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  22. All things Garage Rock

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    Allmusic defines Garage Rock as:

    "...a simple, raw form of rock & roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-'60s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks, and Rolling Stones, these midwestern American groups played a variation on British Invasion rock. Since they were usually young and amateurish, the results were much cruder than their inspirations but that is what made the sound exciting. Most of the band emphasized their amateurishness, playing the same three chords, bashing their guitars and growling their vocals. In many ways, the garage bands were the first wave of do-it-yourself punk rockers. Hundreds of garage bands popped up around America and a handful of them — the Shadows of Knight, the Count 5, the Seeds, the Standells — had hits, but most were destined for obscurity. In fact, nearly all of the bands were forgotten in the early '70s, but the Nuggets compilation brought them back to the spotlight. In the '80s, there was a garage rock revival that saw a number of bands earnestly trying to replicate the sound, style, and look of the '60s garage bands."

    Garage Rock Revival as

    "An indie-label movement that emerged in the mid-'80s, garage rock revival bands aimed to recapture the wild, rowdy, raucous spirit of '60s garage rock. Of course, where the original garage rockers were concerned with imitating their favorite British bands, the revivalists imitate the garage bands themselves — so their music was full of fuzz-tone guitar, Farfisa organ riffs, and sneering vocals. Like the similarly timed rockabilly and surf revivals, garage rock revivalists also appropriated the original music's sense of style, self-consciously playing up their personal favorite qualities — toughness, sleaziness, brashness, manic energy, rebellion, party-hearty spirit, what have you. Since it was self-conscious, it was sometimes done with a knowing wink and a bit of exaggeration, but regardless, many of the revival bands shared an underlying assumption that garage rock's virtues embodied the true spirit of rock & roll."

    For original garage rock they list bands like Paul Revere and the Raiders, Shadows of Knight and the Kingsmen (whose version of "Louie Louie" is a garage rock standard).

    As for garage rock revival bands they cite bands like the Cynics and the Milkshakes though I think what most people think of is the bunch of garage rock/punk bands that emerged in the late 90's/early 2000's such as the aforementioned Vines, Strokes, White Stripes and so on who developed a simple, powerful rock and roll sound with a do-it-yourself punk attitude.

    You could check out some best of's from the original garage rock bands and maybe the compilation 19th Nervous Shakedown - Three Milkshakes or Get Our Way - The Cynics (1994) for the revivalists.

    As for newer bands some album recommendations:

    Elephant and White Blood Cells - The White Stripes,

    Highly Evolved - The Vines

    Get Born - Jet

    Tyrannosaurus Hives and Veni Vidi Vicious - The Hives

    Rubber Factory - The Black Keys

    Pawn Shoppe Heart - The Von Blondies

  23. Best drumming

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    or A Song for the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age (with Dave Grohl on drums)

    album version

    Another drumming highlight from that album courtesy of the superb Dave Grohl.

    "No One Knows"

    Keith Moon (when he exercises a bit of self-control... I'll vote for "I Can See For Miles")

    Great choice. I'd also say "Won't Get Fooled Again" but for a little Moon madness "Cobwebs and Strange".

    Other favourite performances:

    - "In Bloom" (Grohl)

    - "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix (Mitch Mitchell)

    - "Fool's Gold" - The Stone Roses (Reni)

    - "Geek U.S.A." and "Cherub Rock" - The Smashing Pumpkin (Jimmy Chamberlin)

    - "The Grudge" - Tool (Danny Carey)

    - "Get Free" - The Vines (Joey Waronker)

    - "Bullet In The Head" - Rage Against The Machine (Brad Wilk)

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