Sin Agog
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Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 04:43
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Name some of your faves.
The one I 'preciate most is probably Pebbles Vol 3 - The Acid Gallery. I think I picked this up after I got linked to an early '80s Copey article where he namedropped Vol 3 and Vol 5 of the Pebbles series (here you go). Vol 3 is the most gloriously stupid one of the series from what I've heard and thus the automatic best.
After that I think No No No: 28 Moody, Somber and Tragic '60s Garage Rock Sagas has to be up there. It's just so cohesive and beautiful- like if Red House Painters were a '60s garage rock band (although maybe better than that sounds).
I guess there's a bunch of comps from across the seas like Cambodian Rocks I'll prob'ly forget, too.
Oh yeah, the Girls in the Garage comps are ver' cool.
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bolox
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Edited Feb 07, 2012, 08:29
Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 08:26
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I'm with you on Pebbles Vol 3.
Hipsville 29 BC
Acid Dreams
Mid Blowers Vol 1
Magic Cube
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HI DEN
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 09:43
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bolox wrote: I'm with you on Pebbles Vol 3.
Hipsville 29 BC
Acid Dreams
Mid Blowers Vol 1
Magic Cube
I'm with you on those too. Though Pebbles 3 is much better on cd than lp because of the fab bonus tracks.
Some off the top of my head:
The Chosen Few 2
What A Way To Die
Chocolate Soup For Diabetics 1
Ugly Things
Waterpipes And Dykes (maybe not the tightes comp but has it's moments..)
High Vikings (Cope's AOTM some years ago..)
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bolox
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 10:48
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HI DEN wrote:
The Chosen Few 2
What A Way To Die
Chocolate Soup For Diabetics 1
Ugly Things
Not heard What A Way To Die but the others are great.
There were some eps that played at 33 1/3 on the Moxie label. I'll have to go into the loft. Agreed on the CD version of Pebbles 3
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veneta1
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 13:21
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Surely the Trash Box needs to be included here.
5 CDs which pretty much include 4 of the first 5 Pebbles albums (Volume 4 - the Surf one - is excluded) and with a load of excellent bonus material that didn't make it onto the original Pebbles vinyl box or were omitted from the original CD issues.
And it's a steal at the moment on Amazon (£17.99)
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Sin Agog
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 13:31
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A Boozy teen Suzi Quatro must be heard! What a WAy to Die
The two-CD comp Songs We Taught the Fuzztones has some really raw cuts I quite love. Not sure which version of Action Woman I prefer. The Litters has better guitar but the Electras' version has a much more unhinged vocal.
Cheers for all the lists. Guess there's still a ton of stuff for me to check out.
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Popel Vooje
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Edited Feb 07, 2012, 17:56
Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 17:49
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Sin Agog wrote:
The two-CD comp Songs We Taught the Fuzztones has some really raw cuts I quite love. Not sure which version of Action Woman I prefer. The Litters has better guitar but the Electras' version has a much more unhinged vocal.
There was a vinyl compilation in the mid-80s called "Get Primitive - The Best of Pebbles" that had the Electras' version of "Action Woman" on it. That was the first one I heard, and I was quite disappointed by the Litter's version in comparison; it sounded too restrained!
In terms of the CD-era releases, I'd say the first "Nuggets" box on Rhino is a perfect primer for the uninitiated. The "Nuggets 2" box is equally essential, but it's more Freakbeat than garage-orientated and is also - annoyingly - out of print.
There's also "The Essential Pebbles Collection", which is the perfect introduction the the "Pebbles" series if you don't want to splash out on all the individual volumes straight away.
Im you want to delve into the back catalogues of individual groups? "The Best of the Chocolate Watch Band" and "The Best of the Standells" on Rhino, the Elecric Prunes' "Lost Dreams" comp and the Seeds' "Evil Hoodoo" comp. Then "Here Ain't the Sonics" by the Sonics, "Turn On" by the Music Machine and "Strange Things are Happening - The Complete Singles 1965-1969" by the Outsiders.
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Kosmischeboy
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 20:38
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Beat me to it!
Great comp that with some great artwork too!
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Pursued By Trees
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Edited Feb 07, 2012, 22:14
Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 21:49
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I guess my tastes run slightly more to the Punk and Beat than the Psyche end of things (although I have plenty time for that too), so I'd go for:
Pebbles Vol 1
Psychotic Moose and the Soul Searchers
Scarey Business
Back From The Grave Vol 1
That Driving Beat
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keith a
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Re: Garage Comps
Feb 07, 2012, 22:52
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Popel Vooje wrote:
In terms of the CD-era releases, I'd say the first "Nuggets" box on Rhino is a perfect primer for the uninitiated. The "Nuggets 2" box is equally essential, but it's more Freakbeat than garage-orientated and is also - annoyingly - out of print.
And Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 - a wider reaching boxset (it also features bands like The Beach Boys, Love and Byrds) but there's some great Nuggets-like stuff on it, too.
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