The Batlord

The Rolling Stones made me wanna listen to The Sonics...




Seriously. Best garage band and album of all time. If you don't love the Sonics then you are a bitch and should get the fuck away from me before I hit you in the shins with a tire iron. This is just a blast of energy that legitimately holds up today as a force of nature. This band basically just plays garage rock at as high a noise level as it is possible to do and they were doing this in 1965. This puts the Rolling Stones' first album to shame only a year after that album was released. As far as I can tell from a cursory knowledge of this type of music this album (along with their second album) might be unique in that it has no ballads. Nothing to slow things down and give all the dumb teenagers something to slow dance to. Just pure ass kicking from a band who were surely on some serious amphetamines. I would kill to be able to have seen this band live in its heyday. I'm sure they would have utterly destroyed my eardrums and given my fat ass acute myocardial infarction. The production is just perfect. It is noisy and heavy enough to level a city block. Apparently they would stick ice picks into their amps to make them sounded all fucked up. Bitchin'. There isn't a whole lot more to say other than get your bitch ass to wherever it is that you get your music and listen to this ASAP and then stick a soldering iron into your eardrums, because it's all going to be downhill from there.

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