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I Can Only Give You Everything
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast
English - October 15, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours - 108 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Music History garage garage rock doo wop girl groups oldies 50s 60s music commentary music music analysis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What do you give the podcast listener who has everything? Answer: an episode on Them's 1966 garage hymn "I Can Only Give You Everything", which has everythang: a gravedigger riff with fuzz, overdriven organ, pounding drums, a snarling vocal performance, some wild modulation and a messed up chord change (1:51)! Ain't that enough? Of course not! A couple of months later, the co-songwriter and producer of Them's initial onslaught, Scotland's Tommy Scott waxed his own interpretation (56:53). In this one, we detect some traditional folk and skiffle sounds, and we especially dig how the organ sounds like bagpipes - Tommy Scott Wha Hae!! From Ireland, to Scotland to ... Motor City? In 1967, The MC5 released a scorching rendition that adds a little more to the everything - cool cadence, spastic strumming, and a spine-tingling psych solo (1:25:04). The denouement of our discussion comes when we spin Beck's 1996 sorta hit, "Devil's Haircut," which revived the riff for slacker kids (1:48:08). It's not nothin', but does it have enough "everything" to be something? Tune in and find out!