Some of the Phil Spectre stuff is tight. You could tell Joey wanted to be a 50s/60s singer so bad, and I love his voice for that stuff.
But yeah, they were pretty versitile for a bunch of glue sniffing degenerates. They were certainly more talented than most people give them credit for.
One of the bands that's strength is how formulaic they are.
They weren't trying to do it all.
And they pretty much invented surf punk with songs like KKK took my baby away. Which I am grateful.
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