The Sonics - Psycho

[ViajanteB4]

GARAGE PUNK ROCK !!!! 1965

[moOnwort222]

WOOO!

[SigmaSigmaGnarly]

I bet this scared the shit out of some people when they first heard it

[theonlydjtopcat]

RIP Kearny Barton

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

I've always been impressed with the way the whole band come in on the very first femto-millisecond of the first syllable of BABY! at the beginning - they were tight.

[pellmj1]

this masterpiece is not even 2 and a half minutes long- it kills me every time.

[hoodus61]

how cool would it be to go into a session and just turn everything up to 11?

[cubbyguy1]

11 people prefer The Marios ahahahahahaha the marios..

[MrGallagher]

@roppi That, without doubt, is the best review I have ever read, sir. Hats off.

[suicidejournal]

heard this song on the soundtrack of "henry: portrait of a serial killer." great rock and roll song.

[celeocanth]

this just fukkin belts out of the stereo

[Osthropek]

awesome drum sound

[SmurfAndBuffalo]

Thank You '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'. I recommend that everyone has a copy. Such a great book. And there's no "The Beatles are better than the Sonics" nonsense.

[nimbsiedoo]

never heard of this band until now i find it amazing Thank You !!!

[sickpoola]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  [♥]

[ColtonBrassie]

im 105 and i still listen to this!!!! :D

[TheMusicchannel23]

twist and shout

[JohnnyNny94]

Badass song!

[Uranio256]

Is modification of La Bamba.

[TheBoki696]

Latinos and punk is simply not acceptable :D

[celeocanth]

it's just so fukkin intense

[94GuitarLord]

These guys are the godfathers of punk and are FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Debaser86]

those drums..... got dayum dude hitting them like a madman!!! best sonics song!!! first punk song??? BEST SONG????

[ZuCKeRSueSz]

MAAAAADSEN <3

[Alphabex8]

that fucker can scream. nobody screamed like that in 1965.

[victormanueification]

@Alphabex8 Check Los saicos- demolicion or Los saicos- el entierro de los gatos or Los Saicos - Fuga de Alcatraz this was a rock  band from Peru. You'll find they recorded in 1964 their singles. They were the first punk band of the world.

[indotravis]

@Alphabex8 LISTEN TO "LOS SAICOS DEMOLER " 1964 AND YOU WILL SEE IF NOBODY YELLED THAT TIME LIKE THAT WAY,,

[Alphabex8]

@indotravis boy am i glad you were the second person to tell me this--cuz if you were the first i probably never would have checked out this kickass band. i would have ignored everything you said simply because of the all caps, and then miss out on great music by Los Saicos. but yeah, that is a really fuckin good band. GOODBYE

[MelvinHarrison]

@indotravis i know it, maybe Los Saicos are a latin american version of the sonics

[ronaldvanderkleij]

what this has to do with Punk. Its more soul a la james brown But we wont forget its 1965 and for that time it was punk oke

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

Of course, the best song the sonics ever did was "Strychnine" and "Don't Believe in Christmas".

[dega723]

@poughkeepsiejohn1 What about "do you love me?"

[dega723]

"Henry portrait of a serial killer" soundtrack ! yesss!!

[MrNatchural69]

this song makes me wanna go psycho, in a good way

[RutherfordClubb139]

Rip the audio from this track at thetunify doht cohm.

[vintagezigg]

And the Dave Clarke Five............And Little Richard

[nzoneaffe]

reminds me of twist and shout, but with more balls^^

[bruno88al]

não conhecia essa banda SENSASIONAL!!!

[ArthurAllblack]

Met a lady through a friend, we dated for two weeks. Then suddenly, she completely flips out on me over some petty issue! Something involving her indie films and me not watching them yet or something. She called me all screaming and crying, sent me a letter on facebook and told me to leave her alone. After telling her that she'll never hear from me again, she barraged me with umpteen text messages! And I'm still trying to figure out what it is that I did wrong, I was nothing but a gentleman!

[dooberbear66]

@ArthurAllblack

It happens about every 28 days. Don't worry about it.

[johndrummer]

live at Georg Best Club on 7th December 2010.

[jimmyg4paok]

@johndrummer live at Thessaloniki on 5th December 2010 i'll be there!

[notsovelvet]

Man that ending always gets to me, love it.

[marksoutof10]

This is the song that inspired me to dig deeper into the music of the sixties, and I have since discovered so much else besides the Beatles/Stones stuff we all know.

It has been quite an education.

[Sandbagger300]

@marksoutof10 I always tell people that if all you listen to is the radio you know maybe MAYBE 25% of the good music from the mid-late 60's. I encourage everyone to get the Nuggets, pebbles, back from the grave CD's and look online and find out what group sare great. I ended up buying the entire Moby Grape catalog, they are one of the best groups ever....and not a single one of their songs is ever played on the radio!

[rayamoore1]

@Sandbagger300 Great group. You hear 'Omaha" once in a blue moon but you are right, they are largely ignored. Too bad.

[corph92]

this is music :)))

[danielm2222]

If you really like this group, you must listen to Los Saicos. Check this vid. You won't regret it. watch?v=fML-0M3e6Tk

[VL1302]

Great post, cheers. Cult

[megh723]

Pity my ass. It's a beautiful description. Fucking well done.

[riceman460]

it is a fucking pity

[mckeich]

Pity your description uses such bad language and is so crass

[teufeldritch]

@mckeich To bad you are such a prude that you can't handle a little off the cuff exclamations. "Lighten up Francis."

[slicknicknirvana]

Awesome!

[lisapunky]

wow, blow your brains out of your ass, eh

[edinblack14]

Highly influential band. All these garage bands were the first punk bands and influenced the Cramps, The Damned to name but a few.

[kevok90]

I used to be in a band that covered this in the 80s a great song. With so many happy memories of crappy little pubs.

[Rabidburt]

Agreed, brilliant. They're from Seattle or the Pacific Northwest and there are a few CD's available. Get after it. . .

[thegulag]

@Rabidburt

Yes from the PNW,; from Tacoma, WA. The supposedly got their names from a rash of Sonic booms occurring around McChord AFB , directly south of Tacoma, at the time. One of three or four quintessential Tacoma bands, including The Wailers, The Ventures and Girl Trouble. Essential Garage rock and a solid fixture of the ballroom scene of the Sixties, regularly playing ballrooms such as The Spanish Castle; the place Jimi Henrdrix sang about.

[jonsilence]

I thought this was insane early 60s...well, its not early 60s. But it IS insane! One of the greatest screams ever recorded.

[gotanigo]

WOW! 

[tundradog]

amazing...no AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

[shining81]

this sums up about that person..lmao..or maybe its me...lmao..jk

[herbertkearse]

This group should have gotten much further than they did. They were hard as hell, kick ass rockers.

[norm100066]

Just listened to the original of Psycho and whoever put this up really messed up the sound. This is WAY more trebly and distorted than the original. I'm just sayin'...

[jsbret2729]

i love this band

[1979cl1]

This song is earth shaking that could shake the lemons and oranges off the tree, these guys are considered as inovators of punk!!

[8010cookie]

I love these guys, Classic but timeless!!!

[horizon900]

Just discovered The Sonics. What a band! Somehow missed their cue in the scheme of things. Why was that? Didn't hit the spot then for industry and perception reasons I guess, but now they kill everything stone dead. Bless you and them.

[geenamang]

something similar can be found with (the now defunct) jon spencer blues explosion

[SubscribeToMyTube]

This song always cracks me up!

[ShadowWanderer1]

Hi roppi my brains merely EXPLODED!

The scream at the end I've heard various lengths GOD WHAT A SCREAMER!

This just fucking RULES!!!!! One of the greatest songs ever and I am dealing with THREE women all driving me NUTS now!!!!

"I'm going out of my head and now I wish I was dead"!

God one tells me she loves me says I'm beautiful then is totally cold, another thinks I'm cute but we're friends & another LIES! HELP! I don't know who I love! agh!

this is the PERFECT song thank you!!! :) ha ha

[piooii]

kinda looks like have love,will travel

[Rac665]

Holy shirt.

[fkkstrandwixer]

love it

[roddy76to86]

Ok, great !

[roddy76to86]

Er, aren't you forgetting about punk in 1976 and the following 10 years ? But I entirely agree with you about today's rubbish.

[diddywahdaddy]

They certainly were something, to say the least!! Still busy in 'mach schau', too!!

[ZECA93]

can anyone tell me where i can find the breakbeat of this song please??

[lenn75eX]

great stuff.

[connsens]

hammer!

[bboyraw123]

does anyone know what the break beat is of this song?

you know: 1:16 to 1:20

if you know it? tell me...

thanks, Pz Raw

[deborahmacedo]

thanks for post this music!!

I´m really love !!!

So dancing!!

[arizonaghost1]

punk? ha...i was there live when they would play at the spanish castle in tacoma wash. in 1964......awsome band and the kids went crazy

[ROCKWORLD1881]

i AM dancing to this :)

[adeebkasem]

i am dancing on the inside because i have no legs. :(

[wavelength121]

i would dance to this

[hmoon99]

A-M-A-S-I-N-G band

[tamburlaine79]

@hmoon99 What's Amasing?

[lwoodbloo]

Five white guys obsessed with Little Richard. Amazing.

[BluesYourAss]

@lwoodbloo And James Brown....................

[HabboHackCode]

shit

[LustForHate]

PUNK!

[TheWatsonGreen]

is this the first 'punk' band?

[simmy2004]

@TheWatsonGreen Yeah, it was first known as a genre called Proto-Punk, because punk wasn't invented, but it was just a real heavy version of rock and roll.

[TheWatsonGreen]

very cool, thanks for the info.

[tamburlaine79]

@simmy2004 Interesting. Why is that? For something that wasn't invented ie Punk, why would they have the name 'Punk' in it?

[simmy2004]

@tamburlaine79 I'm not too sure, it had something to do with their style(clothing wise) and their music sound. Other than Wikipediang it, I don't have that much info sorry.

[xID0Gx]

u didnt need to explain with those words u could hane just said "coolest song ever"

[fariegost]

thank you Mikko !!I love you!!the band, that is lol!!!BLASTED!!

[soma1216]

saicos is a band of early punk

listen saicos - demolicion

1964

[rcd1875]

i thot that a blak person sang this the solo and the drumming is fukin amazin

[be11is]

im speechless

[eoj2495]

YESSS!!!

[somonesetusupthebomb]

wow... this band is really... crappy.

[nefely84]

I just returned home after a fascinating concert of SONICS here in Athens!

[Bob3759]

This song was on the soundtrack of

Auto Focus, about Bob Crane. Great song

and great movie. Once you've heard it, you

won't forget it.

[GeorgeKearney]

I first heard this song in Trailer 1 of the Scenesters - really good song, for a good film!

[punkbabydoll77]

early punk!

[rivendale1]

screeeaammmooo

[shamanofsexy90]

who can u ddicate thos 2 there?

[Pippyman123]

so ahead of its time!

[gerryn]

1965. . . . . according to Wikipedia !

[michelst14]

I know two persons there I can dedicate this song....

[Anyu7378]

me too. lol

[banditcountry]

raw,rough edged and fucking undiluted!...

[Psychowilly]

Flame Trick Subs do a good cover of this song.

[jectup]

Is it me or "Twist and shout" sounds a quite like this song....

[bassik123]

Same chord progression, if you notice it also sounds like Louie Louie.

[PowerfulDragon]

also have love, will travel

[leonardoazul14]

Friends listen to the song Demolicion of the Saicos of Peru ...... really a great surprise .... the real proto-punk

[TEODATENE]

Top Song. Top Group.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Such a great song. Once heard, never forgotten.

1:41-2:16: Bliss.

[sggrimshaw]

I attended quite a few concerts of the Northwest bands and no disrespect to any of them although they were not from the northwest in my opinion the Liverpool Five were heads and shoulders a much better band than all the others> Recently I visited the Music Experience in Seattle and to my surprise the Liverpool Five were not even mentioned which I think is a complete oversight and very disrectfull to a very talented group from England.

[PsychoKoki]

<3 wundertoll <3

[0oteba]

haha i love your description of this song. it's exactly how i thought/felt about this song, the first time i heard it, and actually still do!

[Eddifrillson]

ah-WEEEOOAAW!

[sozidomm]

hab das lied hier das erste mal gehört und gleich verliebt.

:-D

[CJurasin]

Type in "Out of our Tree" by the Wailers and you'll get some more Pacific Northwest ROCK from back then!! It's also a CLASSIC!!

[ENS64]

While you are doing that, take time on You Tube to check out "Nuggets from the Liverpool Five ( Part 1 and 2)" . Six tunes from that great band from England that called Spokane home base for a couple of years. They played all over the Northwest and are a significant part of that area's rock music history .

[cassettepat]

saw em last year in london. awesome

[AllRiseForDrEvil]

This song rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Sonics kick so much ass, yet very few people know 'em.

[Raughwe]

One of rock's greatest songs.

[tynertyner]

Boom Boom Modulation Psycho!

[VanHowle]

BOOM!

[puremintmusic]

As a Brit and a music lover, I must confess to agreeing with Jhrunion in this instance - this band rock and are so ahead of their time.

Good stuff :-)

[wooodenelephant]

Anyone know if this is the original?

I thought I heard another version one time.

Awesome song, anyway...

[ghostdog7575]

yes it is... psycho is an original song of the sonics.

MAybe you heard a cover or maybe an alternate version from the sonics as a bonus track on a compilation.

But the version on their original LP is this...

That's SCREEMIN' RAW'K'N' ROLL AT ITS BEST!!!!

[Eddifrillson]

on the cd 'psycho sonic' there is a live version too maybe he heard that

[CJurasin]

wooden: Yes, this is the original. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and this group came to our town several times and did this song. Same song, same lead singer, etc. These guys and the Wailers, The Viceroys, The Beachcombers, Paul Rever and the Raiders and the Kingsmen were the BEST of the Pacific Northwest back then....

[ENS64]

Do not forget the Liverpool Five , that great band from England that settled in Spokane for a year or two in the Sixties. They are a significant part of the Pacific Northwest music history.

[CJurasin]

ENS: I had NO IDEA the Liverpool Five temporarily lived in Spokane! I used to live there, and never heard this before!! Did they ever play at the Coliseum or Tiffany's Skate In? I used to know a Go Go Girl at Tiffany's and she mentioned the Box Tops a few times but NEVER the Liverpool Five!! They had some good music back then!

[MB300TE]

I saw them at the Coliseum in 1966 with the Kinks. The Sonics opened the show.

Check out "Nuggets from the Liverpool Five Parts 1 and 2) on You Tube. Also if you check " Liverpool Five in Spokane " on Google you'll find at least one recent newspaper article covering their connection to the City. LONG LIVE ROCK!!!.

[jhrunion]

the sonics are boss. the brits could never hang with this!

[DerPete123]

goil

[jimmypage444]

great song, really sounds like a modified beatles tune, not sure which of these groups recorded it first though or who can claim plaigerizm LOL

[jimmyDisgustipated]

The Beatles were never this good. Even on acid.

[jhrunion]

i agree 1,ooo%

jimmyDisgustipated !

[psychedelicbluesdiva]

@jimmyDisgustipated HAH someone had to say it. Thank you.

[thedruggames]

did you sleep with the band?

[toansavoo]

Beautiful 'lovesong'!

[HighSinnerz]

One of the greatest Psychobilly songs!!

Thank you.

[sammykins1234]

Great great greattt.

[kjksdaman]

Your all over the place with your Liverpool Five.

Give it a rest.

[rocknrollporn]

can i get an opinion on wat is there greatest song?

[JakeANowhereMan]

The WItch

[HrSmith666]

1.Strychnine

2.The Witch

[mandingoviking]

1-he's waiting

2-the witch

3-psycho

[thebuzzwackers]

one of our biggest influences!

The Buzzwackers

[SkulLotus]

Twist and Shout?

[TMSgal]

These guys were pre-punk and pre-garage and I saw them a lot aound the Pacific Northwest in the mid and late sixties. Another band at least as good that I often saw in the same venues around that time was the Liverpool Five, an English group that emigrated to the US. Sometimes the two groups would be on the same show and would push each other to greater heights. As a result,the Sonics became more Anglicised and the LP5 became more Americanized.Both groups deserve greater attention.

[mogulwraith]

The Sonics were listed as a major influence by many of the Seattle groups of the 90s

[MB300TE]

As were the Liverpool Five and the Wailers

[mogulwraith]

Wailers were great? Hey, let's play the "what do these bands have in common?" game. Why stop at northwest bands... I know this is a Sonics page and THEY had an influence on the "90's Seattle Sound" but why limit our reach? I bet we could name 50 more bands that had an influence without blinking. You first... go...

[MB300TE]

As were the Wailers and the Liverpool Five

[mogulwraith]

Since sarcasm doesn't work well when you make a stupid mistake like making a statment "Wailers were great" into a question "Wailers were great?" I concede the game. But if you are interested we can play another, I'll go first. I'll take things that are irrelevant for 100 please.

[MB300TE]

The Sonics, Wailers, Liverpool Five, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Don and the Goodtimes all had a great inflence on every NW group that followed including Heart. That is a fact...not an irrelevant statement.

[mogulwraith]

Well you're almost right. It's irrelevant to a Sonics post but I am an ass so the those facts almost cancels each other out. bonus points for Don and the Goodtimes. I'd drop kick the liverpool 5 in favor of the Kingsmen though.

[MB300TE]

Kudos MWraith for including the Kingsmen, but no way would I reneg on the Liverpool Five who spent four years in the Mid=sixties and played all over the Northwest. They desrve their place along side all the others mentioned and now are getting some well deserved recognition on You Tube . Go check them out before making up your mind.How about the Cherry Bombs? Peace.

[mogulwraith]

Not disssing them, but they're british invasion... not NW.

[L2daO2daZ]

Psychobilly is so good!

[hballp0]

Didn't you mean... Rockabilly?

[L2daO2daZ]

No, I mean Psycobilly.

It's basically influenced by rockabilly bands.

It's a cross between rockabilly and Punk.

There are many things that define psycobilly including the use of the double bass. Google it, you'll find it interesting, I'm sure.