Nuggets/Pebbles/BackFromTheGrave etc tunes that are nothing like Beatles

[bassbeyondreason]

....and of course the ultimate reverb-drenched downer blow-out LP:

 

[william_kent]

and from the far east


The Golden Cups - This Bad Girl

 

[IdleRich]

I personally love the moody and eerie, Byrds-influenced folkroci stuff as much as the punk:

Ha, I was just about to suggest a change in direction too. I was gonna mention a load of the sort of softer stuff, just wide-eyed kids trying to sound romantic



And lately Liza has taken to finishing sets with this one (though obviously not the impossibly rare original)

 

[william_kent]

soppy jingly jangly garage


The Dovers – She's Not Just Anybody

 

[IdleRich]

Ha, snap, Dovers had three or four extraordinarily expensive wimpy garage numbers.
Looking at popsike She's Not Just Anybody was on ebay in 2017 and the winning bid was $888, whereas in 2011 She's Gone was auctioned for $1,800 - and they have another track called The Third Eye which was on ebay in 2013 - the winner coughed up $4,339....
I dunno that track, let's see if it's good



It's two minutes and eighteen seconds long... I'm not sure I would pay $31.44 to listen to one second of it.

There is a guy that @DannyL and I know who owns a record shop near Watford and he would of course buy job lots. One such lot at an average price of about 50p per record turned out to contain this which can go for a similar price.


Quite interesting to speculate on how it ended up in a random pile of worthless sevens in Bushey. I wonder what he did with it, when I moved to Lisbon he was talking about his wife must not learn the value or else she would certainly force him to sell it...

 

[bassbeyondreason]

One from South Dakota(!) with blue-eyed soul vibes that I play out both sides of:

Frantic side:

Soppy side:

 

[IdleRich]

Sparkles did this kinda cutesy but pervy one which I rather like



And then another nice one called The HIp



But what's surprising is that some ye ye girl did a tougher version of that

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Another one that works in Northern Soul contexts, heavy boogaloo elements to this:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Would love to find more weirdo garage exotica like this:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

...or this inexplicable proto-noise-rock one-off by a pre-Fifty Foot Hose Cork Marcheschi:

 

[IdleRich]

In fact there is loads of cool French stuff







Serge Gainsbourg wrote this one which has been covered many times



This version is great with killer drums, she abandons the theme, it's no longer telling an old girl to stop chasing girls, but just about dancing. I used to have the seven inch but somehow - I just don't know how - I lost it to my immense frustration, I still keep hoping that one day it will turn up.



And then you got this version which was in a Tarantino film - back to the original theme with the lyrics though the translation is not literal I think

 

[william_kent]

a heavy one from Austria


Novak's Kapelle ‎– Hypodermic Needle ( 1968 )

 

[IdleRich]

Would love to find more weirdo garage exotica like this:

Yeah that is really interesting... I do have some things that are garage/exotica but that one is really moody - definitely more ineresting than most of the things I have in that vein.

This album is qutie cool though - and I love the cover.

It's a load of exotica instros like this



This is a very weird record that I unfortunately dropoped and took a massive chunk out of



This album is weird, it's called Music For Batman and Robin, but look at the titles, nothing to do with that. It's exotica with bleeps and stuff

https://www.discogs.com/master/902601-The-Spacemen-Music-For-Batman-And-Robin

This one, Free Pop Electronic Concept is weird sort of cocktail jazz with bleeps and stuff all over it

A lot of really cool tunes on this




And on the same label is this album which is not as consistent but has its moments



I suppose you got the Joe Meek onees



And similar super compressed idea.... despite called Atlantics are from Australia



Lee Hazlewood did some some surf/exotica ones with a band that were cool but I forget the name.

In fact, now I start to think of it I guess I have a fair bit of this stuff.... surely the weirdest though is this one by Sandy Nelson.
This album here doesn't look of any particular interest....

https://www.discogs.com/master/250194-Sandy-Nelson-Teen-Beat-65

But thsi one tune.... I dunno what the fuck he was thinking



Oh this one is fun as well

 

[william_kent]

the Sandy Nelson sort of reminds me of this, although the Nelson is further out there...


Pasquale & The Lunar Tiks - Moon Madness

 

[IdleRich]

Also, I have some pretty fun versions of Peter Gunn (give it a minute or so to get going)



And from a Selected Sound library by Bob Elger

https://www.discogs.com/release/2728306-Bob-Elger-And-His-Orchestra-Happy-Meeting-A-Woman-Is-Bor

There is a track called Racing Team which pretty much just Peter Gunn

 

[maxi]

I wanna find more stuff with the raw psychedelic breakdowns like in this one

 

[blissblogger]

On the Dylan-ish talk-sing tip, there's this


Apparently Mouse believed that Dylan ripped him off!

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Perhaps on the cusp of hard rock, but this is fucking wild (featuring a young Brian James, later of The Damned etc)

 

[blissblogger]

When it comes to raw black music, this is moving into a heavy / acid-rock / Hendrixy zone but really still pretty garage-y, even with the time-slowing-down sequence (dub ahead of its time)


even rawer live - but interestingly they do the dubby clock-winding-down bit completely live onstage just like the record

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Dissonant cornball acid-surf that seems to have gone way up in price since I bought my copy: