20 Landmark Songs Of The 60s

18. The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTT3VPriV8 The Count Five were the ultimate garage band and 'Psychotic Reaction', which was their only hit but a true beat anthem, stands up there with the best of anything that was released in the 60's. The song mined a timeless theme (boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl) and set it to a tune which seamlessly glued two different tunes into a wonderful whole. The lyrics could have been written at any point in time, who can hear the line "I feel depressed, I feel so bad, because you're the best girl that I ever had, I can't get your love, I can't get satisfaction." and not have felt that way at some point in their lives? And how many guitar bands have strived to have written as compulsive a beat and riff driven tune as this? The answer is all of them, no matter what genre of music they play. The Count Five were certainly idiosyncratic (they chose to dress up as vampires when they played live) but here they laid down marvellous template for garage bands that can still be heard today, decidedly low-fi, catchy as you like, an uncommercial take on commercial rock. Finally, what a tune, there comes a point where you should stop analysing and just listen to how good song this is. And then listen to it again.