So the Prophets Say................ ........The Centurys - Lebanon PA 1965-67

One of central PA's bands made it into the canon of 60s punk classics with their regional hit Hard Times, but the Centurys were truly unusual at the time for their pro-war stance.

So the Prophets Say
(Billy Beard)

I bet they'll tell you that they're wise

And that they'll analyze

Your situation

They can tell you what's gonna come

And how certain things will be done

They're your

Salvation

Will the world end today

Like it did yesterday

Or will we have to wait

Till tomorrow

I will tell you when it comes

You will hear those (?) drums (?)

(?)

(?) your sorrow

These (?)

These prophets of peace 

And prophets of war

(?)

They may tell you to make a big sound

About gettin out of Viet Nam

You know you gotta right

To your convictions

But will they warn you of a coming day

When your placards might be thrown away

And they'll say

Now you've got a few

Restrictions

You may not like it if they hand you a gun

Before you turn twenty-one

And say

Now you've got to 

Be a man

But your freedoms bells stop ringing (?)

And red state song your singing

I bet you wish 

You had a gun 

In your hand

These men so good

And men so bad

These prophets so sane

And prophets so mad

(?)

Why don't you let it be known

You got a mind of your own

And you can tell right from wrong

From day to day

(?)

Cause they know you care

And so you beware

Of what the prophets say

(harmonica)

Billy Beard had been enlisted in the Navy since 1960 and other band members got draft notices in 1967.

.....

Renco 115 – 83 / So the Prophets Say
Renco 116 – Don’t Bother / Together To Stay
Swan 4265 – Hard Times / Endless Search
BB 4002 – And I Cried / Catch Me Fast



The Centurys on Garage Hangover
The Centurys on Bona Fide Records' Return of the Young Pennsylvanians
The Centurys on Nuclear Platters 
Obituary for William Beard

Todd Shuster's Report Cards ....... .............. (Philadelphia 1988-97)

After his marvelous pop punk to paisley journey with The Jags and The Impossible Years (1978-88), Todd Shuster disappeared into the grownup world of school teacher where, I can testify, nearly all free time gets sucked into the job and your commitment to the kids. What makes it fun and sustainable, and not just exhausting, is that teaching itself is an artistic outlet. But it's also necessary to keep some of your creative pursuits alive outside the classroom (hence tapewrecks for me). Todd, has maintained a low-intensity output of music on a 4-track recorder, releasing cassette demos and a 20-song CD in 1997 that's a tribute to his career.

King Leer

My Imaginary Friend

My You Museum (acoustic)

It Better Be

My Report Card

Was I There At All?
His Secret Vest 
Billy's Life  
Breakfast Man
The Elusive Ingredient 
Tempest in a Teacup

Most recently, Todd has recorded a track for the upcoming Television Personalities tribute on The Beautiful Music. The connection was The Impossible Years' Scenes We'd Like to See EP was the first release on Dan Treacy's Dreamworld Records. Happily, The Beautiful Music tracked down Todd for the tribute through this very blog.


Thanks to Rustle Noonetwisting for the demo tape and Todd for the CD.

Weirdest Record Ever Bought at the Mall.... ...White Noise... An Electric Storm...

Delia Derbyshire

If it wasn't for the Vietnam War, and the fact that I was at the Naval Air Station hospital in Albany, Georgia, USA being born in 1969, I'm sure I would have been thrilled by the release of An Electric Storm by White Noise in London, England, UK.

I'm not always too keen new wave or electronica, but there are a few roots of these genres in the pre-Moogy past that are pretty spectacular. This one is a real timepiece with the tape-looping innovation of Delia Derbyshire, the co-creator of the Dr. Who theme.

Phase-In:
Love Without Sound

My Game of Loving

Here Come the Fleas
Firebird
Your Hidden Dreams

Phase-Out:
The Visitation
Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell

When I was growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, there was an ice skating rink in the basement of the Park City Mall. I never skated there, but I have strong memories of watching skaters from above through a window in the floor.

By the time I was a teenage mallrat, the rink was replaced with a grubby flea market with little redeeming value except for a little stand called The Record Connection run by a nice guy named Andy. I probably bought a few dozen records from him, but the most unusual was this White Noise album, which I picked up purely because of the cover art.

Counted among the classics by electronica lovers, I just loved the weirdness, and the multi-tracked sex noises were the next best thing to what most adolescent boys were hanging out at the mall for anyway. I got lucky.
...

Read more about White Noise on {feuilleton} and Pitchfork.
Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound - BBC Radio documentary
The Record Connection is alive and well in a storefront in Ephrata!
And visit 1970's Park City Mall at Malls of America blog!

It's-A-Happening! ..................... ...The Magic Mushrooms (Philadelphia 1966)

The Magic Mushrooms were made up of U Penn students who chased down Allen Ginsburg at an event on campus to ask him to suggest a band name. Herp Alpert signed them to a record deal, figured out the drug reference, and dropped them from the label... but that was after they had recorded and released
It's-A-Happening on A&M Records.

I first heard it on Nuggets, the record that spawned the avalanche of garage band compilations that were such a huge influence on me in the 80's, and found a cracked copy of the single in a thrift store.

They released two more singles on smaller labels before calling it quits. The b-sides were the best tracks on both:
Never Let Go
Let the Rain Be Me

Thanks again to the indispensable Garage Hangover for the tracks. Lots more info there.... Apparently there exist enough unreleased acetates and reel-to-reel tapes for an album somewhere. It would be nice if they saw the light of day, but in the meantime, I don't need much of an excuse to play this:
Tex & the Horseheads - It's-A-Happening (1985).

Jim Čert in the USA... ....Good Morning, How Are You?

For awhile our San Francisco flat on Valencia Street took on a bit of carnivalesque with a procession of bike messengers, musicians, artists, film makers, and other fine riffraff coming through with local film screenings on the back porch. And completing our Bohemian cred was a crazy Czech guy in a skullcap with an accordion the size of a lawnmower.

Jim Čert on Fog Town Network

Každý den mezi ďábly vstávám,pomalu sám se ďáblem stáván. 

Every day I get up deviled, slowly becoming the devil himself. (Jim Čert  - Křišťálová studánka)

Born 1956, Czech accordion player and poet Jim Čert (or Jim Devil, real name: František Horáček) became a familiar figure of Prague’s local hospody, or underground taverns with wooden benches and large, collective tables. Chodíme do hospod (We go to the pub) He published his first cassette titled Cervenec in 1980, introducing the public with his mixture of folk traditionals, contemporary Czech poets, various J.R.R. Tolkien’s poems and...   Marihuana. (Continuo) 

Čert was known for his dissent against the Communist regime in the '80s Czech music scene, prior to the Velvet Revolution in Czech in late 1989. He was jailed several times for creating music deemed "anti-social" by the Communist state, who would not let musicians perform without state approval. However, files found in 1989 show that Čert was involved with state, working under police pressure as a secret informant. (Wikipedia)

I Died One Monday Jim left the new Czech Republic and started over in San Francisco where he fronted a band appropriately called Life After Life with fellow dissident Jaroslav Sedivy. They put out a record on Alternative Tentacles, but I knew him as a solo performer opening up for the likes of L-Sid and Polkacide. The jovial guy at every party who did an impromptu late night set in our flat. Despite his deep growl, and dastardly cackle, I once saw him floor the audience by whistling an entire song, with vibrato and in perfect tune. Where did that come from?


In 2007, Jim formally apologized for his collaboration with state police, and is now living and performing back in Prague.

Já šel jsem cestou tesklivou a vítr se mi smál. Já přemejšlel jsem o státě - co bude jako dál? A tak se ploužím tímhle tím slzavým údolím a těším se, až lidi mě jednou pochopí. Já doufal jsem, že zřítí se tenhle proklatej řád, a že budu mít svou zemi snad ještě někdy rád. ...United States, American, Good Morning... How are you?   

I went away distressed and the wind laughed at me. Thinking I'm the State - what will be next? And by the valley of tears I look forward to my people understanding. I was hoping that this goddamn order would collapse, and that I'd have my country happily ever after....

...United States, American, Good morning... How are you?

Frack Rock! ...Barclay Records.... ................... Eastern PA 1961-69

The Royal Cavaliers

These two comps from the coal region are appropriately fractured at the magic year, 1966, when sonic forces converged and, for me, the best music of that decade bubbled to the surface. Kids could buy cheap Silvertone or Harmony electric guitars at the department store and start a band in their parents' garage in a newly buit subdivision. Buddy Holly, the twist, surf music, and the British invasion showed they didn't need professional songwriters or string arrangements to have a hit song. They could cover one, or write their own, and the local AM station would pipe the record over a 500-mile radius and make it a regional hit. Radio deejays sponsored dances in high school gyms that your band could play at. 1966, the drug culture was just catching on and psychedelia was emerging, but hadn't gotten too stupid, and probably hadn't reached Orwigsburg yet anyway. And with a little sinister fuzztone and organ, the kids didn't necessarily have to do drugs to sound like they did.

Clay Barclay ran one of those hometown record producer/engineer/publisher all-in-one operations that did so much to drive the vast body of American music that flew under the radar. He apparently even ran WKBA as a 10-watt pirate radio station out of his parent's house! The Eastern PA comps pull together a great snapshot of that place and time. These are my favorite tracks, but you can still buy the full CDs at the BOMP Store.

Eastern PA Rock 1961-1965
The Mistics WKBA countdown Orwigsburg radio
The Triumphs - Triumph's Theme 
The Triumphs - Don't Ask Me Why Buddy Holly lives!
The Jaguars - Unfair to Me
Chuck Barr and the Playboys - Twist With Me Check out all the local high school shout-outs.
Chuck Barr and the Playboys - Espaniel Bob Wills meets The Ventures at Taco Bell
Chuck Barr and the Playboys - Sky Blue Pink
The Mistics - WKBA jingle
The Ramrods - War Party
The Ramrods - Blue Steel David Lynch meets Waikiki Beach in coal country?

Eastern PA Rock 1966 - 1969

The Sidewinders - It Hurts

The Sidewinders - Not Again A nasty girl-cruncher along the lines of The Rats' Revenge

The Lords - Sweet Words A little calypso for the frat boys

The Newluvs - Be My Girl A cool organ-cruncher

The Royal Cavaliers - I'll Try Again Super primitive adolescents

The Royal Cavaliers - Was It Love

Flowerz - Flyte

Pat Farrell and the Believers - Bad Woman With a fuzz bass from the 80s-goth/psych time machine

The Ethics - A Letter to Kathy Last song at the Minersville High School dance

Clay Barclay is still recording bands at Cyberacoustics Laboratory in Louisville, Kentucky. Check out the Barclay Sound Wagon!

The Impossible Years.................. ...80's Teen Soundtrack... .....................(Philadelphia 1980-88)

With two college radio stations in Lancaster, PA we heard some pretty good music for a small town. Those airwaves helped to rescue me from my Journey and Foreigner 8-track tapes with a similar type of ultra convenient, but crappy-sounding technology known as the NAB cartridge. "Carts" were most often used, and reused for public service announcements and station IDs, but occasionally the music director would throw some top-played songs on a cart, and we were fortunate enough to have Flower Girl and Attraction Gear on regular rotation at WIXQ. I never saw The Impossible Years play, but these two songs were part of my personal teenage soundtrack. That was in 1985 when I went out and bought a brown/yellow/green paisley shirt at the Water Street Rescue Mission. My mom called it "that ugly shirt," but I wore it for years.

9:45 

Her Father Suspects

Todd Shuster:

We started playing in March of 1978 as The Jags. It was the classic story of hearing the New York and English bands of 1977 and being inspired to play music again. We played local clubs opening for a lot of the bands (X, Mumps, Cramps, Suicide, etc.) that passed through Philadelphia. A year later, when we heard a single by an English band also called The Jags, we decided on the name The Impossible Years....

By 1980, we had a new bass player and the band was: [Me] on vocals and guitar, Howard Luberski on bass and Seth Schweitzer on drums....     ...The 8-track Denise and She's No Fun demos feature Tony Marsico, who was our bass player before Howard joined us.  Tony went on to play bass for Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Roger Daltrey, The Cruzados and Matthew Sweet.  Howard, who was Tony's friend, started playing bass for us after Tony left for L.A. 

We self-released a single... Baby Baby.... The b-side was a different version of "She's No Fun," but I prefer the version above. ...Within a few years, we were included on two compilation records: I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia and Bomp Records', Battle Of The Garages V II....

Jay Schwartz (vintage film collector and IYs manager):

...I was managing a rock band in the early 1980s and was working at a live music nightclub. I had earlier bought several [film] reels of Soundies, with music from the 1940s. I thought they were the most amazing thing I had seen at that point. Sometime in 1982 or 1983, this was just around the time MTV had started, I had this idea-let's show these films before the band I was managing played. They were called The Impossible Years; I borrowed their name from a 1960s teen movie. So I said that we would advertise that we would have "pre-rock videos from the Impossible Archives" just to make people come to the show and get some extra publicity attached to the band. 

Another occasional band gimmick I thought of was to hang up all of these one-sheet posters for drive-in movies as a stage backdrop. I remember people shouting loudly during the Soundies screening, "This sucks, let's rock 'n roll!"  ...I brought this white sheet and hung it from the top of the lighting pole using Bulldog clips, so I could yank it off quickly before the band would start. I imagined this very fast and dramatic transition from film to live band, with them hitting the first note as soon as the screen was pulled down, but they were still tuning up, and the moment was lost....

Todd:

...We went into a 16-track studio and came out with a five-song tape, four of which we hated (the recordings, not the songs). This was the one we all liked.   Love Me A Kiss 

We had recorded a three-song cassette at a local 8-track studio. When we were approached by the people who wanted to release I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia, we gave them Flower Girl from the cassette. 

The Battle of the Garages is a longer story. We were fooling around one night and made an effect-laden over-the-top version of Attraction Gear on our TEAC 3340 reel to reel four-track. Our manager sent it to Greg Shaw, who we didn’t know, but knew of. He liked it, asked that we rerecord it for the next Battle of the Garages comp. We did and he included it on V. II.

When Attraction Gear got a great review in Sounds, we were contacted by Dan Treacy of Television Personalities. He told us that he was starting a new label called Dreamworld Records and he wished for us to be his first release. Scenes We'd Like To See (Dreamworld 001) was a four-song E.P. that was released in 1983....   

...The recording of Attraction Gear on the EP is one of the few times that we were all very happy and proud with the results of a studio recording. That's one of the reasons we switched to working with our own 4-track.

4-track demo:
Lovely/Lonely
The Girl I Always Seem To Get
It's a Drag
I Agree was the first song Todd wrote for the Jags in 1978, recorded by The Impossible Years in the 80s, released on Todd's solo album in the 90s, and rerecorded by Todd in 2010.

...We continued to play until 1988, at which time, I began recording songs on my four-track. In 1997, I released 20 of those demos as a CD entitled: My Report Card, a theme that pokes fun at my current status as a teacher.

Thanks to Todd Shuster for sharing these tracks! Most of the quotes are from ModPopPunk Archives, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media (Jay Schwartz), and Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V. 3 (Great interview with Todd). And thanks to Tom Casetta, Rustle Noonetwisting, and others for making and playing those Impossible Years carts over and over again at WIXQ!


Jay Schwartz is still operating The Secret Cinema, the Philadelphia area's premiere floating repertory series.

Hear The Jags on tapewrecks and see Todd's videos and his solo work.

Todd has recorded a new cover for the next installment of the 10-volume Television Personalities tribute on The Beautiful Music. Stay tuned!

Susan Christie.....(Philadelphia 1966-69)

Tapewrecks dives to the psychedelic abyss for these treasures by Philadelphia's Susan Christie. She had a hit in 1966 with I Love Onions, then recorded a series a single destined for a a 1970 LP that never came to be, except for a total of 3 test pressings. Mix together some Kendra Smith with string arrangements worthy of an Ennio Morricone score. Add some Patti Smith free verse, a few Petula Clark-ey pop songs, and some of Grace Slick's pills, and you might have Paint A Lady, the album finally released by Finders Keepers in 2006.

Rainy Day
When Love Comes
Yesterday, Where's My Mind
I Love Onions

"A Steamin' Stew of Mutant Spew" - The Deadly Spawn Compilation

  

Somewhere outside you here a cry

A new commotion in the sky

A new generation's shouting out loud

I'm born in the USA and that makes me proud

Well skip the flag and all that

Cause being a fungus is where it's at

We'll be glad to ruin your perfect lawn
With the fungus from our spawn

The Velvet Monkeys

In 1985 we were getting fed a healthy diet of neogarage and psych from the grownups (Bill & Carl) over at the Web of Sound record store. ...The Scientists, The Nomads, The Lime Spiders, The Chesterfield Kings, The Hoodoo Gurus.... The Real Gone was slurping it up and recorded a live demo for Bill and Carl that found its way into the hands of Rick Noll, creator of York, PA's Bona Fide Records. Rick apparently liked it enough to include us on his followup to The Train To Disaster compilation if we re-recorded a song or two. So we borrowed a 4-track machine from friend and local punker Ray Rhythm, and laid down Bells Are Ringing, one of Dave's post-Vietnam era social protest songs.

Many of the bands, including ours, had already broken up and/or were playing with some combination of The Left and The Skeptics before the record even came out in 1986, but it sure caught a moment in time. The A-side had all the big(ger)-name acts, or at least the bands that made an appearance on another compilation by that time. We made it onto the flunky B-side, but we were in dang-good company nonetheless. Where The Train to Disaster was a strange disjointed mess, in the best way possible, The Deadly Spawn was a solid batch of songs from some not-so-solid bands.


A-Side

The Brood

The Velvet Monkeys - Rock Party (Washington DC) All we want is your girlfriend's love!
Monster Rock - She Lied (Frederick, MD) - members of The Left and The Skeptics.
The Brood - Writing on the Wall (Portland, Me)

Thee Fourgiven

The Creeping Pumpkins - Better Off Without You (Pompton Lakes, NJ)
Thee Fourgiven - The Wrong Side Of Your Mind (Hollywood, CA)
Liquid Generation - I Love You (Seattle, WA)

The Dusters

The Dusters - Everytime (Frederick/Hagerstown, MD) Another Left/Skeptics project. They opened the Hasil Adkins show in Lancaster that year.

The Skeptics

The Skeptics - Legend of the Headless Surfer (Frederick, MD) from the Worry Beads cassette. Drummer Stephen Blickenstaff also did the monstrous cover art and the cover of the Cramps Bad Music for Bad People.

The Real Gone

B-Side
The Subterraneans - Hammer of Love (Frederick, MD)
The Real Gone - Bells Are Ringing (Lancaster, PA)
Mutant Drone - Harvest Time (Richmond, VA)
Scattered Limbs - Walk Without Me (York, PA) made their only public appearance with James "Rebel" O'Leary at his birthday party at the local Goodwill.
No King - Restless Soul (Washington DC/Hoboken, NJ) featuring Rudi Protrudi of Tina Peel and The Fuzztones on harp.
The Turnups - Egypto-Tek (Harrisburg, PA) One of Central PA's first punk bands, circa 1980, with and without Billy Synth.

FlexiDisc
The Voodoo Love Gods - Bad Seed (Hagerstown, MD) Another Left spinoff featuring one of the Subterraneans
The Stump Wizards - I Don't Want You Anymore (Camp Hill, PA) Hear their first cassette here.

Added to the Dutch/German pressing on Resonance Records:
The Broken Jug - Son of a Gun (West Germany)

Velvet Monkeys... .......Colors Pt. I & II

Here's the Velvet Monkeys at their most new wave with this Bona Fide rival to a 12-inch single disco hit by Soft Cell, complete with the dance dub b-side. In a funny way it sort of bridges their transformation (via Trance Band and Process) from pop-psych underground to the brilliant girlfriend-stealing rock party of the pre- B.A.L.L ./Gumball period. If you know don't know what the hell I'm talking about...click for the former.... ...Stay tuned for the latter.

Colors Pt. 1 
Colors Pt. 2

The Train to Disaster............... .......Bona Fide Mid-Atlantic Oddity

From the jacket:

Hi Folks! There's a new sound rising up angry in the sky. There's new voices crying they're not afraid to try! These bands won't shut up and won't be ignored. They believe in music--but not the type that James Watt likes. The music is loud, harsh, and maybe even crude. But it's real! here are 13 mirrors of reality--worlds that most people would rather not acknowledge. The world is not all jelly beans, Ivory soap, and two car garages. Neither is this record!

This is one of those weird records that comes out of some guy's mid-state living room with the back stock sitting next to the TV set in boxes ready to mail out to the rest of the fanzine-reading world. Rick Noll tells the story best on the Bona Fide Records blog:

Hey, does anybody remember the early 80s?? I sure do. Fresh from my success as a bargain bin diver which got me into selling old vinyl, I soon turned to local PA garage bands, and influenced by Nuggets, Pebbles, and my pal Billy Synth's Psychedelic Unknown comps, I got the brainy idea to start a little label that would send some light on deserving local bands. Bona Fide Records was born and in 1982 our first LP, a 60s comp, The Return of the Young Pennsylvanians was released. Although mostly unknown at the time, now bands like the Centurys, Loose Enz, Shaynes and the Flowerz are known to garage collectors around the world. Even though I was a heavy collector, the modern scene also intrigued me and I was a fan of the many punk, new wave, garage and experimental bands of the time. Especially I was impressed by the Harrisburg scene in which Billy Synth and the Turnups deservedly reigned as kings--though they weren't always treated as such. Billy and his pals the Turnups released their own swell records on the band's Cracked Records and I was hooked!

I was also impressed by the growing DC scene and in particular the sonic mayhem of the Slickee Boys with their psychedelic outfits and their frantic adrenaline filled live shows. So I got another brainy idea! Why not put out a comp of current bands who could actually benefit from such a release? So "The Train to Disaster" was hatched and naturally I asked my pals Billy and Kim Kane of the Slickees for help....

Normally, I'd just post my favorites, and I surely like some more than others here, but what I really love about Train to Disaster is the disjointedness: mostly 80s, one 70s, one from Austria, mostly guitars, some synthesizer, a few drum machines, amateur psych, but not all retro -- that you can only get from the whole record. So here it is!

The Lone Ketamine Millipede - Frogs in "Our" Town (Harrisburg, PA)
Billy Synth & the Turnups - The Mask (Harrisburg, PA)
Ben Wah - Gnats Ahoy! (York, PA)
mystery track
The Beatnik Flies - Fantastic Light Show (Bethesda, MD)
The Slickee Boys - Nagasaki Neuter (Bethesda, MD)
The Velvet Monkeys - World Of (Washington, DC)

The Dootz - I'm the Dootz (Hyattsville, MD)
The Left - You're So (Hagerstown, MD)
George Brigman & Split - My Cherie (Baltimore, MD)
Yard Trauma - The Little Girl Who Left (Tucson, AZ)
Ronnie Urini & the Last Poets - Alice in Wunderland (Austria)
The Mad Violets - Acceleration (New York, NY)
Donovan's Brain - Derailment (York, PA)

More:
Bona Fide Records
Billy Synth
The Slickee Boys
The Velvet Monkeys
The Dootz
Return of the Young Pennsylvanians 
James Watt
The Deadly Spawn

That's the Bag I'm In...... ...............Back from the Mass Grave

Out on assignment, our own pith helmeted Rustle Noonetwisting dug up the following on one of my favorite songs.  The Fabs' That's the Bag I'm In first grazed my ears in 1984 with its rerelease on Volume I of the Back from the Grave compilations, and it's one of the key songs that sparked our interest in 60s garage punk. As Dr. Noonetwisting discovered, in surrounding strata there were a few more treasures in that grave!

Mr. Tomsun,
Here is my report:

Greenwich Village songwriter and folksinger Fred Neil wrote "That's the Bag I'm In" early in the 1960s but apparently didn't release his own version until his second album in 1966. But, I just discovered today that another Greenwich Village folksinger Casey Anderson was apparently the first to put it to record in 1962.

Fred Neil 1966.

Billy Lee Riley 1966

Richie Havens 1966

Our pals The Fabs 1967 with National Safety Council video (I wanna shake rortydog's hand for thinking of this).

HP Lovecraft 1967 - Moving into the heavy psychedelic Jeff Airplane direction.

Kin Vassy 1969 - Moving a bit too close to Blood Sweat and Tears territory for comfort. He also played in Kenny Rogers and the First Edition!

Buzzy Linhart  1969 - The video feedback here reminds me of playing around with a Pixelvision camera , but we never ended up in the Season of the Witch. Buzzy Linhart 1971 - Now we're getting heavy, man. 

Thankfully the covers seem to have stopped after this because I don't think I could handle a Uriah Heep cover of this song.

Uriah Heep did not cover "That's the Bag I'm In."

The Fuzztones 1984 reenactment of The Fabs' take, with big hair and chicken bones.

July 2012 Addendum: Ty Segall does his version in the Fabs vein, but maxed-out on FUZZ and SCREAMING.