Battle of the Garages - Part II (1993)

More great sounds from the second volume of paisley underground sounds. This release covers tracks originally on volumes 3 and 4 of the original vinyl series.

Tracks

 1. Intro ’66 - Zebra Stripes

 2. Yeah - Thee Fourgiven

 3. Spooky - Gravedigger V

 4. I Try - Untold Fables

 5. She’s Not Mine - Mystery Machine

 6. My World Is Upside Down - Telltale Hearts

 7. Melvin - Pandoras

 8. Summer of Love - Hidden Peace

 9. Drama, Drama - Eyes of Mind

10. Tearing Up My Heart - Young Lords

11. Not Matter What - SS20

12. Good Times - Cannibals

13. Haunted House - Otherside

14. Femme Fatale - Les Thugs

15. Bad Little Girl - Surfadelics

16. She’ll Always Be Mine - Klepstones

17. Drugged Personality - Sex Museum

18. Listen - Bad Karma Beckons

19. Everynight - Last Drive

20. I Want Love - Sick Rose

21. Thinkin’ Bout Today - Green Telescopes

22. April Dancer - Birdmen of Alkatraz

23. Free Again - Les Coronados

24. Let It Shine - Flamingos

BATTLE 2

Battle of the Garages - Part I (1993)

Great collection of tunes from the early days of the paisley underground. Lots of big names here the Fuzztones, Chesterfield Kings, Cynics, True West, Plasticland, Vipers, Yard Trauma and Miracle Workers just to name a few. This collection contains tracks culled from volumes 1 and 2 of the original vinyl series.

Tracks

 1. Return to the Psychedelic - United States of Existence

 2. Left in the Dark - Vertebrats

 3. RPM - Deniz Tek

 4. In the Dark - The Dark Side

 5. The Reason Why - Wombats

 6. You’re Gonna Need My Love Someday - Crawdaddys

 7. Run From Home - Unclaimed

 8. Are You Gonna Be There? - Chesterfield Kings

 9. Glendora/Going All the Way - Slickee Boys

10. Things I Should’ve Said - Eddy Best

11. Office Skills - Plasticland

12. Nothing’s From Today - Vipers

13. Flashing Red Light - Miracle Workers

14. Why Don’t You Love Me - Time Beings

15. Psilocybe - Mad Violets

16. And Then the Rain - True West

17. So Easy Baby - Fezmen

18. Come To Where It’s At - Prime Movers

19. Enough of What I Need - Mystic Eyes

20. Stick Like Glue - Trip

21. I’ll Make You Sorry - Odds

22. Some People - Yard Trauma

23. Let Me Know - Cynics

24. Green Slime - Fuzztones

BATTLE 1

The Mono Men - Shut The Fuck Up! (1993)

Nice 10" record from the Mono Men. As the cover states, “an all-instrumental recording for those assholes who don’t like the way we sing.” 

Tracks

1. Wrecker!

2. Phantom on Lane 12

3. Little Miss 3-B

4. Switchblade

5. Reset

6. Warm Piston

7. Mr. Eliminator

8. Rumble

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

The Mongrel Puppy - Let’s Barbeque (1983)

Here’s one you don’t see everyday, in fact I have never seen this since I purchased it back in 1984. This psychedelic garage band from Western Massachusetts released this, their sole release, on the Twisted Puppy label back in 1983. Enjoy!

Tracks

1. The Way She Looks At You

2. Transonic Dream

3. In A Box

4. Girl

5. Martin’s Theme

6. What’s On Your Mind?

7. Lycanthropy

8. You Quit Me

9. untitled weirdness

LET'S BARBEQUE

Texas Punk Groups from the Sixties

Great collection of records from Texas, and not a stinker in the bunch. 

Tracks

 1. Unchain My Heart - The Undertakers

 2. It’s My Time - The Undertakers

 3. High And Mighty - The Society

 4. Summer Sunset - The Society

 5. You’re A Better Man Than I - The Cynics

 6. Train Kept A Rollin’ - The Cynics

 7. Twist And Shout - Blue Things

 8. Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby - Blue Things

 9. I Need You There - Chessmen

10. Sad - Chessmen

11. Dirty Old Man (At The Age of Sixteen) - Them

12. But It’s Alright - Them

13. 1523 Blair - Outcasts

14. Smokestack Lightning - Outcasts

15. I Satisfy - Mouse & The Traps

16. Good Times - Mouse & The Traps

17. I’ll Be Gone - Coastliners

18. Alright - Coastliners

19. Please Come Back - Y’All’s

20. They All Want Her Love - Status Quo

21. I’m Gonna Get In That Girls Mind - Reddlemen

22. Lively One - Passions

23. Cuttin’ Out - Pirates

24. Bad Seed - Circus

25. Love For A Price - Kempy & The Guardians

26. I’m Gone - Continentals

27. Baby I Ask You Why - Pack

28. You Need Love - Danny & The Counts

TEXAS

When the Time Run Out

Nice obscure compilation on the Reverendo Moon label, pitting Minnesota against Michigan. It’s hard to pick a winner though, as both states had such wonderful scenes in the mid sixties.

Tracks

 1. I’m In Misery - Mystifying Monarchs

 2. Soldier of Fortune - Mystifying Monarchs

 3. Louis Louis - Shags

 4. Maggie’s Farm - Defiants

 5. (I’m) Determined - Psychotics

 6. I’m Not Talkin’ - Ferraris

 7. I’m Blue - Kinetics

 8. Feeling From My Heart - Kinetics

 9. Chimes of Freedom - Bad Omens

10. I’m Here - Poor Boys Pride

11. She’s Gone - Toronados

12. Another Day With Me - Minutemen

13. Cause I Love You - Pastels

14. What Went Wrong - Penetraters

15. Girl Down the Street - Headlyters

16. Dear John - Chancellors

17. Only Once - Satisfactions

18. Never Be Happy - Satisfactions

RUN OUT

Pebbles - Vol. 7: Chicago 2

The second volume dedicated to Chicago. One small hiccup, track 3 is in fact Come With Me by the Boyz not Ben Franklin’s Almanac by the Cryan Shames, otherwise a great selection of tunes on this volume.

Tracks

 1. One Girl Man - The Lost Agency

 2. Take Me Back And Hold Me - The Foggy Notions

 3. Come With Me - The Boyz

 4. Little Girl - The Revelles

 5. I Can’t Explain - Oscar & The Majestics

 6. Every Day & Every Night - The Trolls

 7. Sugar Shack A Go Go - The Children of Darkness

 8. High Blood Pressure - The Factory

 9. The Spider and the Fly - Von Ruden

10. I’ll Keep Searching - The Ides of March

11. Take Me Back - Gary & The Knight Lites

12. Hanna - Bobby Brelyn

13. I’m Gonna Change The World - The Commons, Ltd.

14. Echoes - Lord of the Flies

15. What In The World - The Berries

16. It’s Been A Day or Two - The Vectors

17. I’m Cryin’ - The Malibus

18. Go Go Baby - The Cardinals

19. Shame - Wet Paint

20. At the River’s Edge - Wet Paint

21. I Still Care For You - Jimmy Null & The Inversions

22. Time To Dream - The Lost Agency

23. Let It All Hang Out - Barney Pip

WINDY CITY 2

Pebbles - Vol. 6: Chicago 1

First of two volumes dedicated to Chicago. As one might expect, the track listing on the back of the case is incorrect, track 3 is actually Winning Ticket by The Huns, track 18 Run Around by The Cave Dwellers is not on this disc. Despite that minor inconvenience there are some truly great songs on here.

Tracks

 1. Searching - The Omens

 2. I Love It Baby - The Furniture

 3. Winning Ticket - The Huns

 4. I Live In The Springtime - Buzzsaw

 5. I Want Her Back - The Todds

 6. Like A Woman - Group, Inc.

 7. Say Ma, Ma - The Pattens

 8. Trip On Out - The Haymarket Riot

 9. Long Green - The Delights

10. Someday Baby - The Untamed

11. Never Feel The Pain - Blackstones

12. Rebel Woman - Dean Carter

13. I’ll Make You Pay - The Shady Daze

14. You Don’t Love Me - Little Boy Blues

15. Girl, I Need You - Nobody’s Children

16. I’ve Been Wrong - The Buckinghams

17. Shadow Of Fear - Last Knight

18. Memorandum - The End

19. Jailhouse Rock - Dean Carter

20. Need A Little Lovin’ - The Foggy Notions

21. Something Else - The Haymarket Riot

22. Please Mr. Sullivan - The Warner Brothers

23. WCFL Radio Promo

WINDY CITY 1

Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck - Home Grown Stuff (1969)

From Vancouver Canada, this is the debut album from Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck, released on Capitol in 1969. Excellent stoned psych/rural/folk rock in a west coast vein. Don’t miss the great rockin’ psycher One Ring Jane, my personal favourite on the record. A solid and enjoyable record!

Tracks

 1. Times Are Changing

 2. No One In Particular

 3. Little Pony

 4. One Glass For Wine

 5. Elevated Platform

 6. Walk Your Head Around

 7. One Ring Jane

 8. Pot O’ Gold

 9. Intermission Poetry

10. Funny Feeling

11. Blue Dye

12. Someone Think

MTYD

The Moviees - Become One Of Them

Excellent debut record from these Rochester NY guys. Sadly out of print, but according to the bands MySpace page they are planning on releasing a new album soon. How records this good go out of print so relatively quick is a mystery to me. So don’t be a wanker, if you dig this record, support these guys by buying the new album when it comes out, enough said.

Tracks

 1. How High Can You Get

 2. Never Want To Be Like You

 3. Sunny Day

 4. Become One Of Them

 5. Action Man

 6. Come On

 7. Years Ahead Of Her Time

 8. Destination Lonely

 9. Too Late For You

10. Queen Of The Shadows

11. So Much

12. You Got What I Want

13. Live Just For Today

14. Trippin’ On

BECOME ONE OF THEM

The Castaways - Liar, Liar: The Best Of

From Minneapolis Minnesota these guys were responsible for cranking out the classic Liar, Liar on Soma records in 1965. This here collection contains everything you ever wanted to hear from the band, and probably some you didn’t (tracks 17-22 for instance). Regardless this is still a nice collection documenting the history of The Castaways, so enjoy.

Tracks

 1. Liar, Liar

 2. Sam

 3. Goodbye Babe

 4. A Man’s Gotta Be A Man

 5. She’s A Girl In Love

 6. Why Should This Happen To Me

 7. Lead Me On

 8. Everytime

 9. Watching The Time Go By

10. Work Song

11. (I) Feel So Fine

12. Hit The Road Jack

13. Walking In Different Circles

14. Just On High

15. Lavender Popcorn

16. What Kind Of Face

17. Words On Fire

18. Bad Hair Day

19. Lucille

20. That Was Then, This Is Now

21. The Music I’m Making

22. Liar, Liar 2000

LIAR, LIAR

The Cybermen

The Cybermen from Cincinnati Ohio, had a short lifespan. Fortunately for those of us who dig this stuff they released two singles in their short time together. This release contains both singles, a track that appeared on the Where The Hell are the Good Scissors compilation and 1 unreleased track. The band had a great mod/garage sound and it’s too bad they didn’t stick around for a long player or two. All songs released between 1988 and 1990.

CYBERMEN

Essential Pebbles - Vol. 3: European Garage

The third volume of Essential Pebbles. This set has two discs full of European garage goodies. Too many songs to list here.

DISC 1 and DISC 2

Pebbles - Vol. 9: Southern California 2

Pebbles volume 9, the second part of the southern California discs.

#9

Pebbles - Vol. 8: Southern California 1

The first of two volumes dedicated specifically to southern California. This volume takes me back to those days, decades ago, when I scored my first Pebbles records at the local record shop (Dopey’s). The thrill of hearing these great lost songs for the first time and realizing there was a lot more to the 60’s than the oldies stations were feeding me, was an epiphany. Events that would alter my music interests forever, and more importantly understanding that there was an awful lot of good music to be heard, one only had to look a little harder to find it. And not just garage punk either! Enough of my babble, here’s the goods... PEBBLES 8

Sixties Archives - Vol. 6: Texas & Michigan Psychedelia

Volume 6 of the Sixties Archives wanders into a more psychedelic direction. Pretty decent compilation over all, just the two Conqueroo tracks alone make this worthwhile in my book. 

Tracks

 1. It’s The Marlin, Baby - Love

 2. Leaving You Baby - The Iguanas

 3. I Can Only Give You Everything - The Iguanas

 4. Black Suit - The Iguanas

 5. Spongeman -Mechanical Switch

 6. Everything Is Red - The Mechanical Switch

 7. Psychedelic Seat - The Sons of Barbee Doll

 8. The Phycle - Yesterday’s Obesession

 9. Lookin’ At You Behind The Glasses - Those Guys

10. 1000 Micrograms of Love - Sattori

11. I’ve Got The Time - The Conqueroo

12. 1 to 3 - The Conqueroo

13. A Dark Corner - The Bourbons

14. Of Old Approximately - The Bourbons

15. Never Gonna Stop Lovin’ You - The Midnight Shift

16. Decision For Lost Soul Blue - The Free

17. Half Past the End - The Smoke

18. Hold Me Baby - The Strange Fate

19. The World Is Closing In On Me - Preston

20. Man Is Blind - Black Rose

21. You Come On Like A Train - Dick Rabbit

22. Time Was - The Chosen Lot

23. Silence In The Morning - The Glass Sun

24. You’re No Good - Phlegeton

ARCHIVES 6

Sixties Archives - Vol. 5: U.S Punk From The 60’s

Nice comp with some great classic garage tracks, 26 tracks in all. Even though the liners say Codine by Sean & The Brandywines is on here, it really isn’t, not uncommon for EVA releases.

Tracks

 1. Satisfaction Guaranteed - The Mourning Reign

 2. Our Fate - The Mourning Reign

 3. Bad Part Of Town - The Bare Facts

 4. Georgiana = The Bare Facts

 5. The Train Kept A Rollin’ - The Precious Few

 6. I Don’t Mind - The Precious Few

 7. Faces - T.C. Atlantic

 8. Mona - T. C. Atlantic

 9. That’s The Breaks - The Apollos

10. Target Love - The Apollos

11. Open Your Eyes - The Sands

12. Can’t Find A Way - The Sands

13. Come To Me - Black & Blues

14. Bye Bye Baby - Black & Blues

15. Mystic Eyes - The Mystic Tide

16. Mystery Ship - The Mystic Tide

17. Love Fades Away - Eastern Alliance

18. The Girl From My Dreams - Dave & The Squires

19. Country - The Joint Effort

20. Here To Stay - The Wanted

21. One Year Ago From Today - The Driving Wheels

22. All Of My Mind - The Rejects

23. Drummer Of Your Mind - United Travel Service

24. Setting Of Despair - Crystal Chandelier

25. (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man - The Brigands

26. Valley Of Hate - Just Luv

ARCHIVES 5

Pebbles - Vol. 10

Another installment of the Pebbles series. This is volume 10, I believe there were only 12 volumes released on CD, not including the Essential series which encompassed 3 double CD volumes. And then there were 3 volumes of Planetary Pebbles. The 4 volumes I posted earlier are not the same as the AIP discs. If anybody has volumes 1-4 or 12 feel free to post them as I do not have those particular volumes.

PEBBLES 10

Mod And The Rockers - Now (1967)

Your standard Justice LP here. Gonna Love You Every Day is a pretty good song to open the record with, but things dissolve pretty quickly, only to be rescued by a good version of Gloria and Always By My Side isn’t too bad for a ballad. Posted for Roadrunner Beat Beat.

NOW

Pebbles - Vol. 5

So you all want more Pebbles stuff. This is from the CD version of volume 5, which has all 17 tracks from the original LP plus 3 bonus tracks. Anyway without any further jibber jabber from me, here is volume 5.

Tracks

 1. No Good Woman - The Tree

 2. Go Away - The Plague

 3. You Don’t Know Me - The Magi

 4. It’s A Cryin’ Shame - The Gentlemen

 5. Writing On The Wall - The 5 Canadians

 6. Why - The Dirty Wurds

 7. Universal Vagrant - The Merry Dragons

 8. I Wanna Come Back (From The World of LSD) -

     The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2

 9. I Tell No Lies - The Escapades

10. You Need Love - Danny & The Escorts

11. Yesterday’s Hero - The Satyrs

12. The Way It Used To Be - Little Phil & The Night Shadows

13. Move - The State Of Mind

14. Wanna Be With You - Yesterday’s Children

15. I Need Love - The Time Stoppers

16. You’ll Never Be My Girl - Thursday’s Children

17. The Way I Feel - The 12 A.M.

18. Stop And Listen - The Shag

19. (My) Baby’s Gone - The Sound Barrier

20. High On A Cloud - The Traits

PEBBLES 5

Yard Trauma - Must Have Been Something I Took Last Night (1985)

Yard Trauma’s sophomore effort, and a pretty good one with better songs and better playing than on the first (see post from 2-6-09).

MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING

Pebbles - Vol. 11: Northern California

It’s not often I get a request here at GP66, but someone out there requested this one... enjoy!

PEBBLES VOL. 11

Jason Crest - The Collected Works Of

Outstanding british pop psych from Jason Crest. This contains all A and B sides of their 5 UK singles plus an additional six tracks of outtakes.

COLLECTED WORKS

Louisiana Punk From The Sixties - Vol. 1 & 2

Another great twofer exploring the bayou country in the sixties, some real killers on this compilation.

JAI ETE AU BAL

The 60’s Choice - Volume 1 & 2

Nice twofer with loads more cool lost sixties garage goodies.

Sorry no time for track listings today.

THE 60’S CHOICE

The Fuzztones - Lysergic Ejaculations: Live In Europe 1991

Excellent live recording from the greatest garage band ever!  This was recorded December 6th, 1991 in Tuebingen, Germany. So crank this disc up to eleven, go forth and annoy the squares with this delightful sonic assault.

LYSERGIC EJACULATIONS