Pushin' too Hard : : American Garage Punk 1964-1967.

Locations
Call Number: CD Rock Pushin'
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Rock Pushin'	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Program notes (43 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm.) in container.
Disc 1. Justine / (Rangers) -- Wolly bully / (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs ) -- I want candy / (The Strangeloves) -- Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl / (The Barbarians) -- I'm Your Man / (Denims) -- Lair liar / (The Castaways) -- Why Do I Cry / (The Remains) -- Just a little / (The Beau Brummels) -- Pushin' Too Hard (Unedited Version) / (The Seeds Featuring Sky Saxon) -- Too Many People (Single Version) / (The Leaves) -- Got Love (Trident Version) / (The Front Line) -- I Ain't No Miracle Worker / (The Brogues) -- Rari (Extended Version) / (The Standells) -- You're Gonna Miss Me (The Spades) -- So What!! / (The Lyrics) -- I need love / (The Mad Hatters) -- Don & the Goodtimes / (Don & the Goodtimes) -- Alright / (The Coastliners) -- Fever / (The McCoys) -- I Fought the Law (Single Version) / (The Bobby Fuller Four) -- You Treat Me Bad / (The Jujus) -- My baby / (The Girls) -- Louise / (The Raymarks ) -- I Want My Woman / (The Emperor's) -- Just like me / (Paul Revere & the Raiders) -- Heart (Album Version) / (Liverpool Five) -- A Taste of the Same / (The Bad Seeds) -- She's gone / (Merrell & the Exiles) -- Forget Me Girl / (The Bees) -- Don't Break Me Down / (The Misunderstood) -- Out of the Question (Version 1, Take 1) / (Seeds).
Disc 2. Tried to Hide (Single Version) / (The Thirteenth Floor Elevators) -- My Little Red Book / (Love) -- She's My Baby (Autumn Version) / (The Mojo Men) -- Ain't It Hard / (The Electric Prunes) -- Diddy Wah Diddy / (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band) -- Mellow Down Easy / (Dirty Wurds) -- I'm in Pittsburgh (And It's Raining) / (The Outcasts) -- One track mind / (The Knickerbockers) -- Flash and Crash / (Rocky & the Riddlers) -- Knock You Flat / (The Dimensions) -- I'm Walking, Babe / (The Unusuals) -- Dark Side / (The Shadows of Knight) -- Mirror of Your Mind / (We the People) -- Rejected / (Sterling Damon) -- Please, Don't Be Mad / (The Soothsayers) -- Judgement Day / (The Esquires) -- Hard Times / (The Century's) -- You Got Your Head on Backwards / (The Sonics) -- Hidden Charms / (Link Wray & the Raymen) -- Thunder 'N' Lightnin' / (The Misunderstood) -- She's Got You / (Zakary Thaks) -- Going All the Way / (The Squires) -- Extra Girl / (The Blue Beats) -- Show Me the Way / (The Free-For-All) -- There She Goes/ (Chris Morgan & the Togas) -- I Want the Rain (Vocal) / (The Executioners) -- Out of Sight, Out of Mind / (Limey & the Yanks) -- She's So Satisfyin' / (The Apparitions) -- If You Try / (The Hustlers) -- No Place or Time / (The Echoes of Carnaby Street) -- No Friend of Mine / (Sparkles) -- Velvet Illusions / Velvet Illusions).
Disc 3. Barracuda / (The Standells) -- You Burn Me Up and Down / (We the People) -- I Need You / (The Rationals) -- Mr. Pharmacist / (The Other Half) -- Shame on You / (Neal Ford & the Fanatics) -- It's Cold Outside / (The Choir) -- Top Secret / (The Newbeats) -- Love Special Delivery / (The Fire Escape) -- Girl (You Captivate Me) / (? & the Mysterians) -- I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time / (The Third Bardo) -- See If I Care / (Ken & the Forth Dimension) -- Tired of Crying / (The Off-Beats) -- Why Baby Why / (The Mistics) -- Bad Day Blues / (The Headstones) -- Victim of Circumstances / (Roy Junior (Roy Acuff Jr.)) -- Hipsville 29 B.C. (I Need Help) / (The Sparkles) -- Love Times Eight / (The Jackals) -- Piccadilly Circus / (The Galaxies IV) -- Thoughts / (Front Page News) -- Mindrocker / (Fenwyck) -- I'm Allergic to Flowers / (The Jefferson Handerchief) -- Lost Innocence / (The Buddhas) -- Try it / (The Ohio Express) -- Action! (Speaks Louder Than Words) / (Tidal Waves) -- For What You Lack / (The Liberty Bell)-- You Can Forget About That / (Thursdays Children) -- Come Back / (The Jades) -- Talk to Me / (The Checkmates) -- Again / (The New Yorkers) -- Mini Shimmy / (Georgy & the Velvet Illusions) -- No One Left to Love / (The Bedlam Four).
Various artists.
'Pushin' Too Hard' is a 94-track celebration of 1960s garage punk, a retrospectively named genre first compiled on Lenny Kaye's seminal 1972 collection 'Nuggets'. This is raw, exciting music with tons of attitude - fuzz guitars, swirling organs, wailing harmonicas, thumping drums and tough vocals are plentiful. In the mid 1960s, teenage rock 'n' roll groups proliferated throughout the USA, often inspired by 'British Invasion' bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds as well as US styles including surf, blues and folk rock.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Heavy submitted by rossorr on March 18, 2025, 3:10pm Huge collection of garage rock and proto-psych includes a few Michigan acts like A2's 'The Rationals.' It's everything you might dream of, as a slab of fuzz guitar anthems featuring snarled vocals and pummeling beats, topped with searing Farfisa or harmonica lines.

Note this is nearly four hours of often fierce and frantic music. Take breaks and pace yourself if you'd like to absorb it all within AADL's 2-week checkout window. (The iffy mid-60s sound engineering can contribute to listening fatigue.)

Undefined Proto-Punk submitted by Meginator on August 10, 2025, 10:08pm This box set shows the less-refined side of 60s rock music, as bands expanded beyond the sounds on the radio and experimented with different effects and instrumental lineups. Nothing here sounds too out of place to contemporary ears, and the music clearly belongs to its own place in time, but it feels rough around the edges, pushing against the boundaries of expectation and taking some risks. What is especially compelling about this collection is the way that the bands build on their own musical influences, and how varied the results are; some songs clearly come straight from the blues, hinting at what was to come from mainstream bands like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, but others seem to originate from a pop sensibility, or from the Beatles' emerging pop-rock blend. A few of the tracks bear the slightest hints of a more punk sensibility to come, especially in the drumming, but everything still fits into the decade's signature defining sound. This music is both an alternate side of the now-popular musical conception of the mid-60s and an obvious product of it, including a few selections that have punctured the hegemony and become part of the typical radio rotation but consisting primarily of hidden gems that demonstrate that some musicians are always interested in exploring the edges of acceptable, expected sound.