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The Sonics - Introducing the Sonics Audio CD

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The Sonics Band: The Sonics
Title: Introducing the Sonics
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Release Date: 2004-02-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: The Witch 2: You Got Your Head On Backwards 3: I�m A Man 4: On The Road Again 5: Psycho / Love Lights 6: I�m Going Home 7: High Time 8: I�m A Rolling Stone 9: Like No Other Man 10: Maintaining My Cool 11: Bama Lama Bama Loo 12: Leave My Kitten Alone 13: Dirty Old Man 14: Diddy Wah Diddy

akk no
It contains only two cuts from their peak days: "Psycho" and "The Witch," which were leased from Etiquette Records. This is absolutely NOT where you should start out listening to the Sonics. Everything else here is from their tragic waning days, when they switched to the Jerden label, went out into the big world, got their sound cleaned up, lost their way and fell apart.

It's very simple: Their great stuff was on Etiquette Records. Get the Norton reissues of their first two albums, "Here are the Sonics" and "Boom," or the ACE compilation "Psycho-Sonic" (for stereo mixes).

There are a couple other decent things here, but even the best pales against the other stuff.


Wake up America
Everything is processed. This is the real deal! I hate the music that is being pumped out today. I switched to blues in the 80's because the only bands going were the Pistols and the Ramones. Twenty years later and the song remains the same. You have to own this; it is the real deal.


Where it all comes from
This is what Jack White probably wants his band to sound like, and although he does an admirable job on his earlier work, I'm sorry to say that he doesn't quite make it (not to knock him though- he has his own sound and I like it). With the rash of "garage revival" bands out there these days (you know, the bands with moptops, tight pants, and names that start with "the"), I wonder how many people have ever heard music like this. This is the original garage sound, rough raw and hungry. Three chords, distorted guitar, and sexual frustration combined into something far greater than the sum of its parts. Long before "punk rock" became a genre, these guys were making punk rock.

I'm stunned that I'm the first person to review this, but I'll say that if you somehow stumble onto this page, you'd really do yourself a favor picking up a copy. If you only know this kind of music from the late-90s-early-00s revival bands, you're in for a shock.

Rock on--

-HW

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