Music Machine, The

With its one-minute-and-fifty-seven-second, stop-on-a-dime Top 20 fuzz blast "Talk Talk" and its band members' all-black dress code, for many the Music Machine stands as the absolute embodiment of mid-'60s garage punk. Led by the snarling baritone of mastermind Sean Bonniwell, the LA-based fivesome cut only one LP and few singles with the original lineup before shutting down at the turn of the decade. But thanks to Bonniwell's highly inventive songwriting genius and the band's tough, Farfisa-driven sound, the Music Machine left its scorching skidmarks on many a garage unit to come.