Nuggetts type stuff, what bands are worth exploring further?

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let us now talk about psychedelia

if you prefer Nuggets 1, then try MINDROCKER

both are AMAZING and converted me to garage and psych forevermore.

There are a few Creation compilations, but this is the one that I have. It is a good listen.

You might already already know the Small Faces, but "Ogden's Nut Gone A Flake" by the Small Faces is a good album and their early singles are a bit different but also pretty fab.

If you don't have albums by Love or the 13th Floor Elevators, they have some good ones. "The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators" is great. I like Love, but they are not one of my favorites.

I've been debating checking out the first Seeds album, a Sonics record and that compilation of The Action for a long time, but haven't picked them up.

They are much more raw than most of the cuts on the Nuggets releases, but there is some claaassic songs on the first two "Back from the Grave" compilations from Crypt Records. They are more bitchy garage rock, except with some absolute weirdness thrown in.

The Black Monks were a unique entity.

The first Nazz album is pretty good, but there isn't anything else as good as "Open My Eyes", which is one of my favorite songs.

Actually there's a CD that compiles their only album and a bunch of singles, including stuff Keith West did after the band split up, which is pretty good.

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Along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine they were actually one of the most important of the first Brit Psych bands but seem to have been written out of history to some extent.

If you like that one I'd also recommend exploring some of Mark Wirtz's other production work, particularly:

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Also great but not mentioned so far are The Move, Them and The Pretty Things - there are quite a few Pretty Things albums about but the first couple and SF Sorrow are particularly good.

I'm also rather fond of Kaleidoscope (The UK one rather than the US one - although the US one were pretty good too!)

Jim is absolutely OTM about the RUBBLE collections too - two 10 CD boxes of stuff just like that on Rubble 2; how can you resist?

Of course the person you really should be asking about this is Dr. C.

That Tomorrow record is another that I have been curious about.

Has anyone heard anything else by John's Children?

the Decca "...Scene" series is good for this too - fab early stuff from Rod Stewart, Tom Jones and Olivia N-J that i would never have discovered otherwise..

I bought the John's Children "Orgasm!" album a few years ago, it's since been returned. Incredibly crap sound quality, really badly produced, and the songs are nothing special. Bolan's input (is he even really on that record? I can't remember) was not detectable.

Has anyone ever heard another song by We All Together, the group from Peru that has a song on Nuggets Vol.2 called "It's A Sin to Go Away"?
The production and arrangement on that song is so over the top and great, I can't help but wonder about at least the b-side of the 45.

A really good band in Bloomington in the early/mid 90s called Speed Luxury used to do a really good cover of "Life I Live" by Q'65. They put it on their one EP. I hadn't heard the original till I got the second Nuggets collection.

They were (all? Loads of 'em anyway!) reissued a couple of years ago. There are also 2 "Essential Pebbles" comps. My advice however would be to go for the 5 CD "Trash Box" Pebbles comp., which you can pick up for a bargain £22.99 at Amazon.co.uk.

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If you can find it cheap, the Mojo comp. "Acid Dust, Spacedops & Flying Saucers" is pretty good for a newcomer to the UK stuff too; although if you think you're likely to start digging further elsewhere, you're likely to find significant chunks of it are duplicated.

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The three "Perfumed Garden" comp.s are also pretty good and I've heard varying reports about the "Chocolate Soup For Diabetics" series but I haven't got any of those myself.

You may find this place is handy for some of these titles.

"Everything Is Possible", the best of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes is also recommended and finally of course, perhaps we shouldn't overlook the bleedin' obvious:

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Apart from Tomorrow (overrated!!), the others are really at the freakbeat/beat-pop/garage end of the spectrum, rather than out and out psych.

So I'd recommend this : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069CJ0/qid=1076513299/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/026-6143198-8785257

It's a compilation of garage/beat stuff from Australia, worth having for the 2 unbelievably great tracks from The Black Diamonds 'See The Way' and 'Not This Time'.

Also on the same label (Big Beat) 'A Peculiar Hole In The Sky' is Aussie pop-psych with the emphasis on pop!

Another good starting point is The Freakbeat Scene: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000023Z3L/qid%3D1076513484/026-6143198-8785257

although a few of the tracks are on Nuggets. Note - trivia fans, this comp has the better version of Fire's 'My Father's Name Is Dad', rather than the crappy one which was compiled on Nuggets 2, sans backing vox.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002MRK8/qid=1076513994/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-6143198-8785257

and includes the exact moment when Ian Gillan *went rock* on Episode Six's 'Morning Dew'.

Vol 2 of Ripples is also great, but avoid Vol 1 like chicken flu.

Also, pick up the cheap RPM sampler if you can - some Tomorrow, some more Wirtz, some other great stuff (including one of my favourite songs ever - Time Traveller by Frazer Hines)

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/rpm/rpm/variouspetsounds.htm

Although it seems the amzaing Syndicats song is no longer on it, and has been replaced by some Joe Meek...

Odd.

That Hot Generation comp looks great Dr. C, it's been added to my list. As have the Ripples comps, thanks for the tips.

The Trash Box set has also piqued my interest, thanks Stewart.

This has been great, thank you everyone for all of your suggestions.