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Any attempt to define "garage rock" by by classifying certain bands as garage bands and then using the discography of those bands is doomed to failure. This is quite simply because just about every band starts out as a garage band. Some move on from there but their early work is still garage rock.
The way I've therefore defined "garage rock" for purposes of my list is tracks that were simple enough to be widely covered in the sixties by the boys practicing in the garage next door. Here it is:
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of Your Mind
American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me
Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Animals - It's My Life
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten' Up
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles - I'm Down
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Beau Brummels - Just a Little
Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Down on Me
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet
Bobby Boris Pickett & the Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
Cannibal & the Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances
Castaways - Liar Liar
Chad Allan & the Expressions - Shakin' All Over
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come
Choir - It's Cold Outside
Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Cream - I'm So Glad
Cream - Spoonful
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
Cyrkle - Turn Down Day
Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces
Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
Dave Clark Five - Over and Over
Doors - Hello, I Love You
Doors - Light My Fire
Easy Beats - Friday on My Mind
Electric Prunes - Get Me to the World on Time
Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Every Mother's Son - Come on Down to My Boat Baby
Freddie & the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now
Gary Lewis & the Playboys - This Diamond Ring
Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today
Guess Who - American Woman
Herman's Hermits - Silhouettes
Hollies - Bus Stop
Hollies - Stop, Stop, Stop
Hombres - Let It All Hang Out
Human Beinz - Nobody but Me
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jay & the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Kinks - Lola
Kinks - Till the End of the Day
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Knickerbockers - Lies
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Los Bravos - Black Is Black
Mandela - Loveitis
Manfred Man - Do Wha Diddy Diddy
McCoys - Fever
McCoys - Hang on Sloopy
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - C.C. Ryder
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Good Golly Miss Molly/Devil with the Blue Dress
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Jenny Take a Ride
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Sock It to Me Baby
Music Explosion - A Little Bit of Soul
Music Machine - Talk Talk
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road
Outsiders - She's So Respectable
Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born in Chicago
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Hungry
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Me
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Kicks
Pretty Things - Midnight to Six Man
? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears
Johnny Rivers - Memphis
Johnny Rivers - Midnight Special
Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man
Rhinoceros - Apricot Brandy
Rivieras - California Sun
Rolling Stones - Get off of My Cloud
Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now
Rolling Stones - The Last Time
Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
Searchers - Love Potion #9
Searchers - Needles and Pins
Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Shadows of Knight - Gloria
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Del Shannon - Runaway
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man
Spencer Davis Group - Keep on Running
Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me
Standells - Dirty Water
Standells - Why Pick on Me?
Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie
Strangeloves - I Want Candy
Strangeloves - Night Time
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Surfaris - Wipe Out
Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl
Them - Baby Please Don't Go
Them - Here Comes the Night
Tommy James & the Shondells - Hanky Panky
Tommy James & the Shondells - Just a Mirage
Tommy James & the Shondells - Mony Mony
Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
Troggs - I Can't Control Myself
Troggs - Wild Thing
Troggs - With a Girl Like You
Turtles - Happy Together
Turtles - Let Me Be
Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me
Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight
Ugly Ducklings - Nothin'
Wayne Fontana & the Mind Benders - Game of Love
Who - Happy Jack
Who - I Can't Explain
Who - Pinball Wizard
Yardbirds - For Your Love
Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Zombies - She's Not There
Zombies - Tell Her No
Comments? Have I missed any of your favourites?
The way I've therefore defined "garage rock" for purposes of my list is tracks that were simple enough to be widely covered in the sixties by the boys practicing in the garage next door. Here it is:
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of Your Mind
American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me
Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Animals - It's My Life
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten' Up
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles - I'm Down
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Beau Brummels - Just a Little
Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Down on Me
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet
Bobby Boris Pickett & the Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
Cannibal & the Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances
Castaways - Liar Liar
Chad Allan & the Expressions - Shakin' All Over
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come
Choir - It's Cold Outside
Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Cream - I'm So Glad
Cream - Spoonful
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
Cyrkle - Turn Down Day
Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces
Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
Dave Clark Five - Over and Over
Doors - Hello, I Love You
Doors - Light My Fire
Easy Beats - Friday on My Mind
Electric Prunes - Get Me to the World on Time
Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Every Mother's Son - Come on Down to My Boat Baby
Freddie & the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now
Gary Lewis & the Playboys - This Diamond Ring
Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today
Guess Who - American Woman
Herman's Hermits - Silhouettes
Hollies - Bus Stop
Hollies - Stop, Stop, Stop
Hombres - Let It All Hang Out
Human Beinz - Nobody but Me
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jay & the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Kinks - Lola
Kinks - Till the End of the Day
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Knickerbockers - Lies
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Los Bravos - Black Is Black
Mandela - Loveitis
Manfred Man - Do Wha Diddy Diddy
McCoys - Fever
McCoys - Hang on Sloopy
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - C.C. Ryder
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Good Golly Miss Molly/Devil with the Blue Dress
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Jenny Take a Ride
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Sock It to Me Baby
Music Explosion - A Little Bit of Soul
Music Machine - Talk Talk
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road
Outsiders - She's So Respectable
Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born in Chicago
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Hungry
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Me
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Kicks
Pretty Things - Midnight to Six Man
? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears
Johnny Rivers - Memphis
Johnny Rivers - Midnight Special
Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man
Rhinoceros - Apricot Brandy
Rivieras - California Sun
Rolling Stones - Get off of My Cloud
Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now
Rolling Stones - The Last Time
Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
Searchers - Love Potion #9
Searchers - Needles and Pins
Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Shadows of Knight - Gloria
.
Del Shannon - Runaway
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man
Spencer Davis Group - Keep on Running
Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me
Standells - Dirty Water
Standells - Why Pick on Me?
Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie
Strangeloves - I Want Candy
Strangeloves - Night Time
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Surfaris - Wipe Out
Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl
Them - Baby Please Don't Go
Them - Here Comes the Night
Tommy James & the Shondells - Hanky Panky
Tommy James & the Shondells - Just a Mirage
Tommy James & the Shondells - Mony Mony
Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
Troggs - I Can't Control Myself
Troggs - Wild Thing
Troggs - With a Girl Like You
Turtles - Happy Together
Turtles - Let Me Be
Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me
Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight
Ugly Ducklings - Nothin'
Wayne Fontana & the Mind Benders - Game of Love
Who - Happy Jack
Who - I Can't Explain
Who - Pinball Wizard
Yardbirds - For Your Love
Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Zombies - She's Not There
Zombies - Tell Her No
Comments? Have I missed any of your favourites?
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