The Vipers: Outta The Nest! (1984)

There were a number of garage band revivalists competing for attention in the mid-80s. One of my personal favorites (and, alas, one of the toughest to track down these days) is New York's Vipers (not to be confused with various other bands called the Vipers). While mostly offering traditional guitar-driven late 60s-styled garage rock, they included more contemporary markings of jangly Paisley Underground psychedelic upstarts like the Rain Parade or the (also hard to find) Things, balancing their...