The lyrics are so heartfelt you could almost say it's the first emo album, especially considering the incredible production value and warm, melodic guitars. Indeed, it takes a truly broken but tender heart to make the intimate expression of unrequited love we find in the fourth song. This is truly a pop punk masterpiece!
Thank you so much for taking the time for uploading this f*cking awesome album! Such Great quality. These guys now, these guys were the original anti-everything band!
John's guitar playing is honestly stellar. Dave E's songwriting is also quite amazing. It's easy for normies to dismiss this band as sounding like nonsensical trash for the pure sake of it but there is a lot of talent on display here that many musicians and songwriters with 10x the recognition simply do not possess.
They never saw the inside of a recording studio. Their "studio" recordings are simply recordings they made of their rehearsals with some sort of portable tape machine. They're all recorded live as performed.
ON THIS COLD RAINY SUNDAY IN NEW YORK ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND LET'S HEAR A PROTO PUNK BAND THAT FOR SOME REASON IS NOT USUALLY INCLUDED IN PROTO PUNK ARTICLES. BUT THEY CERTAINLY SHOULD BE. THE ELECTRIC EELS. The Electric Eels were an American band active between 1972 and 1975, formed by John Morton in Cleveland, Ohio. Electric Eels played only five public shows, but during their brief existence they earned a reputation locally for being angry, confrontational and violent. They were notorious for starting fights with audiences which drew police attention; members were also abusive to each other off-stage. Their style was a discordant, noisy amalgam of hard garage rock and free jazz. Stiv Bators, the singer of The Dead Boys was particularly influenced by the vocal styling and stage presence of Dave "E" McManus. While the eels didn't play many shows, they rehearsed often, eventually making many recordings which were released many years after their demise. They recorded most of these songs in 1975. The roots of punk usually center around the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and the MC5. A few years ago the Detroit Afro-American band Death was added to that list. But long ago, the Electric Eels should have been included as a prime example. . To give you an idea of their proto-punk sound, I would recommend you first listen to tracks 1, 2 and 12, the wonderful Dolly Boy. The first two were issued as a 7" by the band on May 24, 1975. Back then the band wore safety pins and ripped T-shirts with rude slogans on them. (Sound familiar? Remember, this is 1975) Then they described their music as "art terrorism" The single was later reissued on Rough Trade in March, 1979. Agitated, Cyclotron and Dolly Boy sounded like nothing else in 1975 and they still astonish me in 2018. This comp with almost all their songs is very highly recommended. 1. Agitated (orig) 0:00 2. Cyclotron 2:10 3. Jaguar Ride 4:17 4. You're Full of Shit 6:06 5. Girl 8:40 6. IQ 301-Man! 12:50 7. Black Leather Rock 15:10 8. Dead Man's Curve 15:45 9. Tidal Wave 18:18 10. Anxiety 20:40 11. Cold Meat 24:31 12. Dolly Boy 26:45 13. Silver Daggers 29:38 14. Zoot Zoot 31:52 15. Accident 33:46 16. Refrigerator (alt) 37:10 17. Bunnies (alt) 40:29 18. Sewercide (alt) 44:54 19. Spinach Blasters 48:55 20. It's Artastic 52:47 21. As If I cared 55:39 22. Cards and Fleurs 1:01:21 23. Jazz Is (part 2) 1:03:02 24. Natural Situation 1:05:51
"McManus adorned himself in rat-traps for the occasion and Morton was wearing a jacket held together with safety pins, earning them the tag "Ratman and Bobbin" from the police they encountered when leaving the bar at the end of the night. Morton took offense and kicked the nearest policeman in the balls as hard as he could, despite being handcuffed at the time. As a result of the inevitable beating that ensued, Morton performed their next show three weeks later with a slide and wrench taped to his broken left hand in order to play his guitar." ... THAT'S SO PUNK! OH YEAH
So were the Eels the first punk band (as in, Pistols punk not Seeds punk)? Or was it the Ramones, Dominators or the French ones like Metal Urbain and Stinky Toys? All around in 1974....
Realistically there is no "first punk band" just a collection of bands coming to similar conclusions using various influences (while also influencing one another), on top of those you mentioned there's also buzzcocks, radio birdman, the saints, death, MC5, stooges, all around before 75 (besides buzzcocks who formed 76)
+Colin Bray Good ears, man. Black Flag, and Rollins in particular, were indeed influenced by the Electric Eels. I read somewhere that Rollins went on a radio station in the early eighties and brought the Eels single along with him.
I've got this album under the name 'God Says Fuck You'. Always thought it was excellent, proto pink to the core and even more raw than Iggy's 'Metallic KO'. The singer had the snottiest voice in rock ever.
fiveways Oh yea, I even had a t-shirt made with the album cover and title in massive letters. I find the proto punk stuff way more out there than what came from '77 onwards. If you like the Eels check out Rocket From The Tombs, another Cleveland band that got nowhere but still sound brilliant. Find the album 'The Day The Earth Met The RFTT'.
I'm old. I actually bought all that stuff new in the 90's/00's. I have most of it either on CD or wax when tim/kerr and jack slack records were releasing it. I've been a fan of the Cleveland scene for a couple decades now.
fiveways I'm old too mate, got the Eels album in '87 ish! It's weird the whole Cleveland thing, what on earth did they put in the water? Did you manage to see the reformed Rocket From The Tombs? I bought the Rocket Redux album but was really disappointed. It seemed pointless, the versions on 'The Day The Earth Met ...' are far superior.
Punk. Who did it first? But more importantly, who fucking cares? Just enjoy the music. I love punk and garage rock but the way people turn it into some kind of religious institution is just stupid.
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Cleveland was every bit as crucial to the development of punk as NYC or London.
Dont forget Detroit.
Truly ahead of their time. Not just a Proto-Punk essential but one of Rock's great obscurities.
I wouldn't really even call this proto-punk. It's just straight punk.
@Mr Oneiroman Interesting groups, thanks for sharing.
This is not proto-punk in the slightest. True punk started in the 60s with groups like The Stooges (probably even earlier).
@@aestheticaltwatoh give it a rest
With Nick Knox (later in THE CRAMPS) on drums
"you know what i think/i think the whole world stinks/and i don't need no shrink/i just hate it"
those lyrics man. nihilistic poetry.
Complete genius, love them, snottiest band ever.
The lyrics are so heartfelt you could almost say it's the first emo album, especially considering the incredible production value and warm, melodic guitars. Indeed, it takes a truly broken but tender heart to make the intimate expression of unrequited love we find in the fourth song. This is truly a pop punk masterpiece!
Thank you so much for taking the time for uploading this f*cking awesome album! Such Great quality. These guys now, these guys were the original anti-everything band!
one of the guys (McManus) later became a Catholic and renounced his old music...pretty wild shit.
Such a good guitarist... People don't realize you have to be able to play and know ur instrument to play how this guy/these guys play ✌️💙🏴
John's guitar playing is honestly stellar. Dave E's songwriting is also quite amazing. It's easy for normies to dismiss this band as sounding like nonsensical trash for the pure sake of it but there is a lot of talent on display here that many musicians and songwriters with 10x the recognition simply do not possess.
amazing, that was my first listen, thanks for posting
The recording is so raw that you barely hear the rhythm section, still sounds great.
They never saw the inside of a recording studio. Their "studio" recordings are simply recordings they made of their rehearsals with some sort of portable tape machine. They're all recorded live as performed.
ON THIS COLD RAINY SUNDAY IN NEW YORK ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND LET'S HEAR A PROTO PUNK BAND THAT FOR SOME REASON IS NOT USUALLY INCLUDED IN PROTO PUNK ARTICLES. BUT THEY CERTAINLY SHOULD BE. THE ELECTRIC EELS.
The Electric Eels were an American band active between 1972 and 1975, formed by John Morton in Cleveland, Ohio.
Electric Eels played only five public shows, but during their brief existence they earned a reputation locally for being angry, confrontational and violent. They were notorious for starting fights with audiences which drew police attention; members were also abusive to each other off-stage. Their style was a discordant, noisy amalgam of hard garage rock and free jazz. Stiv Bators, the singer of The Dead Boys was particularly influenced by the vocal styling and stage presence of Dave "E" McManus. While the eels didn't play many shows, they rehearsed often, eventually making many recordings which were released many years after their demise.
They recorded most of these songs in 1975. The roots of punk usually center around the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and the MC5. A few years ago the Detroit Afro-American band Death was added to that list. But long ago, the Electric Eels should have been included as a prime example. .
To give you an idea of their proto-punk sound, I would recommend you first listen to tracks 1, 2 and 12, the wonderful Dolly Boy. The first two were issued as a 7" by the band on May 24, 1975. Back then the band wore safety pins and ripped T-shirts with rude slogans on them. (Sound familiar? Remember, this is 1975) Then they described their music as "art terrorism" The single was later reissued on Rough Trade in March, 1979.
Agitated, Cyclotron and Dolly Boy sounded like nothing else in 1975 and they still astonish me in 2018. This comp with almost all their songs is very highly recommended.
1. Agitated (orig) 0:00
2. Cyclotron 2:10
3. Jaguar Ride 4:17
4. You're Full of Shit 6:06
5. Girl 8:40
6. IQ 301-Man! 12:50
7. Black Leather Rock 15:10
8. Dead Man's Curve 15:45
9. Tidal Wave 18:18
10. Anxiety 20:40
11. Cold Meat 24:31
12. Dolly Boy 26:45
13. Silver Daggers 29:38
14. Zoot Zoot 31:52
15. Accident 33:46
16. Refrigerator (alt) 37:10
17. Bunnies (alt) 40:29
18. Sewercide (alt) 44:54
19. Spinach Blasters 48:55
20. It's Artastic 52:47
21. As If I cared 55:39
22. Cards and Fleurs 1:01:21
23. Jazz Is (part 2) 1:03:02
24. Natural Situation 1:05:51
"Girl" sounds like if Keith Morris fronted Les Rallizes Dénudés! Also "IQ 301-Man!" >>>>> "Eruption".
"McManus adorned himself in rat-traps for the occasion and Morton was wearing a jacket held together with safety pins, earning them the tag "Ratman and Bobbin" from the police they encountered when leaving the bar at the end of the night. Morton took offense and kicked the nearest policeman in the balls as hard as he could, despite being handcuffed at the time. As a result of the inevitable beating that ensued, Morton performed their next show three weeks later with a slide and wrench taped to his broken left hand in order to play his guitar." ... THAT'S SO PUNK! OH YEAH
Wow! Just Wow!
excellent upload, much appreciated
Excellent stuff thanks. Their attitude stank so much...excellent!
These are some early punks. Nick Knox from the Cramps started with them. What the hell is going on with Ohio and sick bands?
+Diabolik771 it's somethin' in the water....
or all the rust.
@@theeElephantsGerald that's what I say about Detroit
It was a conservative industrial hellhole.
So were the Eels the first punk band (as in, Pistols punk not Seeds punk)? Or was it the Ramones, Dominators or the French ones like Metal Urbain and Stinky Toys? All around in 1974....
marianne langley Metal Urbain- superb band.
If you ask me, punk started in 1968 when The Velvet Underground dropped "White Light/White Heat".
Los Saicos
Realistically there is no "first punk band" just a collection of bands coming to similar conclusions using various influences (while also influencing one another), on top of those you mentioned there's also buzzcocks, radio birdman, the saints, death, MC5, stooges, all around before 75 (besides buzzcocks who formed 76)
If anything, the eels are a candidate for the first hardcore punk band. If Tidal Wave isn't hardcore, then neither is Black Flag.
Rest In Peace Nick Knox!
cruicial vinyl...an exquisite resume of discordance and joy!
Awesome. Simply awesome.
So much Black Flag in this that surely these unreleased songs circulated somehow round the early West Coast punk scene?
black flag sucks dick
till the demo album they are the best rock band of all times
Black Flag? You can't be serious.
@@markgregsputnik7078 They do as you're the one who slipped it in.
100% punkrock
200% punkrock
Wonderful.
We miss you, Nick.
FEEL IT.
+Colin Bray Good ears, man. Black Flag, and Rollins in particular, were indeed influenced by the Electric Eels. I read somewhere that Rollins went on a radio station in the early eighties and brought the Eels single along with him.
The first thing I noticed when I first heard these guys is how similar Dave E.'s and Keith Morris' vocal styles are.
I've got this album under the name 'God Says Fuck You'. Always thought it was excellent, proto pink to the core and even more raw than Iggy's 'Metallic KO'. The singer had the snottiest voice in rock ever.
Anton Haq
And honestly, "God says fuck you" might be the best punk rock album title.
fiveways Oh yea, I even had a t-shirt made with the album cover and title in massive letters. I find the proto punk stuff way more out there than what came from '77 onwards. If you like the Eels check out Rocket From The Tombs, another Cleveland band that got nowhere but still sound brilliant. Find the album 'The Day The Earth Met The RFTT'.
I'm old. I actually bought all that stuff new in the 90's/00's. I have most of it either on CD or wax when tim/kerr and jack slack records were releasing it. I've been a fan of the Cleveland scene for a couple decades now.
fiveways I'm old too mate, got the Eels album in '87 ish!
It's weird the whole Cleveland thing, what on earth did they put in the water? Did you manage to see the reformed Rocket From The Tombs? I bought the Rocket Redux album but was really disappointed. It seemed pointless, the versions on 'The Day The Earth Met ...' are far superior.
fiveways i bought this stuff back in the '70s, and i'm only 12.
No problem!
Punk. Who did it first? But more importantly, who fucking cares? Just enjoy the music. I love punk and garage rock but the way people turn it into some kind of religious institution is just stupid.
Brilliant comment
amazing!
Did anyone ever do it better?
(the answer is no)
Instead of the Pistols show they should’ve done an Ohio punk series
If you play this album at 1.25 X speed the Eels go from proto-punk to 1975-style punk with experimental accents.
I like them better at 1.25 thanks for the tip.
That's already what they are though
Good punk, still somewhat melodic and not too much distortion
Reminds me a lot of Sum 41!
Superhost! Channel 43!!
Drift drift like a tuna fish help
Ummmm.....ten cent beer night???? 🤔🤔🤔
Why is this considered proto-punk? This is punk as fuck. If this is proto anything it's noise rock
orrile L cover ut good music
ya sabemos quienes robo sex pistols el estilo ademas de los screamers