Record Label: Smooch Pooch
Genre: Punk
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Formed in 1977, this Detroit band always played second bill to the likes of MC5 and The Stooges. They spent most of their 25-year career unsigned, unheard, and completely unknown. All that has changed with this 12-song retrospective compiled by Smooch Pooch, featuring all their great songs you’ve never heard.

It’s surprisingly good; I’ll admit I never heard the Sillies before, and I was blown away by how comparable they are to their contemporaries who’ve since become legendary. They’re just as raw and sexually immature as any 70’s punk rock band, with a Heartbreakers catchiness, a 50’s rock swagger, and some honky-tonk piano occasionally thrown in. It’s strange that after 25 years, they could only cull 13 songs, and of those a handful aren’t very good or barely audible, but overall, this is a great introduction to a band I should’ve known about a long time ago.

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