The Queens-bred garage rock titans The Vagrants were a fair bit more accomplished than the average teen miscreants bashing six strings in garages across America in the mid-‘60s. Before their 1968 breakup, The Vagrants flirted with real mainstream success, releasing a half-dozen singles and bringing their barnstorming live show to audiences around the country. Can’t Make a Friend collects the entirety of The Vagrants’ officially released output, from the scrappy Kinks-aping proto-punk of their 1965 debut, “Oh Those Eyes," to the bombastic psychedelia of their final Atlantic single, “And When It’s Over.” All of it is top-notch mid-‘60s garage rock with inventive arrangements, clever songwriting, and stinging guitar work from future Mountain axeman Leslie West. West was unquestionably The Vagrants’ secret weapon. He sounds positively inspired on every cut here, whether he’s contributing satisfyingly crunchy rhythm work to a hard-hitting workout of Otis Redding’s “Respect" or adding pointillist flourishes to the dreamy psych of “A Sunny Summer Rain."