We're Not Who You Think We Are
Album: A Web of Sound
Year: 1966
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I’m going to blame the Rolling Stones for this one. I mean, you can pretty much blame the Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks & Who for 98.42% of all mid-60s American garage rock, so that’s not saying much. But in this case, I think “Up in Her Room” might have been inspired by “Goin’ Home,” the 11-minute song that closed the U.S. version of Aftermath.
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Album: The Seeds
Year: 1965
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The Seeds came from the same mid-60s Los Angeles scene that also produced The Byrds, Love, The Doors and Buffalo Springfield. However, unlike Roger McGuinn, Arthur Lee, Jim Morrison and Stephen Stills/Neil Young, the principal songwriter and lead singer of the Seeds — the awesomely named Sky Saxon — didn’t have any major artistic pretensions.
But like all of the above, The Seeds kicked out some absolutely fantastic singles, the best of which was their 1965 garage-raver, “Pushin’ Too Hard,” which comes roaring out of the gate driven by Rick Andridge’s double-time drums, Jan Savage’s guitar and Darryl Hooper’s keyboards. Over all of this forward momentum, Saxon is snarling at some poor girl.
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