The Mummies converted me.  I am sure you have heard that story before.  First time I heard "you must fight to live" I fell into the the trap door.  I thought to myself this is what has been missing in my life - I realized I liked all this fantastic music but never had a genre name attached to it; never knew it was consolidated into a living being.  The fact that something like the Mummies or Sonics can be interconnected to something like Whoa Dad, or space surf!  I knew I had found it but didn't know it had a home.  I knew no one else who listened to it and luckily I ran across the name garage punk on the internet.  We all know what that search term lands you.  Re-imagine that first time you listened to Back from the Grave all over again.  Or that very first podcast you clicked on here thinking "wtf is this?" (that is a great thread discussion in itself).  300gb of comps,podcasts,and out of prints later and my music life was completely changed...forever.     

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

Good question! I used to listen to a radio show on Rice University called "treasures of the 60's" and the one song that sent me to the point of no return was "talk talk" by the Music Machine.
Just three years earlier I was growing up rather sheltered by my 40- year old parents who listened to operas and marching bands, and I had never heard any rock and roll until Elvis died.
When I heard that cool Elvis Presley music I knew right away that I wanted to be just like him.

Those Pebbles comps are great! I would love to get my hands on those! And yeah, I dig the Preachers, too!

Mutants of the Holocaust said:

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

 

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

Interesting...

trashman said:

They seem like such a mixed bag to me - the only time I hear them is on Sirius- but I typically say I like this sound before I take my eyes off the road to see who it is on the player screen.  But when I hear- Magic Bar - it really turns me off, or should I say, I turn it off.  They do sometimes seem like a breath of dreamy pop fresh air after fuzzing out on the mp3s for a long stint.

They seem like such a mixed bag to me - the only time I hear them is on Sirius- but I typically say I like this sound before I take my eyes off the road to see who it is on the player screen.  But when I hear- Magic Bar - it really turns me off, or should I say, I turn it off.  They do sometimes seem like a breath of dreamy pop fresh air after fuzzing out on the mp3s for a long stint.

Again, they're another band that I got into thanks to Little Steven.  Their "Less Sophistication" LP is a pop masterpiece.  Does anyone else here like them?

Hey there, That is a killer tune...

I couldn't find an exact song credit, but I did find this:
http://www.discogs.com/Stephen-Romano-The-Maxx-Maxximum-Sound-A-Com...

I'm not sure its even the same "The Maxx", or really answers your question, but its interesting...

"An accomplished musician and studio producer by the time he was 23, Romano made his first significant mark on the world in 1993 when he adapted the million-selling comic series THE MAXX into an innovative “comic book soundtrack” album for Image Comics. A full dramatization designed meticulously to correspond with the comics as a post-modern “read-along” experience, MAXXIMUM SOUND deployed a full cast of voice actors, original music and sound effects, with Romano as composer, producer, director and even the voice of the psychedelic superhero The Maxx."

Cheers,
Cookie

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded Thanks for the help! -Sean.

Can't be arsed reading through 14 pages so someone else might have picked this but checkout

Firecracker/Hey Roxy by the Bobbyteens. Each track is less than a minute and a half. Both absolute gems!!

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for the help!
-Sean.

crystal element harp mic is definitely the best, but if yer strapped for cash, SM58 will work just fine.

Harmonica mic. 

Crystal element. Most people use a shure green bullet type thing. 

I use a Crystal element Shaker Retro Rocket. 

If I didn't I might use an AKG 414 and compress and eq it to radio bastard. 

Harmonica sound awful anyway. 

Another question for all the producers. What is the best way to record harmonica? Condenser mic, or SM58?

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded Thanks for the help! -Sean.

If you like good, catchy pop tunes, you should check them out.  I'm sure you can find some used CDs on amazon, and maybe some tracks on itunes.

sleazy said:

Don't know 'em at all :)

Don't know 'em at all :)

They were another band that I discovered thanks to the Underground Garage.  The very first UG show that I listened to named "The Dress Up Girls" as its "Coolest Song" for that week.  However, I really didn't notice the song at the time (I guess I was too excited at hearing "Looking for a Kiss" by the New York Dolls and "In Another Land" by the Rolling Stones to notice).  It wasn't until I became a Sirius subscriber and started listening to the UG channel that I really took a liking to it, and I bought a copy of "Tell the Kids the Cops are Here," which is a really good pop album.  Unfortunately, I never got to see them live.

Anyway, that CD is in the rotation at my work place, and I was just wondering if anyone else here liked them or got to see them live.

Go Bon Go!

http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/ this is our favorite raido station from wfmu...after garagepunk podcast for sure!

'Bonsai Superstar' by Brainiac is about the weirdest thing I know that still sounds like a guitar band.  It's an ultra-dissonant sinister falsetto party record.  Definitely has some of my favorite guitar work ever.

Brainiac

Outside of guitar music, Scott Walker's The Drift is some of the wildest shit I've ever heard.  It's relentlessly punishing and bleak, but actually really fun if you can get into the melodrama.

Scott Walker

Check out the Aquarium Drunkard (http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/03/15/ad-presents-dengue-fever-a-khmer-music-mixtape/#more-21268) they do stuff like the Khmer Cambodia stuff from time to time.

please listen to my tracks. we're crap, but original. here are a couple of opinions, and i quote:

"Out-of-sight.  Did you ever see The Fall in their old 70's and 80's days??  There was such a raw realness to them before they morphed into being super melodic.  Your duo is so real, it sounds like you're in a full band -- and to me, that is a mark of brilliance for a duo, 3-piece or even a 1 person act. Love the raw, low-fi sound.  Reminds me so much about why I love listening to punk and other types of raw, old rock on vinyl instead of sanitized, clean cd's.  I hope you stick with it and keep exploring your sound and material.  Give me a shout if you guys get any releases we can scoop up -- I'd grab one even if it was on a cd :o)  Great work."

"On chemine entre The Fall/du punk/Sonic Youth dans votre musique...ouais il y a quelque de The Fall dans la voix, donc ça le fait,moi j'aime plutot bien."

"Your sound is unique to you.  I dig it."

i did not pay these people; but i will!

check www.revengeismydestiny.com