The BACK FROM THE GRAVE compilations!

Ramones-Rocket to Russia, Fuck Yeah!

I was introduced to the idea of 'garage' when I was one of those damn kids back during the whole revival thing in 2001; I was madly in love with the White Stripes' "White Blood Cells."

 

But, digging deeper, I can say I proudly own original presses of "Nuggets" and the Blues Magoos "Electric Comic Book" (named my blog after it, obviously) and "Basic Blues Magoos," which is an INCREDIBLE album, completely underrated and unfortunately forgotten.

Damn!  I wish my childhood could've been that cool!  Compared to yours, mine's kinda lame!

Brother Panti-Christ said:

I grew up with records of the Seeds, Blue Cheer and Rolling Stones 45s in my house, so I was hooked at the age of 2 years old.

But it was sometime in 1980, Rodney On The Roq played "Are You Gonna Be There" by The Chocolate Watchband on KROQ during one of his L.A. hardcore sets, and I've been hooked ever since!

I grew up with records of the Seeds, Blue Cheer and Rolling Stones 45s in my house, so I was hooked at the age of 2 years old.

But it was sometime in 1980, Rodney On The Roq played "Are You Gonna Be There" by The Chocolate Watchband on KROQ during one of his L.A. hardcore sets, and I've been hooked ever since!

I first went searching for garage-like music because of the white stripes. And when I heard Kick Out The Jams, I really got into garage.

"Gloria" by Them

"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" by The Standells

"Have Love, Will Travel" by The Sonics

Three garage rock classics that I heard a while ago (early on) and from there it just went on... from the 13th Floor Elevators and The Amboy Dukes, that someone mentioned, to the Zakary Thaks.

The first song that got me into garage rock was canon live by the white stripes

The attitude of that song was unlike anythign I had heard and now everything i listen to is gritty and loud

Very true, Gareth!  It's great that there's podcasts like the ones on here (Im not including me on this because I'm not all that great) that helps bring good music to our attention!  I didn't realize the situation was like that in the UK though, I figured it was pretty much a US problem...

Gareth Brown said:

It's the same here in the UK! The majority of music media here exists to push mainstream music. I suppose the situation is best explained by a tune called 'We Fuckin' Hate The NME' by Thee Headcoats (the NME being a very popular trend setting weekly music paper here in the UK).  I suppose there's been a moment for each of us where we've realised that we're just gonna have to search for the music we want to listen to.
joey fuckup said:

It's sad, I live in such a shitty radio market, I didn't even know who the hell the Clash was until "Combat Rock" came out!  No friggin' lie!!!  Of course I dug it, but then I had to dig deeper and buy such classics as "London Calling" and their self-titled debut release!
Gareth Brown said:

Hi - i'm new to The Hideout... very much enjoying all of your responses... For me it was listening to 'London Calling' by The Clash that first got me interested in all things punk/garage/r'n'r related!

It's the same here in the UK! The majority of music media here exists to push mainstream music. I suppose the situation is best explained by a tune called 'We Fuckin' Hate The NME' by Thee Headcoats (the NME being a very popular trend setting weekly music paper here in the UK).  I suppose there's been a moment for each of us where we've realised that we're just gonna have to search for the music we want to listen to.
joey fuckup said:

It's sad, I live in such a shitty radio market, I didn't even know who the hell the Clash was until "Combat Rock" came out!  No friggin' lie!!!  Of course I dug it, but then I had to dig deeper and buy such classics as "London Calling" and their self-titled debut release!
Gareth Brown said:

Hi - i'm new to The Hideout... very much enjoying all of your responses... For me it was listening to 'London Calling' by The Clash that first got me interested in all things punk/garage/r'n'r related!

mine was a shit kicking  instrumental version of liar liar, heard at a northern soul club, my search for this record led me to the castaways version.

there was a thriving mod and northern soul scene in the late seventies in the north of England, the odd garage tune would turn up on the dance floor with surprising regularity.

the human beinz nobody but me, tommy james and the shondells mony mony, and a bizarre funky surf guitar hybrid record called scratchy by travis wammack.

the scooter scene in England embraces many genres of music, punk, ska, rockabilly, soul, garage, it served me well.

i never did find out who did the cover of liar liar, maybe someone out there in garage land can give me a clue ?

 

 

 

 

A few years ago I got totally bored with guitar music and started to discover Dubstep and related electro-stuff, and I thought "Well, that was that with me as a guitar guy", when I discovered "In Blood" by Billy Childish and Holly Golighty, and I'm lost to primitive garage rock ever since.

 

But I like to believe that what started my love for music was a The Who tape my father recorded for me when I was five or six years old. Don't know if I remember this correctly, but I like the story.

It's amazing what the Cramps brought us, ya know?  Link Wray, Hasil Adkins, a lot of necessities in real music to say the least!
Wayne Talbott said:

yeah makes total sense.Looking at it now, without link wray,I wounder what The Cramps would have sounded like?
It wasn't until I picked up a album by wray that I relised poison ivy's stlye of playing comes from the man himself and she used it wisely I must say.


joey fuckup said:

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

That Bay City Rollers tune is a good one, my favorite by them is "Yesterday's Hero"!  And once it gets in my head, I can't get it out!  Like now... :)
Johnny Bean said:

Blitzkreig Bop without a doubt. I bought it in 1976, I think the single I bought before that was Rock N Roll Love Letter by the Bay City Rollers so maybe that was the one :)

yeah makes total sense.Looking at it now, without link wray,I wounder what The Cramps would have sounded like? It wasn't until I picked up a album by wray that I relised poison ivy's stlye of playing comes from the man himself and she used it wisely I must say.

joey fuckup said:

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

Blitzkreig Bop without a doubt. I bought it in 1976, I think the single I bought before that was Rock N Roll Love Letter by the Bay City Rollers so maybe that was the one :)

That's one hell of a playlist!

NoHitWonder said:

well, here we go...

THE DEVIL DOGS - Big Beef Bonanza

THE CRAMPS - Smell Of Female

THE STOOGES - I'm Sick Of You

RAMONES...needless to say

well, here we go...

THE DEVIL DOGS - Big Beef Bonanza

THE CRAMPS - Smell Of Female

THE STOOGES - I'm Sick Of You

RAMONES...needless to say

My garage must be a bigger garage cause there's a ton of British Invasion groups in it.  Even some are a bit poppy like the Hollies up to like 1967.  Early Animals for sure.  There is a ton of early Kinks that fits the bill for me as well.
Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

Psycho - The Sonics
My friends and I were fresh outta High School way into cars by the mid 90's but, we were just discovering music other than the "oldies" our parents showed us. Local record stores were the big chain type with no category for what we wanted so, we would look for any album cover that said or looked like anything Rockabilly or Surf. One of the guys got into buying music on E-vil-Bay and we would trade music with each other. He bought a Record called "Psychobilly sickness" or something like that. anyways long story short he hated it I loved it, Especially Psycho which of course wasn't Psychobilly so, I just had to find out what this music was and were I could find more of this amazing raucous Shit.

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

Search & Destoy - as thrashed out by The Dictators - 12 inch single from 77? Then I realised it was a cover! It was all down hill from then!! Now the Dictators LP's on vinyl are woth getting the old turntable wired up for!

 

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