The Sonics Here Are The Sonics!!! (LP)

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A facsimile release on 180g black vinyl in a thick card sleeve. At the time of its original... more

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The Sonics: Here Are The Sonics!!! (LP)

A facsimile release on 180g black vinyl in a thick card sleeve.

At the time of its original release, this album made very little impact outside of the Sonics’ home state – but the band made enough noise in Washington to blow down every brick wall between Tacoma and Torrance, California.

Seldom has a band been better named. The youthful aggression in their music – coupled with singer Gerry Roslie’s 80-razorblades-a-day vocal attack and a selection of overwhelmingly brilliant riffs that underpinned some of the most wildly recorded music ever to be committed to tape – should have made the Sonics one of the biggest bands the world has ever known or heard.

Instead they went on to become celebrated by generation after generation of collectors, and other young people with an urge to rock’n’roll. The importance of tracks such as ‘The Witch’, ‘Psycho’ and ‘Boss Hoss’ has provided a template for countless groups who’ve come up in their wake, and who have achieved a level of commercial success they could never have achieved without the inspiration of the Sonics – fellow Pacific North-Westerners Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana and their successor the Foo Fighters being, perhaps, the most obvious examples.

Incidentally, all the modern legal stuff – barcode, addresses and suchlike – is contained on a sticker, to make this reissue look as authentic as possible.

ALEC PALAO

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Interpret: The Sonics
Album titlle: Here Are The Sonics!!! (LP)
Genre Rock
Label Ace Records - Big Beat
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0029667010412
weight in Kg 0.3

Sonics, The - Here Are The Sonics!!! (LP) LP 1
01	Witch	The Sonics
02	Do You Love Me	The Sonics
03	Roll Over Beethoven	The Sonics
04	Boss Hoss	The Sonics
05	Dirty Robber	The Sonics
06	Have Love Will Travel	The Sonics
07	Psycho	The Sonics
08	Money	The Sonics
09	Walkin' The Dog	The Sonics
10	Nighttime Is The Right Time	The Sonics
11	Strychnine	The Sonics
12	Good Golly Miss Molly	The Sonics

The Sonics This Broken Heart Since The Kodoks, whose former tenor William Franklin and... more

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The Sonics

This Broken Heart

Since The Kodoks, whose former tenor William Franklin and baritone Larry Davis subsequently became two-fifths of The Sonics, hailed from Newark, New Jersey (their Oh Gee, Oh Gosh came out on Bobby Robinson's Fury label in 1958 and resides on our previous disc), it seems a relatively safe bet that The Sonics hailed from that same vicinity as well.

A group by the same name had a 1958 single on the New York-based X-Tra imprint coupling Once In A Lifetime and It Ain't True; the assumption is that it was the same quintet. Franklin wrote the delectable ballad This Broken Heart, but it was tenor Donald Sheffield who ably fronted The Sonics on the engaging platter. Sheffield also led the flip side, You Made Me Cry, another Franklin composition. The number made enough East Coast noise on Art Gottfried's Harvard Records, another tiny New York imprint, that Chicago's Checker label picked it up in April of '59 for national consumption (Sheffield's featured billing went by the boards).

It was a one-time deal for the group, which bounced from one highly obscure label - Nocturne, Amco, Armonia - to the next during the early '60s without ever attracting the interest that This Broken Heart did.

- Bill Dahl -

Various Street Corner Symphonies 1959 Vol.11

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