The clip of the girl covering her face at the mention of Jimmy Savale's name is perfection. Well executed edit there, the attention to detail is appreciated.
there were songs from the 50's that were punk-sounding. Even in the late 40's you had very raw-sounding blues tracks from african-americans, that were often banned from record shops for being 'too vulgar', especially in the jim-crow south...
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.
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.
@@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....
@@Sundae_Times thanks for pointing out my missing 'n'. I never noticed. I wish I could think up a funny definition of the word, 'buch' but it defies a description😂😂😂
Much of what influenced punk rock that emerged in the late '70s is often attributed to the US garage rock scene. Thanks for bringing to light the UK side of punk history.
It's long bothered me that "critics" talk about this incredible music as being ahead of its time, and imply that the later punk era was when music finally became "great". No...THIS was music of its time, and it was a hell of a great era, IMO the best era for rock-based music. These aren't anomalies, there were tons of explosive records from all over the world, circa 1965-68.
Yes you're absolutely right, finally some one speaks up against the folly of this widespread misconception that 70s punk was "year zero" and was true music,etc. 60s was by far the best era , light years ahead and also far better than "70s" or 80s punk which was just harder and more visceral. But the creative explosion of the mid to late 60s was the best.A lot of nusic journalists are overblown pseudo- inllectuals that behave like sheep.
if your ear or soul can not feel the difference btw organny 60s tryhard and mid 70s iklldyourpolice and no stupid boyngirl unsophisticated bs.... musically compare dk and the late 60s, bollox and the late 60s, come on. tinny bad cheesy "dig it" inanities imho:)
I agree; and this patronising nonsense is said of most eras by poorly-informed kids. My musical era was mid 70s to mid 80s, and when a kid nowadays reviews something from that era that they like, they invariably pronounce it to be "ahead of its time" lol. The implication in each case is that the 60s / 70s / 80s track they like must surely have been some sort of anomaly / exception, given that their ahistorical prejudices means they assume that the generality of music from the 60s / 70s / 80s must surely have been bad. Ignorant little twats. In reality, the true golden era of popular music was the 1950s to eth 1980s. Popular music started to decline in the 1990s (Britpop, ffs) and this century has largely been abysmal chyme from middle-class chancers.
The music and pop culture of this era have always captivated me. It's fascinating how great music spreads organically, yet musical taste remains deeply personal. This documentary did a great job in connecting some of the dots that shaped the musical landscape during this culturally transformative period.
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😊
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 !.
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!
I LOVE YESTERDAY'S PAPERS! We are so lucky to such an amazing RUclips channel that goes so in depth into my absolute favorite era of music, mid to late 60s British Psychedelia, Mod, and Rock. I hope this channel NEVER stops creating content. My favorites are the documentaries.
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!
@@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.
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 ❤
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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!!"
@@nicholasrella6904 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.
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.
there were songs from the 50's that were punk-sounding. Even in the late 40's you had very raw-sounding blues tracks from african-americans, that were often banned from record shops for being 'too vulgar', especially in the jim-crow south...
2:36 "it's safe to say that most of the record-buying public was probably not prepared for this sonic assault.." Succintly put! 😎goes for much of this stuff Dear Yesterday's Papers -your channel gives me the same joy as listening to John Peel 45 years ago, the pure excitement of breaking down walls.
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 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.
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.
@@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! ♥
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.
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.
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!!!
Yes, I did enjoy this video, thank you for posting it. I had very little chance at all of hearing these tracks when they were recorded and I was 12 years old in 1966. Some really great stuff here Best Wishes Always
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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?
This is one of the best ever videos you have released- your point of view is unique, sharp and truthful on music, I find myself agreeing with you in almost all your lines!
@@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!
@TOMinPDX I didn't know that. I bought it when it was first issued in the UK back in 1972 as a double LP. I didn't know that there was a different issue of it in the USA. I'm curious to know what, if any differences there are/were between the two issues. I know that in the 90s Rhino re-released it as a 4CD box set.
@@hudois Yes I'm referring to the Rhino releases. After the 4 CD box of US bands the label released another 4CD volume of mostly British bands (a few other countries too) from the same era, "Nuggets Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969".
@TOMinPDX Yes, I got the Rhino 4CD set as well. I wasn't impressed with the remastering. I thought in a lot of places it had too much treble. And the VU was constantly up in the red!! That was the reason I decided to give The 2nd one, (UK etc.) a miss! Plus I already had quite a few of the tracks.
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!😋👍✨
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)
Fun video and thanks for the playlist, which I'll enjoy digging into. So you want us to comments about proto-punks from around the world? The Monks! Gary Burger (The pride of Turtle River, Minnesota, U.S.A., Vocals & guitar, R.I.P.) formed this band with 4 other G.I.s in 1964 at an Army base in West Germany. Experimental proto- and post-punk glorious noise.
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! 🍾
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.
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.
Punk was only a term, picked by Malcolm Mclaren from an american magazine, if I am not mistaken. Wiki says the following: "The term "punk rock" was previously used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands."
There is a CD from the UK from 1994 in my collection , called - Steve Howe : Mothballs - with 25 Songs from 1965 to 1968. I had forgotten this CD until today I saw - your video - great & thanx. On the CD - different songs from : The Syndicats, In Crowd, Tomorrow, Keith West , Bodcast & Steve Howe solo!!!! Also found in my collection (also long forgotten) the japanese CD from - Wimple Winch - great!!! Thanx again - Klaus Hiltscher (affendaddy)
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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!!
This was absolutley fantastic. Your videos must be really popular going by how many comments there are. Would of loved to have seen " stepping Stone" by "The Flies" in the list.
Then there’s Love’s “Seven and Seven Is”, one of the loudest rock n roll songs ever… and “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone” by both The Monkees and Paul Revere and The Raiders… worked up by The Sex Pistols a decade later.
Thanks so much for this. I'm a big punk rock fan, but, I love to hear the genesis of the punk explosion. First time I heard Iggy and Now I Wanna Be Your Dog my brain imploded. So great to hear some of the 60's that brought it all about. Cheers!!
So well done. About 15 years ago I bought a box of promo 45's mostly Decca (US Version) at the flea market. UK Freakbeat to the extreme with a healthy dose of US Garage. Those days are gone. I'll never see a box like that again.
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!
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.
I've got to admire your research material mate. I thought I had a lot of old 60s NME's but jesus, there were bands and songs that I've never heard of before, and I've read loads mate. Well done 👍✌️
I always thought the original surf guitar bands were the original punks - OK so they don't qualify for this video as they were American, but what the likes of Dick Dale, The Surfaris, Eddie and the Showmen and countless one hit wonders were doing in the early '60s, even before '66/'67, bore all the hallmarks of punk - fast, aggressive, amphetamine fuelled songs around the 1.30-2 minutes mark. Of course being American these groups had more of an effect on the Ramones more bubblegum style of punk, but when we talk about the roots of punk I always think the surf guitar bands are unfairly forgotten (and while I'm here, for the record, the Beach Boys were NOT a surf guitar band - they were a pop band who wrote about surfing)
Awesome! Great work, sir. Very interesting, and legitimately educational. Also, thank you for not making the video about yourself, as 99% of other people posting videos here do.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
The clip of the girl covering her face at the mention of Jimmy Savale's name is perfection. Well executed edit there, the attention to detail is appreciated.
The Sonics. Formed in 1960. From Tacoma, WA.
Good Shout Fella ✌🏻
there were songs from the 50's that were punk-sounding.
Even in the late 40's you had very raw-sounding blues tracks from african-americans, that were often banned from record shops for being 'too vulgar', especially in the jim-crow south...
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.
It's not really nostalgic when you're searching into the past for thing you've never heard before.
Thanks for this great compilation ♥
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My heart skips a happy beat every time a new Yesterday's Papers video pops up.♥️ Thank you!
Cheers!
mine too! it means i’m about to become obsessed with this new music for the next month 😊
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 ❤
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.
What does "buch" mean?
@@Sundae_Times thanks for pointing out my missing 'n'. I never noticed. I wish I could think up a funny definition of the word, 'buch' but it defies a description😂😂😂
Much of what influenced punk rock that emerged in the late '70s is often attributed to the US garage rock scene. Thanks for bringing to light the UK side of punk history.
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.
I have all the Nuggets compilations....truly a mind bending journey thru early proto punk!
It's long bothered me that "critics" talk about this incredible music as being ahead of its time, and imply that the later punk era was when music finally became "great". No...THIS was music of its time, and it was a hell of a great era, IMO the best era for rock-based music. These aren't anomalies, there were tons of explosive records from all over the world, circa 1965-68.
Yes you're absolutely right, finally some one speaks up against the folly of this widespread misconception that 70s punk was "year zero" and was true music,etc. 60s was by far the best era , light years ahead and also far better than "70s" or 80s punk which was just harder and more visceral. But the creative explosion of the mid to late 60s was the best.A lot of nusic journalists are overblown pseudo- inllectuals that behave like sheep.
right - the "critics" ... we should not bother about them
if your ear or soul can not feel the difference btw organny 60s tryhard and mid 70s iklldyourpolice and no stupid boyngirl unsophisticated bs.... musically compare dk and the late 60s, bollox and the late 60s, come on. tinny bad cheesy "dig it" inanities imho:)
Punk was overrated
I agree; and this patronising nonsense is said of most eras by poorly-informed kids. My musical era was mid 70s to mid 80s, and when a kid nowadays reviews something from that era that they like, they invariably pronounce it to be "ahead of its time" lol. The implication in each case is that the 60s / 70s / 80s track they like must surely have been some sort of anomaly / exception, given that their ahistorical prejudices means they assume that the generality of music from the 60s / 70s / 80s must surely have been bad. Ignorant little twats. In reality, the true golden era of popular music was the 1950s to eth 1980s. Popular music started to decline in the 1990s (Britpop, ffs) and this century has largely been abysmal chyme from middle-class chancers.
The music and pop culture of this era have always captivated me. It's fascinating how great music spreads organically, yet musical taste remains deeply personal. This documentary did a great job in connecting some of the dots that shaped the musical landscape during this culturally transformative period.
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.
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!
I’d love to hear any recommendations you have! I’d like to get into some proto-punk myself, the garage sound is really cool
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!
The peruvian band Los Saicos has some pretty wild recordings from 1965. Listen to "el entierro de los gatos" for example. Nice video, thanks.
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I LOVE YESTERDAY'S PAPERS! We are so lucky to such an amazing RUclips channel that goes so in depth into my absolute favorite era of music, mid to late 60s British Psychedelia, Mod, and Rock. I hope this channel NEVER stops creating content. My favorites are the documentaries.
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.
Also, the band Death was kicking around Detroit around that time as well.
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.
He certainly was, the man was a genius.
Are you sure j meek produced them? I doubt it
Pink Floyd playing Intersteller Overdrive at the Underground live /Live in London 66/67 Real Punk with Surf overtones Jams
@@karimtabrizi376 it wasn’t Joe Meek it was Jack Baverstock
This has to be the best channel for those who really love rock n roll.
A lot of songs I'd never heard before in this one--thanks for another awesome video!
Thanks!
Cool video. What would we do without this channel?
Thanks!
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.
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.
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.
@@tahcriaHow's about that then. As it happens 😊👍😅🤣😭😂🤔
Awesome list of music I have not heard of bwing on the other side of the Pond. Thank you for the lesson amigo!😎👍✨
Cheers!
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
This might be the most entertaining and consistent channel on youtube -- thank you for all that you do
Cheers!
Craig - "I Must Be Mad" ('66) is a most excellent slice of Freakbeat.
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.
Yep, "You've Really Got Me" by the Kinks in '64 & "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats are just 2 proto punk tunes I still spin on vinyl 45.
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.
Love this stuff, I'm very lucky in Nottingham as we have a psych night where you can hear all these original 7"ers above a pub.
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.
there were songs from the 50's that were punk-sounding.
Even in the late 40's you had very raw-sounding blues tracks from african-americans, that were often banned from record shops for being 'too vulgar', especially in the jim-crow south...
2:36 "it's safe to say that most of the record-buying public was probably not prepared for this sonic assault.." Succintly put! 😎goes for much of this stuff
Dear Yesterday's Papers -your channel gives me the same joy as listening to John Peel 45 years ago, the pure excitement of breaking down walls.
8:37, "and Jimmy Sa*vile." the image is the Golden Moment!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the channel. Cheers!
GREAT video! Heard of some of the players, NEVER heard any of these songs. Keep up the good work!
Rock On! I learned a lot about music I love. Thank you!
Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video!
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Over,under,sideways down.
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!!!
Joe Meek really kept up with so many innovative firsts when it came to capturing sound.
Yes, I did enjoy this video, thank you for posting it. I had very little chance at all of hearing these tracks when they were recorded and I was 12 years old in 1966. Some really great stuff here Best Wishes Always
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.
This is amazing! Thanks for opening a new motherlode of music to discover!
Crawdaddy Simone's crazy. It's so ahead of its time and yet still sounds like a Beatlemania-era song
At 13:35 their dad’s like “it’s too loud, I gotta get up and start a band too!” lmao
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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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!
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! ✌️
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.
This is one of the best ever videos you have released- your point of view is unique, sharp and truthful on music, I find myself agreeing with you in almost all your lines!
@@Romalvx Cheers!
Would love to see this become a series! This is exactly what I wanna watch
Not come across this channel before, but 5 minutes into this video and I’ve now subscribed. Nice one.
Thanks!
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!
Thanks mate! So cool to know all this bands from the 60´s! Cheer´s from Brazil!
What y'all need is the original "Nuggets" double album. That's a brilliant place to start!!
There's two volumes to those Nugget collections, one is US the other is UK.
that's a materpiece....don't forget Back from the garage and Pebbles they are great collections
@TOMinPDX I didn't know that. I bought it when it was first issued in the UK back in 1972 as a double LP. I didn't know that there was a different issue of it in the USA. I'm curious to know what, if any differences there are/were between the two issues. I know that in the 90s Rhino re-released it as a 4CD box set.
@@hudois Yes I'm referring to the Rhino releases. After the 4 CD box of US bands the label released another 4CD volume of mostly British bands (a few other countries too) from the same era, "Nuggets Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969".
@TOMinPDX Yes, I got the Rhino 4CD set as well. I wasn't impressed with the remastering. I thought in a lot of places it had too much treble. And the VU was constantly up in the red!! That was the reason I decided to give The 2nd one, (UK etc.) a miss! Plus I already had quite a few of the tracks.
Absolutely awesome video ! And some great music that I never heard before.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
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
My generation was a punk song, Johnny Rotten and Mick Jones said so in the 80s
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.
No mention of The Who? Great video, thanks for your effort!
It all sounds like them to me.
Another brilliant and informative video from YP. I look forward to the next one 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I find this mid-60s era in music really fascinating.
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.
This channel is pure genius
Thank you!
Fun video and thanks for the playlist, which I'll enjoy digging into.
So you want us to comments about proto-punks from around the world?
The Monks! Gary Burger (The pride of Turtle River, Minnesota, U.S.A., Vocals & guitar, R.I.P.) formed this band with 4 other
G.I.s in 1964 at an Army base in West Germany. Experimental proto- and post-punk glorious noise.
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.
@@LigaFantasma The Stooges were there before the Ramones had ever even HEARD of music.
@@slackmeister77 THANK YOU!
Well done, again. I loved hearing the connections to some of the greats.
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.
Great video and thank you for this. Now to add these bands and their songs to my library.
Punk was only a term, picked by Malcolm Mclaren from an american magazine, if I am not mistaken. Wiki says the following: "The term "punk rock" was previously used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands."
There is a CD from the UK from 1994 in my collection , called - Steve Howe : Mothballs - with 25 Songs from 1965 to 1968. I had forgotten this CD until today I saw - your video - great & thanx. On the CD - different songs from : The Syndicats, In Crowd, Tomorrow, Keith West , Bodcast & Steve Howe solo!!!! Also found in my collection (also long forgotten) the japanese CD from - Wimple Winch - great!!! Thanx again - Klaus Hiltscher (affendaddy)
@@klaushiltscher3937 Cheers!
I wonder if there's ever been a decade more innovative than the 60's
Thanks for playing the tracks! I hate when people rave about a band or song and you just wanna HEAR it!
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.
Great doc. A couple of tunes I’ve never heard before. Nice one!
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.
Finally a video about proto punk songs that are actually proto punk songs!
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.
Thanks for the upload - plenty to check out further 👍
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.
This was absolutley fantastic. Your videos must be really popular going by how many comments there are. Would of loved to have seen " stepping Stone" by "The Flies" in the list.
I love that version by The Flies, brilliant.
Then there’s Love’s “Seven and Seven Is”, one of the loudest rock n roll songs ever… and “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone” by both The Monkees and Paul Revere and The Raiders… worked up by The Sex Pistols a decade later.
Thanks so much for this. I'm a big punk rock fan, but, I love to hear the genesis of the punk explosion. First time I heard Iggy and Now I Wanna Be Your Dog my brain imploded. So great to hear some of the 60's that brought it all about. Cheers!!
Psychedelic more than punk. Music never got better than this really. Maybe Bowie and Pink Floyd. Yay Joe Meeks, "Telstar"
Whoa, great video! So much fun to listen to. Cheers from Peru, the land of Los Saicos.
Brilliant video as always 👏 although I thought the eyes might get a mention 🤔✌️
Great band, love them.
So well done. About 15 years ago I bought a box of promo 45's mostly Decca (US Version) at the flea market. UK Freakbeat to the extreme with a healthy dose of US Garage. Those days are gone. I'll never see a box like that again.
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!
Excellent selection and entertaining video !
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.
Excellent video. Thought I would know a few of the bands and songs but I’ve just discovered a bunch of new stuff.
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.
I've got to admire your research material mate. I thought I had a lot of old 60s NME's but jesus, there were bands and songs that I've never heard of before, and I've read loads mate.
Well done 👍✌️
I always thought the original surf guitar bands were the original punks - OK so they don't qualify for this video as they were American, but what the likes of Dick Dale, The Surfaris, Eddie and the Showmen and countless one hit wonders were doing in the early '60s, even before '66/'67, bore all the hallmarks of punk - fast, aggressive, amphetamine fuelled songs around the 1.30-2 minutes mark. Of course being American these groups had more of an effect on the Ramones more bubblegum style of punk, but when we talk about the roots of punk I always think the surf guitar bands are unfairly forgotten (and while I'm here, for the record, the Beach Boys were NOT a surf guitar band - they were a pop band who wrote about surfing)
Awesome! Great work, sir. Very interesting, and legitimately educational. Also, thank you for not making the video about yourself, as 99% of other people posting videos here do.
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.
'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.
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
I saw them live at the Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall at that time, complete with topless dancer!