Pussy Galore, “Corpse Love” (Carolina, 1992; original recordings 1985-7)
Pussy Galore weren’t the first band to equate the primitivism of raw, no-practice teenage garage rock and roll with that of extremist avant-noise, but nobody else boiled each side of the equation down to quite such a pure, brutal essence, or fused them together into something so seamless and unique. This contains their earliest, crudest and hence (according to the principles above) best work.
Picks: 2, 15, 16, 17, 26 (Julie’s berserk showcase), 27 (Neil H.’s first hint of Royal Trux), and 19 (kind of their theme song).

Pussy Galore, “Exile on Main Street” (Shove, 1986)
A cover of (half of) the Stones masterpiece by this ahead-of-its-time garage-punk-noise army. A rattling, roaring assault that pays appropriate tribute to the Stones’ fuckup aesthetic with sometimes-unrecognizable versions that often sound learned on the spot.
11/12/12