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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.

Available on:

What A Way To Die: 15 Forgotten Losers From the Mid 60's

Labels: Great Garage Rock Ranting Songs, The Knaves

Posted by: Ben / 8:09 PM

Comments:

I will, of course, be tuning in for the rest of the series, and I don't want to spoil things by shouting out the answer but...It's Trash by The Cavemen stomps all over this weedy tune.

# posted by

Artog : March 27, 2011 at 9:51:00 PM GMT+1

Hey Artog!

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!

# posted by

Ben : March 27, 2011 at 11:34:00 PM GMT+1

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