The Sonics + Wailers 9 Singles NEW Norton Hives Cramps
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9 Import singles brand new MINT. As with all the Norton stuff these singles have amazing sound quality, probably the best you can get of these records. Check out the great picture labels. This set comes highly recommended and consists of the following singles:
SONICS AND WAILERS JUKEBOX SERIES
Pound the Northwest sound with these 60's Etiquette label skullbusters!
811
SONICS
The Witch/Keep A Knockin'
812
WAILERS
Out Of Our Tree/You Weren't Using Your Head
813
SONICS
Psycho/Have Love Will Travel
814
WAILERS
Livewire/Dirty Robber
815
SONICS
Cinderella/He's Waitin'
816
SONICS
Boss Hoss/The Hustler
817
WAILERS
Hang Up/Bama Lama Bama Loo
818
SONICS
Strychnine/Shot Down
819
SONICS
Louie Louie/WAILERS Louie Louie
This set comprises probably all of the essential tracks of the Sonics and their peers and main influence, The Wailers.
Arguably the world’s first punk band, the missing link between Little Richard and the Stooges. Check out the band’s version of “Louie Louie” from 1966. It sounds more like The Stooges than the Stooges version seven years later. “They look like hairdresser’s but rock like mutha’s”. A major influence on The Hives, they have even been name checked by LCD Soundsystem.
This is rip roaring stuff, all crazed vocals and wild punk rock incendiary guitar playing. The lead solo on “Louie Louie” for example is very reminiscent of the lead playing of James Williamson on the “Raw Power” LP from 1972. This is seminal music!
“The Sonics were one of the greatest garage-rock bands of all times, the ideal link between the blues shouters of the 1950s and the punk-rockers of the 1970s.”
Will appeal to fans of garage psych, punk, The Hives, The Cramps, Fuzztones, The Sex Pistols, Suicide, 13th Floor Elevators, Nuggets, Seeds, Sky Saxon, Ramones, Patti Smith, Count Five, New York Dolls, Primal Scream, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Tom Verlaine, Television, MC5, Standells, ? and the Mysterons, etc.
Biography:
“A rock & roll band from Tacoma, WA, the Sonics' original members were Gerry Roslie (lead singer, piano, organ), Andy Parypa (guitar), Larry Parypa (bass), Bob Bennett (drums), and Rob Lind (saxophone). Forming in the wake of the early-'60s success of local favorites the Kingsmen and the Wailers (whose Etiquette label they recorded for), the Sonics combined classic Northwest-area teen band raunch with early English band grit (particularly influenced by the Kinks), relentless rhythmic drive, and unabashed '50s-style blues shouting for a combination that still makes their brand of rock & roll perhaps the raunchiest ever captured on wax. Lead singer Gerry Roslie was no less than a white Little Richard, whose harrowing soul-screams were startling even to the Northwest teen audience, who liked their music powerful and driving with little regard to commercial subtleties. With hit after hit on the local charts (and influencing every local band that ever took the stage), the band inexplicably was never able to break out nationally, leaving its sound largely undiluted for mass consumption. Breaking up in the late '60s (after one ill-fated album attempt to water down their style for national attention), the Sonics continue today to be revered by '60s collectors the world over for their unique brand of rock & roll raunch.” ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
