Taking Sides: Nuggets v. No Thanks!

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or mind expansionism v. nihilism or dippiness v. coolness or simply 60s kids v. 70s kids. So, which Rhino box set is better, has more energy, would you take on a plane, and so forth. Nuggets can be I or II or both. Well? Go ahead.

― otto, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll always lean towards the mod/(brit)psych side of things in my taste so i prefer II, but I is still indispensable.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Rereading that (which I should've done before posting, sorry), I see that I'm less than clear there. I mean would would you take the new 70s punk box set over the older garage rock Nuggets(es). I forgot to mention, too, there's way more girls on No Thanks! than on both Nuggetses, which could mean something.

― otto, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Another thing is I think the sequencing on No Thanks! may be better. It's hard to compare, since I already know so many of the songs on No Thanks!, but it seems to flow better, somehow, while Nuggets just sounds like a bunch of songs thrown together without as much regard for how they sound in sequence.

― otto, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Nuggets is significantly more indispensable than No Thanks purely for the fact that a lot of the 60s stuff just wasn't available on anything but 45s before. whereas No Thanks contains mostly things you could get easily at any time. i like the punk box and its sequencing but i'd be hard pressed to recommend getting it over the individual bands' albums or singles..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Nuggets box for me, tho I lurve all the punk stuff. I think I prefer the 1 2 3 4 box, tho for my money, Nuggets'd just beat that.

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Revive.

I just got No Thanks, and I sincerely think it's the best boxed set I've ever heard. Not only does it represent my favorite period in rock, the sequencing is unstoppable. The traditional wisdom about boxed sets is that they should be in chronological order or otherwise linear somehow, but this set puts them in mixtape order, according to sound and energy. It has climaxes and resolutions. This is a much more loving way to assemble songs, I think, and it also takes much more knowledge, attention, and even talent.

Bravo, Rhino. You've never let me down, but this time you've really topped yourself.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What I'd like to know...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK!

Let's try that again...
Taking Sides: "No Thanks!: 70's Punk Rebellion" vs "1-2-3-4: Punk & New Wave 1976-1979"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There are way Way WAY too many bad songs on 1234. The only-ione-song-per-artist rule really hurts it. No Thanks wins.

And Nuggets I is better than any of them.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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