How Unknown Can You Go?

[bosshoss]

I'd like to see the whole competition stay optional, casual and fun. It's just one competition, not the last ever competition before the end of the world . We'll have more in the future, and learn a few lessons from the way this one goes. Good luck to everyone who enters.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Now the competition was light-hearted then thee Boss posts pics of a prize. What do you expect?Gentlemanly conduct over eye-boggling internet vinyl porn from those old favourites. My fingers have blisters from all the fiddling, through 45's in the vain hope there is something else there rare enough even to get a vote.

Good job we are all so far apart, I feel the biting, the nails scratching and hair being torn out all the way from here.

 

[MopTopMike]

I think more G45 members should participate in the contest voting.
I'm sure many feel too intimidated to even submit a song at this point.
That is, if any even log in here anymore....

 

[mr. splendid]

... and some not seriously at all - not even bothering to enter any songs.

collecting unknown stuff has never been a point for me , so I don't want to enter a song just for the sake of entering it .

 

[Michael W]

I think more G45 members should participate in the contest voting.
I'm sure many feel too intimidated to even submit a song at this point.
That is, if any even log in here anymore....

I doubt whether I have any unheards - most of my 45s are well known, so I can't see myself submitting anything. I would if I did. I'll probably do the ratings in a batch closer to the end.

 

[pfft]

OK, you asked for it... My '60s 45 collection is pitiful, but here's one "unknown" i kinda like. I'd give it a 3, which I guess is higher than any of you will rate it :)

http://www.divshare.com/download/26026323-c4c

I will sit down and listen to all the submitted songs this weekend and rate them.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

OK, you asked for it... My '60s 45 collection is pitiful, but here's one "unknown" i kinda like. I'd give it a 3, which I guess is higher than any of you will rate it :)

http://www.divshare.com/download/26026323-c4c

I will sit down and listen to all the submitted songs this weekend and rate them.

Country garage teddy boy R n' R rave-up maybe! Is the original from 1946 - Eddy Arnold? Or are there earlier versions?

I don't mind it at all - 4

 

[vinyl01]

Country garage teddy boy R n' R rave-up maybe! Is the original from 1946 - Eddy Arnold? Or are there earlier versions?

I don't mind it at all - 4

Country garage? Is that a new category I never heard of? I'll have to take another listen to all my country 45s. Not bad upbeat country sound though to me...3

 

[Heitkotter77]

I'd like to see the whole competition stay optional, casual and fun. It's just one competition, not the last ever competition before the end of the world . We'll have more in the future, and learn a few lessons from the way this one goes. Good luck to everyone who enters.

I liked the idea of the competition as not being a strict competition but something where people put up some of their unknown or lesser known records, etc. to share them and we all got to hear some more cool sounds and just appreciate them for the music and not how garage they are.
I would have preferred the competition stay at the unknown level and without the ratings, just whether or not a particular song could be considered 60s garage or not.
Mark, you mean well by offering a prize and we all appreciate your generosity, but that changed the whole complexion of this game. Adding the garage-o-meter ratings made it too serious.

Before anyone says I'm saying this because of the ratings my selections have gotten, I will say that these are pretty much what I expected, so I have no disappointments about them. I'll have a lot more to say about this (my selections and the reactions) after the competition closes.
Also, since I sold my 60s singles collection and am not really looking for them now, I had no interest in any prizes anyhow, and just entered for the fun and to turn you guys on to some unknowns I had. I hope at some point you will listen to them and tell me what you think without regards to how garage you may or may not think they are. Just enjoy them for the music, and I think that, garage narzis aside, most will.

 

[Laurent Bigot]

Halfwit « live cut » 6
Heitkotter “hucyg6” 4
Don Julio “lost in life’s race” 7
Pfft “mystery that show” 6

 

[vinyl01]

I liked the idea of the competition as not being a strict competition but something where people put up some of their unknown or lesser known records, etc. to share them and we all got to hear some more cool sounds and just appreciate them for the music and not how garage they are.
I would have preferred the competition stay at the unknown level and without the ratings, just whether or not a particular song could be considered 60s garage or not.
Mark, you mean well by offering a prize and we all appreciate your generosity, but that changed the whole complexion of this game. Adding the garage-o-meter ratings made it too serious.

Before anyone says I'm saying this because of the ratings my selections have gotten, I will say that these are pretty much what I expected, so I have no disappointments about them. I'll have a lot more to say about this (my selections and the reactions) after the competition closes.
Also, since I sold my 60s singles collection and am not really looking for them now, I had no interest in any prizes anyhow, and just entered for the fun and to turn you guys on to some unknowns I had. I hope at some point you will listen to them and tell me what you think without regards to how garage you may or may not think they are. Just enjoy them for the music, and I think that, garage narzis aside, most will.

I have lots of unknown acetates, but not garage sounding...should I start putting them up here?

 

[Heitkotter77]

I have lots of unknown acetates, but not garage sounding...should I start putting them up here?

Do you mean for the purpose of this game or in general?

 

[Frantic]

I have lots of unknown acetates, but not garage sounding...should I start putting them up here?

No...they need to be garage?

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Country garage? Is that a new category I never heard of?

Can't be all that different from rockabilly...

 

[vinyl01]

I would not call that 45 rockabilly at all.

 

[Frantic]

OK, you asked for it... My '60s 45 collection is pitiful, but here's one "unknown" i kinda like. I'd give it a 3, which I guess is higher than any of you will rate it :)

http://www.divshare.com/download/26026323-c4c

I will sit down and listen to all the submitted songs this weekend and rate them.

Same song, cooler version, your boy changes a lot of the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPm-b0uyiwo

I think this is the original version by Eddy Arnold. Although Sinatra did it too. By the way, yours is hardly garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFykCQ6JzrI

 

[HarvestmanMan]

I would not call that 45 rockabilly at all.

I was not talking about the record. I was talking about the idea of "country garage".

 

[vinyl01]

Ok. I always took the position that rockabilly with a great guitar break was like early garage style. They do sound different as it's about a decade earlier, but with the same energy.

 

[Frantic]

Country garage teddy boy R n' R rave-up maybe! Is the original from 1946 - Eddy Arnold? Or are there earlier versions?

I don't mind it at all - 4

This isn't even close to garage or rockabilly. Just some hick trying to rock in the 60s.

 

[ShyC]

I’m not in it wo win it, but nonetheless I’d like to submit a song that I assume is pretty unknown. It’s not featured in TBM – but it will be in the update. So a few of you might ID it, but still most of you may not have heard it before.

Hear it