The Music Machine's 1966 hit Talk Talk is the ultimate spew of garage angst, its tortuous chord changes complemented by pounding electric keyboards, snaky Asiatic guitar, and Sean Bonniwell's unforgettable guttural howl, "My social life's a dud, my name is really mud". It was the Los Angeles band's only high-charting 45, but from '66 to the end of the decade they released much astonishingly fine garage-psychedelia, with Bonniwell's tormented visions, hard rock melodic hooks, and alternately gravely/crooning vocals to the fore.

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