KRLX mix #13 (5/4/2018)

If you’ve heard “Dirty Water” (and who hasn’t?), you’d be forgiven for thinking The Standells hailed from Boston. Nope — the proto-punk garage rockers were L.A. born and bred, and they supply the title track for this City of Angels–focused episode of WTAW. The song references the 1966 face-off between pro-business law enforcement and counterculture clubgoers, an incident more famously chronicled by Buffalo Springfield in “For What It’s Worth” (also featured). All of L.A.’s hippie heavyweights are here: The Byrds, The Doors, Love, and The Mamas and the Papas, along with lesser-known lights such as Honey Ltd. and Margo Guryan. Plus, Carleton alum Peter Tork and his Monkees bandmates make a return appearance with their suburbia-skewering hit “Pleasant Valley Sunday.”