Songs that could be '60s garage...if they weren't hits

[Jim]

Essential

 

[greenfuzz]

Essential

Probably my favorite song of all time.

 

[haigo]

Just a place to list a few great ones, for fun.
Lots of songs like this are listed in TBM as honorable mentions. But there's others...Beach Boys, Byrds, Bob Dylan.. etc.
Please join in if you can think of any. There's no rules, anything goes.
The Beach Boys had a few. Here's one (my favourite Beach Boys track), pure 60s garage even with the harmonies. What an amazing song structure, and performance.

this is from the tami show in 1964

 

[Jim]

What would the world be without them...a hit downunder alas not worldwide

 

[Jim]

And the final one, a blueprint for dozens of garage songs and if not a hit by Mr. Zimmerman a garage song on its own

 

[Jim]

this is from the tami show in 1964

As are the Barbarians

 

[Laurent Bigot]

 

[Jim]

Excellent choice unknown to me

 

[Jim]

Here are two BG tracks that are beat with a bit of garage/psych overtones.

 

[Jim]

 

[Rythmn Boy]

If we are going to have The Easybeats, we've got to have Sorry

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

The origin of 'Be a Cave Man'!

 

[Jim]

"Mystic Eyes" made number 33! in US charts on October 30, 1965, but didn't chart in uk.

It did very well in Europe hence the many fab picture sleeves

 

[Jim]

Don't know if they were hits in the US, but lots of tunes by The Troggs could probably be classified as garage. They had a run of great B-sides in 1966 including:

From Home [B-side of Wild Thing]

I Want You [B-side of A Girl Like You]

66-5-4-3-2-1 [B-side of Any Way That You Want Me]

also covered this gem

 

[Jim]

Half a grassroot

Bambina Sola to my ex wife

 

[Jim]

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

11/10 on the Richter scale, but I doubt this was ever a hit!

 

[Jim]

11/10 on the Richter scale, but I doubt this was ever a hit!

No lenience then...you're tuff