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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
The Barbarians
Sonics
Wailers (and certainly NOT the Kingsmen who were frat boy wanna-bes!)
Them (and I fucking hate every solo note "sung", i.e. whined, by Van Morrison with a passion)
Shadows of Knight
Green Fuzz
Red Crayola (it's with a C in the '60s!)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Sun Ra & the Arkestra (actually most of their peak stuff was in the '60s after all)
Miles and the group he had behind him at the Filmore
Mothers of Invention
Delia Derbyshire
Donovan (weird to think he was as big or bigger than Dylan at the time, guess when his music just didn't translate from acid to cappucino quite so well for him to have the staying power with that generation)
oh, no I'm breaking the rules, but why are the Fugs among the usual suspects? Because of their multi-platinum selling albums at the time or because of the multi-platinum cd reissues of the '80s and '90s, or perhaps because every kid on Kazaa downloaded "Johnny Pissoff"?
Lothar and the Hand People
Amboy Dukes (and if you buy that Nugent wasn't stoned with the rest of them, I have some swampland in Florida to offer you for a paltry 100 grand...)
Yoko Ono and the rest of the Fluxists
La Monte Young & The Dream Syndicate, but really not listing the Velvets is a bit like denying Sonic Youth were important in the '80s innit?
Since the Stooges aren't on the "usual suspects" list, I suppose I can list them guilt free?
MC5, ditto
I'll second the Electric Prunes
Link Wray
Dick Dale
Hazil Adkins
The Trashmen
The Ventures
The Standells
13th Floor Elevators
The Lemon Pipers
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (!)
The Count Five
The Strawberry Alarm Clock
Love (RIP Arthur)
The Chamber Brothers
Hawkwind (!!) especially Space Ritual which is the best live double album ever
Pink Faeries
Tyranosaurus Rex
Fairport Convention
The Seeds (I met Sky Saxon in the '90s and it was a fucking weird, if dissilusioning experience)
? and the Mysterians
The Music Machine
Nick Drake
Phil Ochs
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Nick Drake!
I should add Tim Buckley.
Nico solo career (although the best was in the seventies).
I second Yoko Ono, Sun Ra, Them, La Monte Young.
Leonard Cohen, back then.
And The Sonics, wow! (although a reunion album recorded some time in the '80s was a big disappointment...as it usually happens)...
Congrats man, you did quite a list.