Harpsichord in the garage.

[Hicksville Hogwash]

The Loved Ones - Country Club Life

Can't believe I missed this one. I've been obsessed by the anti-upper-crust lyrics for a while now. Also the use of "queer" and "gay" Is he saying the guy is a closeted homosexual? Or weird? I'm going for gay.

 

[bosshoss]

The Loved Ones - Country Club Life
Can't believe I missed this one. I've been obsessed by the anti-upper-crust lyrics for a while now. Also the use of "queer" and "gay" Is he saying the guy is a closeted homosexual? Or weird? I'm going for gay.

In those days gay in that context could just mean happy and carefree. Nice harpsichord interlude, probably the best part of the song.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

I just played this loudly and there is the plinketing of the Harpsicord. Recently brought this and the Loved Ones (which I'd rate highly) 45s with no preconception they both contained harpsichording.

Is it time to for me to start wearIng a powdered wig and get on some Bach?

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

The Loved Ones - Country Club Life

Can't believe I missed this one. I've been obsessed by the anti-upper-crust lyrics for a while now. Also the use of "queer" and "gay" Is he saying the guy is a closeted homosexual? Or weird? I'm going for gay.

Yet another House of the Rising Sun spin off. There are hundreds of them if not thousands. The Animals were a huge influence on sixties garage bands. I'm pretty sure gay only meant happy in the sixties.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Obviously more in the pop/psych vein, but still one of my all-time favorites

More folk rock than psych!

 

[captain bronstain]

I'm pretty sure gay only meant happy in the sixties.

Happy! Yeah...

 

[Frantic]

Happy! Yeah...View attachment 4057

some lucky guy was happy and gay that he got it for 1/2 price!!!

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Happy! Yeah...View attachment 4057

Okay, I stand corrected, but its meaning as homosexual only gained currency in the early seventies. It would very likely have meant happy in the Loved Ones song.

 

[captain bronstain]

Okay, I stand corrected, but its meaning as homosexual only gained currency in the early seventies. It would very likely have meant happy in the Loved Ones song.

I don't argue, but the possibility of such connotation in the some of G45 songs is not excluded...

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Okay, I stand corrected, but its meaning as homosexual only gained currency in the early seventies. It would very likely have meant happy in the Loved Ones song.

It's a strange one. They dip into the homosexual overtones more than a few times.

Gay, Queer, Swinger are all used, also "drags himself", And "Nancy" (as a woman's name). Is Nancy used in USA as an insult for female acting?

If they said one of these once I'd agree, gay means happy and queer means strange. But the singer keeps piling up the accusations.

Maybe it's why I like this song so much, it's ambiguous message?

 

[Jim]

A bit like David Watts...

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

It's a strange one. They dip into the homosexual overtones more than a few times.

Gay, Queer, Swinger are all used, also "drags himself", And "Nancy" (as a woman's name). Is Nancy used in USA as an insult for female acting?

If they said one of these once I'd agree, gay means happy and queer means strange. But the singer keeps piling up the accusations.

Maybe it's why I like this song so much, it's ambiguous message?

I agree all these words have other connotations, but do they 'pile up'? Not in a way that reinforces a message of homosexuality. From the contexts they all seem innocently disconnected, to me at least.

 

[Rythmn Boy]

Happy World Amusement Park in Singapore had existed since the 1930s but changed its name to Gay World in 1966. It was an adult amusement park with cinemas and nightclubs with taxi-dancers for single men. The whole thing sounds pretty heterosexual to me

 

[Dave Baldwin]

A bit like David Watts...

According to both Ray and Dave Davies, the real-life "David Watts" was definitely gay (and well known for his 'pedo parties').
EDKH...lol

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Back to harpsichord...one that I just rediscovered is "The Beginning Of The End" by The Sir Douglas Quintet (1965).
It's their typical West Side/swamp pop blues ballad, done up Animals/garage organ style...but at one point
Augie Meyers inserts the most banging, least-prissy harpsichord part imaginable underneath the VOX organ riffs.

 

[Derf66]

What about The Girl i Knew Somewhere by the Monkees? This is from the era when they were playing their own instruments and so it has a bit of the garage feel to it especially the drums.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

What about The Girl i Knew Somewhere by the Monkees? This is from the era when they were playing their own instruments and so it has a bit of the garage feel to it especially the drums.

Peter T. on keys...and Dolenz was a 'primitive' drummer for sure.

 

[13th Floor Garage]

Well, we have the intro of this one.

And this one instantly came to mind...

 

[Jim]

Don't know if they are considered garage but I do count them in for harpsichord greatness. A fabulous band I think and that may very well be an understatement.

 

[Frantic]

the greatest harpsichord song of all-time. Literally created in a garage 2 miles from my house.