BACK TO THE GRIND

Last night I was listening to the Sonics, their second LP to be exact. The first song on the LP is "Cinderella" and, like most of the Sonics stuff, it's a racket. Fuck yeah. It's a full-on exhausting two minutes and forty three seconds of skin bashing drums, raunchy fretwork and good ol' Gerry Roslie spilling his larynx all over the place. I tried to imagine what it must have been like to hear that song for the first time while the radio was playing "Michelle" by the Beatles. Man..., I'm certain that if the production on the early Sonics records were a little more "radio friendly" they would have given the Stones a run for their money, if not the Beatles. Of course, that would have only lasted a year or so before all of the hippie flower power crap took over. Regardless, the Sonics weren't truly appreciated by the masses, or anyone outside of the Northwest, until they started to be seen as precursors to punk rock. Here's a handful of Sonics cuts that I haven't posted before, including last nights living room ruckus "Cinderella" and two Motown covers. The cherry on top, "Psycho", has been posted here often. That should tell you how essential it is. You gripe, you get out of my store.

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Listen:
The Sonics - Cinderella mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sonics - Do You Love Me mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sonics - Money mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sonics - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark mp3 at Ink Mathematics
The Sonics - Psycho mp3 at Internet Archive