Back in 1983 Julian Cope wrote this IMO defining, if not definitive,
short account of the Garage Rock genre for the NME:
http://www.phinnweb.org/retro/garage/ar ... attic.html
The beginning's a tad "Um, pardon me?",
but it's a goldmine of well-informed info & opinion
and the sampler-discography at the end is solid.
Some of them were a lot harder to find on vinyl than the article implies:
"Psychotic Moose & the Soul Searchers" was, if memory serves,
a private Canadian pressing of only 30 copies!
But a good many others got CD re-releases a few years back,
and were much easier to find then.
I'd also like to add "Songs The Cramps Taught Us" to the list.
That appeared after Copey's article was written
and is still available afaik.
Also maybe the "Garage Punk Unknowns" series
which I don't know much about myself,
but I believe comes highly recommended too.
Just Say "Yeah!"
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