The Nazz - Open My Eyes video

The Jam - 100 Club, 9/11/77

Great live set from The Jam on September 11, 1977. Has all the great songs from In The City, a few tracks from the upcoming This Is The Modern World album, among others. The standout tracks for me, however, are the 60s soul covers like Heatwave, Sweet Soul Music, and Midnight Hour. The Jam rip through them giving them a whole new life.




















Tracklist:

1. Intro/I've Changed My Address
2. Carnaby Street
3. This Modern World
4. Time For Truth
5. So Sad About Us
6. London Girl
7. In The Street Today
8. Standards
9. All Around the World
10. London Traffic
11. Heatwave
12. Sweet Soul Music
13. Bricks and Mortar
14. In The City
15. Back In My Arms Again
16. Slow Down
17. Midnight Hour
18. Sounds From from the Street
19. Takin' My Love

The Jam Live at the 100 Club, 9/11/77

The Saxons - Things Have Been Bad (1966)

Here's a real garage punk stomper! The Saxons (West Palm Beach, Florida) recorded this song for the Yorkshire label in 1966. Awesome fuzz guitar and solo. It can be found on the Teenage Shutdown - Vol. 3 Compilation on Crypt Records.

The Saxons - Things Have Been Bad (1966)

The Monteras - Cry Myself To Sleep (1967)

Here's a moody garage/psych song from Chicago's Monteras. Apparently there's only 2 known copies of this record in existence. "Cry Myself To Sleep" was the b-side to "You're a Tease" which I haven't actually heard yet.

Monteras - Cry Myself To Sleep (1967)

The Lolas - Soul 70

Here's a cool sleazy soul track from Vampisoul's "Movers!" compilation. I haven't been able to find any information about this band or song. Hopefully there's a full album of material like this out there somewhere.

The Lolas - Soul 70

Mad Mike & The Maniacs - The Hunch (1961)

The fact that this song came out in 1961 blows my mind. I don't know anything else from that time period that is this wild aside from maybe a few Link Wray tracks. I first heard it on the Radio Cramps Purple Knif Show CD which, if you can track it down, I highly recommend.


















Mad Mike & The Maniacs - The Hunch (1961)

Rave-Ons - The Line (1965)

Here's a song from the "Party, Party, Party!" compilation on Arf Arf records:




















I don't know exactly what it is about this one that I like so much. Like everything on this comp, it's pretty primitive. It just kind of grooves along. Cool guitar solo too.

The Rave-Ons - The Line (1965)

Hello

So I decided to resurrect this blog. It will probably focus mostly on 1960s garage/psychedelic music and culture. It will be a collection of music, images, video and whatever else I can find.

I'll start this one off the same way as the old one, with the song that inspired the title. From the Savages debut (and only) 1965 LP:



The Savages - The World Ain't Round, It's Square (1965)

The Black Lips sample the intro drum beat to this song on their hidden track at the end of the Good Bad, Not Evil album.