My Record Collection - Garage Rock Classics, Part Two

The second installment of quintessential 60s garage rock albums from my collection:

1) Seeds (GNP Crescendo 1966)
2) Don and the Goodtimes -- So Good (Epic 1966)
3) Music Explosion -- Little Bit O' Soul (London 1967)
4) Shadows of Knight -- Gloria (Dunwich 1966)
5) Strangeloves -- I Want Candy (Bang 1966)
6) Cryan' Shames -- Sugar and Spice (Columbia 1966)
7) Blues Magoos -- Psychedelic Lollipop (Mercury 1966)
8) Merry-Go-Round (A&M 1967)
9) Terry Knight and the Pack (Lucky Eleven 1966)
10) Syndicate of Sound -- Little Girl (Bell 1966)
11) Critters -- Younger Girl (Kapp 1966)
12) Swingin' Medallions -- Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) (Smash 1966)
13) Love (Elektra 1966)

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Music

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• records
• vinyl
• LPs
• albums
• 60s
• 70s
• garage
• punk
• psych

[vampyros1]

I have all these originals except the Critters, which I don't consider to be garage rock. Fortunately, the best psych-punk LP's from the era have been reissued for those who didn't get in early enough to score originals: Choc. Watchband, Litter, Seeds, Standells, Music Mach., Count Five, Yardbirds ......

[myrecordcollection]

Well, "garage rock" is a slippery term. Many wouldn't consider your Yardbirds garage rock. You should check out the early Critters song "No One but You"--it's great garage. You're absolutely right about the fact that their Kapp stuff is too poppy to sound very "garage," though.

[vampyros1]

Critters?  Tons of bands had 'one-offs' that qualified for the genre, I was speaking generally. Yardbirds? Nearly every American garage band worth their weight in salt listened to and adored them. Their aesthetic was tough and punky, their songs too, and they always brought the fuzz box along. The genre transcends the place where the bands actually cut their teeth, the spirit of the music was the litmus. Euro, sure, but the Y-Birds were the Gov'nors.

[myrecordcollection]

You make a good point, but I feel that most garage fans do believe that nationality is a factor in whether or not you're a "garage band." The idea of a garage band is usually seen as an essentially American one: suburban garages, bored baby-boomer young people, postwar affluence, etc. American garage bands are usually seen as a *response* to UK beat and R&B groups like the Yardbirds and Kinks. Were the Kinks a garage band? Not really...despite their crunchy, two-chord hits.

[vampyros1]

Point well taken; 'aficionados' cite a nexus between inept 'Americaniziation' and the garage, both of which preclude the Yardbirds and their brethren. However, given that their music (and a few others') was at the vanguard of what would become "garage rock", i.e.: the 'source material' & inspiration, the genre was their progeny. Specifically, the Yardbirds, more than any other, exemplified what would eventuate that most prized garage niche, acid punk. That template was, by and large, theirs.

[myrecordcollection]

I agree totally. I can't imagine a group that had more of an influence on the American garage rock style than the Yardbirds. I mean, all you have to do is point to "Psychotic Reaction."

[annsara43]

TERRY KNIGHT can rest now, GFR carries on

[daryl060761]

Excellent collection and excellent presentation. Please keep posting videos like this! Your videos are by far the best of their kind I've seen on You Tube. Have a great day! :D

[tornmask1]

@tornmask : i aggree 100% plus on that statement! =0]

[tornmask1]

@annsara43 : Amen! ]o)

[tornmask1]

i love garage rock music & it doesn't matter what country it's from! x0]

[MichaelHansenFUN]

Swingin' Medallions -- Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) (Smash 1966)

the mono pressing of the album has the uncensored version

the stereo pressing has the censored version

of the song of the same name

"Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)"

[vampyros1]

@myrecordcollection Sorry, didn't know you'd responded 'til now. I couldn't agree more; there may be a few more actual "garage-made recordings" on Pebbles, etc., but relatively few; the term "garage band" originated from the place of practice, not recording. Anyways, nice post you have here of some great garage bands.

[myrecordcollection]

I'm not sure I understand. "Garage band" suggests the idea of a rock group with humble roots, limited fame, limited economic success. The idea of a "garage" is there in that you imagine a group playing in a garage rather than in a classier venue. But 95% of what we today consider "garage rock" was certainly not recorded in a garage. If you look at Rhino's Nuggets box set, which is the epitome of what we call "garage rock," you probably won't find a single song actually recorded in a garage.

[paintedship]

@vampyros1 I know what acid punk is but it's just a lame term made up by guys like you who pretend like they know what they're talking about. And no I didn't mean recordings actually recorded in a garage I meant bands that rehearsed in one, saved up their money to record in a studio and have a single pressed in a few hundred- you know kinda like the yardbirds? ;) If you think I'm such a novice why would I even use this name on youtube. I'm not replying anymore so have fun talking to yourself.

[vampyros1]

@paintedship Acid punk was typified by the burgeoning psychedelic sounds creeping into garage-punk. BFTG ... no wonder you don't know what acid-punk is. And you're kidding, right?? You think "garage rock" means the recordings were actually recorded in a garage? lol Occasionally, yes. But it was a term appropriated because so many of the bands had >>practiced<< in garages. Jeezus. No wonder ... you grew up on the wrong side of the pond long after the genre had stomped its last Maestro.