I have this album by The Koala and your comparison with Johnny Thunders is spot in. The Koala were from New York and I'm pretty sure Thunders either owned this record or heard it somewhere because there's a song on the album which sounds a lot like "Lonely Planet Boy" and "You can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory".
Very astute observation, YP!! That makes a lot of sense now that you say it!! And as soon as I heard this album, I figured you would own it or definitely have heard it! Right up our alley!! Thank you for watching brother! And for that insightful comment!! Cheers, Jon
Jon, the vocals sound very gritty from the Big City, circa 1977. The ''total sound'' has the flavor of The Blues Magoos with a slight seasoning of The Rascals. Definitely in the New York City groove.
Hey Michael! Sorry for such a late reply! Yes, definitely has a NYC sound. Yeah, the Rascals are a big touchstone of that era that I often overlook. Thanks for watching and commenting!! I do appreciate it! Hope all is well with you! Have a great week!! Cheers, Jon
I can hear what you mean Jon when you say it's ahead of it's time. I know you mentioned a few other bands they sound like, but I could hear a bit of the Who in there as well. It would be interesting to know if any of the punk bands had heard this album at the time and if it was an inspiration to them. Thanks for showcasing the album.
Hey Jon. This sounds terrific! Never heard of these cats before but I dig their sound. I think they were ahead of their time... especially the vocalist. Excellent! Thanks a lot. Have a good one.
Hey Chris! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment! Glad you dug the band! Not the greatest in the world, but I thought they were interesting enough to get a shout out. Love their sloppy punky attitude during the era of peace and love. Hope you’re doing well!! Cheers, Jon
Cool video, Jon! I enjoyed the clips you included in the video! I always like learning about bands I have never heard of….and there are a LOT! Haha. Cheers!
Thanks Andy!! Appreciate you watching! The clips work way better than my late night rambling. Ha! And yes, there are too many bands for anyone to know. It would take many lifetimes to get a handle on things!! Thanks again!! Cheers, Jon
Wow Jon! This record is like the missing link of sorts. It almost sounds like if Stiv/Thunders/Keith Moon got together and made a band. EXCELLENT album. I’d consider it proto-punk for sure. However it also straddles the 60’s garagepunk sound too.
Thanks Jess! My apologies for such a late reply! I’ve been slacking lately. Glad you dug this one! I thought it would appeal the most to the people who like Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators. Cause that vocal styling jumped out at me right away. Yes, definite similarities to Love! No doubt this band was into Arthur Lee and boys! And yeah, Love should definitely be considered as a proto punk band, at least a few of their rockers are straight up sixties punk! Thanks for watching and leaving your opinion in the comments! I do appreciate it even if I was extra slow responding. Hope all is well with you! Have a great week!! Cheers. Jon
Hey brother!! Thanks from dropping by!! No surprise you would be digging this one!! I’d never ever heard of the Koala at all! Luckily I happened to hear a track in college radio. Hope you’re doing well!! Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Hey Edd! Thanks for stopping by and taking a listen! The record isn’t gonna blow anyone away, but I found it very interesting and enjoyable with their sloppy almost punk attitude in 1969. Hope all is well!! Cheers, Jon
Hey JMcG!! Thanks for stopping by and giving this one a chance! I’m not gonna say it’s the greatest record in the world, but I really enjoy it! It’s fun tracing the history of Rock’n’Roll with these mostly forgotten records. Have a good one!! Jon
Very cool and thanks for sharing Jon. So true about Stiv Bators and Thunders and definitely consider it as proto-punk. Amazing this is ‘67! That third clip really reminded me of the Stones.
Wow, now that is one obscure album! Love that it has the Capitol rainbow swirl label! You definitely nailed the description of it. Hey are you in Boston area? So am I. Just subbed. Cheers 🍻
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it! The Koala original might be rare, this one is just a reissue. Glad you dug it! Yeah, I’m in the suburbs of Boston. Cheers!!
Listening to this LP hear some Dead Boys 'sonic reducer. Koala bit proto-punk. Sounds early 70s psych rock meets CBGB NYC 77 meets early NY Dolls meets some Flamin' Groovies. Bit snotty, glammy but behind the Stoogies/MC5. 'She’s A Lady' cool tune. Nice pick.
Thanks Tom!!! My apologies for such a late reply! Yes your descriptions are spot on! Not the greatest record of all time, but a cool little nugget that crossed the bridge from the sixties garage to seventies punk at least in the vocal department. I appreciate you watching and leaving your opinion in the comments! Hope you have a great week! Cheers, Jon
thanks yeah. Always been interested in how past sounds inform new sounds, other band sounds inform/mimic/borrow similar sounds etc. It's the discovery. I'll keep the ears on.
Major thumb up, good stuff! Kinda reminds me of the Stones on Between the Buttons with a more punky singer. Cool with the Sir Lord Baltimore connection, awesome band. Cheers!
Hey Oakenshield! Thanks for dropping by!! Yes, it definitely sounds like that era Stones for sure! I think these guys basically learned a couple of Stones and Dylan songs and just rearranged them and changed the lyrics. Not the most original band songwriting wise, but a great sloppy, punky attitude in my opinion. Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Hey Tom! Thanks for popping by! That’s pretty funny the genre gestapo line!! I do like trying to figure things out. Seeing which band did what first and who influenced who. And in doing that I try to put definitions and descriptions on bands and styles. But I don’t like putting bands in boxes. It’s an impossible task anyway because the lines were all blurred and most artists did different things. I bring the genre thing up often more for fun discussion and debate. Enough of my yapping, you know this bit anyway! Haha! Appreciate you watching! Hope all is well over on the other end!! Cheers!!
Jon, cool recommendation! I’m digging it. Definitely a punk feel with psych sprinkles. Cool that they are reissuing all these lost gems! Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
Thank you Steve! Appreciate you watching and commenting!!! Glad you dug this one!! It could fall through the cracks for most people cause it’s not crazy punk or heavy psych or trippy psychedelic. The appeal is much more subtle in my opinion. Thanks again! Have a good one! Cheers, Jon
I agree Jon, i always loved this album, they were trying to blend in as an Australian band, hence the name Koala. This album was pretty big in the psych showings about 10 years back in the VC . I have the reissue also.
Hey Randy! Thanks for watching!! What you said makes more sense, that whole pretend to not be American thing. What a weird phenomenon!! Probably started with the Strangeloves. Or maybe the Frankie & Annette movie where Avalon played a dual role, one as the big rock star from Australia I think. And of course, no surprise you have this one in your collection!! Haha! Hope all is going well!! Cheers brother!!
Very nice, Jon. Definitely hear Thunders. One of those tracks also reminded me of the Dolls. I mean, some people call The Kinks proto-punk. It just depends on how far you want to go back on influences. I would call The Sonics proto-punk for sure. So, yeah, just based on the vocals alone I’d call this proto-punk. The chaotic mix adds to it as well. Maybe all credit goes to the recording engineer, lol
Hey Jon! Thanks for stopping by!! You bring up some excellent examples!! Of course, there are no right or wrong answers here. I bring stuff up just as food for thought or debate. The whole proto-punk or proto anything could be just historians and fans trying to categorize things that happened naturally and don’t fit into the pre existing made up categories. Haha! And yes the rough recording and sloppy playing certainly adds to the argument! Almost hard to believe Capitol Records signed this band only a few years after having Sinatra on the roster!! Hope all is well Jon!! Cheers!!
Ned from Spain ex NYC and I first heard these guys on the Turds on a Bum Ride comp from 1989. Awesome strained snotty angry vocals over some slashing and bashing. Gotta see if I can find a reissue or an original if I ask the right genie..Other proto Punkers include Sons of Adam, Weeds/Lollipop Shoppe, Crushed Butler, Dean Carter and Swamp Rats....
Hey Ned!! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!! Very cool you knew of these guys for a while! Totally new to me! Thanks for the recommendations!! I know all the artists you mentioned. I don’t own any Weeds that I can think of. Maybe in a comp. Fred Cole had a lot cool bands. I have one Dean Carter track on a garage comp. It’s a killer! I did a video a bit ago on Jesse Hector from Crushed Butler/ Hanmersmith Gorillas. He’s a fave of mine. Thanks again for leaving a comment with some cool recommendations for the people!!! Cheers, Jon
I recognize the band name but don’t think I ever heard the album. Sounds fantastic and your comparison to the NYC ’77 sound is spot on. I need this album!
Hey Mathias! Thanks for watching! Yeah, you are one of the people I was thinking would dig this record!! But I figured you would have already own it! Haha! These guys were completely new to me, but I don’t know a lot about that era. Hope all is well! Thanks again, Jon
Christopher, I only knew that fact, because the DJ who played it said so. But it checks out according to discogs. Thanks for watching!! Appreciate it! Cheers!
The Koala from NYC? What! Surely Australia can sue 😂I wonder how hard this will be to find. Sounds great & I'll be on the look out for it. It sure does sound like a few important bands later on must've had this one in their collection. It ticks all the right boxes of what was to come. Great to see the Hard-Ons record behind you too Jon 👍Cheers...Ben
Hey Ben! Sorry for very late reply. Been slacking here. According to Randy Deadwax, the Koala marketed themselves as an Australian band. I guess it’s like what the Strangeloves did. It was hip to from overseas back then. Ha! Yeah, HardOns were a cool band for sure!! Hope you’re doing well! My apologies for not getting back sooner. Cheers!
Morning Jon. I would say yes to your question. Although. I am kind of rough when it comes to pinning down genres. This sounds like it could fall under quite a few. I even hear a Keith Moon influence in the drumming. It sounds great for the late sixties~ Rob/Boston
Hey Rob! Thanks for watching brother! Yes! There is definitely a Keith Moon influence in this one! I can even hear some Who influence on a couple of tracks in the background vocals and songwriting. Thanks for giving this one a listen! Hope all is well!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Dana! Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment. I appreciate it!! Yeah, the early Hard Ons were great! Their Girl in the Sweater song was the first time I heard a band successfully pull off the Ramones vibe! Glad you dug the koala record! Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Morning 👋🏻☕️ Bip......ooo yea I hear the Stones here👏🏻 proto punk?? I most certainly hear it...close your eyes and yea hear it🎶✊🏻😎🎶cool album cover too....thanks for introduction 🙏🏻🎶Jon have a good one cheers
Hey Lis!! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! Always appreciated!! Happy you dug the tunes! Hope you’re doing well! You have a great rest of the week!!! Cheers, Jon
Thank you Mike! I appreciate you stopping by and giving this one a listen!! Especially since I haven’t dropped by your channel lately! My apologies! I see the videos you post. I’m trying to cut back on the time I spend on the internet and spend more time with family and the live world. I will try to make a better effort! Hope all is well! Thanks again!! Cheers, Jon
I certainly hear that collision of different eras and sounds that you are digging. Those vocals are what get ya. Very Dead Boys all the way. Very NY / CBGBs. Which is my favorite era of rock music. That scene just fascinates me endlessly. It’s almost like the vocalist was just way ahead of the rest of the band. Maybe he’s trying to push the band into a more raw direction? Is it proto-punk? I would say, absolutely. It’s almost there. One or more members of the band had a vision of a much more aggressive sound. What is interesting is that by mixing these two (or more) styles/eras together the band created something very unique and special. I really need to hear the full album all the way through. Well…Summer is almost and I need a killer rock n’ roll album for driving fast with the windows down (but the air-conditioning still on 😂). Btw. I found the reissue on Discog for $20. So why not? Great price. Thanks, Jon. Shawn.
Hey Shawn! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Always appreciated! Glad you dug the tunes and can hear what I was talking about! I enjoy the record, but I don’t think it’s a great ‘summer’ record. Definitely sample before spending money. It is about time to break out the summer albums! CDs is usually what I do because I like my summer music in the car. Unless I’m cranking reggae in the house when I have all the windows open. Yeah, that mid to late 70s NY scene was quite interesting for sure. All different styles bubbling under with no boundaries or defined scene. Tough to imagine something like that happening again. Hope you’re doing well! Thanks again!! Jon
Hey Pat!! Thanks for watching! Glad you dug the album! It’s a good one! Probably won’t blow your mind, but it’s got some of the RnR aspects we look for!! Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
I picked up this album about a month ago and that was the first thing I thought of that the vocals sound like a snotty punk singer. I think the album itself is pretty good, I collect both punk and psych, so this is right in my wheelhouse. Cool fact about the guitarist later in Sir Lord Baltimore. I showed this in one of my vids, but you did a better more in depth review of it so thanks for that.
Hey brother, thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Very cool you showed this record! I’d never heard of the band before. I subbed your channel! Looks like you got some good taste in music! I cut back in my video watching these days, but I’ll try to make an effort to stop by! Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Yeah, I’ve heard of the Koobas, but never heard of the Koala band before. I’m glad I was listening to college radio probably the one time they ever got played! Haha! Thanks for watching and commenting! Always appreciated brother!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom You are right. If I close my eyes and listen I do hear Stiv Bators on vocals. Maybe it's an east coast accent thing. Been really into the Ohio punk lately. I was obsessed with the New Bomb Turks back in the 90's. Probably my favorites from back then. Good to talk tangents and rock with you.
@@ballroom23yeah, Ohio and more specifically Cleveland was a real hot bed of great RnR for sure!! A lot of good bands and only some that are well known! I’ve seen the New Bomb Turks years ago. They put on a high energy show!! Thanks again!
Hey, Jon, just wanted to point out to your viewers that the album can be heard in its entirety on RUclips...the posting has been up since 2018, so it shouldn't get taken down anytime soon, if people want to give it a listen.
Hey Karl! Thanks for watching! And thanks for the heads up on RUclips! One of the albums up there has a different song order but the other one is correct. Kinda weird. Yeah, I doubt the algorithm will come after the Koalas post! Hope you’re doing well! Thanks again!! Cheers!!!
Hey Southport!! Thanks for watching! Yeah, I don’t know if Stiv heard this guy. Probably didn’t sell a lot of copies. But they both had that same kind of attitude over ability thing happening. Appreciate you giving this one a listen!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Jon Great video. Im not very knowledgeable about proto punk but its certainly interesting....i hear the Mick Jagger in the vocals...and i also hear a bit of Keith Moon in the drumming. He's very busy in the verse parts. Great video..very informative. Mark Anthony K Projekt Gemineye
Hey Mark! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Very cool of you! Yes, no doubt this band was big on the Stones and the Who! It sounds like they learned a few Stones tunes and just rearranged them and changed the lyrics. Definitely not the most professional band of the era, but they have an attitude that I like! Hope you’re doing well! See you around!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Ed! Thanks for watching! I guess it would’ve fit in that thread. The thing is I haven’t really been following the Acid Archives much besides seeing the thumbnails. The LSD era is not my favorite with a few exceptions of course. Hope you’re having a good week! Cheers!!! .
Thanks for highlighting this band, Never heard of it even though I was in full bloom in 1969 here in NYC. Just listened to a few tracks on RUclips. Must say I don't see any connection to punk or protopunk. It would take more than a singers' voice to sway me, even it sounded like snot nosed punk, which IMO this singer doesn't really.
Hi Willie! Thank you for watching and for taking the time to actually sample the band! Very cool of you! Thanks for your excellent assessment of the band! You bring up some good points about needing more than just the vocals to make something ‘proto punk’. Of course is there really even such a thing as proto punk anyway? Or just people (me included) trying to fit things that just happened naturally into make believe boxes. Haha! Thanks for engaging and leaving a comment!! Have a good one! Jon
@@bipbopboom " Or just people (me included) trying to fit things that just happened naturally into make believe boxes." Very well put, Jon. Include me in on that too. I have had an article on the best punk albums published on an audiophile site so I am deep into punk. And when I had my Google Plus channel I did massive surveys on New York Hardcore and Oi music. And of course I have my own ideas of what are proto punk bands. Lets just say it keeps the old brain alive to sort out these kinds of things. Better than to be a couch potato and watch TV all day long. That way is zombie land. Right? Thanks again for your post. It is the first time I'm seeing you and will check more out. BTW I leave comments on almost every YesterdaysPapers post. He is really terrific!
The Koala is my spirit animal. Holy shitballs Batman! That sounds exactly like Stiv Bators. You my have found a gem my guy. I do hear the Seeds in this. Check out The Copyrights from Connecticut. The first two songs . . . sure, proto-punk. All the tunes after that are recognizably 60's. But they all rock. It's cool that you found this. Nice sweater by the way. Cheers!
Hey brother! Thanks for watching!! Sorry for late reply! Glad you dug The Koala! No surprise you can hear the same influences I hear! Johnny Thunders meets the Seeds! Right on!! Hope all is well! Cheers, Jon
I definitely hear that sneer in the vocals - very cool! Already added it to my DL playlist to nab - I hear some Love influence in there as well, with the frenetic energy. But, I think if you listen to Love/Da Capo it will sound similar, and that is definitely more like angry psych than proto punk - but then again, maybe that IS proto punk as well.
Hey Kris! Sorry for such a late reply! I’ve been slacking on RUclips. I think Love is an important name to drop when discussing this record and genre for sure! You are spot on with your opinion. To my ears when Arthur Lee gets aggressive with his vocals he makes the band sound more ‘66 garage than something from the next decade. Of course their music was way ahead of the basic garage sound. But I definitely consider Love as a contender in the proto punk category. Nit that these labels matter, it’s just for fun. Thanks for watching and dropping your opinion in the comments! Always appreciated! Hope you have a great week!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Mikael! Thanks for watching! Much appreciate it. The labeling genres of bands gets messy. Some of it is probably my fault too. Haha! I think all metal bands are playing a form of hard rock. But of course all hard rock bands are not metal. The thing about Sir Lord Baltimore is they were the first band to be called “Heavy Metal” before there was even such a genre. It was in an early issue of hard rock magazine Creem. There were bands like Sabbath and Buffalo out a few months earlier than SLB, but they were the first band to be called Heavy Metal. There might not even be a genre called Heavy Metal without SLB. Maybe we’d be calling Iron Maiden and Saxon “High Energy or Loud Rock”. Haha! Who knows!! Thanks again!! Always appreciate guys who leave comments!!! You have a great week! Cheers, Jon
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I have this album by The Koala and your comparison with Johnny Thunders is spot in. The Koala were from New York and I'm pretty sure Thunders either owned this record or heard it somewhere because there's a song on the album which sounds a lot like "Lonely Planet Boy" and "You can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory".
Very astute observation, YP!! That makes a lot of sense now that you say it!!
And as soon as I heard this album, I figured you would own it or definitely have heard it! Right up our alley!!
Thank you for watching brother! And for that insightful comment!!
Cheers, Jon
Jon, the vocals sound very gritty from the Big City, circa 1977. The ''total sound'' has the flavor of The Blues Magoos with a slight seasoning of The Rascals. Definitely in the New York City groove.
Hey Michael! Sorry for such a late reply! Yes, definitely has a NYC sound. Yeah, the Rascals are a big touchstone of that era that I often overlook. Thanks for watching and commenting!! I do appreciate it! Hope all is well with you! Have a great week!! Cheers, Jon
I can hear what you mean Jon when you say it's ahead of it's time. I know you mentioned a few other bands they sound like, but I could hear a bit of the Who in there as well. It would be interesting to know if any of the punk bands had heard this album at the time and if it was an inspiration to them. Thanks for showcasing the album.
Hey Jon. This sounds terrific! Never heard of these cats before but I dig their sound. I think they were ahead of their time... especially the vocalist. Excellent! Thanks a lot. Have a good one.
Hey Chris! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment! Glad you dug the band! Not the greatest in the world, but I thought they were interesting enough to get a shout out. Love their sloppy punky attitude during the era of peace and love.
Hope you’re doing well!! Cheers, Jon
Just learned about something interesting.
Thanks for the insight
Hey Brass! Glad you dug the music! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!! Much appreciated! Have a good one!! Jon
Cool video, Jon! I enjoyed the clips you included in the video! I always like learning about bands I have never heard of….and there are a LOT! Haha. Cheers!
Thanks Andy!! Appreciate you watching! The clips work way better than my late night rambling. Ha! And yes, there are too many bands for anyone to know. It would take many lifetimes to get a handle on things!!
Thanks again!! Cheers, Jon
Interesting. Never heard of them. Adding to my wants. Thanks!
Cool! Glad you dug em Vinyl Piper! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment! Very cool of you!
Cheers, Jon
Wow Jon! This record is like the missing link of sorts. It almost sounds like if Stiv/Thunders/Keith Moon got together and made a band. EXCELLENT album. I’d consider it proto-punk for sure. However it also straddles the 60’s garagepunk sound too.
They also remind me of a tougher Love.
Thanks Jess! My apologies for such a late reply! I’ve been slacking lately. Glad you dug this one! I thought it would appeal the most to the people who like Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators. Cause that vocal styling jumped out at me right away.
Yes, definite similarities to Love! No doubt this band was into Arthur Lee and boys! And yeah, Love should definitely be considered as a proto punk band, at least a few of their rockers are straight up sixties punk! Thanks for watching and leaving your opinion in the comments! I do appreciate it even if I was extra slow responding. Hope all is well with you! Have a great week!! Cheers. Jon
Yeah man, love this album. Been hunting an OG for a while now. A forgotten gem for sure with big proto punk vibes
Hey brother!! Thanks from dropping by!! No surprise you would be digging this one!! I’d never ever heard of the Koala at all! Luckily I happened to hear a track in college radio. Hope you’re doing well!! Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Very interesting They are on Spotify so I`ll check the album out. RUclips music school still Delivering the Goods
Hey Edd! Thanks for stopping by and taking a listen! The record isn’t gonna blow anyone away, but I found it very interesting and enjoyable with their sloppy almost punk attitude in 1969.
Hope all is well!! Cheers, Jon
Cool great 👍 too see you talk music again I just might have to find a copy of this album I love hearing music I didn't know
Thanks Gary! Appreciate you giving this one a listen! Hope you’re doing well! Cheers, Jon
Thanks for the heads up on this, Jon! Appreciate the recommendation - I think this one is right up my street. Great vid - Cheers!
Hey JMcG!! Thanks for stopping by and giving this one a chance! I’m not gonna say it’s the greatest record in the world, but I really enjoy it! It’s fun tracing the history of Rock’n’Roll with these mostly forgotten records. Have a good one!! Jon
Very cool and thanks for sharing Jon. So true about Stiv Bators and Thunders and definitely consider it as proto-punk. Amazing this is ‘67! That third clip really reminded me of the Stones.
Wow, now that is one obscure album! Love that it has the Capitol rainbow swirl label! You definitely nailed the description of it. Hey are you in Boston area? So am I. Just subbed. Cheers 🍻
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it! The Koala original might be rare, this one is just a reissue. Glad you dug it!
Yeah, I’m in the suburbs of Boston.
Cheers!!
Listening to this LP hear some Dead Boys 'sonic reducer. Koala bit proto-punk. Sounds early 70s psych rock meets CBGB NYC 77 meets early NY Dolls meets some Flamin' Groovies. Bit snotty, glammy but behind the Stoogies/MC5. 'She’s A Lady' cool tune. Nice pick.
Thanks Tom!!! My apologies for such a late reply! Yes your descriptions are spot on! Not the greatest record of all time, but a cool little nugget that crossed the bridge from the sixties garage to seventies punk at least in the vocal department.
I appreciate you watching and leaving your opinion in the comments! Hope you have a great week! Cheers, Jon
thanks yeah. Always been interested in how past sounds inform new sounds, other band sounds inform/mimic/borrow similar sounds etc. It's the discovery. I'll keep the ears on.
@Pad_See_Ew right on!
Major thumb up, good stuff! Kinda reminds me of the Stones on Between the Buttons with a more punky singer. Cool with the Sir Lord Baltimore connection, awesome band. Cheers!
Hey Oakenshield! Thanks for dropping by!! Yes, it definitely sounds like that era Stones for sure! I think these guys basically learned a couple of Stones and Dylan songs and just rearranged them and changed the lyrics. Not the most original band songwriting wise, but a great sloppy, punky attitude in my opinion. Thanks again!
Cheers, Jon
Nice find, Jon. If I were the genre gestapo, I'd call it proto punk. And it absolutely sounds like Stiv!
Cheers, Tom
Hey Tom! Thanks for popping by!
That’s pretty funny the genre gestapo line!! I do like trying to figure things out. Seeing which band did what first and who influenced who. And in doing that I try to put definitions and descriptions on bands and styles. But I don’t like putting bands in boxes. It’s an impossible task anyway because the lines were all blurred and most artists did different things. I bring the genre thing up often more for fun discussion and debate. Enough of my yapping, you know this bit anyway! Haha!
Appreciate you watching!
Hope all is well over on the other end!! Cheers!!
Jon, cool recommendation! I’m digging it. Definitely a punk feel with psych sprinkles. Cool that they are reissuing all these lost gems! Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
Thank you Steve! Appreciate you watching and commenting!!! Glad you dug this one!! It could fall through the cracks for most people cause it’s not crazy punk or heavy psych or trippy psychedelic. The appeal is much more subtle in my opinion.
Thanks again! Have a good one! Cheers, Jon
I agree Jon, i always loved this album, they were trying to blend in as an Australian band, hence the name Koala. This album was pretty big in the psych showings about 10 years back in the VC . I have the reissue also.
Hey Randy! Thanks for watching!! What you said makes more sense, that whole pretend to not be American thing. What a weird phenomenon!! Probably started with the Strangeloves. Or maybe the Frankie & Annette movie where Avalon played a dual role, one as the big rock star from Australia I think.
And of course, no surprise you have this one in your collection!! Haha!
Hope all is going well!! Cheers brother!!
Very nice, Jon. Definitely hear Thunders. One of those tracks also reminded me of the Dolls. I mean, some people call The Kinks proto-punk. It just depends on how far you want to go back on influences. I would call The Sonics proto-punk for sure. So, yeah, just based on the vocals alone I’d call this proto-punk. The chaotic mix adds to it as well. Maybe all credit goes to the recording engineer, lol
Hey Jon! Thanks for stopping by!! You bring up some excellent examples!! Of course, there are no right or wrong answers here. I bring stuff up just as food for thought or debate. The whole proto-punk or proto anything could be just historians and fans trying to categorize things that happened naturally and don’t fit into the pre existing made up categories. Haha!
And yes the rough recording and sloppy playing certainly adds to the argument! Almost hard to believe Capitol Records signed this band only a few years after having Sinatra on the roster!!
Hope all is well Jon!! Cheers!!
Ned from Spain ex NYC and I first heard these guys on the Turds on a Bum Ride comp from 1989. Awesome strained snotty angry vocals over some slashing and bashing. Gotta see if I can find a reissue or an original if I ask the right genie..Other proto Punkers include Sons of Adam, Weeds/Lollipop Shoppe, Crushed Butler, Dean Carter and Swamp Rats....
Hey Ned!! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!! Very cool you knew of these guys for a while! Totally new to me!
Thanks for the recommendations!! I know all the artists you mentioned. I don’t own any Weeds that I can think of. Maybe in a comp. Fred Cole had a lot cool bands. I have one Dean Carter track on a garage comp. It’s a killer! I did a video a bit ago on Jesse Hector from Crushed Butler/ Hanmersmith Gorillas. He’s a fave of mine.
Thanks again for leaving a comment with some cool recommendations for the people!!!
Cheers, Jon
I recognize the band name but don’t think I ever heard the album. Sounds fantastic and your comparison to the NYC ’77 sound is spot on. I need this album!
Hey Mathias! Thanks for watching! Yeah, you are one of the people I was thinking would dig this record!! But I figured you would have already own it! Haha! These guys were completely new to me, but I don’t know a lot about that era.
Hope all is well! Thanks again, Jon
Thanks Jon. I did not know of the Sir Lord Baltimore connection. - Chris
Christopher, I only knew that fact, because the DJ who played it said so. But it checks out according to discogs. Thanks for watching!! Appreciate it! Cheers!
The Koala from NYC? What! Surely Australia can sue 😂I wonder how hard this will be to find. Sounds great & I'll be on the look out for it. It sure does sound like a few important bands later on must've had this one in their collection. It ticks all the right boxes of what was to come. Great to see the Hard-Ons record behind you too Jon 👍Cheers...Ben
Hey Ben! Sorry for very late reply. Been slacking here. According to Randy Deadwax, the Koala marketed themselves as an Australian band. I guess it’s like what the Strangeloves did. It was hip to from overseas back then. Ha!
Yeah, HardOns were a cool band for sure!!
Hope you’re doing well! My apologies for not getting back sooner. Cheers!
@@bipbopboom No worries mate. Hope it’s good stuff that’s keeping you busy 👍
Morning Jon. I would say yes to your question. Although. I am kind of rough when it comes to pinning down genres. This sounds like it could fall under quite a few. I even hear a Keith Moon influence in the drumming. It sounds great for the late sixties~
Rob/Boston
Hey Rob! Thanks for watching brother! Yes! There is definitely a Keith Moon influence in this one! I can even hear some Who influence on a couple of tracks in the background vocals and songwriting. Thanks for giving this one a listen! Hope all is well!! Cheers, Jon
That Koala album is sweet. Love the Hard-Ons in the back ground. I remember buying ‘Dick Cheese’ off the racks in 1988. Rock on 🤘
Hey Dana! Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment. I appreciate it!! Yeah, the early Hard Ons were great! Their Girl in the Sweater song was the first time I heard a band successfully pull off the Ramones vibe!
Glad you dug the koala record!
Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Morning 👋🏻☕️ Bip......ooo yea I hear the Stones here👏🏻 proto punk?? I most certainly hear it...close your eyes and yea hear it🎶✊🏻😎🎶cool album cover too....thanks for introduction 🙏🏻🎶Jon have a good one cheers
Hey Lis!! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! Always appreciated!! Happy you dug the tunes! Hope you’re doing well! You have a great rest of the week!!! Cheers, Jon
Hi Jon , yes sounds like they would go well at CBGBs
Right on Iroj!! Very New York sounding for sure! Thanks for watching and giving this one a listen!! Much appreciated!! Cheers, Jon
Great needle drops Jon, damn, regardless of genre it's ace. So another on my ever expanding list.
Thank you Mike! I appreciate you stopping by and giving this one a listen!! Especially since I haven’t dropped by your channel lately! My apologies! I see the videos you post. I’m trying to cut back on the time I spend on the internet and spend more time with family and the live world. I will try to make a better effort!
Hope all is well! Thanks again!!
Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom No problem there my friend. We can't watch every thing on the internet. Real life is more pressing. Take care mate.
I certainly hear that collision of different eras and sounds that you are digging. Those vocals are what get ya. Very Dead Boys all the way. Very NY / CBGBs. Which is my favorite era of rock music. That scene just fascinates me endlessly. It’s almost like the vocalist was just way ahead of the rest of the band. Maybe he’s trying to push the band into a more raw direction? Is it proto-punk? I would say, absolutely. It’s almost there. One or more members of the band had a vision of a much more aggressive sound. What is interesting is that by mixing these two (or more) styles/eras together the band created something very unique and special. I really need to hear the full album all the way through. Well…Summer is almost and I need a killer rock n’ roll album for driving fast with the windows down (but the air-conditioning still on 😂). Btw. I found the reissue on Discog for $20. So why not? Great price. Thanks, Jon. Shawn.
Hey Shawn! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Always appreciated!
Glad you dug the tunes and can hear what I was talking about!
I enjoy the record, but I don’t think it’s a great ‘summer’ record. Definitely sample before spending money.
It is about time to break out the summer albums! CDs is usually what I do because I like my summer music in the car. Unless I’m cranking reggae in the house when I have all the windows open.
Yeah, that mid to late 70s NY scene was quite interesting for sure. All different styles bubbling under with no boundaries or defined scene. Tough to imagine something like that happening again.
Hope you’re doing well! Thanks again!! Jon
Great video Jon, I recall seeing this record on the shop wall many years ago. I don’t own it, I’ll now have to change that…Cheers😎
Hey Pat!! Thanks for watching! Glad you dug the album! It’s a good one! Probably won’t blow your mind, but it’s got some of the RnR aspects we look for!!
Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
I picked up this album about a month ago and that was the first thing I thought of that the vocals sound like a snotty punk singer. I think the album itself is pretty good, I collect both punk and psych, so this is right in my wheelhouse. Cool fact about the guitarist later in Sir Lord Baltimore. I showed this in one of my vids, but you did a better more in depth review of it so thanks for that.
Hey brother, thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Very cool you showed this record! I’d never heard of the band before. I subbed your channel! Looks like you got some good taste in music!
I cut back in my video watching these days, but I’ll try to make an effort to stop by!
Thanks again! Cheers, Jon
Always get the Koobas and the Koalas mixed up. Going to give a listen.
Yeah, I’ve heard of the Koobas, but never heard of the Koala band before. I’m glad I was listening to college radio probably the one time they ever got played! Haha! Thanks for watching and commenting! Always appreciated brother!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom You are right. If I close my eyes and listen I do hear Stiv Bators on vocals. Maybe it's an east coast accent thing. Been really into the Ohio punk lately. I was obsessed with the New Bomb Turks back in the 90's. Probably my favorites from back then. Good to talk tangents and rock with you.
@@ballroom23yeah, Ohio and more specifically Cleveland was a real hot bed of great RnR for sure!! A lot of good bands and only some that are well known!
I’ve seen the New Bomb Turks years ago. They put on a high energy show!! Thanks again!
Hey, Jon, just wanted to point out to your viewers that the album can be heard in its entirety on RUclips...the posting has been up since 2018, so it shouldn't get taken down anytime soon, if people want to give it a listen.
Hey Karl! Thanks for watching! And thanks for the heads up on RUclips! One of the albums up there has a different song order but the other one is correct. Kinda weird. Yeah, I doubt the algorithm will come after the Koalas post!
Hope you’re doing well! Thanks again!! Cheers!!!
Wow! This sounds pretty damn cool. Interesting band name. Wonder if the vocalist had any influence on Stiv. Great needle drops.
Hey Southport!! Thanks for watching! Yeah, I don’t know if Stiv heard this guy. Probably didn’t sell a lot of copies. But they both had that same kind of attitude over ability thing happening. Appreciate you giving this one a listen!!
Cheers, Jon
Hey Jon
Great video. Im not very knowledgeable about proto punk but its certainly interesting....i hear the Mick Jagger in the vocals...and i also hear a bit of Keith Moon in the drumming.
He's very busy in the verse parts. Great video..very informative.
Mark Anthony K
Projekt Gemineye
Hey Mark! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Very cool of you!
Yes, no doubt this band was big on the Stones and the Who! It sounds like they learned a few Stones tunes and just rearranged them and changed the lyrics. Definitely not the most professional band of the era, but they have an attitude that I like!
Hope you’re doing well! See you around!! Cheers, Jon
You could have made this an entry into the Acid Archives thread. It's in there. Sounds "proto punk" to me.
Hey Ed! Thanks for watching! I guess it would’ve fit in that thread. The thing is I haven’t really been following the Acid Archives much besides seeing the thumbnails. The LSD era is not my favorite with a few exceptions of course. Hope you’re having a good week! Cheers!!! .
Thanks for highlighting this band, Never heard of it even though I was in full bloom in 1969 here in NYC. Just listened to a few tracks on RUclips. Must say I don't see any connection to punk or protopunk. It would take more than a singers' voice to sway me, even it sounded like snot nosed punk, which IMO this singer doesn't really.
Hi Willie! Thank you for watching and for taking the time to actually sample the band! Very cool of you! Thanks for your excellent assessment of the band! You bring up some good points about needing more than just the vocals to make something ‘proto punk’. Of course is there really even such a thing as proto punk anyway? Or just people (me included) trying to fit things that just happened naturally into make believe boxes. Haha!
Thanks for engaging and leaving a comment!! Have a good one! Jon
@@bipbopboom " Or just people (me included) trying to fit things that just happened naturally into make believe boxes." Very well put, Jon. Include me in on that too. I have had an article on the best punk albums published on an audiophile site so I am deep into punk. And when I had my Google Plus channel I did massive surveys on New York Hardcore and Oi music. And of course I have my own ideas of what are proto punk bands. Lets just say it keeps the old brain alive to sort out these kinds of things. Better than to be a couch potato and watch TV all day long. That way is zombie land. Right?
Thanks again for your post. It is the first time I'm seeing you and will check more out.
BTW I leave comments on almost every YesterdaysPapers post. He is really terrific!
The Koala is my spirit animal. Holy shitballs Batman! That sounds exactly like Stiv Bators. You my have found a gem my guy. I do hear the Seeds in this. Check out The Copyrights from Connecticut. The first two songs . . . sure, proto-punk. All the tunes after that are recognizably 60's. But they all rock. It's cool that you found this. Nice sweater by the way. Cheers!
Hey brother! Thanks for watching!! Sorry for late reply! Glad you dug The Koala! No surprise you can hear the same influences I hear! Johnny Thunders meets the Seeds! Right on!! Hope all is well! Cheers, Jon
I definitely hear that sneer in the vocals - very cool! Already added it to my DL playlist to nab - I hear some Love influence in there as well, with the frenetic energy. But, I think if you listen to Love/Da Capo it will sound similar, and that is definitely more like angry psych than proto punk - but then again, maybe that IS proto punk as well.
Hey Kris! Sorry for such a late reply! I’ve been slacking on RUclips. I think Love is an important name to drop when discussing this record and genre for sure! You are spot on with your opinion. To my ears when Arthur Lee gets aggressive with his vocals he makes the band sound more ‘66 garage than something from the next decade. Of course their music was way ahead of the basic garage sound. But I definitely consider Love as a contender in the proto punk category. Nit that these labels matter, it’s just for fun. Thanks for watching and dropping your opinion in the comments! Always appreciated! Hope you have a great week!! Cheers, Jon
Great band
Yeah, they are pretty cool! Totally new to me! Glad you dig em too! Thanks for watching Leopold!! Always appreciate it!!
Have a good one! Jon
Not to bad what their name?
The Koala. 1969. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Snotty vocals 😛
Right on Seagull!!! Haha! Thanks for dropping by!! Cheers!!!!!
sir lord baltimor wos a hard rock band not a heavy metal nand
Hey Mikael! Thanks for watching! Much appreciate it.
The labeling genres of bands gets messy. Some of it is probably my fault too. Haha! I think all metal bands are playing a form of hard rock. But of course all hard rock bands are not metal.
The thing about Sir Lord Baltimore is they were the first band to be called “Heavy Metal” before there was even such a genre. It was in an early issue of hard rock magazine Creem. There were bands like Sabbath and Buffalo out a few months earlier than SLB, but they were the first band to be called Heavy Metal. There might not even be a genre called Heavy Metal without SLB. Maybe we’d be calling Iron Maiden and Saxon “High Energy or Loud Rock”. Haha! Who knows!!
Thanks again!! Always appreciate guys who leave comments!!! You have a great week! Cheers, Jon