10 '60s Hard Rock Albums You Need To Listen To

10. Here Are The Sonics - The Sonics

The late '60s were the years of prime garage rock. At a time when the Beatles and the Stones were still becoming the major power players of the music business, the era of bands throwing caution to the wind and blowing out your speakers was starting to come in as well. You can just as easily listen to something like the Kinks' You Really Got Me...or you could see what that type of garage rock really sounds like with the Sonics.

Compared to the other hard rock of the mid '60s, the Sonics tend to get a bit lost in the shuffle, being overshadowed by the psychedelic scene. For a few moments though, they actually had some solid chops for a hard rock act and managed to make some extremely caustic songs along the way like The Witch, which still feels angsty and angry to this day.

Since these guys originally hailed from Seattle, there's also an argument to be made that they were the ones who kickstarted the idea of grunge music 30 years before it even started. You can pretty much guarantee that any kid growing up in the Northwest looking to make some heavy music probably had a hand me down Sonics record in their collection. These guys have been written out of the history books too often. It's about time we let them back in.