardbreak

Check out Norton Records they have some great reissues on 7" and LP. So do Ace, more on CD with them.

Download anything by Otis Redding and/or the Smokey Robinson.

This past year my appreciation for early R&B and Soul skyrocketed... I couldn't stop playing it, searching for it, and dancing to it. I got a bunch of comps now... Shakin Fit, Whip It On Em, Show Me What You Got you know the Candy Record label releases, also All Night Soul Stomp, Pow City, Downtown Soulville.... any other must have Comps, tracks, albums?!?!

the original Turn Right To Open is dead, well obviously for anyone that ever went there... sorry I got lazy :( plus comments slowly depleted which sucked as well (though might come back someday, who knows!) (also many of the links STILL WORK) ... anyways now I have one of those hip Tumblr things! Whoo! 

http://turnrighttoopen.tumblr.com/

sorry its not as cool though, mostly music tracks and music videos of songs I like. sometimes I put personal mixes to download. Check it out if you want. Follow if you want. comments suggests appreciated.