Nuggets: Bad Girl by The Zakary Thaks

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1. Cool tune by a band I had never heard of before. It’s got a raw sound, and I think your comparisons to The Kinks and Ramones are spot on.

   • Thanks for listening – Max pointed out that I forgot the video. Most of the bands from Nuggets are relative obscure regional acts – just a few relatively famous ones like The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raiders.

     • I actually found the video on YouTube, which is how I listened to the song! 🙂

     • They were a few more bands besides Kingsmen and Paul Revere on Nuggets that got relatively famously, mostly because they had national hits. I’ll tell you which ones on nuggets were Top 40 hits cuz I know this. Some were actually HUGE hits.
       Electric Prunes – Too Much to Dream Last Nite
       Syndicate of Sound – Little Girl
       Music Explosion- Little Bit of Soul
       Beau Brummels – Laugh Laugh
       Swinging Medallion- Double Shot
       Sir Douglas Quintet – Shes About a Mover
       Sam the Sham – Wooly Bully
       Music Machine- Talk Talk
       Human Beinz – Nobody But Me
       Blues Magoos – Tobacco Road
       Knickerbockers – Lies
       Outsiders – Time Won’t Let Me
       Strangeloves – I want Candy
       Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
       Amboy Dukes – Journey to Center of your Mind
       Paul Revere – Just Like Me
       All FANTASTIC.

       • Cool – I didn’t realise those all hit the top 40.

2. Graham am I just missing it or do you not have the song on here to listen to? No big deal but I’m wondering if I just missed it? No big deal I looked it up and I also found a live video of them…really cool straight ahead rock and roll.
   I can hear the Ramones mixed in with the song “Shout”…that groove. I like it a lot. I don’t think I’m going to dislike any of these…and it’s not like these songs are identical to each other…different styles but raw rock/punk and some surfer type in a few.

   • Oops – I just added the video in now. It’s been a busy week and I got distracted. I think this will shake out as one of my favourites, at least from the fourth disc. I like stuff that draws from early Kinks.

     • It’s fine…I thought I was missing it…so that really makes me feel better. When I saw the live video…it’s hard to believe they were that young.
       So far it’s more variety than I thought it would be. Yes some were edging toward punk like this one but they are different.

       • I think the lead singer was 15 when they recorded it – a noteworthy fact that I probably should have mentioned in the main article.

         • I guess it was the style back then…the longer hair…he didn’t look that young. Very good voice for that style regardless of age…but 15 makes it more interesting.

3. This is one of the few garage rock songs that really has that actual punk rock beat that everyone used during the punk rock and hardcore era later on. The guitars are all different though. This is a pretty good one. I forgot how many good tracks are toward the end of the album. I always think of it as having all the best ones on the first half of the album. Probably because I’m more used to the shorter 2 disc version. Idk.

   • I like doing it one at a time as it makes me pay attention to each one. They’ve all been pretty good so far!

4. More gems from the Nuggets set (which I adore). I am going to applaud 118 posts of this epic series!

   • Thank you!

5. A Bo Diddley hoedown! Good fun, with great drumming and a nice modulation at 1:40. 7/10