Showing posts with label The Sonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Sonics. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Sonics - Strychnine

This Tacoma band, active from 1960-68, is the most influential band to emerge from Seattle's music scene (and I say that knowing full well the implications). Here's a ferocious little punk song about getting high drinking strychnine:



(One might be familiar with their cover of a Richard Berry classic, which regrettably appeared in a Land Rover commercial.)