The 100 Best Garage Band Songs Countdown # 1 100 - 91

An almost totally arbitrary countdown to give me something to do during an otherwise quite quiet Christmas time. Almost all of these songs will come from the 1963 to 1968 period and fit in some way into the Garage category. One song per band which already eliminates a lot of really great songs, by the likes of The Seeds, The Sonics, The Monks and The Shadows of Knight who could have several. With many others there was just really one choice. Here goes.

 

100. The Golliwogs - Fight Fire

 

 

From the band that became Creedence. Their name is just wrong, the song is great.

 

99.Los Shakers - Rompan Todo (Break It All)

 

 

Uruguay fights back. What do you mean they sound like The Beatles?

 

98. Lemon Drops - I Live in the Spring Time

 

 

Sounds quite ahead of its time

 

97. The Human Beinz - Nobody Like Me

 

 

From Youngstown, Ohio. This song, inevitably written and first recorded by The Isley Brothers went to # 8 in '68.

 

96. The Nightcrawlers - Little Black Egg

 

An oddity this one. From Daytona, Florida.

 

95. The Fly-Bi-Nights - Found Love

 

Brought to general attention by being featured on Mad Men.

 

94.The Blue Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

 

 

From The Bronx. Toured The States with The Who and headliners Herman's Hermits in 1966.

 

93. The Sunrays - I Live for the Sun

 

 

Perhaps more Surf than Garage. Still, a great record, so. A Number 51 hit in 1965.

 

92. West Coat Pop Art Experimental Band - I Won't Share You

 

One of their more accessible and Garage type things.

 

91. The Elastik Band - Spaz

 

 

One of the less pleasant songs of the genre. Banned in St. Louis. Strangely, not a huge national hit.