You completely missed my point, man. Consider this: Even the '60s "garage" bands didn't cover "garage rock" songs. They covered R&B, rockabilly, beat music or otherwise good old rock'n'roll of one form or another. Often they were covering the pop hits of the day. That's why we have umpteen different versions of songs like "Hey Joe" or "Land of 1000 Dances" out there. How many times was Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis covered? Yet they're not "garage rock." Get my point yet?

I've seen and heard great garage/rock'n'roll bands cover all sorts of bizarre shit and make it good, rockin' and rollin'. So my point (again) is why limit it to garage? R&B, rockabilly, country, soul, punk, hardcore, new wave, swamp rock, power pop, glam, funk, psych, freakbeat, mod... all have plenty of great songs you can cover to open a set. Even complicated songs can be simplified and made into a great, trashy rocker.

Inbreeding is about as deadly in music as it is in living creatures.

John White said:

I use the term "garage rock" because that's what I am interested in, I like melody in my music. Most punk bands tend to scream the lyrics and don't work very hard on the melody. It's just a style thing for me, I'm trying to limit the answers to that style. I'm sorry you despise the term, but garage is the first word in the name of your website. My band was thinking about learning a cover to open a show with, I just wanted to get some ideas for songs that I may have never thought about before.
Hideout Admin said:

"Garage rock" song? I'm starting to really despise that term. It's just way too contrived and too limiting. After all, any band can take any song (any genre) and cover it, and turn it into something that's completely unique and their own, and open a set with that. Why does it have to be a "garage rock" song?

G-L-O-R-I-A!

whoooooooo do you love?!?!? [preachers version]

The Easybeats - Sorry

I didn't care for their new album at all. I liked maybe one track off of it. Live, they were GREAT (at the Scion garage fest), but the new record just didn't capture their live sound at all.

I don't care. I'd recommend sticking strictly to the really obscure, out-of-print stuff, though. The worst thing that could happen is that someone who owns the distribution rights to a particular track finds out and has their lawyer send a "cease and desist" asking us to remove it.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to exchange Garage compilations here...I wouldn´t mind...some of my stuff is close to impossible to find today (no output on CD)...to post MP3s here.

Are we allowed to do so????? Admin?????



 

yummmm, I agree with "Love Me" & "Stop It Baby" for suuuure

Dana V. Hatch said:

I dig most of the screams mentioned and also The Phantom on Love Me, Suicide - Frankie Teardrop, Slits - Shoplifting, Patty Waters - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (not r&r i guess but pretty crazy), The Heard - Stop It Baby, Contortions - Contort Yourself, James Brown - Maybe the Last Time, and Monoshock - Let's Hear It for the Singer!

I dig most of the screams mentioned and also The Phantom on Love Me, Suicide - Frankie Teardrop, Slits - Shoplifting, Patty Waters - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (not r&r i guess but pretty crazy), The Heard - Stop It Baby, Contortions - Contort Yourself, James Brown - Maybe the Last Time, and Monoshock - Let's Hear It for the Singer!

yessss! I was gonna say the same thing! and bunker hill's fantastic shriek at the beginning of "the girl can't dance"!

whatwave dave said:

The female backup screamers on Ralph Nielson and the Chancellors...'Scream'....not only volume, but she (or they) just keep screaming and screaming and screaming....

An INTERESTING one is Iggy Pop's "Pow!" at the start of Loose.

Eric davidson of the new bomb turks has some good ones.

Much better than the Almighty Defenders but I only really like this last album. Worth the $5.99 from emusic

Hey thought you might like to know there's a book out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) Published by Ugly Things magazine. check out the video: Q65 playing the Marathon in 1966.
greetz Pim

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-97/Q65--dsh--Th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9d17h4Xl4

The Wailers, The Weeds,

Hey thought you might like to know there's a book out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) Published by Ugly Things magazine. greetz Pim http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-97/Q65--dsh--The-Book/Detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9d17h4Xl4

there was a discussion like this on last.fm a while back [:
let's see..
I'd choose the rolling stones, for their undeniable influence on countless garage bands;
downliners sect, because they're underrated and fucking amazing;
aaaand the sonics. of course!

OH and hasil adkins!

SarahJayne said:

Groovy 60s lp's you can start with. :

1) The Shadows of Knight - Gloria
2) 13th Floor Elevators - the psychedelic sounds of....
3) Love - s/t

4) the Monks - Black Monk Time
5) the Music Machine - turn on...
6) the Birds - s/t
7) the Sonics - here are the Sonics
8) the Sonics - boom
9) Q65 - revolution
10) the Creation - we are paintermen

Compilation series' I highly reccomend:

1) Garage Beat '66
2) Nuggets
3) That Driving Beat
4) Girls In The Garage
5) Back From The Grave
6) Ils Sont Fous Ces Gaulois
7) English Freakbeat
8) (if you can find 'em) Ultra Chicks
9) Pop A Paris
10) GS I Love You

Alex said:

I second that choice. Fantastic comp. It's got a young, unknown Jimmy Page as session musician, it's got the Muswell Ravens (the Kinks before they were the Kinks), and a ton of great tracks by bands like Q65, The Outsiders, etc.


Hey i thought you might like to know there's a book coming out on Q65 next week (which i wrote) published by Ugly Things magazine.
greetz Pim

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-97/Q65--dsh--Th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9d17h4Xl4

Isabella Gloria said: 'Searchin' in the Wilderness' is a comp of faaar out European garage.

Garage Punk Unknowns #9 one side of wacky vocal tracks and one side of killer instros. The Nuggets box is a perfect jumping-off point for new converts. And as Tim Warren pointed out, BTFG #8 would be one of the best if it contained
the Chancellors' "On Tour" and nothing else but it has 27 more great songs.

Thanks...even if I own most of the songs either on LP or CD I will try to get it, shame non of the links works anymore

Ms Springolator said:

The Best of Q65 is stuck to my turntable at the moment.

..that's a knee-slapper...

LOL!

XD