Various Pushin' Too Hard - American Garage Punk 1964-67 (3-CD Box)

“Pushin' Too Hard” is a 94-track homage to 1960s garage punk, a genre retrospectively named and first compiled on Lenny Kaye's seminal 1972 collection ‘Nuggets’.
This is raw, exciting music with plenty of attitude - fuzz guitars, swirling organs, wailing harmonicas, booming drums and harsh vocals abound.
In the mid-1960s, teenage rock 'n' roll groups mushroomed in the US, often inspired by 'British Invasion' bands such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, as well as US musical styles such as surf, blues and folk rock. Most small and large towns had local scenes centered around dance parties, clubs and “battle of the bands” competitions, and many of the bands here were known regionally but never made it nationally.
Some of the best known bands include The Seeds, The Sonics, The Standells, The Shadows Of Knight, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Love, The Electric Prunes, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, We The People and ? & The Mysterians.
There are national US Billboard Hot 100 hits from Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - “Wooly Bully” (No. 2), The Strangeloves - “I Want Candy” (No. 11), The Castaways - “Liar, Liar” (No. 12), The Beau Brummels - “Just A Little” (No. 15), The McCoys - “Fever” (No. 7), The Bobby Fuller Four - “I Fought The Law‘ (#9), Paul Revere & The Raiders - ’Just Like Me‘ (#11), The Barbarians - ’Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl‘ (#55), Love - ’My Little Red Book‘ (#54) , The Knickerbockers - ’One Track Mind‘ (#46) and The Seeds - ’Pushin‘ Too Hard’ (#36) are presented here in a longer, unedited version.
Rarities from The Blue Beats, The Dirty Wurds, The Apparitions, The Bedlam Four and The Jackals are released here on CD for the first time, while many other tracks have never before been released in the UK.