What was THE record that got you hot for garage rock 'n' roll?

[Joey Fuckup]

For me, it was finding my mother's 45 rpm of the Standells' "Dirty Water"...then I heard Paul Revere & the Raiders on oldies radio with "Kicks" and ? and the Mysterians' "96 Tears"...the Outsiders' "Time Won't Let Me" came afterwards...sure they're well known, but it started the catalyst...can't forget the Dave Clark Five's "I Like It Like That"...which led to the Fleshtones....

[John White]

Ramones-Rocket to Russia, Fuck Yeah!

[KOKO TV]

The BACK FROM THE GRAVE compilations!

[Joey Fuckup]

That's a fuckin' great album man!

John White said:

Ramones-Rocket to Russia, Fuck Yeah!

[Joey Fuckup]

Yeah, I have got to get my hands on those!!!
Koko Loko said:

The BACK FROM THE GRAVE compilations!

[TeenFink]

BACK FROM THE GRAVE... duh!

[Rockin Rod Strychnine]

Listening to oldies led to listening to garage rock, I suppose. 

[Mutants of the Holocaust]

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

 

[Joey Fuckup]

Those Pebbles comps are great! I would love to get my hands on those! And yeah, I dig the Preachers, too!

Mutants of the Holocaust said:

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

 

[Shahrom Donald Bahi Hawley]

Good question! I used to listen to a radio show on Rice University called "treasures of the 60's" and the one song that sent me to the point of no return was "talk talk" by the Music Machine.
Just three years earlier I was growing up rather sheltered by my 40- year old parents who listened to operas and marching bands, and I had never heard any rock and roll until Elvis died.
When I heard that cool Elvis Presley music I knew right away that I wanted to be just like him.

[Alex]

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

[trashman]

The Mummies converted me.  I am sure you have heard that story before.  First time I heard "you must fight to live" I fell into the the trap door.  I thought to myself this is what has been missing in my life - I realized I liked all this fantastic music but never had a genre name attached to it; never knew it was consolidated into a living being.  The fact that something like the Mummies or Sonics can be interconnected to something like Whoa Dad, or space surf!  I knew I had found it but didn't know it had a home.  I knew no one else who listened to it and luckily I ran across the name garage punk on the internet.  We all know what that search term lands you.  Re-imagine that first time you listened to Back from the Grave all over again.  Or that very first podcast you clicked on here thinking "wtf is this?" (that is a great thread discussion in itself).  300gb of comps,podcasts,and out of prints later and my music life was completely changed...forever.     

[Joey Fuckup]

My mother was a huge Elvis fan, so I was raised on his records...Very sad household when he died...

Shahrom Donald Bahi Hawley said:

Good question! I used to listen to a radio show on Rice University called "treasures of the 60's" and the one song that sent me to the point of no return was "talk talk" by the Music Machine.
Just three years earlier I was growing up rather sheltered by my 40- year old parents who listened to operas and marching bands, and I had never heard any rock and roll until Elvis died.
When I heard that cool Elvis Presley music I knew right away that I wanted to be just like him.