Garage Punk Hall of Fame — who would you nominate?

[ted cogswell]

I'd like to get a list of people - artists and groups - that people here would consider the best of the best from a GaragePunk perspective. If we can get together a list of say, 50 or so candidates, I'll conduct a poll here on the forum to elect members to a "Garage Punk Hall of Fame".

Candidates can be from any era. Just to get us going why don't I throw out some names off the top of my head.

How about...

Billy Childish
Mick Collins
The Dead Boys
The Devil Dogs
The MC5
The Monks
The Mummies
MX-80
The Seeds
The Stooges
Roky Erickson/13th Floor Elevators
Link Wray


And feel free to toss out any names you can think of. Even if you don't think they're quite "Hall of Fame" worthy but should at least be considered.

Lets see what we can come up with here...

[Dulcinea Gonzalez]

KIM FOWLEY

[Jamie]

The Sonics
Link Wray
Lenny Kaye

thousands of others... This may just be pointless. Garage rock is an anti-hall of fame kind of genre.

[Jamie]

Oops, Link Wray was already listed.

[ted cogswell]

The Cramps
The Oblivians

[Gringo Starr]

Just for starters:

Lenny Kaye
Greg Shaw
Paula Pierce
Kim Fowley
Sky Saxon
Ron Rimsite
Lee Joseph
Mike Stax
Tim Warren
The Sonics
The Seeds
The Music Machine
The Remains
The Monks
The Count V
The Thirteenth Floor Elevator
The Electric Prunes
The Shadows of Knight
The Standells
The Chocolate Watchband
The Miracle Workers
The Gravedigger V
The Untold Fables
The Morlocks
The Fuzztones
The Chesterfield Kings
Thee Milkshakes
The Unclaimed
The Pandoras
The Cramps
The Fleshtones

[Gringo Starr]

Almost forgot:

GaragePunk.com
Jeff 'Kopper'

[Sean]

The Saints
Poison 13

[Ed Post-Mortem]

Gringo Starr said:

Just for starters:

Lenny Kaye
Greg Shaw
Paula Pierce
Kim Fowley
Sky Saxon
Ron Rimsite
Lee Joseph
Mike Stax
Tim Warren
The Sonics
The Seeds
The Music Machine
The Remains
The Monks
The Count V
The Thirteenth Floor Elevator
The Electric Prunes
The Shadows of Knight
The Standells
The Chocolate Watchband
The Miracle Workers
The Gravedigger V
The Untold Fables
The Morlocks
The Fuzztones
The Chesterfield Kings
Thee Milkshakes
The Unclaimed
The Pandoras
The Cramps
The Fleshtones

I'd add the Cyncis (PA), The Satelliters, The Gories, Unrelated Segments, Reigning Sound, and Lyres, but this was a great list!

[Ivan Andreini]

You know the Sonics? lol)

[Ed Post-Mortem]

PJ Dirty Water said:

After seeing last night's spontaneous Headcoats reunion, yes, Billy Childish has got to be at the top of the list! (And the Cynics were, indeed, totally amazing here last Thursday. As well as, like Billy, having been making great garage punk sounds since before some of their audience were born.)

Headcoats reunion! When's the last time Billy came across the pond to the US? And yes, there's no way he should be omitted.

[Ivan Andreini]

Funny world!
The Sonics are/were simply amazing, zing, zing...

[Gra Fiend]

Ed Post-Mortem said:

Gringo Starr said:

Just for starters:

Lenny Kaye
Greg Shaw
Paula Pierce
Kim Fowley
Sky Saxon
Ron Rimsite
Lee Joseph
Mike Stax
Tim Warren
The Sonics
The Seeds
The Music Machine
The Remains
The Monks
The Count V
The Thirteenth Floor Elevator
The Electric Prunes
The Shadows of Knight
The Standells
The Chocolate Watchband
The Miracle Workers
The Gravedigger V
The Untold Fables
The Morlocks
The Fuzztones
The Chesterfield Kings
Thee Milkshakes
The Unclaimed
The Pandoras
The Cramps
The Fleshtones

I'd add the Cyncis (PA), The Satelliters, The Gories, Unrelated Segments, Reigning Sound, and Lyres, but this was a great list!

Fanatstic list. I can only add The Swamp Rats, Los Shains, The Wailers, The Guess Who, The Wildebeasts and The Alarm Clocks