the Sonics - Money

[ZBone12]

BEATLE FAG ALERT!

[georgert]

For the haters, don't forget, this song came out in around 1965. The Sonics were so far ahead of their time it was ridiculous.

[AgentChristian]

@georgert Hep! I would have said that this come from the '70!!

[thatfilmgeekguy]

someone should do a video using this song with scenes from the likes of there will be blood, citizen kane, scarface etc.......either that or behind-the-scenes footage of george lucas making the star wars prequels.

[sickpoola]

this is crap...Beatles rules..

[twothousandpeople]

The Sonics did this song the best!!

[ryukXsayu27]

Bring back the Sonics! The band and the basketball team!

[cruzgonzalez182]

the beatles were good but not that good, idgaf what u guys think.

[akemoguy]

@cruzgonzalez182 thank u

[tatunkha]

I prefer the Monics "Soney" anyone heard it?

[RiardoSvandel]

The guitar chords in the verse are so freaking nasty, I love them. Really gives this song the sludgy punk feel it needs.

[Stiletto92]

@littleboyatom I take it you don't like Led Zeppelin then, but why are you holding what was possibly their worst recording against them? Considering it was recorded live in very poor quality and wasn't even released. Everybody has their bad days, and I think they have more than made up for it with everything else they did... just saying. Regardless, I do like the Sonics' version

[hungryherbie]

@littleboyatom Sometimes on the rare occasions we do get better covers than the originals but this version of Money I hate to say it is total crap i've heard a lot of versions of this song and this one is down with the Flying Lizards which quite frankly are both very poor ..but of course you totally disagree and I respect that cheers Herbie

[trabongo]

it sound like the earlier Kinks's records! Great sound!

[hungryherbie]

only the flying lizards is worst than this version sorry folks ...go and listen to the original version by Barrett Strong now that's the classic

[jockojonson17]

@hungryherbie You fucking kidding? Yeah Flying Lizards are shit...but this rocks hard.

[hungryherbie]

@jockojonson17 the only people who would like this version are die hard fans of The Sonics....better versions include The Beatles,The Searches ,and the best Barrett Strong and the worst by a mile The Flying Lizards

[13Rustyparker]

dnt like this one. i like beatles version. wheres the background vocalists?

[nblBer]

screw beatles and back vocals. who the fuck cares?

meet the raw power of the sonics

[tatunkha]

@13Rustyparker Umm no backing vocalist as they couldn't afford it & that follows why they are covering this song.

[GMDPDKD]

I cant find any this song any where on Itunes.

[manwhassup1]

Sonics ftw

[BEATNIKCASS]

just discovered this band---great

[dirtynuke]

This blows the beetles out the water

[shoegazevolt]

"I really need money" :C

Mucho mejor que la de The Beatles, seeh!

[MrVatolocosiempre]

THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD!!!FUCK THE BEATLES!!!

IM FROM BRAZIL AND I LOVE THE SONICS!!!

[TheSonicmule]

stomp shout work it on out

[derwos]

look up money by Barret Strong for the original version it's good too!

[derwos]

@derwos Barett*

[derwos]

waahhh!!

[dakanos]

I REALLY need money

[stanleysoldman]

fuck, these boys rocked this tune!! real leg mover

[ThatHistoryGuy]

Nice dirty garage band feel to this.

[Cryptorchild92]

This one knocks the beatles' cover version into a ditch.... Although i somehow liked John Lennon's vocals better .....

[OMG11123]

Cactuar and Tonberry: Gil Quest.

I can give that flash animation credit for allowing me to find this epic song.

[armorhide406]

@OMG11123 me too

[ZomBLord]

@OMG11123 That IS the good news, we can buy a gumball!!!!!

[butteredtoast556677]

@OMG11123 Greatest video of all time, hands down.

[uncommonriffsraffs]

FOR THE WIN!

[theflowersmbcb]

PROPRIO BELLA!

[elephanta2]

Cooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!

[wasjunk]

Beatles did it,,,,boy from usa

[snatchhog]

This is a cover 3

[jsbret2729]

this beats the crap outta the beatles version

[GSTcheque]

Imagine if Dick Dale had teamed up with these guys.....

[jockojonson17]

Guitar chord progression in this fucking rocks. Nice solo too.

[Smadlin01]

@jockojonson17 haha just the 12 bar blues ;)

[Nostalgico80]

Why I have not been 16 in mid Sixties? :_(

[EltomeiroJackson]

"...you know the best things in life are free,

but you can give them to the birds and bees...

I need Money, that's what I want..."

[slingblade98]

I am very quickly becoming a huge fan of the sonics

[scottcampbell1958]

I can't stop playing this.

[drpepperr]

@scottcampbell1958 I hear you, man.

[quizpubbob]

Extremely good

[marcio3574]

dd++++++++++++++

[TheSonicmule]

stomp, shout, work it on out

[LakeCrewFirm]

MOD

[gang1337grace]

thats wat i want thats wat i want xaxaxa....

rulez

[mondocaneman]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHH!!

Original authentic wild punk 60s music!!!

[TheSonicmule]

stomp shout work it on out.

[alifeofarcticsounds]

rednecks at my high school would look at the guy on the left side of this picture and go "look at that connor oberst emo queer faggot!"

[TheStrangeSound]

next time they say that, beat them with a stick.

[unavaiblle]

covering the beatles ;)

[snatchhog]

wrong,the beatles version was a cover too

[jarrodwilton08]

@unavaiblle

your an idiot!

why does everybody think the beatles did everything?

this has to be the best cover of money there is

better than the beatles cover!

[Sleepwalker1977]

Yes, "Money," the great song that Barrett Strong wrote in 1959 JUST FOR THE BEATLES.

Jesus, have you heard of Wikipedia?

[gang1337grace]

yep true

[GreenhouseEffectGE]

This Rocks !!!!!!!!!!

[Mikelan082]

I heard that they influenced Jimi Hendrix to play loud,when he lived in Seattle back in the early 1960's.

[skeudi]

@Mikelan082 i

I mean they'r'nt waiting 4 Jimmy

[soma1216]

hey i suggest that listen a great band

that call saicos is the first punk band

well is proto punk saicos 1963

[rodoorsfopeyote]

1964

[66KAmPfWiChSeR]

need money for whores!

[nancydfan96]

I love the sonics i liked the horrors garage punk sound and i desided to search for some roots

[shamanofsexy90]

why were they so shortlived

[luchorocker]

buen grupo los sonics , sensacional garage rock..pero en cuanto a salvajismo , crudeza y bestialidad musical y vocal me quedo con los saicos del peru ...el primer grupo proto punk del mundo...viva los saicos....si los saicos hubieran sido ingleses o estadounidenses serian conocidos y reconocidos en le mundo......

[Matildamothers]

Garage rock bands were influenced by the Beatles version than the original. The Beatles version was recorded two years before the Sonics version. The Sonics version is great pure rock and roll.

[Eddifrillson]

i dont think the beatles version is very good at all

no offence to the beatles, i love them

[Matildamothers]

When the Beatles recorded "Money That's What I Want" it was 1963 and what was on the charts at the same time songs like "Rag Doll" and "Surfin USA.. Music progresses but the Beatles version influenced many garage band types to cover of this song. For 1963 the Beatles version rocks. I admit I like the Sonics version better though.

[statelybird3]

@Matildamothers

Yeah, the Beatles/Sonics/Flying Lizard versions are cool, but the original version by Motown artist Barrett Strong is still the bomb. It's clear listening to the Sonics that they were heavily influenced by a lot of hardcore R&B--I always thought the lead singer's shrieks reminded me of Little Richard. They were clearly one of the better white R&B bands from that era--they brought the raw,real,stuff, which I'm thinking--they might have been too raw for '60's radio,period.

[snatchhog]

mmm,yes,but black musicians ripped-off white country music of the time to DISCOVER R and B.There is nothing new-just re-invented.

[grunen77]

hell yeah!!

[gunsanddrugs]

wow! that fuckin beat keeper is one o the finest i eva did hear! i fuckin love him... stomp stomp stomp!

[meangene408]

Beat the Meatles HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[surfside48]

I do have to say I've never heard of this band, and I've been around music some 50 years. Did they ever get out of the Northwest? I lived in Tacoma, Washington for less than A year while in the NAVY at Bremerton Naval Shipyards 1970-1971. The only other band to play this song with A fast tempo was the Kingsmen, and that was in 1964. When did the Sonics record their version?

[ellvad]

I guess they recorded this song betwenn 1965 and 1968

[Eddifrillson]

im pretty sure it was in 1965, most of their songs were (well at least the ones from 'etiquette')

[surfside48]

So you are saying, that the Sonics paid to get the use of the Kingsmen's song, and it became, what we use to call back in the day. A"REVIVED 45." Yes?

[Eddifrillson]

no offence dude, i have no idea what you're talking about. im only 14, i wasnt alive 'back in the day'

[surfside48]

Most writers of big music, copyright their music so if it is used without their permission, they can sue the band that stole the music .Does that make any sense? "Back in the day" most songs came out on two sided records, 33&1/3, 45's, and 78's. Singles that were played on the radio stations were mostly 45rpm(revolutions per minute). A "revived 45" was A song that was popular in A time, well before another band picked it up later, and made it A hit again.

[fucktheutubeusername]

GARAGE

[lummoxedup]

Go Sonics...Beat the Meatles

[hobosown]

garage work at its finest!

[motorvirus1]

Best version of this song!

[ENS64]

Krappo when compared to other bands of that same time from around the Pac NW. Take time to check out " Nuggets from the Liverpool Five Parts 1 and 2)" on You Tube.

[Oddsman57]

Thanks for the tip...much better

[KOOLEO329]

Gotta agree that this is noise when compared to other bands around the NW in the Sixties. I had forgotten about the LP5 but plan to check them out next. Thanx.

[Kravis63]

It's noise with a purpose, I much prefer the Sonics.

[fatkids123]

liverpool five are soppy bollocks stop commenting on every vid about them

[cyx77]

I wish that they had recorded this with better equipment cause the screaming gets a little messed up. But this song is awesome none the less.

[Afghanen]

That just takes the tip of the sonics . It should sound like this!! Garage rock at its best!

[locke89]

I think that this makes the song sound even better. Don't know why, but it just goes with the style of the song.

[rayexcellente]

the sonics are the shit, before anyone else thought this was music they killed it!

[ultraviolence000]

this aint rock n roll, it's far too raw sounds like garage rock before its time to me

[SKIZINGDRUG]

the whole song is distorsed... that doesnt mean RAW SOUND... its nearly a pure rock and roll... its a problem about the uploading, not raw

[coopers66]

The raw sound has nothing to do with uploading. This simply sounds raw because the (clean) amps volume was way up during recording and the mics were clipped. Certainly not the kind of distortion we know these days.. By the way, why doesn´t distortion mean raw sound? in my opinion distortion is the more or less the epitome of raw sound. However, this is certainly rock ´n roll, with a raw sound.

[armorhide406]

the first riff is awesome!

[h1anDANlin890]

man i love rock and roll

[mymindshelter]

I like it

[armorhide406]

this makes the other versions look really old.

[hebneh]

"Money" is one of the all-time best songs, and I think I like all the different versions of it - but it is particularly suited for the Sonics.

This is influenced by the version by Paul Revere and the Raiders - at least, that one also has the additional "Stomp, shout, work it on out" line that Mark Lindsay sings. I suspect he used it first, before the Sonics.

[djmrbrown00]

nobody can top barrett strong's version.. yet to hear a cover that can compare... original is so grimey!!! sounds sooo good really loud in a club...

love the sonics and they did some FANTASTIC COVERS

[problem49]

Agreed. Both bands played the Nortwest scene and clearly influenced each other.

[Raughwe]

This music has the devil in it!!! I love these guys. AWESOME.

[lenarum1955]

Согласен эта композиция сделана лучше и зажигательней чем у Битлз

[taxmonkey123]

A trillion times better than The Beatles' version.

[armorhide406]

I been looking for this a long time, thx for up load

[nergvol]

Remember the Caliphs playing this song in Aberdeen long time ago, blazing path for Cobain

[DerPete123]

goil

[StealthSoldiers]

winkle pickers

yes?

[GenDoomVisser]

thank gooooooooodness the hives didn't let this stuff die

[rocknrollporn]

if u heard there newest record ud know they did

[GenDoomVisser]

I meant that they brought it back kinda thing, you know.

[BeatTheBeatsteaks]

I love love love love love this BAND!

[TitlowPark]

These guys were the soundtrack for my youth! We would play their albums through a P.A. system. Bob Bennett's drumming was as powerful as any rhythm maker I've ever heard and I still get that feeling I had then when I cue up "have Love Will Travel" or "Strychnine" on my IPod. Our kids and their kids can't believe the Sonics were from "that" era, since their sound transcends the time between then and now. It's the "real deal" if you are looking for what "Rock & roll" really means.

[neilus]

Cool! Bobs drums are awesome bang bang bang BANG...the reunion gigs are wicked but i get the feeling JR aint into it...id sell my soul to know that these guys r gonna be ok...legends LONG LIVE THE SONICS!!!!

[titatho]

uuhh yeahh, nice one! really makes you dance :D

[Smadlin01]

im addicted to this song..if i go a day without it ill shrivel up and die

[lapsworld]

punk rock in the 60's!

[lummoxedup]

Sonics make every song more badass

[MyFaveDoctor]

Has more of the raw power of Barrett Strong's performance. Not cutesy like the Beatles. Of course, this is just the opinion of one chump-ass middle-aged white guy... .

[statelybird3]

@MyFaveDoctor

You're so right, middle-aged white dude. That's what I love about the Sonics---they were a straight-up hardcore R&B band and their version is about the only one I've heard even coming close to Barrett Strong's version.

[HYDROPODSBOD]

RAW GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE

[TheDirector999]

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!

[TheDirector999]

This is the best version of this song! It's WAAAAAAAY better than when that girl sings it and... it's a LITTLE BIT better than The Beatles version.

[AAQ40]

This is the best perfomance of any band...The Girl was lead for the band "Flying Dragons"

[QuestForComedy]

flying lizards : )