"Talk Talk" #15 1/14/1967

A one-hit wonder from the Music Machine, one of the first bands to dress in all black on stage, matching the dark mood of this record, and one of the first to de-tune their guitars, which everybody does today. The bass was run through a fuzz box, which Paul McCartney was thought to have originated. It rocked pretty hard for the times and the 45 came in at under two minutes, which almost guaranteed lots of radio airplay. This is generally acknowledged as a forerunner of the punk movement.