garage rock ⁽¹²⁾

Three versions of the same song first by The Strangeloves, The Count Bishops and finally Bow Wow Wow.... The song 'I Want Candy' was originally recorded way back in 1965 by The Strangeloves, a band created by a New York based song writing team. They were: Strangely in the day they pretended to be brothers from a Sheep Farm in Australia, evidently their British Accents weren't much cop! I can only guess that the British and Australian 'invasions' of music…

The Pop Art Experience Tune In, Turn On, Trip Out. Be warned this post contains a mix of different music genres from back in the day! It was all packaged up on a simple cassette entitled 'Against The Tide'. I have to say I honestly don't miss cassettes that much, they were usually a bit hit and miss in terms of snagging up and unravelling, they were however, at the time, fantastic to some degree back in the day for…

The Staircase Mystery? I remember the cover of this album well, I used to spend a lot of time in 'Adrian's Records' in Wickford as a teen in the 80's. I used to head straight upstairs dodging the 'mainstream' record selections to the slightly more 'alternative' collections, on the way up the stairs album covers adorned the walls, mostly of post punk/new wave style bands, you kind of knew you were heading to the right place, a sort of upstairs…

Then & Now I first heard this song on a CD that came free with 'Mojo record magazine', it was a compilation of old school punk stuff and newer material by some bands I hadn't heard at the time, mostly the main band featured here plus bands such as The Warlocks and The Yeah Yeah Yeah's. I had heard of The Libertines, The Strokes and The Hives who I thought were fantastic and more obviously all of the mainstream punk…

The Band The Vibes were an Essex based psychobilly/trash/garage rock band formed about 1983 and consisted of: This song 'Miniskirt Blues' is from the E.P. 'Can You Feel' Almost rocking that whole 'Peter Gunn' sound by Duane Eddie released on the 'London Records Label' back in 1959. A1 - The Underestimated Man A2 - Double Decker Bus B1 - Miniskirt Blues B2 - Stranger in the House This E.P. released on the Big Beat Record Label in 1984, although the…