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Thread #97917   Message #1936457
Posted By: GUEST,282RA
14-Jan-07 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Review: Bubblegum music
Subject: RE: Review: Bubblegum music
>>The earlier hit, "She's About a Mover" was a classic garage band tune--where I grew up, anyway, right up with "Gloria" and "Louie, Louie"(and, sorry, but that was the ultimate garage band tune)--<<

I'll concede "Louie Louie" might be ultimate garage song but that's in terms of popularity (funny how so much legend is built up around the lyrics when it's about a Jamican sailor in a bar telling the bartender he has to go back out to sea). To me, the greatest garage tune of all time due to it's ferocious tribal energy is "Mona" by the Teddy Boys. It's positively tribal and I'm sure it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up to hear it performed in front of you by a band of greasers at 110 dB. It's as punk as any punk.

>>Anyway, have you considered the tune, "Little Black Egg"--was a garage hit, and the vamp echoes through a lot of subsequent bubblegum stuff--<<

Do you know who does it?