Here Are The Sonics!!! by The Sonics

Here Are the Sonics!!! is where the Sonics, out of Tacoma, Washington, first pinned the needle into the red. This debut LP is garage rock at its most unruly: simple chords, played faster and meaner than anybody had a right to, with the amps sounding like they're about to catch fire.

The band's own numbers are the ones that bite. "The Witch", a modest local hit, sits alongside "Psycho", "Boss Hoss" and "Strychnine", songs that snarl rather than croon, and the rest of the record tears through rock and roll and R&B covers with the same bad manners, "Have Love Will Travel" among them. The punks were listening: the Stooges and the Cramps picked up on this kind of racket, and so, decades on, did Nirvana, the White Stripes and the Hives.

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