1. The Sonics – This Is The Sonics
Let me keep this simple for you. Any year The Sonics put out a great new album like this it is going to be #1 on my list. Period.
The Sonics are older than sin. Hell, they’re older than me. They invented garage rock back in in nineteen-sixty-something, but they still rock like a bunch of damn teenagers. Savage. Primitive.
Saw these guys play a couple times recently – at the Showbox with Mudhoney opening and at Easy Street with a thousand guest stars. They ripped it up. Like going to church except better – the Church of Jerry Roslie!
Their new record is MONO fer crissakes. It’s got about half all-new Sonics’ originals and half savagely pounded covers. They even do a Kinks’ song off “School Boys in Disgrace.” Who does that? They are the only band in the world who has a song called “Save The Planet” which is not about saving whales; it’s about drinking beer! That’s what I call Tacoma. If you don’t own this album, that is a mistake. Go see them. Buy this record. Buy their all records. Experience the beauty and bliss. Peace out.
Northwest Underground rock 1980 'til the End of Time
- Tom's Rant