I MEAN THEY'RE FRUSTRATED

Dirty Water by The Standells gets my vote for the most deliriously snotty piece of garage band noise ever. The way Joey Standell is not only going to tell us a story about his town, he's going to tell us a "big bad story" about it, about the "lovers, fuggers, and thieves." And all the while Johnny Standell works out the riff he learned in his first guitar lesson the week before they put this to tape. It's protopunk on a stick, fuggers.

I suppose you could make a case for The Seeds' Pushin' Too Hard, but that's delirious and snotty, and there's a difference...