The Seeds - The Seeds

As mid-'60s L.A. garage bands go, the Seeds were perhaps the most primitive, which isn't necessarily a virtue. Whereas the Standells had good lyrics, the Leaves could write pop, and Love was gifted beyond comparison, Sky Saxon and company had to settle for attitude and an unintended comicalness. Their debut record is just that. It's comprised of snotty boy-girl songs and teeters on the edge of musical ineptness, though it does contain the garage classic "Pushin' Too Hard" (whose arrangement is recycled at least once here). The other significant tune is "Can't Seem to Make You Mine," which features a repetitive, haunted-house guitar riff. The rest of the record, though fairly forgettable, still reinforces the truth that pure punk appeared long before the Sex Pistols. ~ Peter Kurtz, All Music Guide

Name Credits Chuck Britz Engineer Cooker Bottleneck Guitar, Guitar Daryl Hooper Organ, Keyboards, Vocals, Piano David Hassinger Engineer Doc Siegel Remixing Jan Savage Vocals, Guitar (Rhythm), Guitar Lanky Linstrot Engineer Marcus Tybalt Producer, Liner Notes Mike Durrough Mixing, Engineer, Remixing Rafael O. Valentin Engineer Rick Andridge Drums Sky Saxon Harmonica, Cover Art, Producer, Bass, Concept, Vocals Sky Saxon Blues Band Keyboards, Vocals, Harmonica Stan Ross Remixing The Seeds Arranger