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Some nuggets from '66

Postby fange » 25 May 2017, 15:30

The Cave Men - 'It's Trash'


The Black Diamonds - 'I Want, Need, Love You'


The Undecyded? - 'Make Her Cry'


The Alarm Clocks - 'Yeah'


Like them?

Which ones tickle you the most or the least?
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby Bent Fabric » 25 May 2017, 17:11

Oh, "It's Trash" by the Cave Men was, by far, my favorite of the four.

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby naughty boy » 25 May 2017, 21:18

Bent Fabric wrote:Oh, "It's Trash" by the Cave Men was, by far, my favorite of the four.


Same for me.

I love this shit, tho', as you know. It's all very much in my wheelhouse. And there's shitloads of it.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby toomanyhatz » 25 May 2017, 22:08

KATANGA MY FRIEND! wrote:I love this shit...there's shitloads of it.


Me too, though I do have to confess at times I think there's too much of it. Every Podunk town had a few, and it's often just second-rate imitations. But even at its most cliche - and there are a few kind of 'stock' sounds - it seems to never go below a certain energy level. Something to be said for that.

Anyway, of these, in order:

Cave Men - Yeah, it's the most inspired, the most reckless, the most 'batter it till it can't move." Great stuff.
The Undecided? - Not sure if they want to be the Byrds or the Trashmen or both. I love the sounds - so folk/rock spacey and primitive at the same time. Not much song there, but there doesn't have to be.
The Alarm Clocks - Gets by on raw energy, but what energy! This is the most familiar as well, but it's a strong jolt every time.
The Black Diamonds - Not bad at all, but the one that doesn't really rise above the ordinary.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby fange » 26 May 2017, 01:17

^^
Yep, same for me, hatz. I love them all, but the Cave Men tune is something else.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby Bent Fabric » 26 May 2017, 05:27

toomanyhatz wrote:
KATANGA MY FRIEND! wrote:I love this shit...there's shitloads of it.


Me too, though I do have to confess at times I think there's too much of it. Every Podunk town had a few, and it's often just second-rate imitations. But even at its most cliche - and there are a few kind of 'stock' sounds - it seems to never go below a certain energy level. Something to be said for that.


There's simultaneously too much and not enough, if you know what I mean.

It isn't all magic, but...boy, when it is on, it is fucking ON!

I remember having an inebriated conversation with a fellow garage/psych disciple many years ago in which he just lauded this idiom for its sheer "purity of intent". A major virtue - barring any common rabbit holes or fallacies regarding authenticity, I think you can look at this period and style as a real major outpouring of unjaded, uncynical, youthful...I dunno...innocence, perhaps.

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby fange » 26 May 2017, 05:47

Bent Fabric wrote: I think you can look at this period and style as a real major outpouring of unjaded, uncynical, youthful...I dunno...innocence, perhaps.


Yeah, i agree with that idea very much, but i'd also add that i find a lot of that unjaded innocence side to quite a bit of music in the post-WW2 period. That explosion of big and small labels recording local doo wop groups, R&B groups, rockabilly and rock and roll combos created a vast wealth of cracking music which at its heart is usually just some young kids pouring out their lives and hopes onto a few minutes of revolving black wax.

The 60s garage/nuggets sound is a little more refined sonically, i guess (usually), but the thing that drove the Cave Men probably wasn't much different to what drove the Rio Rockers a few years earlier in '58 when they did something like 'Mexicali Baby'...

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby Charlie O. » 26 May 2017, 06:00

The Cave Men for me, too.

I like the guitar on the Black Diamonds track, though - very Jeff Beck. Australian band? (It's on an Aussie label)
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby fange » 26 May 2017, 06:06

Yeah Charlie, an Aussie band.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby Bent Fabric » 26 May 2017, 06:19

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That's HEAVY!

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby fange » 26 May 2017, 06:26

It's a blast, isn't it!
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby clive gash » 26 May 2017, 11:07

Yeah this shit is always good. Purest id, unfiltered by self-consciousness or self-reflection.

I've got a guitar, you've got drums and keys, let's do it! What shall we sing about? Fucking!

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby pcqgod » 27 May 2017, 03:24

I don't think I've ever heard the ones by Cave Men and Undecided before. Cave Man track is pretty epic. I need to track down a compilation with that one on it. Already dug the Black Diamonds track.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby naughty boy » 27 May 2017, 04:23

pcqgod wrote:I don't think I've ever heard the ones by Cave Men and Undecided before. Cave Man track is pretty epic. I need to track down a compilation with that one on it.


http://60-70rock.blogspot.hu/2017/01/ps ... -vol3.html

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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby pcqgod » 29 May 2017, 20:52

KATANGA MY FRIEND! wrote:
pcqgod wrote:I don't think I've ever heard the ones by Cave Men and Undecided before. Cave Man track is pretty epic. I need to track down a compilation with that one on it.


http://60-70rock.blogspot.hu/2017/01/ps ... -vol3.html

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Oh good. Might be able to order it from the Bomp store.
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Re: Some nuggets from '66

Postby naughty boy » 29 May 2017, 22:11

It's worth a trawl. There's some great stuff there.

Actually the very best - and one of the longest-standing - garage rock sites is this one:

https://paradiseofgaragecomps.blogspot.hu/
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