The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics - Black Vinyl
The Sonics - fronted by Gerry Roslie's banshee vocals - blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind- numbing assortment of Sonics' classics: "You Got Your Head On Backwards," "Like No Other Man," "Psycho," "The Witch" and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like "I'm A Man," "Diddy Wah Diddy" and much more.
This blistering black platter of the group's 1966 Jerden album adds 4 rare bonus cuts to the original killer disc.
The Sonics are widely regarded as the stick that all fist pounding garage is measured up against. None come close.
Includes:
The Witch • You Got Your Head On Backwards • I’m A Man • On The Road Again • Psycho • Love Lights • I’m Going Home • High Time • I’m A Rolling Stone • Like No Other Man • Maintaining My Cool • Bama Lama Bama Loo • Leave My Kitten Alone • Dirty Old Man • Diddy Wah Diddy
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The Preachers - Stay Out Of My World - White Vinyl
Savage face-melting fist-pumping garage punk!
A sonic leap forward on their known repertoire fortified with five new previously unissued tracks making their punkin’ debut right here! Complete with extensive notes from Mike Stax. Pressed on colored vinyl, or on CD with two exclusive bonus tracks!
Things happened fast in the sixties, especially in the up-tempo world of rock ‘n’ roll. The Preachers were together for less than eighteen months, but they packed a hell of a lot of action into that brief lifespan, racking up three terrific 45 releases in the space of five months, making TV appearances, and playing countless live gigs in the Los Angeles area and as far afield as Tucson and Las Vegas.
In the short time they were together, the Preachers did better than all right. Decades later, “Who Do You Love” and “Stay Out of My World” were hailed as outstanding examples of pure, visceral sixties garage punk.
• INCLUDES EVERY ULTRA-RARE SINGLE THEY CUT, PLUS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED GEMS!
• ON CLERGY COLLAR WHITE VINYL PRESSED AT THIRD MAN OR CD WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS!
• FEATURING RARE PHOTOS AND A GOSPEL OF LINER NOTES FROM MIKE STAX!
Includes:
Stay Out Of My World • The Zeke • Just Don’t Complain • Moanin’ (Stripped Down Instro) • Chicken Papa • Quit Talking ‘Bout Him • Pain And Sorrow • Moanin’ • Who Do You Love • Hey Joe • Just Don’t Complain (Gritty Early Mix) • Pain And Sorrow (Instrumental) • Stay Out Of My World (No Frills Mix)
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The Little Bits - Girl Give Me Love - Orange Vinyl
Wailing and thrashing around the melody like candy-fueled maniacs, The Little Bits pack a punch so savage it makes appropriately aged teen rockers hopped up on testosterone and intoxicants sound like they're phoning it in. This is the real deal — Cajun country’s untamed youth. Featuring their killer single and newly discovered tracks!
“Girl Give Me Love” has long captivated garage rock crate diggers. It was the lone single released by The Little Bits, a group of pre-teen punks from Jennings, Louisiana. Fewer than 500 copies were pressed when the 45 came out in 1967. But it’s not the rarity of the record that has earned it so many admirers over the years; it's the rarified sound.
When The Little Bits weren’t out performing live at local dances, drive-ins, pig roasts, hootenannies, and frat parties, they were recording at their shag-carpeted home studio, built so the band could record whenever inspiration struck. These recordings miraculously survived over fifty years of Louisiana heat, humidity, and floods, finally seeing the light of day now!
• INCLUDES THE ULTRA RARE SINGLE PLUS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED GARAGE BANGERS!
• ON ORANGE VINYL CUT & PRESSED BY THIRD MAN IN DETROIT OR CD!
• PACKAGED WITH UNSEEN PHOTOS AND A KILLER SET OF NOTES CHRONICLING THESE JUVENILE WHIZ KIDS!
Includes:
Girl Give Me Love • Spoofin’ • Good Thing Going • Evil On My Mind • Girl Give Me Love - Instrumental • Do Wrong Lucy • Corner Store • Turn Around • Riding On A Rainbow • Houston To L.A. • Clearwater, Georgia
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Royal Aircoach - Open Up Your Mind - Light Blue Vinyl
Gargantuan, untamed riffs initiate an extinction-level event in your ear canal with this staggering platter of soundwave plowing ‘60s thunder. Royal Aircoach created a teenage riot all over the northeast, with a lone 45 as the only recorded evidence of their sonic sedition. But the arrival of Open Up Your Mind turns the Royal Aircoach rap sheet from a single charge to a floor-length list of crimes against complacency! On colored vinyl!
“I liked it loud and buzzy,” says guitarist Bobby Greene about the ruckus he kicked up with Royal Aircoach in the late ‘60s. For a couple of precious years, the Topsfield, MA band created a teenage riot all over the northeast, and were expanding their minds and their sound with tracks like the eight-minute metaphysical epic “Death Of Man.” Greene remembers, “We probably had smoked a couple of joints and we started having this philosophical talk about how man was destroying himself.” The weed-enhanced skull session led to a slowly unfolding epic awash in fuzzed-out guitar riffs and spooky organ frills, with Connolly on incantatory vocals.
“We were listening to ‘Hey Jude,’ recalls Greene. “Somebody broke the rule, ‘Okay, your song doesn’t have to be two minutes and 58 seconds.’” When Royal Aircoach unspooled the outsized tune in concert, its headiness was underscored by a DIY fog machine that was basically a batch of liquid nitrogen and a vacuum cleaner set on reverse.
- Jim Allen
Includes:
Wrapped Up In Your Mind • Wondering Why • Webs Of Love • When I Return • Lies Ain't Right • Waking Skies • Wax Theory • Looking Out • Death Of Man
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Various Artists - Gritty '60s Garage & Punk - Gold-ish Vinyl
Early punk, garage rock, & psych monsters! Rare & originally unissued artifacts from the unstoppable ‘60s infestation of teenagers with guitars & drums that took over their parents’ garages! The grit, grease, and grime of the garage can be heard in each of the 17 tracks compiled here, all cooked up in the great state of California. Even the Beaver is growlin’ with attitude on this one! (seriously!)
While “garage band” was originally coined as a mildly derogatory label to describe rock ‘n’ roll groups deemed to be musical novices or amateurs, it has long since taken on a new, more positive meaning, one that describes the wave of creative, vital young bands that proliferated across America in the mid-1960s. This massive, unstoppable infestation of teenagers with guitars and drums took root in bedrooms, living rooms, basements and dens paneled with knotty pine, but the phenomenon was exemplified by the ultimate home practice space: the garage. That was especially true in California, a promised land of fast cars, fast food, drive-thru convenience, and miles and miles of freeways. In California’s sixties suburbs, every house came with a garage attached—but on practice days Dad had to park his car in the driveway. The grit and grease and grime of the garage can be heard in each of the 17 tracks compiled here, all cooked up in the great state of California.
As this compilation proves, “garage band” can be a badge of honor to be worn with pride.
- Mike Stax - Ugly Things Magazine
Includes: The Sloths - Makin’ Love • The Poor Souls - I’ll Be Around • Trans Atlantic Train - You’re Bringing Me Down • Living Children - Crystalize Your Mind • The Shillings - I’m Over You • The Dutch Masters - In My Way • Rear Exit - Excitation • The Others - I’m In Need • Butch Engle & The Styx - No Matter What You Say • The Mourning Reign - Satisfaction Guaranteed • Beaver & The Trappers - Happiness Is Havin’ • The Soul Owners - I’ll Cry • The Mourning Reign - Our Fate • The Pullice - I’m A Lover Not A Fighter • The Chimney Sweeps - I’ll Get My Way • The Second Helping - Let Me In • The Daisy Chain - Final Hour
- Cut and pressed at Third Man Pressing on translucent gold vinyl!
- Contains highly coveted gritty treasures and some cuts that hit LP for the first time!
- Packaged in a reverse board jacket with liner notes by Ugly Things' Mike Stax!