Favorite 1960s Garage Rock Songs

What are your favorite garage rock songs of the 1960's? I have a lot of compilations, along with the Nuggets boxed sets but am trying to whittle them down to about 50 or so.....

Here are some of the songs I like:

Psychotic Reaction: Count Five
Action Woman: The Litter
Its Cold Outside: The Choir
99th Floor: Moving Sidewalks
Liar, Liar: The Castaways
I'm A Man: Yardbirds
Talk Talk: Music Machine
Pyscho: The Sonics

 

Sonics: Boss Hoss
Creation: Making Time
Strangeloves: Night Time
Nazz: Open My Eyes
Premiers: Farmer John

The Sonics in my opinion are at the top of this genre!

 

The Seeds-Pushin' Too Hard

Electric Prunes-I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

 

Lies - The Knickerbockers
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant

 

You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

But really, a better title for this thread would be "Tracklisting of the Nuggets Box Set".

 

96 Tears - ? and The Mysterians
Take My Everlasting Love (And Cram It Up Your Heart) - Hombres
Nobody But Me - Human Beinz

 

Does this qualify as garage rock ?

Wine Wine Wine - The Nightcaps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45BG2efR0A

But I like Strychnine by the Sonics more.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoGGUQyyVw&feature=related

 

Or:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4naCRXcySY&feature=related

 

I'd say make it interesting and go with Back From the Grave...

I'll toss in:
Sir Winston and the Commons - We're Gonna Love
Uptight Tonight - Flash and the Memphis Casuals
Nothin' - The Ugly Ducklings
She'll Lie - Satan and the D-Men

 

This isn't garage rock but it's on the Nuggets boxset. The Choir-It's Cold Outside.

 

Dunno if it's garage, but Davie Allan and the Arrows' "Cycle-delic"

 

Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

 

Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds

 

The Fortels - 'She'

 

Strychnine - The Sonics
Little Black Egg - The Nightcrawlers
7 + 7 Is - Love
The Orange Rooftop Of Your Mind - The Blue Things
Spazz - The Elastik Band
You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells
Green Fuz - The Green Fuz
I See The Light - The Five Americans

 

We Ain't Got Nothing Yet-Blues Magoos
Just Like Me-Paul Revere and the Raiders
Gloria-The Shadows of Night version
Baby Please Don't Go-The Amboy Dukes

 

Them - Gloria

 

Whittle them down?!! I think I add that many new favorites in any given year.

- M.

 

# 1 in garage music The Crusher The Novas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBN3C2wepY

 

+1
And that is a VERY VERY conservative estimate for me.

 

Haven't seen those guys in years. I used to watch wrestling on KTVU when I was in grade school. Ray Stevens beating all those pencil-neck geeks out there.

 

A few off the top of my head:


The Torques "Merry Maker" on the Dial label.
The Rogues (out of New York) "Secondary Man"
Vinnie Basile and the Staccatos "Gypsy Girl"
The Answer "I'll Be In"

 

Yep. I'm always finding little nuggets. It's a never-ending pool and I love it.

 

Pat Patterson, Pepper Gomez and Pedro Morales, Kenji Shubuya; the list goes on...



And gimmie some Bay Area Bombers too.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/rollerderby.html