Every time I meet someone new the question inevitably comes up: what kind of music do you like? This, like a lot of other seemingly simple questions, is incredibly difficult for me to answer. Every genre has at least one commendable artist, or at the very least song, but I think its safe to say that I like everything within the rock genre as long as its honest. I enjoy rockabilly, punk, post punk, shoe-gaze, alternative rock, pop- punk, glam rock, hard core, post hard- core, folk, grunge, twiggy- pop, ska and blues but I've recently been listening to a lot of garage. The thing with music, like with everything else in the world, is that it builds on itself, nothing comes from nothing and garage was a very important and under rated stepping stone for a lot of rock icons and music produced today.
Probably the most influential american underground scene of the 60's, garage paved the way for some pretty polemic music including punk rock. All girl bands like the Sangri-las! and The Ronnetts were empowered by their sexuality and sung about sex, drugs and love in a way that only men had before. The Ramones, New York Dolls and The Stooges, obvious punk rock references, were inspired by these female bands incorporating much of that attitude and style into their own music.
Although garage is usually associated with mod music because of similar influences, its important to note that it began and pretty much stayed in the U.S and Canada during the 60's. It wasn't until the 70's with the mod-revival that garage became popular in other parts of the world, namely Europe. This mod- revival mixed the music of the 60's British invasion with R&B which made it dirtier, even grungier than the original pop- rock of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who.
In the 80's there was a garage rock revival which took the original 60's garage and added to it an additional aggressiveness as a result of the punk rock that was already very well developed. This music was tough, sleazy, brash, manic and rebellious, a guttural scream and a big f*&k you to authority and social convention. Commendable as it might have been though, it doesn't compare to the original garage movement, in what it meant for music and women.
Probably the most influential american underground scene of the 60's, garage paved the way for some pretty polemic music including punk rock. All girl bands like the Sangri-las! and The Ronnetts were empowered by their sexuality and sung about sex, drugs and love in a way that only men had before. The Ramones, New York Dolls and The Stooges, obvious punk rock references, were inspired by these female bands incorporating much of that attitude and style into their own music.
Although garage is usually associated with mod music because of similar influences, its important to note that it began and pretty much stayed in the U.S and Canada during the 60's. It wasn't until the 70's with the mod-revival that garage became popular in other parts of the world, namely Europe. This mod- revival mixed the music of the 60's British invasion with R&B which made it dirtier, even grungier than the original pop- rock of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who.
In the 80's there was a garage rock revival which took the original 60's garage and added to it an additional aggressiveness as a result of the punk rock that was already very well developed. This music was tough, sleazy, brash, manic and rebellious, a guttural scream and a big f*&k you to authority and social convention. Commendable as it might have been though, it doesn't compare to the original garage movement, in what it meant for music and women.
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