Of course, any modern-day White Stripes fan who’s heard the original Nuggets psych-rock compilation should be familiar with The Remains’ gritty classic “Don’t Look Back.” But The Remains weren’t just another one-car garage band. As it is, The Remains most certainly are America’s greatest lost band, with ’60s New England regional classics like “Why Do I Cry” and “Diddy Wah Diddy” from slipping into obscurity. Had these Boston bad boys stuck it out beyond their 1966 debut, we might today be calling them the World’s Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band. Good as Mick and Keith were at reimagining rhythm & blues as hard rock on The Rolling Stones’ 1964 debut, they didn’t hold a candle to what The Remains would deliver two years later. Even so, “Rari” deserves a nod for its organ vamp and airy backing vocals, while “Pride & Devotion” channels the Byrds channeling Bob Dylan. A classic of the form with an instantly recognizable guitar riff, “Dirty Water” is easily the best-known song on the band’s 1966 album by the same name. Funny enough, the band was from Los Angeles, and none of the musicians had ever been to the Hub when the song came out. Music scenes were still very much regional when The Standells released “Dirty Water,” a 1965 single about Boston. Here are the 50 Best Garage Rock Albums of All Time: If you’re a young musician starting to explore your instrument, you could do worse than drink from this particular well of inspiration. As always, we limited the results to two albums per band in order to spread the love. And while there are plenty of albums from the 1960s making the list, every decade since is represented, including one LP released just last year. The editors and writers at Paste have voted for our favorite garage-rock albums since, defining it with our individual votes (“If you think it’s garage rock, then cast your ballot accordingly”). The psychedelic movement pulled bands away from those structurally simplistic beginnings of guitar/bass/drums/vocals, but as you’ll see from the dates of the albums below, there have been almost as many “garage-rock revivals” as there have been young dreamers with a guitar and way too much exuberance.Īs short lived as that first wave of garage rock was in the mid-1960s (it didn’t even have a name until critics in the 1970s got nostalgic), few genres have branched into more great music (punk, psychedelia, post-punk, power pop, etc.) or had the staying power of garage rock. But even when they “made it,” they clung to the looseness and vigor that the phrase “garage rock” brings to mind. (The Sonics) Austin, Texas (The 13th Floor Elevators) Los Angeles (The Standells, The Electric Prunes) and Boston (The Remains) found regional success before ascending to varying degrees of national recognition. Inspired by the original British Invasion, young musicians in places like Tacoma, Wash.
Suddenly, groups of friends were forming bands, amateurs with a love of rock ‘n’ roll, some raw talent and a basement or garage to plug into, and their music was somehow finding its way to the radio.
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Popular music had been dominated by the commercial juggernaut of the Brill Building sound, pairing professional songwriters with company singers and musicians. I wasn’t alive in 1966, so I can only imagine what it must have been like for a music fan-or better yet, a budding musician-as the energy of garage-rock pioneers like The Troggs, The Monks, and ? and the Mysterians started taking over the airwaves.
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