10 UK Singles from 1966-67 that Pioneered Punk Rock
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Some people believe that most of the rock subgenres that sprang up in the 70s, 80s and 90s were just further developments on musical ideas that had already been invented in the 60s.
Most punk rock bands from the late '70s were influenced by bands and artists from the 50s and 60s but there are plenty of recordings from the 60s which already sounded like Punk recordings from the 70s and were at least 10 years ahead of their time.
In this video we're going to take a look at 10 proto-punk tracks released in Britain in 1966 and 1967.
Here's a playlist featuring all the songs from the video: ruclips.net/p/PLZiczFvWkHKHTULHihw8P3K0FbClvGhwZ
Keep doing these playlists. It's a great idea!
Oh,Playlists!
Thank you,I am Joyful
Thank you!!
You want Proto Punk?...look for "Los Saicos" from Peru!!!!
Great a playlist, thank you.
Southern California called "proto-punk" bands "garage bands" and produced 45s as raw and beautiful as the Brit bands. Pushin' Too Hard by the Seeds is a prime example - 1965.
The term "garage band" was indigenous to Southern California?? Huh, never heard that before.
Yep, "Pushin' Too Hard", and also "Talk Talk" by the Music Machine and "Hey Joe" by The Leaves are all note-perfect Proto-punk records. Then of course, some might say that The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" sounds Proto-punk. Even "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks sure sounds like a New Wave record from 1980 or so.
Standells "Dirty Water" also.
@@hetmanjzpunkrock was a term coined by Lenny Kaye on his Nuggets anthology, used to describe the American garagebands that formed in the wake of the British invasion, the groups being younger and more raw and less professional than their slightly older British counterparts, the term referring to bands from all across the USA, not just California. In fact, Texas would be a major driving force, with groups like the 13th Floor Elevators & the Moving Sidewalk, as well as the Pacific Northwest, which produced Paul Revere and the Raiders. And of course, Detroit, the Motor City, which gave us the Stooges, Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, MC5, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels,etc. Definitely not indigenous to southern Cal, though they did produce many notable examples, like the Seeds, Leaves, Standells, etc....
Wait, what about the Peruvian Los Saicos, proto-punk in 1964, the real originators.
My heart skips a happy beat every time a new Yesterday's Papers video pops up.♥️ Thank you!
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mine too! it means i’m about to become obsessed with this new music for the next month 😊
What an incredible buch of singles. Great stuff
Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video. Especially like Wimple Winch.
Check out 'Here are The Sonics.' 1965 Punk. Has covers of Louie Louie and Money.
Go back to '64 and You've Really Got Me. That's the earliest punk sounding song I can think of.
Beethoven was sometimes pretty punk for his time.
Ridiculous @@John-k6f9k
Bunker Hill - The Girl Can't Dance - 1963
@@John-k6f9k He ain't rolling over for no one.
Yup--that’s what I’ve always said too ❤
Wimple Winch is the standout here for me. The troubled Joe Meek was light years ahead of his time.
Yeah, those three singles by Wimple Winch are superb.
Every time "The Addicted Man" pops up in your vids, I turn it up and lean forward to better hear it. Such an amazing track!
Amazing how fragile the media was back then. EMI was quite cowardly as well. Imagine them hearing today’s lyrics.
It's not really nostalgic when you're searching into the past for thing you've never heard before.
Thanks for this great compilation ♥
The Who "Anyway anyhow anywhere" was punk rock. The attitude and the sound is as punk as punk can be. If they had not made it big, they would be on this list I'm sure.
I always thought Hippy Hippy Shake
No
The Who sold out.
@@leemontree1 Really? tell that to the band members still living who made Tommy. Listen to Pinball Wizard a song that was in a similar style to an early hair metal song and tell me they sold out. Borris the spider, one of the heaviest basically metal songs of the 1960's?
@@caseysmith544 It's a joke. The Who Sell Out is the name of one of their albums.
On behalf of everyone everywhere, THANK YOU for not showing a stock image of Jimmy Savile.
On behalf of everyone everywhere, THAK YOU for posting that comment! Take care of yourself! Last thing anyone needs to see is THAT! Again - Take care!
This show is about music, which is about the last thing Jimmy Saville was interested in!
Agreed!
You've no idea. Jimmy had zero tolerance in the dance halls. He'd protect young women from the 'dirty s1ags' who preyed on them.
Cool video. What would we do without this channel?
Thanks!
I must say, these fantastic songs sound MUCH more like '77 punk than anything I've heard apart from Iggy and the Stooges, who, to me, are truly THE first proper punk band, full stop. And I will confess to being in complete agreement with the idea the 60s were the gestation period for everything to follow, musically. Or more precisely, the period from 1955-75 seems to me to already contain the seeds of anything and everything musically worthwhile in pop music since the end of the second world war.
SIDE NOTE: These brilliant vidz could stand a written discography in the description for ease of use because, like it or not, this channel serves as a resource to a certain sort of odd character(s). Shut in's mostly, I'm sure. Cheers! 🍾
Don’t forget the velvet underground
The first proper punk band was the Ramones. Don't rewrite history.
Punk rock was invented in Detroit by the MC5 and the Stooges, in the late 60's. The Ramones and the brit punk bands were 10 years later.
Bloody hell YP vids are good. Could watch them for hours! Anyone else pause whenever there's a poster to read every word? I squeeze every morsel of info I can from these videos. Thanks YP.
Cheers, glad you dig the channel!
Yes, absolutely. I write every b-side 'n other songs in the charts down. For me this is a very important history lesson 'n I'm ready to do my homework.
Billy Zoom, great guitarist of SoCal punk band X, recalled being repulsed by the disco and synth music of mainstream LA, and seriously considered a move back to the Midwest. Then he happened upon a few punk shows and said to himself, “This is a lot like music I grew up playing, just faster and more aggressive. I can do this.”
That’s what we’re hearing here, right? People who dared to play fast and hard before it occurred to folks that’s a good thing.
And MDC, that great hardcore band, has a similar story. Their guitarist Ron Posner told me they were playing a certain type music when they started out. Then they went to California and heard bands playing super fast hardcore and said to each other "Hey this is more like it!! Let's do it!!"
X was a great band. I remember how disappointed I was when I bought Hey Zeus! I thought it was a different band with the same name.
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Completely agree; X is a favorite. Their very recent release is worth a listen.
I think Hey Zeus had Tony Gilkyson on guitar, and was much more pop than any of the others. I think they used the producer the record company wanted, which almost always leads down a path toward the mainstream.
@@eggsngritstn I grew up listening to all those bands. Definitely the golden era of punk and hardcore. The west coast records were harder to find in NY. Bigger bands like the Dead Kennedys were more widely available. Stuff like X and the Germs were only in certain stores that specialized in underground music. Mostly in Manhattan. I remember how excited I was to see an X cd in a mainstream record store. I should've known better. I just looked Hey Zeus up to see if it's really as bad as I remembered. I see a lot of comments praising it as some kind of masterpiece. I don't know what these people are smoking. I guess it's ok if you're into that kind of music. I was into stuff like Fear and the Circle Jerks. I really thought I wasted my money and bought a cd by the wrong band. All my friends used to put it on to make fun of me. Im sticking with my original opinion. That album is a piece of crap. Over produced, uninspired, unoriginal pop garbage. Definitely not my thing.
That's precisely the reason Ray Manzerak got involved with the band. It was like a new version if the scene that The Doors came out of.
The Missing Links (1965), Australia. Self titled album. One track is completely backwards. They were wild and destructive on stage, reportedly.
Wild About You! The Saints do a great cover on their first record too.
@@xdef1ne yep!
Joe Meek really kept up with so many innovative firsts when it came to capturing sound.
This might be the most entertaining and consistent channel on youtube -- thank you for all that you do
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Rock On! I learned a lot about music I love. Thank you!
Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video!
This channel is pure genius
Thank you!
I've always thought that My Generation by The Who was a Punk song.
The funny thing about Punk was Guitar Player Magazine summed up Punk as "We didn't cover Punk too much as it was basically recycled Chuck Berry chords played crazy." (More or less as this is pulled from memory). Punk Rock is essentially getting back to Rock and Roll basics so yeah there is a straight arrow from Rock/Rockabilly through Garage Rock/Psychedelic Rock to Pub Rock to Punk Rock. If you listen to Oi it is pretty much Pub Rock on steroids. So nothing is really new, just recycled and repackaged!😋👍✨
Good shout, now you come to mention it.........
My Generation, is indeed, a proto Punk song.
Definitely
Jason Eddie And The Centremen’s 1966 cover of Singing The Blues (produced by Joe Meek) also always blows me away with that frantic, speedy proto-punk sound
Jason Eddie's real name was Albie Wycherley brother of Billy Fury.
That's a great track. That "Joe Meek Freakbeat" compilation is essential.
Yeah, talk about being ahead of it's time!
@@YesterdaysPapers The guitar on that track is completely insane. haha
Mate, you know I'm digging this. I know American proto punk up and down but had no clue to Brit proto punk. Great job opening my eyes. Great sounds here!!
There is a well known RUclips channel that hypothesizes the Rolling Stones Got Live If You Want It is the first punk album.
Big thanks for this terrific post, YP
Cheers, Willie! Glad you enjoyed these tunes. "Got Live If You Want It" is another good example of excellent proto-punk. That album sounds way ahead of its time.
@@YesterdaysPapers For anyone who might be interested, taking it one step further, check out the Belgium band Blast's two songs Hope/Damned Flame. Proto hardcore from 1972!!
@@willieluncheonette5843 Thanks, I'll check them out.
Nicely done! We've been hearing about American proto-punk for ages, but not so much about the British side. Of course, we all love The Pretty Things and The Troggs.
Yeah, both the Troggs and the Pretty Things had some songs that definitely had a "proto-punk" sound.
Come See Me by the Pretty Things is so far ahead of it's time
So do I. Both underrated bands.
Check out The Fleur de Lys, highly underrated
@@paulgoldstein2569 I think they're rated okay. I love The Pretty Things and think The Troggs were a laugh but don't think either of them came anywhere near the most rated Brit groups (Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Who). Also I'd put Syd Barrett's Floyd, The Move, The Zombies, Traffic and The Small Faces ahead of them.
A lot of songs I'd never heard before in this one--thanks for another awesome video!
Thanks!
The Downliners Sect's first album The Sect, released in 64, is a great piece of proto-punk. My reissued copy proudly states "Punk From the Vaults". The early Pretty Things were also quite punky.
The Sect just were the suavest ever.
Having lived in America my whole life, I've never heard any of these songs before today. I really enjoy YP, especially when you do this kind of retrospective on what is essentially "new old stock" for me. One British band you *may* have heard of that released a song in 1969 that I've always considered proto-punk was (The) Pink Floyd with "The Nile Song". I can't think of another instance of Dave Gilmour sounding like he's having that much fun, and I particularly love Nick Mason's manic, unhinged drumming.
I love that tune, probably the heaviest track Pink Floyd ever recorded.
The Nile Song has always been one of my favorite Floyd songs. Had always hoped to see them perform it live just once. Alas it was not to be
That song was so heavy it was covered by Voivod.
Wow 🤩 Another excellent video!!! Apart from Wimple Winch and the brilliant Game I didn't know any of the other groups. Thousend thanks for highlighting Ray Fenwick's manic guitar solo🎉 Incredible for 1965😊
I thought The Game were okay, everyone else not so much.
"Stroll On" by The Yardbirds from the 1966 film BLOW-UP.
It's great, but it's really 'The Train Kept A-Rolling' with new lyrics.
I love the song and the movie. When Jeff beck attacks his speaker and guitar 😂
Yes, yes, thank you! I couldn't think of the name of that song, & group, from that movie while I was watching this video. I always thought it had an early punk rock sound. The look of that club scene in the movie (the posters on the walls) was very "Frankie goes to Hollywood", reminiscent of those underground mid-late '80s, alternative music clubs.
Another great video, YP! So much incredible music!
An addendum to The Riot Squad - They were formed by Ron Ryan after he'd had enough of Dave Clark's empty promises. Ryan wrote and co-wrote the majority of the Dave Clark Five's biggest hits, though uncredited due to a handshake deal with Clark. Clark never paid Ryan the royalties he was due, amounting to a huge sum (Clark took credit for a lot of things he didn't write or do). With The Riot Squad, Ron managed a few strong singles, none of which made much of an impact. By the time the Squad recorded this single, though, Ryan was already gone. The band disagreed with his intent to work within the current style of R&B and Blues based Rock. Leading the revolt against Ryan was Mitch Mitchell, who insisted that Blues Rock would never fully catch on. Ironic then, that Mitchell would become Hendrix's drummer. Another early member of the Squad was Graham Bonney.
Cool info, very interesting. I didn't know that. Cheers Fab Gear!
@@YesterdaysPapers It's a rare day indeed when I get to share something your fantastic videos don't. I'm grateful I discovered your channel a couple of years ago. Always entertaining and so much great forgotten music! ♥
@@Sp33gan Cheers!
I remember reading about Ron Ryan and his links with The Dave Clark Five a few years ago. It’s quite a story. Anyone interested in that era should take the time to check it out.
Would love to see this become a series! This is exactly what I wanna watch
What a fantastic collection of songs! The amount of brilliance that went all but unnoticed is astonishing, and rather sad when one considers how much crud was on the charts, even during this golden era.
Very true.
Oh contrare....IMO its because there was so much truly GREAT stuff on the charts that this went largely unoticed and had to wait till late '76 for its day to dawn.
I will assert that The Trashmen was the world’s first punk band.
.. Bird is the Word
1963
"Surfin' Bird" is the title of the song.
Good choice. Pap-pa ooma ma ma...
@@MrNeiltonomanand the Ramones covered it. Props, Mr. Neil.
Crawdaddy Simone's crazy. It's so ahead of its time and yet still sounds like a Beatlemania-era song
I was too old to be a part of the 70’s Punk demographic but in the mid-60’s MC5 and a little later, David Peel and the Lower East Side were kicking out these kinda jams in the US.
Excellent episode YT!
Cheers! Very true, I love MC5.
You're never too old to enjoy music!
OH Lordy the MC5!
@@leopoldbluesky Of course I enjoy music. I was specifically referring to the age demographic that 70’s Punk appealed to-I wasn’t in it. However the proto-Punk that’s the subject of this episode would be a different story.
There was a time where I was all into Joe Meek back in the 90s. Being from the States, I only heard of a few of the stuff he produced. It was like discovering a buried treasure.
Joe Meek's productions are fascinating.
What y'all need is the original "Nuggets" double album. That's a brilliant place to start!!
Top shelf as ever. The Buzz 45 was released in the States on coral records, but didn't chart. In cluster of fabulous records, The Craig would have fit in nicely. I must be mad also was issued in States on Fontana, but failed to chart.
Yeah, "I Must Be Mad" is another great track. I almost included it but I couldn't feature excerpts from the song due to copyright so I left it out.
I loved this. There are two groups from Australia between 1965 - 1967 that comes to mind with early punk or hard rock influence, and they are The Missing Links and The Master's Apprentices.
Their music could also be described as Garage Rock.
I'm sure you've heard of them.
Stand out tracks "Undecided" and "Buried And Dead" by The Masters Apprentices.
One of the great things also about this channel are the comments and people from all over offering up different suggestions. I've just checked out 'Buried and Dead' and thought I was listening to The Saints, which is no bad thing. Greetings from England.
@@crowhillian58 Check out The Missing Links material, as they were years ahead of their time. Other Aussie groups I should have mentioned are The Wild Cherries, The Black Diamonds, The Loved Ones and The Purple Hearts.
One could even argue that the song “Silver Machine” by Hawkwind (1972) was proto-punk in its discordant beat and Lemmy’s aggressive vocals. Incidentally, both John Lydon and Sid Vicious were Hawkwind fans.
That's 6 years later than this lot LOL
This is such an incredible video !!!. I've become a big fan of Proto Punk in recent times and have been looking for any tracks in that vein i can. There are so many fantastic tracks and this video is proof !. Thank you for this and the playlist !. I'm definitely subscribing !.
Thank you very much, cheers!
Story about Steve Howe's short stint with "The Syndicates," was insightful. Cheers.
He's a cool cat! :)
Cheers.
The footage of The Syndicates shown here was from BBC's The Beat Room as this is the only surviving footage of the group in 1964 and the only episode of The Beat Room that exists in the BBC archives. The rest of the episodes were either wiped or destroyed. One of those episodes features a live performance of Davie Jones with The King Bees.
My mind is completely blown! Thank you!
Cheers!
@@YesterdaysPapers I’m all in. Just subscribed! This is like the holy grail of information that means a lot to me. Finding out about these songs and seeing what some of my favorite musicians were up to before they became well-known. Priceless!
I find this mid-60s era in music really fascinating.
Not come across this channel before, but 5 minutes into this video and I’ve now subscribed. Nice one.
Thanks!
What I like about this is the guitars, and their distortion. A good compilation. Punk and heavy metal clearly has roots in this music. Cheers! ✌️
I still think Him and The Others is a hilarious band name!
The Buzz & Joe Meek were a perfect fit.
Yeah, definitely a perfect fit. That's an incredible single.
@@YesterdaysPapersnot according to Tam White, the singer, apparently he hated the weird sounding production! 😂
Interesting stuff!! I'd never heard of any of these songs, but I can definitely hear the similarity between these bands and later punk music.
Excellent YP - always sooo cool. The Game with "Help me mummy's gone" steals the show for me - daring and weird. I'd add to the video The Eyes with "You're too much" - definately inspiration for punk pop late 70s / early 80s. And it's tnx to YP that I discovered it! Cheers ❤
Cheers. I love The Eyes.
This was fun, thanks. I was too young at the time to be listening to this when it was new and fresh, I feel there was a conversation going on between emerging US bands such as 13th Floor Elevators and the groups you're showcasing here. I know there's a big difference between US and UK punk. I'm a Brit and to my mind, although US punk was anti-establishment to a degree, it was more an emergent sub-genre of rock about new ideas but in the UK punk was a socio political statement of protest. I don't think it had much to do with music, per se, other than music being the most widely accessible medium for the movement (for want of a better word). US punk being "in with the new" and UK punk being "out with the old", as it were. Thanks for this video, super fun!
I grew up just outside London in the 60s (Born in the West End) and I remember being a little kid with other little neighborhood kids and we’d ’play war’ in the same way kids played ‘cowboys and Indians’ or ‘cops and robbers’ …so while playing war some of the kids had old pith helmets and war paraphernalia…and we’d draw cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm and swasticas and some of us had lost family in the Blitz
At that time one could get Iron Cross jewelry out of vending machines
So the English had a different point of view of Hitler more as a joke …like thumbing Germany while being Anglo Saxon
so we had a different sense of humor about Hitler than people from New York who would have had a more Jewish holocaust survivor culture sensitivity
Thank you! What a groovy presentation!
Well done, you - all bangers! Keep 'em comin'!
Communication Breakdown is one of the most punk recordings I have ever heard.
Absolutely. Johnny Ramone himself credited it for influencing his downstrumming style.
It would be fantastic if you could include a list of all the bands and singles you include in the videos each time. I have spent hours collating the information to find and listen to the tracks that are played on the video and then listen to other compositions they have made. For me old music is good music and are the roots of later bands. I want more ...no scrub that I need more of your content. Thank you for such detail and facts about the music I love!!!
Awesome list of music I have not heard of bwing on the other side of the Pond. Thank you for the lesson amigo!😎👍✨
Cheers!
Amazing stuff! Even more impressive that established large labels were open to issuing stuff like this. Over here in the US, one would generally have to look at the independent and private labels for tracks this out there!
In a single word, smashing! Many singles I already knew, thankfully, but I enjoyed the connections you made between these hard edged mod/freakbeat/garage songs and their influence on 70s punk bands! I was just thinking if I know of one more, and yes, "Last Time Around" by The Del-Vetts from Chicago (1966). Great again Yesterday's Papers! Thanks!
Cheers Edwin! I love "Last Time Around". I first heard it on the Nuggets boxset. Great, great tune.
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Yes, it certainly is! I would have thought you'd know "Last Time Around" though...😉
"Last Time Around" reminds me of the MC5 if they were northside Chicago rich kids.
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Amazing stuff, will have to rewatch again to fully appreciate. Big Wimple Winch fan here. Also like their later gentler psych recordings.
Wimple Winch, brilliant!
Never knew Steve Howe started his career embracing chaos and distortion.
The misunderstood "children of the sun" would fit the category, but it's an American band. I have an original record, and they're rare as hen's teeth.
Craig - "I Must Be Mad" ('66) is a most excellent slice of Freakbeat.
Brilliant video as always 👏 although I thought the eyes might get a mention 🤔✌️
Great band, love them.
Think The Who´s "The Ox" qualifies from their first album 65?
Definitely, great track.
Nice one. Glad to see you are still making videos friend 📀
Ray Fenwicks distorted slide sounds as if it influenced Dave Gilmour, who gets almost the same sound on the live version of A Saucer Full Of Secrets from Umma Gumma a few years later. Joe Meek was definitely up there with the likes of the Floyd, Zappa etc when it came to being experimental with his approach to rock, so sad that his life ended in tragedy. You've covered this before, but the B side of one of the Honeycombs singles sounds almost identical to Rock Lobster from the B52's which was released almost twenty years later. Given how much punk rockers supposedly hated Yes, it's sort of ironic that Steve Howe started out in a proto punk band.
What was great about 1965-1967 was how much new was happening, almost every day. You couldn't keep up with it all.
Love's 7+7 Is although not British has a rightful claim to be one of the first true Punk records.
Yeah, that's a brilliant song.
Absolutely agree to that!
'Freak Beat' or 'Proto-Punk' - thanks YP for showing us yesterday's great sounds today! Some I had heard before, and some like Allen's Pound's Get Rich, were new.
No mention of The Who? Great video, thanks for your effort!
Excellent video! I know many of the songs mentioned but not all. The Wheels are a legendary group.
Plenty of Aussie bands doing the same sort of thing at the same time. Have a listen to 1965 band The Loved Ones songs The Loved One and Ever Lovin' Man. Wild!
Excellent! You out did yourself on this episode.
Thanks!
Psychedelic more than punk. Music never got better than this really. Maybe Bowie and Pink Floyd. Yay Joe Meeks, "Telstar"
For anyone interested, there’s a great series of compilations with proto-punk/garage rock that has a bunch of rarities, it’s called “Highs in the Mid-Sixties”. It’s focused on American groups, each release is based on a region in the US. I think the series was released in the 80s. Just wanted to share, it’s great, very similar to the songs shared in this video.
Wimple Winch and The In Crowd - oh yeah! Thanks, YP!
Cheers!
@@YesterdaysPapers Cheers!
Those Game records are incredible. Reminds me of Generation X also who used Mod/Freakbeat as inspiration.
Absolutely brilliant, one more time. So well documented. So seriously built.
I discovered "Save my soul" when covered by a fabulous french garage band named the KitchenMen, fifteen years ago. (Frandol, the guitarist/singer was formely the leader of the Roadrunners from Le Havre)
Thank you. "Save My Soul" is an incredible track, brilliant.
Fantastic video
Now here's a really difficult one to categorize: Children Of The Sun by US band The Misunderstood. Managed and brought to the UK by a certain John Robert Parker Ravenscroft in 1966, to record six extraordinary psyche/garage tracks, they created a blasting sound, that would predate the punk sound in terms of ferociousness and intensity by a decade. Although recorded in 1966 in London, I believe it wasn't until 1969 it got it's 7" release. Cherry Red Records would re-release it as a single in 1981, due to it's amazingly punkish sound dating back from the 60s: ruclips.net/video/mrRImjZlD38/видео.htmlsi=xql98hy7E86odcFP
So Yesterday's Papers, how about a detailed documentary about this unique 60's band, with a very interesting history, considering also it's close connection to Britains all time No.1 DJ!
Brilliant song, I love The Misunderstood. I'll probably do a video about them in the future.
@Yesterday's Papers really be looking forward to that!
my sort of 60s music..60s punk!
Me too, friend !
Punk rock was the new version of garage rock.
That Allen Pound single is such an oddity, even within this context! The production is so ahead of its time that it’s easy to mistake it as a genuine punk 45!
Yeah, truly ahead of its time. Amazing single.
@@YesterdaysPapers keep up the truly excellent work! My favourite channel by a long stretch!
@@thebrownshadowrecords7966 Cheers!
You need to start in 1965 to include The Who’s “My Generation!”
Even though they are punk, they still have that 60s British sound and sensibility.
Off topic, but it never ceases to amaze me how (IMHO) British girls of the 60s seemed to be, on average, better looking on some level than American girls of the same era. Not talking about celebrities or movie stars or whatever. Just the average girls on the street. Must have been the better fashions and hair styles in part. America was still very tight-assed in the 60s and people looked it.
Those were just British girls in swinging London, and not the case in other British locales. The very same case existed in NYC, and L.A.,where outside of these metro areas, folks were much lore mainstreamed and conservative.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I'm from NY. I repeat what I said. You go and look at the average women on the street at this same time in any major American city. They do NOT look this attractive. Of course that's subjective, but as I also said, it's more about fashion, hair style, attitude, and so on.
And of course, sure, if you're comparing anyone from a great city to rural folk, yes...
Anyway, don't think you were telling me something I didn't already know.
Also... LA? Don't make me laugh.
You got my 'like' from the first single featured. Amazing video throughout.
Thank you very much!
I have a 45 from a band called The Wheel-A-Ways doing a cover of "Bad Little Woman." It's a snarler! Released in Feb of '66 on the Aurora label.
Cool!
Same band, different take apart from clearly a slightly different name. Released for the US market.
Yep, it's The Wheels with a different name. That's how it was released in the States.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks for the info!
I appreciate this video pointing out that punk didn't just spring up, fully formed in 1977. It had been developing within rock music for a good 20 years before the Ramones and the Pistols.
Consider The Sonics back in the early 60's.
And Link Wray even before that.
Love me by the phantom.
@@Oldbmwr100rs FINALLY! I had to scroll down quite a ways to find someone who knew about them! The Sonics were one of many American “garage” / “precursor to punk” bands from the mid 60s!
@@Oldbmwr100rs indeed.
Proto punk sounded very different as the instruments, mixers, and amps were very different. The sound was very tinny compared with late 70s punk that had more of a bass sound. It was like the difference between the sound from a cheap record player and a music centre in the 70s.
I know some of these as they have been on compilations. Amazing tracks.
They may have been called Wimple but they were not Wimpy. All these bands are X-treme garage and beyond . Me ears are bleedin !
Clicked on this thinking "they better mention the Wimple Winch" and of course left satisfied.
Another fave is not British but from the Commonwealth: "Social End Product" by New Zealand's the Bluestars.
I love that tune. I first heard it on the second Nuggets boxset.
yep there was even protopunk bands here in Australia..
The Damned sound like they might have heard The Game. Both The Addicted Man & It's Shocking What They Call Me are excellent 👌.
Probably. The Damned were very knowledgeable about mod/garage/psych singles from the 60s.
The US band, Shadows of Knight, covered The Wheels' Bad Little Woman in late 1966, per Wikipedia. I'd always thought 60s punk was an American thing. Thanks to Rodney Bingenheimer, Rodney on the ROQ, KROQ radio, Los Angeles, for playing this kind of music in the 1980s.
Another killer dive into some WYLD SOUNDZ!!
I loved the music here. Some of this stuff was featured in other videos, but too much is not enough in this case. I was turned on to Him & the Others in another episode, and it is reason enough to turn on RUclips. And I could listen toWimple Winch all day. Thanks for posting the list of what you played. it helps as I try to find them on RUclips. But all these bands did have more ideas and played better than the original punks who were neophytes with their playing. But I listen to music, not labels.
That mersey square single sounds so much like *_MC5_*
Perfect call on how to depict Savile 😂
for me the only difference between this early version of punk and the classic era of punk is that the classic era was completely self-aware that their music was aimed at a marginal audience. anyway, i just like the music. good selection of songs here.
Good point. Cheers!