Seeds Pushin Too Hard - The Best Of CD

Led by the singing and songwriting of Sky Saxon, the Seeds released two bona fide garage band classics in 1967, the defiant "Pushin' Too Hard" and the only slightly more refined "Can't Seem to Make You Mine," but then found it difficult to recapture that brilliantly snotty attitude again, although Saxon and company certainly tried. This two-disc set has pretty much all the Seeds anyone could possibly need, and it charts the band's various experiments from sledgehammer proto-punk through silly flower-power psychedelia to something that could almost pass for artsy prog rock, and it includes the two early hits as well as mildly interesting fare like the almost country-sounding "Fallin' Off the Edge (Of My Mind)" and the overwrought but intriguing "Travel with Your Mind." For all but the most ardent Seeds fan, though, a shorter, more concise collection might be a better bet. ~ Steve Leggett

Comprehensive two CD set that collects the raw energy of influential '60s Garage Punkers The Seeds into one energetic package dripping with sweat! As top purveyors of '60's Garage Punk, The Seeds also embraced Blues, Psychedelia and straight ahead Rock in their short career (1965-69). Most famous for the hit singles 'Can't Seem To Make You Mine' and 'Pushin' Too Hard', they epitomized a sound that would later be saluted by the seminal Nuggets compilation and which proved highly influential on '70s US and UK Punk and New Wave groups. Essential listening. 49 tracks. Music Club. 2007.