THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,251) The Chōb* — “We’re Pretty Quick”
This ’67 B-side is “pure punk genius” with “a breathtakingly frantic pace and one of the more bizarrely entertaining lyrics of the era” (Alec Palao, liner notes to the CD comp Uptight Tonight: The Ultimate ’60s Garage Collection), an “organ thumper with attitude and swagger to spare from Albuquerque, NM teens”. (liner notes to the CD comp Teenage Shutdown: I’m a No-Count: 19 Top Teen Punk Stomp Classics!) “‘Put your love in a bag and swing it round your head…’ Every other music lyric is now vying to be the SECOND greatest of all time”! (johnprestigiacomo2134, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM7mxugAG1o)
Alec Palao writes:
For all its novelty . . . the arrangement . . . bore a couple of classic hallmarks of the garage band style. For instance, the guitar break’s lengthy, unmodulating crescendo was something commonly adapted by many combos of the time from the Yardbirds’ influential and much-covered “Mister You’re A Better Man Than I.” And the sound at the very end of the record is that of [the] organist . . . switching off his Farfisa whilst holding down a note, providing the odd high pitched sucking sound that can be heard at the climax of several garage discs. Sadly, that was the last we were to hear from this inspired aggregation.
liner notes to Uptight Tonight: The Ultimate ’60s Garage Collection
This single by “five Albuquerque, New Mexico teenagers – Dick Hanson (vocals) Quinton Miller (guitar), Robbie Crnich (organ), Keith Bradshaw (bass) and Dave Elledge (drums)” was issued as “a small pressing in April 1967 on Southwest rock maven Lindy Blaskey’s Lavette label, barely sold at the time, and is now considered a prize rarity.” (Alec Palao, liner notes to Uptight Tonight: The Ultimate ’60s Garage Collection)
Bart Bealmear notes that:
Snotty garage rock from the ‘60s is a genre that causes collectors to drool with delight, and one such record, a 45 by the Albuquerque band the Chob . . . is among the holy grails. It isn’t known for certain how many copies Lavette pressed . . . but Alec [Palao] believes it is likely in the 200-300 copies range, definitely not more than 500…. It’s on Amazon and the asking price is $4,200.
* “[W]hat is a chob, you ask? Apparently the band’s codeword for a pimple.” (Alec Paleo, liner notes to Uptight Tonight: The Ultimate ’60s Garage Collection)
The Cannibals — “We’re Pretty Sick”:
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