The Sonics have been here plenty of times. I know that some of you know them like the back of your hand, as I do. Take one for the team. This is a public service. While I have posted these in the past, the downloads they linked to have all expired. I can't go walking around, going about my business, knowing full well that there isn't a working link of the Sonics' "Psycho" here. It's just not right.
This is for those of you who don't know the Sonics. Put simply, the Sonics were an hard driving American rock 'n' roll band with a minimal amount of flash and a singer with one of the most durable throats in the biz. Listen to the vocals on "Psycho", particularly the screams. I bet you couldn't match that once, let alone every night. To refer to them as proto-punk, which they often are, doesn't do them justice. They worked out of the Pacific Northwest hundreds of miles from the closest music epicenter. They weren't signed to a major label, they didn't record in some big fancy studio, and they definitely didn't lean on the manicured licks of the Wrecking Crew to dandy up their recordings (which is what Paul Revere and the Raiders, also from the Northwest, did), and they didn't buy into the peacock shit. While the Beatles were singing la la la about Michelle my belle, the Sonics were screaming about psychos and drinking strychnine. They were the shit.
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Listen:The Sonics - Psycho mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sonics - Strychnine mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sonics - Boss Hoss mp3 at Internet Archive
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