Garage Rock
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the garage rock music genre.
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Take It From the Man!”
Were The Brian Jonestown Massacre the kind of band to take risks? With a terrible name like that, I’d assume so. They began their career as promising shoegaze tag-alongs. When it was evident shoegaze had no immediate future, they coincidentally reinvented themselves with the sound of ’60s British garage rock in Take it From the… (read more)
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Blood Red Shoes – “Box of Secrets”
Box of Secrets by UK band Blood Red Shoes (BRS) actually has a gutsy punch to their sonic assault, immediately putting them above 90% of all their garage rock revival contemporaries. Well, to be fair, while they have the raucous spirit, the better production values probably only did them favors if The Strokes‘ Is This… (read more)
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Fever to Tell” (2003)
Rebellious girl rock is such a great concept with me, so why do I have the damndest time finding any I truly can’t resist? On Fever to Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs sound like X-Ray Spex with less balls. Fortunately, they use that extra space to get their groove on with some repetitive dance rhythms; but there’s never… (read more)
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Grinderman – “Grinderman”
Nick Cave was 50 years old when he released Grinderman, a desperate bid at recapturing his youth with unsubtle noise-rock-by-numbers freakouts such as “No Pussy Blues.” It’s a midlife crisis if I’ve ever seen one, like an old man popping Viagra because he doesn’t want to come to terms with the fact he no longer… (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Love It to Death”
History hasn’t been kind enough to Alice Cooper band, who stand alongside fellow Detroit-rockers The Stooges as the true progenitors of punk rock. Alice Cooper don’t have as high a threat level as The Stooges’s out of control mayhem, but they make up for it in intelligence, as their melodramatic teenage introspective classic “I’m Eighteen” makes perfectly… (read more)
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The Sonics – “Here Are the Sonics!!!” (1965)
Here Are The Sonics!!! is the 1965 debut album by The Sonics. Considered very influential to both punk music and garage rock, the album receives near universal acclaim. But helping to pioneer some burgeoning genres does not alone make this a great album. For starters, 8 out of its 12 songs are covers, and while… (read more)
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The Electric Prunes – “The Electric Prunes”
There’s a little bit of all the great ’60s rock acts here. Considering The Electric Prunes formed in ’65, it’s clear that they’re trying to latch onto a scene. But integrity in pop music can be forgiven if the songs are good—so are they? (read more)
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The Raconteurs – “Broken Boy Soldiers” (2006)
Broken Boy Soldiers has a lot of decent to good songs, but not enough great ones. “Steady, as She Goes” is an obvious winner. I also quite like “Hands” and “Intimate Secretary,” but the album gets tiring quickly. I suppose it’s a good thing it’s only 33 minutes total. Though The Raconteurs have some great… (read more)
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Mudhoney – “March to Fuzz” (2000)
Disc one of March to Fuzz contains a lot of Mudhoney’s fan-favorite songs. For the most part, it’s pretty comprehensive, though there are plenty of fantastic tracks missing, primarily from Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles, Mudhoney (self-titled album), and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. The compilation spans their first five albums up to Tomorrow Hit… (read more)
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The Kinks – “Kinks”
The first Kinks album consists mostly of a bunch of mediocre R&B covers and terrible original songs penned by the band’s producer at the time Shel Talmy. Odds are you already have any good songs on here on some Greatest Hits album. If you see any songs you don’t have, then take solace in the fact that… (read more)