MixTape Vol. 3 - "The Garage Years"

IN THE GARAGE

• Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the early 1970s, some rock critics retroactively labelled it as punk rock. However, the music style was later referred to as garage rock or '60s Punk to avoid confusion with the music of late-1970s punk rock bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash.

• The garage rock revival is a musical phenomenon largely influenced by the original garage rock of the 1960s. Its earliest roots can be traced to the early 1970s, following the release of Nuggets in 1972 and continues to this day through the Western World as modern youngsters continue to pay tribute to a vanished golden age of rock and roll that was 1960s garage rock. Proto punk bands of the early '70s such as The Stooges and The New York Dolls were arguably garage rock revivalists. Iggy Pop had been in a mid-sixties, Detroit garage band, The Iguanas, who released a version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1966 and recorded many other songs that fit within the genre.

• In the 1980s, another garage rock revival saw a number of bands earnestly trying to replicate the sound, style, and look of the '60s garage bands (see The Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, The Milkshakes, and The Cynics as examples of this); this trend coincided with a similar surf rock revival, and both styles fed in into the alternative rock movement and future grunge music explosion, which some say was partially inspired by garage rock from Seattle like The Sonics and The Wailers, but was largely unknown by fans outside the immediate circles of the bands themselves.

• Here are some of my garage-highlights, from Link Wray to The Mono Men. If I have to pick a top three, it has to be Cramps "Garbage Man", Tav Falcos "Bad Motorcycle" and The Sonics "Walkin' The Dog". And of course the all time favourite "Rumble" by Link Wray. After all he is the king of Garage!

Track-List:

• 01. The Sonics - Walkin' The Dog 02. The Cramps - Garbage Man 03. Juliette & The Licks - Smash & Grab 04. Strap ons - Psycho ghost trucker 05. The Makers - Sharp leather walkin shoes 06. Cosmic Psychos - Lead Me Astray 07. Spacemen 3 - Mary Anne 08. The Funseekers - I'm dancing as fast as I can 09. Count Five - Psychotic Reaction 10. Lime Spiders - Beyond The Fringe 11. Bangtwister - Rave-Up 12. Dukes of Hamburg - Green eyed woman 13. Tav Falco's Panther Burns - She's a Bad Motorcycle 14. The Prime Movers - (Can't Stand) The Way You Move 15. The Fuzztones - Strychnine 16. The Hard-Ons - Bye Bye Girl 17. Frenzal Rhomb - I Love Fucking Up 18. The Mono Men - Slammer 19. The Scientists - Atom Bomb Baby 20. Pink Slip Daddy - Elvis Zombie 21. Link Wray - Rumble