THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
2,012) The Bad Seeds — “A Taste of the Same”
The Bad Seeds sing of bad karma — “Broke their hearts and made ’em cry But now I’m getting a taste of the same”! “Taste” is “[a]n unabashed classic[] of blues-based garage-punk” (Bruce Eder, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-bad-seeds-mn0000037992#biography), “outstanding mid to uptempo garage rock with punchy, insistent surf-inflected guitar, bass and drums and featuring an excellent guitar break by Rod Prince and punk-styled vocal as he bitterly reflects that what goes around comes around.” (bayard, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-bad-seeds/a-taste-of-the-same-im-a-king-bee/)
Bruce Eder tells us that:
The Bad Seeds were the first rock group of note to come out of Corpus Christi, Texas, itself a hotbed of garage-rock activity during the middle/late 1960s. They started when guitarist/singer Mike Taylor and bassist Heb Edgington, then member of a local band called the Four Winds, met up with lead guitarist Rod Prince and drummer Robert Donahoe . . . . Prince wanted to form a new group, and he, Taylor and Edgeington became the core of the Bad Seeds, who were signed to the local J-Beck label in 1966. They stayed together long enough to record three singles during 1966, of which two, “A Taste of the Same”/”I’m a King Bee” and “All Night Long”/”Sick and Tired,” are unabashed classics of blues-based garage-punk, three of them originals by Taylor (who wrote most of their originals) or Prince. Even their normally maligned second single, “Zilch Part 1″/”Zilch Part 2,” has some worth as a pretty hot pair of throwaway tracks. The band’s sound was the raunchy Rolling Stones-influenced garage-punk typical of Texas rock groups in the mid-’60s. Following the breakup of the group after the summer of 1966, Mike Taylor became a writer and producer for the Zakary Thaks [see #1,391, 1,629], another Corpus Christi-based band (who were signed to J-Beck after being spotted playing on a bill with the Bad Seeds), and also recorded singles in a folk-like mode as The Fabulous Michael. Rod Prince went on to become a key member of the legendary band Bubble Puppy . . . and the post-psychedelic group Demian.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-bad-seeds-mn0000037992#biography
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