Rd 1 Garage (60s)

[rayge]

A The Id – The Rake


B Outcasts – 1523 Blair

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A's an interesting pick that's perhaps trying too hard to be different. It was certainly a bizarre listening experience with the disembodied vocals and a guitarist seemingly hitting random notes. Not sure how garage it was, more of a very strange surf/psych mash up. I'd be interested in hearing the back story to this, but I don't think it's a very good record as such. It might have worked better in the novelty category!
B is rightly regarded as one of the wildest, most unhinged garage records ever. God knows what cocktail of performance enhancing drugs the drummer was on! Impossibly exciting and hearing it is always a blast.

B

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I liked B alot. G's comments on A echo mine.

[osgood]

Yeah, A is all about its weirdness which probably doesn't help in this environment. Not too keen on going through it again, even if it might deserve it, but there's no way it's going to win over the immediateness and power of


B

[DarknessFish]

I like the band name of The Id, it might be as pretentious as you can get for so few characters. It is a strange disconnected thing isn't it? I thought the idea of recording instruments separately was for better sound quality, not so that each band member didn't know what the others were doing. Harmless though, and kind of atmospheric.

B's vocalist doesn't seem to be aware of what the rest of the band are doing either. It does have an immediacy to it, but it also outstays its welcome after only a short lifespan. Those drums are recorded too loudly, too, they're not actually interesting in and of themselves.

Close, but I'm edging towards A

[Deleted]

Vote B, I guess..

[toomanyhatz]

Yeah, I'm with G too on this one. A is interesting and strange, but I'm not sure how well it fits the category. Then again, not everything on the original Nuggets did either!

In any case, maybe not a deep dig, but it's undeniable that B is quite unhinged, like the best of the American (and particularly Texan!) garage.

[Deleted]

A plays like the musicians have never even met each other. Weird thing.

B

[fange]

Good match! A is fun, i like its weird disjointed feel. But B's energy and attitude get it the win here.


B

[Reactionary Rage]

B is stupendous

b

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

A certainly is interesting. Aside from the rather clunky bridge I don't hear "musicians who have never met" - if anything it seems like maybe they've spent too much time together! I like those chiming guitar chords that drape overtop of the syncopated rhythm section. Very cool.

B is pretty much garage-by-numbers to me except one rarely hears a drummer that qualified to be in a band like that. I guess that's why they've got him so high in the mix.

A

[neige]

I like both, but the frantic B has the edge.

[Sneelock]

Watch me spazz out to B
What a wonderful sight!

[The Red Heifer]

Oh yeah this is easy. I vote B.

[rayge]

Fuck, there's a lot of these themes that are really challenging, but at least these are short

A trying hard to be original, and sounds like it may have actually been recorded in a garage. I wouldn't know a syncopated beat from a psychedelic foxtrot, but whatever the rhythm section were doing, those splashes of colour over the top provided by the guitar were quite welcome
B I don't know what everyone else has found to get their juices flowing, but this sounded to me like a ham-fisted rewrite/cut-up of 7 & 7 Is, without any of the skill that went into that, and with no explosion at the end. I was underwhelmed.

A