Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The... & Stop

Wake up and smell the 60's (from the 80's)!

Chesterfield Kings were throwbacks and damned good ones. They did that 60's garage band thing like few others that slip into the wayback machine. They aped, but did it well and without a tongue in their cheeks.

Their first, Here Are the Chesterfield Kings, released in 83 was nothing but covers of willfully obscure songs from the genre. It's dirty and mono and buried deep in the grime - and they mean it.

Their second, Stop, came out the 2 years later and was originals, a little cleaner, had some hooks - and they still meant it.

Both crunch and swirl. And they are the best things they ever did.

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Upstate New York's Chesterfield Kings landed upon the growing punk/new wave scene in the late '70s with an unbelievably raw '60s rhythm & blues sound that borrowed heavily from pre-1966 Rolling Stones. The group, so unlike any other underground sensations of the period, arguably kickstarted the entire '80s garage rock revival, which flourished in small circles until the end of the decade.

Here Are the Chesterfield Kings
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Stop
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