The Lyrics – So What!! b/w They Can’t Hurt Me – Ace 7″

One would be hard pressed to find a better example of the hormone-enriched, attitude-laden 1960s garage rock opus than ‘So What!!’ by San Diego’s Lyrics. Chris Gaylord’s incredible rant over a pounding, almost blueswailing accompaniment on this late 1965 nugget never fails to hit the spot.

Coupled with its equally snotty flip ‘They Can’t Hurt Me’, this double-whammy firebomb is an exasperatingly expensive item in its original incarnation, but Ace made this great sound available at a fraction of the cost to accompany the new Big Beat garage psych collection “Blow My Mind!”. Grab ‘em while stocks last!