Here are the Sonics!

And were they worth the wait?


The CD came with a novel's worth of praise for these scruffy Pacific Northwest wailers, and all the mad crazy noise they made. I was expecting something loony, a banjo-less Monks. In this I was disappointed, at least at first. After the stormy "Cinderella," the next several tracks were soul covers. Good Soul covers, but not that wild, not that punky. I was beginning to feel like the downer was approaching.

And then they played "Jenny, Jenny" and tore the roof off. I was punchin' the air. I was rockin' AND rollin'. It was all right.

Worth the wait? What wait?