Here Are The Sonics!! 60 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday
WAAAAAOH!
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. This week we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Sonics’ explosive debut, Here Are The Sonics. Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:05
Here Are The Sonics – 3:36
track listing/release – 13:59
my thoughts – 20:42
thanks for watching! – 38:31
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@abigaildevoe
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
what did you hear before the beatles? comment below!
@thanksgivingsandwich
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Such cool info on a more obscure record So cool
@Zharkov1969_A
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
The British equivalent of Boy Scouts was Boy Scouts. It was started by a Brit. 😂
@Zharkov1969_A
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Wow, I’ve been listening to rock for the best part of five years and yet I’d not encountered The Sonics at all. Bizarrely I’d heard so many sound-a-like bands. Thank you.
@matthewdaub
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I will not stand for this boss hoss slander! The sax absolutely turns the song up to 11 and makes it incredible
@matthewdaub
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Shout out to the channel Today I Found Out with yhe 1904 Olympics video they made years ago. That made my search up the word strychnine. I then found this incredible band.
@paulduggan5323
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I’ve never been heard The Sonics but your endorsement and the clips you’ve played explain why I’ve just ordered it. Can’t wait to hear it. Thanks again!
@zappafanprole1
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
That Zen Guerilla album is fantastic – and I know it was ironic, but great to see a few seconds of Chumbawamba on a Vinyl Monday. Granted, it was their NINTH album but I like 'em
@mikekostecke7288
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I knew the songs Strychnine, Psycho, and The Witch from the hazy magic of 1960s rock radio, but my real deep dive happened decades later when I was re-introduced to them through Nuggets – legendary compilations that turned forgotten fuzz and feral riffs into gold. I was hooked for years, like a garage rock junkie on a permanent Nuggets high.
I scanned Introducing The Sonics on iTunes and didn’t see a Frank Zappa cover—which is fair. The Sonics were all about raw, snarling immediacy, while Zappa was more of a mad scientist assembling sonic puzzle pieces. If they had tackled Zappa, would it have still sounded like something recorded in a broom closet with a broken microphone? One can dream.
Detroit in the 1960s—now there’s a scene that clearly got its share of Sonics-induced whiplash. The sheer ferocity of their sound seeped into the Motor City’s DNA, paving the way for bands that embraced distortion and reckless abandon.
Your musical taste? Impeccable. That affinity for The Sonics—pure, unfiltered rock carnage—explains the natural connection to punk giants like the Ramones. Both bands mastered the art of fast, aggressive, no-frills rock, slicing straight to the bone.
And yeah, we have to acknowledge the titanic groundwork laid by The Stooges and MC5 years before punk had a name. Detroit in the late ’60s? That was ground zero for “the” sound—heavy, anarchic, and unapologetically primal.
Now, about The Doors 1st album sneaking onto a Goth list—ranked 16, no less! That’s a debate worth having. Sure, goth music emerged from post-punk, but the shadowy, macabre theatrics of Morrison’s early work had a profound effect on later darkwave artists. And Iggy Pop himself admitted that seeing The Doors live in Ann Arbor was life-changing. Proto-punk? Maybe. What’s undeniable is that Morrison’s unhinged presence showed Iggy how to wield chaos like a weapon.
If nothing else, music categorization is a hall of mirrors. But one thing’s certain: when it comes to pure, unfiltered garage rock adrenaline, The Sonics are the blueprint.
@randydoak6638
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Sorry to be late to the party. The only people who call bands “ahead of their time” are people who weren’t around at the time. In the mid-sixties, rock fans were thirsting for something harder.
@ConnerFields-p7w
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Red Krayola are better than the Beatles.
@trevordoolan5011
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
The Sonics… the self-proclaimed anti-Beetles🤘
First becoming aware of The Sonics in the late '80s / early '90s due to an interview with Thurston Moore on the Dave Fanning Show (Irish Radio), I got Forever Hooked !
Sonic Youth, Fred 'Sonic' Smith and Shea Sonic Doolan… Sonic's forever !
p.s. and there was LCD Soundsystem's repeated chant of The Sonics on "Losing My Edge".
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@craigdrennan5868
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHh!!!! Love Vinyl Mondays ❤
@tymime
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
My neighbors mow their lawns when the grass is less than an inch high
@tymime
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I still don't get why the Velvet Underground is considered proto-punk, I just don't hear it
@DonaldButcher-y8z
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
FYI Abbie, the boy scouts began in the UK 😊
@MrF_oaf
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
"Fuzz before Fuzz" Preach, sister. The Sonics were from out of frickin space! Also the best, most simple, descriptive, band name ever.
@derfgerps4016
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
We both know there’s only one band that made “Your pretty face is going to Hell”, I mean come on man they were at least the first band that sounded like how punk actually developed.
@tymime
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Pretty sure I first heard The Sonics' "Have Love Will Travel" in a car commercial.
@whssy
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
Big inspiration for one of my current favourite bands – the Courettes. Their first two albums are "here are the Courettes" and "here We are the Courettes". Similar back sleeve liner notes etc. Go see them if you ever get the chance. They are suitably retro even for people who remember the real thing. Drummer Martin Couri breaks a ton of sticks too. He plays HARD.
@brandtlarson5762
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
THE LEFT BANKE and/or MILK N COOKIES????
@danhickey5707
August 10, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I love the Sonics! They kinda look like square '60's kids from "My Three Sons", but they rock like a house on fire!
Would love to see an episide on the Modern Lovers' s/t debut. It's a garage rock classic.
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