All great bands, but the topic is Female Fronted SURF bands. Sorry, I'm just a stickler and don't know too many of them to find out who THEY are would be great.

Oh yeah, the one time I saw Famous Monsters, they were playing with Girl Trouble and a bunch of long hair rockers came to the show. I heard they demanded their money back but I don't know if that's true or not. Actually they started shortly before the White Zombie split and I only remember that for sure because I was doing security and ushering up in the second tier of a White Zombie show in 1998 and I sat Dave Crider and a few friends. He got free tickets from Sean Young for putting out a Famous Monsters single.

The first one that came to my mind was also Famous Monsters mentioned by Kopper, who were a female surf trio founded by Sean Y of White Zombie after WZ split. I have a 7" and cd somewhere.
as far as garage singers

we can't forget the Suzi Quattro fronted Pleasure Seekers who gave us the garage staple "what a way to die" covered by Mummies , Trashwomen and a million other bands

The Smears also do it on there "in the garage" lp they were a great band which reminds me they covered another great girl garage group:

Thee Headcoatees (billy childish's brilliant girl band)

Good band. I've heard of the name but did not know a thing about them. I assumed they were something like the Brentwoods or bands on Rip Off. they should change the genres to Pop/Garage/Surf instead of Rock. orange iguanas said:

how has nobody mentioned this band???

http://www.myspace.com/shannonandtheclams

The Deptford Beach Babes http://www.myspace.com/thedeptfordbeachbabes

I don't know...I still think you can have a favorite song of ALL TIME and then a million second choices. For me, it's Louie Louie. Max Reverb-Wipe Out, Peter Griffin-Surfin' Bird. I kind of thought that everyone has at least ONE favorite song that they always come back too. It doesn't mean you have to listen to it EVERYDAY, or otherwise you're not be true to yourself. That's just ridiculous. But your fave song changes everyday? Maybe every five years, but everyday?

you're right for me, today, it's "snack crack" from billy childish. kopper said:

I can't pick my favorite band, album, song, or even genre. I've never been able to do that. It's just too difficult and I don't view music in that way. Every day can be different, every mood can produce a different result. One song can be perfect for one situation or instance but terrible for another. It's like asking what your favorite food or movie is. If you can seriously narrow it down to just one, then you're not living life to the fullest. That's my two cents, anyway.

Jefffrey Lee was such an amazing lyricist! Fire of love is such a great record for them I can listen to Jack on fire, she's like heroin, or sex beat over and over and over. Theres a version of me doing "she's like heroin on my page" Ryan Thomas LeGere said:

Right now my favorite rock n roll song of all time is "Ghost On the Highway" by the Gun Club.

For all time favorite i usually go with WIPE OUT, because no matter what kind of mood I'm in I'm always glad to hear it. No words so its always appropriate somehow. This choice may also influenced by an LSD trip I had when I was young and played the 45 over and over for an hour or two until these girls begged to watch some movie.

For them I can never hear Memphis Creep enough times. simone benerecetti said:

OBLIVIANS : BAD MAN


great song!!!!

Picking a favourite of anything is tough! Here's a few that I just can't get enough of:

Green Door (don't care what version, the Shakin Stevens one down the pub always does the job nicely!)
Man For All Seasons - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
The Crusher (again, any version will do)
Into the Valley - The Skids

I know as soon as I hit the reply button a load more will pop into my head!!

right now its dirty robber by the fabulous wailers

"Stay With Me" by the Dictators. Andy Climax said:

'Parchment Farm' by the mighty Blooooooooo Cheeeeeeeeeeeer! gotta be high up there, right???

When he did the Columbus book reading Eric said that it was a quick-and-easy rhyme that was more or less a placeholder while they came up with another subtitle... But somehow managed to stick on all the way through the publishing process. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

Sorry Rod. That 2 hours flew by, and honestly that question never entered my mind. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I'm surprised that none of you asked HOW he came up with GUNK PUNK. I know he said WHY but not how....

I'm surprised that none of you asked HOW he came up with GUNK PUNK. I know he said WHY but not how....

Yep. http://www.last.fm/user/beatcrazedteen

I'm there, under a secret identity. http://www.last.fm/user/robotclaw I don't do much there, but I've come across a couple of cool people and a couple of cool bands.

I never use it, but... http://www.last.fm/user/kopper65 Then there's this group on Last.fm, too: http://www.last.fm/group/Garage+Punk

I <3 last.fm! http://www.last.fm/user/needlesnpinsfm

http://www.last.fm/user/tobilynne What features are you having trouble with?

Yes I am but I'm kind of stupid and can't figure some features out

My apologies if this has already been discussed (did a search, though, and couldn't find anything). Is anyone else using Last.fm?

I'm at work right now, but if I remember correctly, mine is an SL-1200 MK2. They're all pretty similar, though. Just search eBay for Technics 1200 and you should find all kinds. Ryan Katastrophe bought this baby a few years ago. Yeah, they're expensive new (which is why I recommend buying a used one on eBay)! And for a stylus, get a Stanton 500 E MK II from Garage-A-Records online. Foul & Fair Records said:

Noted! looking up the 1200 there seems to be a lot postfixed letters/#'s, which model is the one for me?
~T Pheck said:

You can't go wrong with a Technics 1200, or check out the Vestax Guber, a very cool little turntable. The Guber is belt-driven though so if you plan on DJing it's not he way to go.

But with either one, it will take at least two months before you see any loot. iTunes and Amazon take 6 to 8 weeks to report sales figures, apparently. With the new Malarians (the US garage band, not the Spanish ska band) reissues, I used Tunecore for IN THE COOL ROOM and CD Baby for KNOW/FINISHED IN THIS TOWN. The jury's out on which one is better, but with Tunecore, you get Amazon CD-on-Demand, where fans can get CDs of your mp3 album.