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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Great Garage-Rock Ranting Song of the Week # 2
The Knaves – Leave Me Alone
“I put down my fork and I said… LEAVE ME ALONE.”
This record is the Citizen Kane of garage rock ranting songs. In fact it’s such a tour de force of pure, unadulterated rantage, I think it dooms this series from the outset by putting all other contenders in the shade.
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What A Way To Die: 15 Forgotten Losers From the Mid 60's
Somehow I've never heard that one, but just looked it up and... wow, yeah, good grief - that's about as out there as '60s garage gets; the echo machine must have been belching smoke by the time they finished recording that! Thanks for the link - my life is improved.
I'm not sure though that it quite counts as a ranting track though - I'm going more for that specific thing you get on these records where the singer suddenly launches into a kind of unhinged diatribe about how hard done by he is, or how stuck up his girlfriend is, or how much he hates the world; "Leave Me Alone" wins because it's pretty much like that all the way through from the opening second, with the diatribe set to primitive musical backing!
