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

[blissblogger]

I heard this version of "Psychotic Reaction" first and owing to this fluke can't help preferring it (although there's not a lot in it - the guitar freakout is just a little bit more freaked out)

 

[william_kent]

I heard this version of "Psychotic Reaction" first and owing to this fluke can't help preferring it (although there's not a lot in it - the guitar freakout is just a little bit more freaked out)

A Hanna-Barbera production!

 

[blissblogger]

In a way, this is an extension of garage - in terms of guitar tone and simplicity - but it's got the slower boogie-ish swing of the end of '60s / start of '70s (a bit Canned Heat 'On the Road', a bit anticipating T.Rex and Mungo Jerry). There's some bubblegum in there with the chorus and backing vocals


Bought the album not so long ago in hopes there was one other tune as good as "Spirit" on it but alas

 

[IdleRich]

I wonder how much of this stuff has ended up on Spotify? I'll have to check later. I hate listening to music on YouTube.

You could have said there before I carefully selected 80,000 youtube links just for you.

 

[luka]

its impossible to 'like' this music in any other way than sort of condescending isnt it. its quaint, basically. thats the appeal.

 

[blissblogger]

I wonder how much of this stuff has ended up on Spotify? I'll have to check later. I hate listening to music on YouTube.

Helpfully - but really for my own convenience / enjoyment - I shoved nearly everything in this thread (excluding a few things too wimpy or too 1970s) into a YouTube playlist, so that's a bit more like Spotify

 

[Leo]

neither stones-y or beatlesque, just burners


low-hanging fruit but why not. A Boston lullaby, oddly enough sung by an LA surf/garage band.


These guys actually were from Boston

 

[Leo]

this is such an un-dissensus thread, isn't it?

 

[IdleRich]

neither stones-y or beatlesque, just burners


low-hanging fruit but why not. A Boston lullaby, oddly enough sung by an LA surf/garage band.


These guys actually were from Boston

The guy from The Standells wrote Tainted Love.

My favourite Sonics is this

 

[Leo]

another sonics classic


also like this one


back in the day, I was big fan of the nomads, band from Sweden who covered lots of this stuff (as well as some late 70s punk/indie) and upped the ante with rocket-fueled guitars.


revlons' cover


alex's chilton track

 

[woops]

Helpfully - but really for my own convenience / enjoyment - I shoved nearly everything in this thread (excluding a few things too wimpy or too 1970s) into a YouTube playlist, so that's a bit more like Spotify

very nice i'd like to see this become common practice on here

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Ghostly surf (ski?) rock from Minnesota:

 

[luka]

 

[bassbeyondreason]

From a (functionally one-sided) LP with 1 beatles and 4 stones covers, but crude enough to be worth a listen:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

I'm not sure how un-Dissensus this thread is really, it'd be different if it was 70s prog stuff. This stuff is definitely part of a pulp-modernist continuum. I'm not the first to make this comparison (e.g. https://www.discogs.com/release/136...s-Volume-One-British-Psychedelic-Rave-1989-92 ) but it's similar to hardcore in its DIY-ness and crass druginess, and the best of it still overcomes its quaintness and holds genuine thrills IMO.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Here's a proper Scooby Doo band name:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Another one for the Mystery Machine:

 

[Leo]

I'm not sure how un-Dissensus this thread is really, it'd be different if it was 70s prog stuff. This stuff is definitely part of a pulp-modernist continuum. I'm not the first to make this comparison (e.g. https://www.discogs.com/release/136...s-Volume-One-British-Psychedelic-Rave-1989-92 ) but it's similar to hardcore in its DIY-ness and crass druginess, and the best of it still overcomes its quaintness and holds genuine thrills IMO.

good points, but definitely deviates from the usual garage versus house music conversation here.

 

[blissblogger]

I'm not sure how un-Dissensus this thread is really, it'd be different if it was 70s prog stuff. This stuff is definitely part of a pulp-modernist continuum. I'm not the first to make this comparison (e.g. https://www.discogs.com/release/136...s-Volume-One-British-Psychedelic-Rave-1989-92 ) but it's similar to hardcore in its DIY-ness and crass druginess, and the best of it still overcomes its quaintness and holds genuine thrills IMO.

there's totally the same spirit animating it as ardkore and early jungle - frenzy, cutting loose, juvenile dementia, a DIY explosion. And some of the same broad sonic attributes: speed, rhythm, riffs, overloaded FX, smeared and distorted sounds, kids messing with technology (amplification and fuzztone and wah-wah back in the '60s), lo-fi production meets extremism. Some of the same imagery in the titles and lyrics even - "Psychotic Reactions" could be a darkside track title almost.

In fact there was a comp in '92 called Psychotic Reactions, although here clearly a knowing reference



Indeed when I was first writing about ardkore the analogy with Nuggets and Pebbles quickly sprang to mind - like, I could do a Lenny Kaye / Greg Shaw / Lester Bangs move with this.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Wish hardcore revivalism would generate its own In The Red (i.e. intensify the rawness far beyond any of the original influences)