Oh no! We have written about two songs from Darren's list before writing about the previous song on that list. As the sequencing of the list was generated at random, anyway, it hardly matters, but we are sticklers about that sort of thing, so it hurts nevertheless. What follows should go before what came before.
"Louie, Louie", by The Kingsmen, is the wellspring from which a thousand garage bands bloomed. It is the sine qua non of the three-chord wonder. It is the "Smoke On The Water" of the lank-haired slacker set. If I had ever owned a cheesy organ, those opening chords are the ones I would have been desperate to learn. It has been covered so many times that if you played them end to end you would probably die of old age before they finished. (But not of boredom: somebody on Melbourne's Three Triple-R, many years ago, devoted an entire show to this song, and it ended all too soon.) Like many of the perfect things in this world, it thrives on its simplicity. And on the fact that it was the first.
