More classic garage punk from the Pacific Northwest, this is the Untouchables from Olympia, WA doing “Don’t Go, I’m Beggin’.” Great stuff.
More classic garage punk from the Pacific Northwest, this is the Untouchables from Olympia, WA doing “Don’t Go, I’m Beggin’.” Great stuff.
The Shadows of Knight’s biggest and best-known song is their cover of Them’s “Gloria” (Them was Van Morrisson’s original band). However, in my opinion, “Shake” blows their version of “Gloria” out of the water. Some damn good 60s garage punk.
For a brief period during the early – mid 2000s, lo-fi garage punk seemed like the “the next big thing.” While the genre had been around for years, the White Stripes brought it to the mainstream and achieved huge commercial success, surprisingly with little-to-no commercial polish present. Seriously, those White Stripes recordings from that period sound like they came directly from the Crypt Records catalog. The Hives (from Sweden) were another band from that period everyone expected to be big and while they achieved some recognition, it wasn’t on the level of the Stripes. Still, their music was truly wonderfully grungy stuff. 10 years later, this still packs a punch. And it’s nice to see they’re carrying on the fine Swedish pop band tradition by wearing matching suits.
Zappa’s mildly snarky, but ultimately affectionate tale of the rise and fall and rise of a 60s garage punk band.
The Sonics’ “Psycho” is an insanely wild kick to the head from the mid-1960s that needs to be played extremely loud. I don’t know what it is about the Pacific Northwest that produces such incredibly insane music. Maybe nine months of rain makes people a little edgy.