At the time of its release, HERE ARE THE SONICS made very little noise of the group’s home state of Washington – but within said home state, the Sonics themselves were making enough noise to blow down every brick wall between Tacoma and Torrance, California. Seldom has a group ever been better named. The youthful aggression in their music, coupled with singer Gerry Roslie’s ‘80 razorblades-a-day’ vocal attack and a selection of overwhelmingly brilliant riffs that underpinned some of the most wildly recorded music ever to be committed to tape, should have made the Sonics one of the biggest groups the world has ever known or heard. Instead they went on to become celebrated by generation after generation of collectors, and other young people with an urge to rock ‘n’ roll. The overwhelming importance of tracks like “The Witch”, “Psycho” and “Boss Hoss” has provided a template for countless groups who’ve come up in their wake, and who have achieved a level of commercial success that they could never have achieved without the inspiration (direct or spiritual) of the Sonics – fellow Pacific North-Westerners Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana and their successor the Foo Fighters being, perhaps, the most obvious examples.
HERE ARE THE SONICS, exactly as seen and heard 42 years ago on its original Etiquette pressing – albeit in a smaller-sized package, of course! Its tingling mix of group originals and sonic – in every sense of the word! – shreddings of Hall Of Fame rock’n’roll classics (including their recently-used-in-a-car-ad decimation of Richard Berry’s Have Love, Will Travel) remains the musical equivalent of sticking your finger in a live light bulb socket for 25 minutes. Its contents, like all good rock‘n’roll, will never date or die.
- Genre:
- Psych / Garage
- Label:
- Big Beat
- Format:
- CD
- Catalogue Id:
- CDHP 022
This product is also available in these versions:
Here Are The Sonics!!, LP (£21.94)
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Track listing
ShowSide 1
- 01 Preview The Witch
- 02 Preview Do You Love Me
- 03 Preview Roll Over Beethoven
- 04 Preview Boss Hoss
- 05 Preview Dirty Robber
- 06 Preview Have Love Will Travel
- 07 Preview Psycho
- 08 Preview Money (That's What I Want)
- 09 Preview Walking The Dog
- 10 Preview Night Time Is The Right Time
- 11 Preview Strychnine
- 12 Preview Good Golly Miss Molly
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