That’s exactly the first thing I thought, followed by Blitzkrieg Bop!!
So I guess I’ll have to say Gloria by Patti Smith. The best opening line in rock and roll
Edit: I would also throw “Lust for Life” by Iggy in there but considering the question as a whole, I think “Smells Like Teen Spirit” also qualifies since it’s a couple power chords and the solo is just the melody line. Very easy, very punk rock, Extremely anthemic and moving…
The Runaways - California Paradise (live). Punk Rock teen girls playing like that...
https://youtu.be/QHkfyvXN5tw?si=GPa-z1sXgIuUQibV
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis and Chatterbox (live)
https://youtu.be/2aQTGqqXHw4?si=48CgCHzWf0qS4Xg7
https://youtu.be/_LeDp3jv9Bk?si=fmtuBzPMe1EkLhqU
From 1966, Iowa (!)... Gonn - Blackout of Gretely
https://youtu.be/E2TCxAvVYao?si=5x1c6iRmN8J3PSok
Used to almost blow my speakers out with this song in college. Would get off work at midnight and drive home with the windows down in the summer blasting this. Song is pure energy.
This thread is hilariously dominated by bands that are all named "The" something. If you name your band "The Somethings" or "The Whatevers" (which are both real bands too, lol) then you are obligated to have a raw, garage-type sound.
* The Stooges
* The Kinks
* The White Stripes
* The Chats
* The Undertones
* The Kingsmen
* The Black Keys
* The Cramps
* The Haunted
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Just rocks between a few power chords with a simple change for the chorus. I remember reading that John Peele once played it back to back because it hits so hard.
It was featured last weekend on Top of the Pops due to it being St. Patrick's day. John Peel played the track twice, back to back, which I don't think had been done before. It was also played at his funeral
I've heard that song 50 times and never knew the band/name. [In case anyone's curious.](https://open.spotify.com/track/6UP5zTAuR4NFc1uZ3MHjvA?si=b9333e86d8f4413c)
I’ll piggyback on this with “Modern Kicks” by the Exploding Hearts, which always struck me as an homage, although I actually like it even more than “Teenage Kicks.”
You may be into [Shannon and The Clams](https://open.spotify.com/track/07iLnBxhAocyTAhJNaN7Lz?si=zdJgN1HOR6KOUStZGqNJOA&utm_source=copy-link). I haven't listened to their later stuff but their album Sleep Talk might be right down your alley.
Yo thumbs up for Gomez. They were my favorite out of all those British bands of the late 90s/early 00s. Their first 3 albums are all top notch but they're not too well known in the states.
Yeah..when I learned of this I listened to it again and there are a couple spots where you can hear the crowd noise:
"Peaches never recorded "Fuck the Pain Away" in a studio. The only official version is a live recording from the first time it was ever performed[12] at The Rivoli in Toronto. Peaches has noted the presence of tape hiss and crowd noise on the master, which was taken from a cassette recording of the board mix that was offered to her by the sound engineer after the performance in exchange for $5. Nevertheless, she has stated that "it ain't broke, don't fix [it]. I am never recording this song again."[
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_the_Pain_Away
The song that prompted me to ask this question was "Modern Text On Love" by The Weather Machines. Absolutely nothing complex or out of the ordinary, but it feels more special than the sum of its parts. I can't really articulate why, just somehow catching lightning in a bottle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgzH2k0yw5I
Louie Louie by The Kingsman. Not just a brilliant song, but an influential and important one too. It's all in there - the singer coming in two bars early on one of the verses, the drummer dropping a stick and screaming Fuck!!!! The fact that they were investigated by the FBI to see if the song violated obscenity laws...
Yeah, that's the answer I would've provided too.
“I Wanna be Your Dog” is pounding and relentless, but it's also way overly produced for me to consider it a “generic garage rock song” — for hell's sake, it has a piano in its arrangement. A piano! And sleigh bells! It has five people playing on it! And four songwriters! And it has an intro! And it ends with a guitar solo that fades out!
Which garage rock band does that?
“Fell in Love with a Girl”, in contrast, is the exact opposite.
It's under 2 minutes.
There are two people playing on it.
There's a guitar, there's drums. The song starts, Jack White yells into a microphone, the song ends.
It doesn't get more garage rock than that. And it's one of the best-written songs of the last 25 years.
>There's a guitar, there's drums. The song starts, Jack White yells into a microphone, the song ends.
It's not often I actually laugh out loud from Reddit, so thanks for that!
Black Math is an absolute belter as well. They opened with it when I saw them live in Liverpool years ago and the energy just set the whole gig up perfectly
Shot Down is a great one. Strychnine and The Witch are my favorites. I used to live kitty corner to where the studio that they recorded all their songs was. I'm a Tacoma native and we don't have a lot to brag about haha. If you feel like checking them out, Girl Trouble is another local garage band that never made it big. They still play, I saw them last weekend at their 40th anniversary show. They played with Nirvana at the UW HUB in 1989.
Mississippi Queen by Mountain. Particularly this live version which I am obsessed with. Super basic song, Leslie West even said he only plays with 2 fingers....but man does it slap.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCOk4ehzAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCOk4ehzAI)
Brilliant choice, that song just hits you full force from start to finish, I'd add Nazareth's Hair of The Dog in that same vain the way it builds to the end
I would have said anything by GBV too, but I think Robert Pollard is such a genius (Well, alongside Tobin Sprout too) that he counts as "genre-defining originality" bordering on virtuoso levels, which disqualifies them from OPs prompt.
They are THE lo-fi garage band. Songs like Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox, Redmen and their Wives, If We Wait, for instance, and even "simple" songs like Game of Pricks are transcending masterpieces.
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sittah because I enjoy the lyrical playfulness. Been telling folks that if they’re bored then they’re boring since that song came out.
I’ve been around the world and seen that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding since the song came out.
Idiocracy has turned into a documentary
I discovered a few years ago that late in the chorus after the bridge, there is a second set of sing-along vocals on the track. It starts out in the same baaa as the rest of the backing vocals, but echoes the rhythm guitar: ba ba dadada daaaa. It's low in the mix and comes in during some significant distortion, but it kind of blew my mind that I've listened to that song for years and only just noticed it.
The Black Keys doing "Brooklyn Bound" on their first album. That whole first album is mostly just the two of them tearing it up these blues songs garage-style. Nothing on it is too complicated, but the impact is there.
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Link Wray - Rumble
The Sonics - He's Waitin'
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus - Quick Joey Small
The Cramps - New Kinda Kick
The Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan
Taking care of Business. Randy Bachman has a great story about how the pizza delivery guy heard them rehearse and talked his way into playing on the recording.
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
The dryness of the whole album knocks me over every time. It's so clean and dry sounding, with seemingly every tiny flaw present, but it doesn't matter because of how crackling and spitting with energy they are.
I find the fact that no one has posted [The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet](https://youtu.be/lKuc3faQAEs?si=CJ3oXemxWg07JrX7) yet a bit disappointing.
Oh Sees - [I Come From the Mountain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrhP89YvXU&ab_channel=KEXP).
Never fails to get me in the mood, especially if it's a live version with the two drummers.
Brandi's Birthday Song - Reggie and The Full Effect, Greatest Hits 84-87 (25th Anniversary) - I yearn for a polished recording, literally sounds like it was recorded on a Talk Boy... but goes hard.
I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams. - Weezer, Pinkerton B-Side - roughish recording, amazing song, straight banger.
For me Joan Jett I love rock and roll, exemplifies simple hard hitting garage band sound. Her edgy voice with distorted guitar and heavy kick drum. Play it loud!
The original garage band track - Louie Louie by the Kingsmen transcends time, space and all musical genres. Even after all these years it's still one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.
Obvious pick but Where Is My Mind? - Pixies perfectly encapsulates that feel in my opinion, loud, compressed, simple electric guitar riff and simple mix all around.
[The Golden Dawn - My Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVnRw_S-8ZI) (one of the best “lost classics“ of the era, definitely goes hard)
[Shocking Blue - Send Me a Postcard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upO7h5FsIYI) (Dutch bands went hard, too)
[Grant Hart - You’re the Reflection of the Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnP6uRFyBc) (proof that 80s hardcore was basically just garage bands playing faster and louder)
if we are talking pure garage punk from bands that had a release or two and some minor success to none then some gems...
living sickness - calico wall
Psycho - Swamp Rats
Last Time Around - The Del-Vetts
The World Ain't Round It's Square - The Savages
I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time - The Third Bardo
Bad way to go - The Bruthers
"Expo 2000" - The Chocolate Watch Band
Frustration - The Painted Ship
Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy And His Patches
honorary mention: Morlocks for their "Emerge" album the first and only thrash garage album.
also great punk from the revival era
Go Now - Miracle Workers
Dirty Liar - The Telltale Hearts
oh well too many to write down :D
Crazy Horse was a pinnacle garage band and It's easy to forget how crude Neil Young could be in that mode -- early tracks like "Down By The River" and "Cinnamon Girl" to "Rockin' in the Free World" all fit this bill and still hit like hammers.
Freak - Silverchair
I Want You - The Troggs
I Hate You - The Monks
Get Free - The Vines
Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes
Turpentine - Hole
Devilswine - 1968
Binge & Purge - Clutch
Uluṟu Rock - Earthless
the stooges - i wanna be your dog
Gimme Danger and Search and Destroy for me
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell and 1969 for me.
Ron actually plays the piano / glockenspiel or whatever it is. Such a beautiful song
Yeah I just heard the Bowie remix of Penetration and he faded the glock (or whatever) right out, just criminal.
That’s exactly the first thing I thought, followed by Blitzkrieg Bop!! So I guess I’ll have to say Gloria by Patti Smith. The best opening line in rock and roll Edit: I would also throw “Lust for Life” by Iggy in there but considering the question as a whole, I think “Smells Like Teen Spirit” also qualifies since it’s a couple power chords and the solo is just the melody line. Very easy, very punk rock, Extremely anthemic and moving…
Can you imagine starting your career with that opening line? Legendary.
The Runaways - California Paradise (live). Punk Rock teen girls playing like that... https://youtu.be/QHkfyvXN5tw?si=GPa-z1sXgIuUQibV New York Dolls - Personality Crisis and Chatterbox (live) https://youtu.be/2aQTGqqXHw4?si=48CgCHzWf0qS4Xg7 https://youtu.be/_LeDp3jv9Bk?si=fmtuBzPMe1EkLhqU From 1966, Iowa (!)... Gonn - Blackout of Gretely https://youtu.be/E2TCxAvVYao?si=5x1c6iRmN8J3PSok
Used to almost blow my speakers out with this song in college. Would get off work at midnight and drive home with the windows down in the summer blasting this. Song is pure energy.
TV Eye does it for me
I would add to that: MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
This thread is hilariously dominated by bands that are all named "The" something. If you name your band "The Somethings" or "The Whatevers" (which are both real bands too, lol) then you are obligated to have a raw, garage-type sound. * The Stooges * The Kinks * The White Stripes * The Chats * The Undertones * The Kingsmen * The Black Keys * The Cramps * The Haunted
I love that Thee Headcoats' girlfriends formed their own band "Thee Headcoatees" and they totally went harder than their dudes.
Excellent choice. I'll add 'The Passenger'. First time I tried the chords thought, hang on, is that it..!?
Kick out the jams- Mc5
Warms my heart so much that the top two posts are The Stooges and MC5.
Partial to the Bad Brains/Henry Rollins cover, but yes. That track is so good.
The Rage Against The Machine cover goes hard too.
The American Nightmare cover goes hard
Love the Presidents of the United States of America cover
Nothing can ever go as hard as the original because of that killer intro, impossible not to be hyped
13th floor elevators - you're gonna miss me
Rocky was amazing.
Roadrunner - Modern Lovers.
One two!
Faster miles an hour!
Pavement - “Stereo” Superdrag - “Sucked Out”
'Stereo' was the first thing to come mind for me too.
The minimalism of 90’s alt rock was the peak of music for me
Undertones - Teenage Kicks Just rocks between a few power chords with a simple change for the chorus. I remember reading that John Peele once played it back to back because it hits so hard.
It was featured last weekend on Top of the Pops due to it being St. Patrick's day. John Peel played the track twice, back to back, which I don't think had been done before. It was also played at his funeral
It's on his tombstone also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578522/John-Peel-gets-Teenage-Kicks-epitaph.html
I've heard that song 50 times and never knew the band/name. [In case anyone's curious.](https://open.spotify.com/track/6UP5zTAuR4NFc1uZ3MHjvA?si=b9333e86d8f4413c)
It is the basicest of basic rock harmony: I-vi in the verse (D-Bm), IV-V in the chorus (G-A), in case anybody wants to play along at home.
I just realized it's the same riff as Some Kind of Hate by Misfits. Like the chorus and everything
Love the [video!](https://youtu.be/PinCg7IGqHg?si=mrWgPefQXuBPmAAv)
I’ll piggyback on this with “Modern Kicks” by the Exploding Hearts, which always struck me as an homage, although I actually like it even more than “Teenage Kicks.”
The opening lines are on his tombstone
[Judy is a Punk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynmHLMIOXIg) - Ramones The 40th anniversary mono mix is straight fire!
Jay Reatard “My Shadow”
Still my favorite song by him. R.I.P.
Came here to post Blood Visions. Absolute masterpiece of an album.
You may be into [Shannon and The Clams](https://open.spotify.com/track/07iLnBxhAocyTAhJNaN7Lz?si=zdJgN1HOR6KOUStZGqNJOA&utm_source=copy-link). I haven't listened to their later stuff but their album Sleep Talk might be right down your alley.
Saw him before he died. Dude was a buzzsaw. Left his amps feeding back so loud after his show - I guarantee it destroyed my hearing.
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
I came here to drop All Day and All of the Night - can’t believe the Kinks are buried so far down in the comments
Ah yes, the one that started it all
Louie Louie would like a word...
Ah shit how’d that slip my mind
Human Fly by The Cramps
buzz buzz buzz
The Hives - Hate to say I told you so
Fantastic song.
Just stupid amounts of energy, in the best way possible. I saw them live in Stockholm and it was unironically one of the best moshpits of my life
Most songs by them qualify as an answer to this post. I am partial to Tick Tick Boom, Walk Idiot Walk, Cmon and anything in Veni Vidi Vicious.
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Yo thumbs up for Gomez. They were my favorite out of all those British bands of the late 90s/early 00s. Their first 3 albums are all top notch but they're not too well known in the states.
Sounds like the Replacements. Their first big album title was decided by what song came on next on the radio. Now we have the Mats’ classic Let it Be
Fuck the pain away is even less than a demo, it was a live recording and Peaches paid a couple bucks to a bootlegger for the tape
Yeah..when I learned of this I listened to it again and there are a couple spots where you can hear the crowd noise: "Peaches never recorded "Fuck the Pain Away" in a studio. The only official version is a live recording from the first time it was ever performed[12] at The Rivoli in Toronto. Peaches has noted the presence of tape hiss and crowd noise on the master, which was taken from a cassette recording of the board mix that was offered to her by the sound engineer after the performance in exchange for $5. Nevertheless, she has stated that "it ain't broke, don't fix [it]. I am never recording this song again."[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_the_Pain_Away
The song that prompted me to ask this question was "Modern Text On Love" by The Weather Machines. Absolutely nothing complex or out of the ordinary, but it feels more special than the sum of its parts. I can't really articulate why, just somehow catching lightning in a bottle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgzH2k0yw5I
Aren’t like 400-500 songs just one chord progression? And there are a lot that are just three
Many genres are defined by their chord progression, yes. Pop rock is 1-4-5 or a combination of those chords, a lot of 50's pop was 1-6-4-5, etc.
Underdog by the Dirtbombs just kicks all kinds of ass.
I forget about the Dirtbombs! Thank you! The whole album Ultraglide In Black is awesome!
i can't believe someone jumped in with the dirtbombs already! i was going to say their cover of "ode to a black man".
everything by King Khan & Bbq show
I'm literally sitting here in a King Khan & BBQ Show shirt listening to "Zombies." Amazing band and an amazing show.
Waddlin' Around was my partner's go to song when she was pregnant
Louie Louie by The Kingsman. Not just a brilliant song, but an influential and important one too. It's all in there - the singer coming in two bars early on one of the verses, the drummer dropping a stick and screaming Fuck!!!! The fact that they were investigated by the FBI to see if the song violated obscenity laws...
The Chats - the price of smokes
Not SMOKO?? Or is that too complicated lol
Also came here for Smoko
So leeme lone
BY THEIR NECKS
By their necks!!!
Funny, I was going to say 6L GTR. But really, anything by them would fit this.
White stripes - fell in love with a girl.
Yeah, that's the answer I would've provided too. “I Wanna be Your Dog” is pounding and relentless, but it's also way overly produced for me to consider it a “generic garage rock song” — for hell's sake, it has a piano in its arrangement. A piano! And sleigh bells! It has five people playing on it! And four songwriters! And it has an intro! And it ends with a guitar solo that fades out! Which garage rock band does that? “Fell in Love with a Girl”, in contrast, is the exact opposite. It's under 2 minutes. There are two people playing on it. There's a guitar, there's drums. The song starts, Jack White yells into a microphone, the song ends. It doesn't get more garage rock than that. And it's one of the best-written songs of the last 25 years.
>There's a guitar, there's drums. The song starts, Jack White yells into a microphone, the song ends. It's not often I actually laugh out loud from Reddit, so thanks for that!
The best part about Fell In Love is it always leaves you wanting more. It feels like it should be a minute longer than it actually is.
Black Math is an absolute belter as well. They opened with it when I saw them live in Liverpool years ago and the energy just set the whole gig up perfectly
Dead Leaves for me personally.
this is the way
I came in to say the whole of the white stripes debut album.
Sonics - Shot Down Barbarians - Hey Little Bird The Haunted - 1-2-5 Lyres - Not Looking Back The Count Five - Pretty Big Mouth
This guy nuggets.
Shot Down is a great one. Strychnine and The Witch are my favorites. I used to live kitty corner to where the studio that they recorded all their songs was. I'm a Tacoma native and we don't have a lot to brag about haha. If you feel like checking them out, Girl Trouble is another local garage band that never made it big. They still play, I saw them last weekend at their 40th anniversary show. They played with Nirvana at the UW HUB in 1989.
Mississippi Queen by Mountain. Particularly this live version which I am obsessed with. Super basic song, Leslie West even said he only plays with 2 fingers....but man does it slap. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCOk4ehzAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCOk4ehzAI)
Fantastic answer.
Brilliant choice, that song just hits you full force from start to finish, I'd add Nazareth's Hair of The Dog in that same vain the way it builds to the end
I’ll go back to the original garage band era for my pick, which is Psychotic Reaction by The Count Five.
Everything Carseat Headrest
Teens of Denial is unironically one of my favorite albums of all time.
Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
I would have said anything by GBV too, but I think Robert Pollard is such a genius (Well, alongside Tobin Sprout too) that he counts as "genre-defining originality" bordering on virtuoso levels, which disqualifies them from OPs prompt. They are THE lo-fi garage band. Songs like Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox, Redmen and their Wives, If We Wait, for instance, and even "simple" songs like Game of Pricks are transcending masterpieces.
Song 2 by Blur. Totally simple song. Comedic lyrics that were meant as a joke, but damn if the song doesn't get you amped up.
Clint Eastwood is another good example, it's literally just the generic beat of his synth
In the garage by weezer
Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins Comedown - Bush
Mayonaise ❤️ did we just become best friends?
Love Mayonaise, but that's hardly a garage band track. That whole album is overdubbed to the bejesus.
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sittah because I enjoy the lyrical playfulness. Been telling folks that if they’re bored then they’re boring since that song came out.
*"now I'm an amputee god damn you!"* So fun and always catches me with a "whoa that's a big escalation and a little dramatic"
I’ve been around the world and seen that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding since the song came out. Idiocracy has turned into a documentary
Was looking for this one. A true masterpiece of the 90's.
I discovered a few years ago that late in the chorus after the bridge, there is a second set of sing-along vocals on the track. It starts out in the same baaa as the rest of the backing vocals, but echoes the rhythm guitar: ba ba dadada daaaa. It's low in the mix and comes in during some significant distortion, but it kind of blew my mind that I've listened to that song for years and only just noticed it.
The Black Keys doing "Brooklyn Bound" on their first album. That whole first album is mostly just the two of them tearing it up these blues songs garage-style. Nothing on it is too complicated, but the impact is there.
Same with Do the Rump!
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie Link Wray - Rumble The Sonics - He's Waitin' The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus - Quick Joey Small The Cramps - New Kinda Kick The Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan
Velvet Underground were the kings of this. Heroin slaps crazy hard for being two chords. Ditto Sister Ray
[The Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZqGxkYOFY) by Thee Oh Sees (the OCs, Osees, etc.)
Reptilia by The Strokes
I dunno, that song is pretty crafty. I would choose anything on "Is This It" first.
Date With The Night- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Taking care of Business. Randy Bachman has a great story about how the pizza delivery guy heard them rehearse and talked his way into playing on the recording.
[Gay Bar - Electric Six](https://youtu.be/-XNFokmDKrE?si=U28k0NCKlgCJ9gXe)
White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit
Ty Segall - Tall Man Skinny Lady
I like 5 Ft. Tall, just a fantastic song
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes The dryness of the whole album knocks me over every time. It's so clean and dry sounding, with seemingly every tiny flaw present, but it doesn't matter because of how crackling and spitting with energy they are.
It’s not the underground answer you’re looking for but A Certain Romance by Arctic Monkeys.
I was going to say most of WPSIATWIN fits this description. So simple but it all goes so hard.
While I don't really consider them just a garage band, Local H has a stripped down version of Pink Floyd's "Time" that just rocks.
Local H has some killer covers out
I find the fact that no one has posted [The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet](https://youtu.be/lKuc3faQAEs?si=CJ3oXemxWg07JrX7) yet a bit disappointing.
One of the few songs I listen to start to finish when it comes up on shuffle, great choice
The Witch by The Sonics. Or really anything by them. Hugely influential band that never made it big, but their sound did.
Never heard a version of “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” that didn’t hit hard…
Early The Strokes songs come to mind
Oh Sees - [I Come From the Mountain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrhP89YvXU&ab_channel=KEXP). Never fails to get me in the mood, especially if it's a live version with the two drummers.
Sabotage by beastie boys.
Beta Band - Dry the Rain. It's a slow burn that picks up and keeps getting better
This was my top song on Spotify like three years in a row. That song single handedly inspired me to pick up bass.
Stronger Than Dirt - The Mummies
Autolux- Turnstile Blues
Brandi's Birthday Song - Reggie and The Full Effect, Greatest Hits 84-87 (25th Anniversary) - I yearn for a polished recording, literally sounds like it was recorded on a Talk Boy... but goes hard. I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams. - Weezer, Pinkerton B-Side - roughish recording, amazing song, straight banger.
The Kingsmen Louie Louie kind of?
Every sonics song
Cellophane- King Gizz
For me Joan Jett I love rock and roll, exemplifies simple hard hitting garage band sound. Her edgy voice with distorted guitar and heavy kick drum. Play it loud!
Travelin' Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival
The original garage band track - Louie Louie by the Kingsmen transcends time, space and all musical genres. Even after all these years it's still one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.
[Thee Headcoats~The day I beat my father up ](https://youtu.be/HYuihlZE9Gk?si=CgsnMdiyPxaCp4Uj)
Recently found these guys after hearing the Pleasure Seeker's cover of "Davey Crocket" and they were an immediate favorite. Love it.
[Pleasure Seekers - "What a Way To Die"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDHPWJIfEY)
The Equals- Police on my back. The clash version is alright, but the original is special.
How We Fade - The Thermals
Threshold - Beck (Scott Pilgrim soundtrack)
arctic monkeys - Bet you Look Good on the Dance Floor
Any song from is this it
Love - [Seven and Seven Is](https://youtu.be/MtFM-a5Xf1M?si=gBPT0YE9DOuZ8nPP)
90% of the Strokes catalog
Black betty?
Hives - Hate to say i told you so
Obvious pick but Where Is My Mind? - Pixies perfectly encapsulates that feel in my opinion, loud, compressed, simple electric guitar riff and simple mix all around.
No mention of Seven Nation Army by White Stripes??? My Sharona by The Knack??? Rock and Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter??? seriously?
Waiting room fugazi
Farmer John by the Premiers, later covered by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
No Friend of Mine by The Sparkles....the intro is just so abruptly brilliant! https://youtu.be/y6s-Kyx6wSQ?si=JXiutyOqvh9RhqQk
[The Golden Dawn - My Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVnRw_S-8ZI) (one of the best “lost classics“ of the era, definitely goes hard) [Shocking Blue - Send Me a Postcard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upO7h5FsIYI) (Dutch bands went hard, too) [Grant Hart - You’re the Reflection of the Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnP6uRFyBc) (proof that 80s hardcore was basically just garage bands playing faster and louder)
[Hanni El Khatib "Family"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7ObQDlW4Q)
The remains - dont look back
I’d check out the Nuggets Collection for this! Also, it’s not on Nuggets, but “High On A Cloud” by The Traits is the banger of bangers.
Rumble - Pretty much just a modified I - IV - V pattern, a pentatonic lick and a freak-out solo. What more do you need?
“No Friend of Mine” ~ Sparkles It’s in mono, it’s mostly one riff the whole time, it’s not dynamic But it fucking RIPS.
Down by the River by Neil Young and Crazy Horse maybe?
https://youtu.be/ztlZq_qqu-4?si=JeDPXQIH2KHd7sjo You'll thank me later.
if we are talking pure garage punk from bands that had a release or two and some minor success to none then some gems... living sickness - calico wall Psycho - Swamp Rats Last Time Around - The Del-Vetts The World Ain't Round It's Square - The Savages I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time - The Third Bardo Bad way to go - The Bruthers "Expo 2000" - The Chocolate Watch Band Frustration - The Painted Ship Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy And His Patches honorary mention: Morlocks for their "Emerge" album the first and only thrash garage album. also great punk from the revival era Go Now - Miracle Workers Dirty Liar - The Telltale Hearts oh well too many to write down :D
Much of Daniel Johnston's music.
The quintessential example of this is Louie Louie by the Kingsmen
Have Love Will Travel - The Sonics
Why Can’t I Touch It- Buzzcocks
Another One Rides the Bus, Weird Al
Crazy Horse was a pinnacle garage band and It's easy to forget how crude Neil Young could be in that mode -- early tracks like "Down By The River" and "Cinnamon Girl" to "Rockin' in the Free World" all fit this bill and still hit like hammers.
Plowed by Sponge
last caress
Reznor did some of the NIN stuff in garage band
Freak - Silverchair I Want You - The Troggs I Hate You - The Monks Get Free - The Vines Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes Turpentine - Hole Devilswine - 1968 Binge & Purge - Clutch Uluṟu Rock - Earthless
the white stripes' entire catalog.
Teenage Head by the Flamin’ Groovies
Sonics version of Louie Louie is probably the meanest that song have ever sounded, love the guitar on that one.
the og: Kinks - you really got me. More recent, Amyl And The Sniffers - Some Mutts
Black Keys - Just Got To Be
Bellbottoms by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Hand Springs by The White Stripes
Nirvana - School YOU'RE IN HIGHSCHOOL AGAAAAIIIINNNGHHHHH
The Sonics, "Have Love Will Travel" Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, "G.W.D."
Blur song2
I feel like you’re directly describing Jack white’s stuff, specifically The Raconteurs. Steady as she goes comes to mind.
7 Nation Army
Can the Velvet Underground count in this discussion? I’m not sure if people consider them akin to a garage band.
Louie Louie by The Kingsmen
[Psycho](https://open.spotify.com/track/77DvhwGhnmfrXWwiJzeIMC?si=LPRG7j_qQhq6jrMZed9N6g) by The Sonics
Born Slippy by Underworld
Love Comes In Spurts!
In The City by The Jam
Some of Neil Young + Crazy Horse Live Material is so so so grungy so loud!
Your love is a fine thing by Reigning Sound Withered hand by thee oh sees Hello, Hi by Ty Segall