Some truly great music around in 1966 but this debut is one of my faves. Give side 1 a spin and see if you like it.
The Seeds is the debut album by American garage rock band the Seeds. It was released in April 1966 through GNP Crescendo Records and produced by Sky Saxon. After the release of two singles in 1965, "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and "Pushin' Too Hard", the album was released and charted in the United States where it peaked at No. 132 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart.
Garrett Martin of Paste Magazine said: "With 'Can’t Seem to Make You Mine' and 'Pushin’ Too Hard,' songwriter Sky Saxon turns the tension and frustration of teenage lust and rebellion into two [...] pop songs. The first is a slow burn of unrequited desire, the second a manic, twitchy screed against everything pressuring the then-18-year-old Saxon to grow up. These songs, and the rest of The Seeds’ first self-titled album, foreshadow the rise of punk as much as the Sonics or the Monks or anything else in the garage canon."[8]
