Favorite 1960s Garage Rock Songs

I know Love has been mentioned, but I have to single out My Flash On You from the s/t. Incredibly angry vocal from Arthur, and KILLER fuzz bass. It's just a chip off Hey Joe you wonder why they felt the need to cover the latter on the same record, aside from throwing MacLean a bone.

 

Good stuff from Austin (the Elevators were great, but certainly not the only ones):


(The video is kind of over the top, but I think in a good way.)

 

Some more:
I Need You There - The Chessman
Someday You'll Cry - The Standells
Don't Look Back - The Remains (also like The Rising Storm version)
Play It - Rockin' Ramrods
Skakin With Linda - Soul Survivors
My Confusion - The Elite
Bad Woman - The Fallen Angels
Doin' Me In - Gonn

 

"Have Love,Will Travel"-The Sonics

 

I Had Too Much Too Dream Last Nights- Electric Prunes
Beaver Patrol- Wild Knights
3/5th Of A Mile In 10 Seconds- Jefferson Airplane
Words- The Leaves
Liar Liar- Castaways
99th Floor- Moving Sidewalks
Dirty Water- Standells
96 Tears- ? & The Mysterians
Kicks- Paul Revere & The Raiders
For My Own- The Guillotines

 

MOULTY!

 

i "likED" that thought & it was defiantly American "50's R&R/Blues/R&B" going cross "The Pond" then coming back all UK "British Invasion" on US [p.i.] having a BIG influence.
Just the HUGE amount of American teenage bands "The Beatles" startED!!!

Glad you agree "Them" [p.i.] had an influence in the USA.
Do you think of "Them" as "Garage or Freak Beat"?

American kids all so grew up on American "R&R", so Buddy Holley, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, EDdie Cochran, & other US 50's rockers were influential as well.
American songs like "Tobacco Road", "Louie Louie", "Night Train", & many, many more were U S of A "Garage" staples.
"... know that excludes some of the NW proto-punk that predated the British Invasion... "
And yah, like i think the Texas "Garage/Pysch" scene was HUGLY influencED by previous US South West musical styles.

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The frinkinternet is one of the GREATEST thingies ever & one of the GREATEST thingies ever on the frininternet is this "60's Garage Song" finder; here's some "Them ~ Gloria" cover visions:
http://comps.soybomb.com/compsproje...olwhole=True&ssource=filter&ipage=1&lispeed=1
"Them" impactED US, ha, ha!!

Enjoy.

 

bob seger eastside story

 

I've made my own mix, love 60s Garage Rock. This is what I put on the album:

01. Time Wont Let Me - Outsiders
02. Lets Live for Today - Grass Roots
03. 96 Tears - Mysterians
04. Nobody But Me - Human Beinz
05. Talk Talk - Music Machine
06. Liar Liar - Castaways
07. Shape of Things to Come - Max Frost
08. Dirty Water - Standells
09. Friday On My Mind - Easybeats
10. Its A Happening - Magic Mushrooms
11. Wipe Out - Surfaris
12. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
13. Lets Talk About Girls - Chocolate Watch Band
14. I Want Candy - Strangeloves
15. Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound
16. Venus - Shocking Blue
17. Just Dropped in to See What Condition - First Edition
18. Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & the Shondells
19. Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
20. Itchyoo Park - Small Faces
21. Open My Eyes - Nazz
22. I Had Too Much to Drink - Electric Prunes
23. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
24. Journey to the Center of the Mind - Amboy Dukes
25. (We Aint Got) Nothin Yet - Blues Magoos
26. Pushin Too Hard - Seeds
27. Gloria - Shadow of Knight
28. Wild Thing - Troggs
29. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo

Fills the disk perfectly. Every one I give this mix to loves it.

 

there are hundreds upon hundreds...

 

great! all of these plus so many more...

 

+1

i luv "Fuzz Bass" & i just don't get enough fuzziness!



Enjoy.

 

Plenty of monster garage tunes from The Great White North - look online for the title Wyld Canada...

 

Hate - The Stoics
Gotta Get Some - The Bold
Never Existed - The Basement Wall
Satisfaction Guaranteed - The Mourning Reign

 

"Hard to Cry" by The Northwest Company is essential

Also the T-Bones "I Want You" (1967), which is more like proto-punk.

 

I really do think that "freak beat" is just the UK name for "garage rock." In fact, wasn't "garage" just "punk" until the 70s punk explosion coopted the name? Sam The Sham actually refers to punk music in "I Wish It Were Me."

 

Jenny & The Rascals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDK3Qy4pBSc

 

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