I was a wee little tyke when I first saw Paul Revere and The Raiders and just thought they were the coolest thing in the world to my nascent rebellious soul. Don't remember which song exactly though, I'm sad to say. Was probably "Hungry." My love for the era was reborn many years later with the original Nuggets release, then running off to LA and encountering such bands as The Unclaimed, Redd Kross, etc.  And OMG yeah, The Fleshtones!  Love 'em to this very day!

As much as we hate to hear our beloved garage classics used so crassly in commercials, either way, if it led you into getting more into the genre, then it's not lame...I've heard the 13th Floor Elevators and the Seeds being used in commercials as well, and they don't even seem to fit the products the ad agency was trying promote...

This is pretty lame but I heard the song "Have Love Will Travel" by The Sonics in a car commercial when I was about 16. This was around the same time of the "garage rock revival" in the early 00s, so I was also listening to The Hives and all of that stuff.

The Vibes 'what's inside'

It's a great tune! One of the few "nuggets" you will hear on oldies radio nowadays...
Axel Björnsson said:

I found some nuggets comp in my father's friend collection where I heard first "Let it Out" with The Hombres and than it was no turning back...

You were witnessing some major rock 'n' roll history! Would love to have seen those bands live!
BrianMyFatAss said:

i was living in Seattle in the early 90's and for me wandering into shows by bands like The Fall-Outs, The Statics and The Primate 5 made me go out and buy their records - i had no idea what genre it was, i just liked the tunes.

It's wild what the Cramps turned us on to!

Soraia said:

I bought a used copy of the Cramps "songs the lord taught us" when I was about 14, and that opened up a whole new world to me.  Also I happened upon the Sonics first record when I was about 16, and i remember at the time being amazed that there were groups in the 60's singing about satan and drinking strychnine. I guess that's when I realized that 60's music wasn't limited to what you heard on a.m. classics type deals...

I bought a used copy of the Cramps "songs the lord taught us" when I was about 14, and that opened up a whole new world to me.  Also I happened upon the Sonics first record when I was about 16, and i remember at the time being amazed that there were groups in the 60's singing about satan and drinking strychnine. I guess that's when I realized that 60's music wasn't limited to what you heard on a.m. classics type deals...

I found some nuggets comp in my father's friend collection where I heard first "Let it Out" with The Hombres and than it was no turning back...

It's such a classic.  The first time I heard it, I was floored.  I had never heard anything like that sound before, and I knew that it was the sound I'd always been looking for.  Ten years later, it's still one of my favorites.

joey fuckup said:

That's a great album! Got the whole thing on my ipod!

Alex said:

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

i was living in Seattle in the early 90's and for me wandering into shows by bands like The Fall-Outs, The Statics and The Primate 5 made me go out and buy their records - i had no idea what genre it was, i just liked the tunes.

Hi All, new to this site, but loving it. erm.. I think I'm probably going to be the only one here to flag up The Beatles as the band that got me into garage Rock & Roll. in the mid 70's (76/77?) I was 10 years old and bought Live at the hollywood Bowl which was an attempt at the time to capture a 64/65 show. I loved it and shortly afterwards stumbled across The Beatles Live at The Star Club, which for me blew the 64 recording away.

To this day one of the most thrilling LPs i own, and amongst the most intimate and lo-fi too. Think it was Halo of Flies - Music for Insect Minds that brought me back into wanting to be in a band again mid 90s. superficially very different i guess. HOF covered Human Fly though and the Beatles 'Wish I could Shimmy Like My sister Kate/Shimmy Shake' is as garage as it gets still to my cloth ears! so I guess i'm in there somehow!? :)

good to be here,

Trev

Yes, the Sonics! So, would you say they were the very first punk band?

Idol Lips (New Record Out) said:

THE SONICS - BOOM!

I know what you mean! I had gotten back in to garage when I was lookin' up the Nuggets boxed set on Amazon, and falling in love again with bands like the Standells and Paul Revere & the Raiders...And yes, I Google searched "garage punk" and here I landed some odd 3 years ago...It's a dream come true to be doing a podcast on here now!

trashman said:

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.     

That's a great album! Got the whole thing on my ipod!

Alex said:

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

My mother was a huge Elvis fan, so I was raised on his records...Very sad household when he died...

Shahrom Donald Bahi Hawley said:

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.

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.

 

Listening to oldies led to listening to garage rock, I suppose. 

BACK FROM THE GRAVE... duh!

Yeah, I have got to get my hands on those!!!
Koko Loko said:

The BACK FROM THE GRAVE compilations!

That's a fuckin' great album man!

John White said:

Ramones-Rocket to Russia, Fuck Yeah!