Nuggets Vol 1

Was there a single-CD version ever put out, a kind of taster? I know I know, if I was a real rock fan I'd just get the whole thing, but I think it's well-established that I'm not.

(Also note that the first disc of the first Nuggets set was the original Nuggets, a 27-track double-LP in the early '70s.)

Fantastic set, but I, like Tom, do not own it, though I'm feeling more & more that I should. More than worth it, for me, for the original of 'I Want Candy', which for some reason I assumed was a Bow Wow Wow original! D'oh!

Oh, and the Standell's 'Dirty Water' (has there been a better song about Boston, ever??)etc etc

I have a major fondness for all the obscuro knockoff stuff that Bomp and their likes keep issuing, scrounging away for songs sometimes lame and sometimes great. The influence of the original Nuggets keeps echoing down, thus such goodness as the recent Turkish psych comps on Dionysus and other labels.

I'll post later on this, but for now suffice to say that I love *all* this stuff more than just about anything.

We The People - You Burn Me Up And Down (SR writes about this in his Faves of 99. This is as pure and dirty as rock'roll gets in a Stoogesy/Saints/Satisfacion way)

The Seeds - Pushin Too Hard

Thirteenth Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me

Count 5 - Psychotic Reaction

and of course Louie Louie by The Kingsman

Didn't bother getting the Nuggets 2.

The track that grabbed me most on vol 2 was by Tages. I Read You Like An Open Book (Last track CD1). The first time i heard it i wasn't even in the same room and could only half hear it and it was still wonderful. At times I think its really badly edited and yet i still love it.

They're a Swedish band and I've checked out some other stuff by them since and it seems pretty good too. They seem to have followed the path of most Brit groups of the time from R 'n B covers to psychedelic pop. One of many good reasons to splash the cash.

Brit-freakbeat/psyche seems to be a little more staid at times. Many of the bands seem to be suspiciously 'pro', or made up of grammar school boys, or were forced to draft in 'Ron the plumbers mate' on drums to make the numbers up. Of course this all produces wierdness of a particular kind, too.

I heard Os Mutantes for the first time yesterday. 'Bat Macambo'. Outrageous!

If I throw on some Upsetters-era Lee Perry it sounds murky for a couple of tracks until I'm *tuned-in*. Then I switch to Scritti Politti (C+S '85, say) and it sounds like knives at the temperature of liquid nitrogen are being surgically inserted into my inner ear.

Sounds like heaven to me!

Cavestomp is a great garage rock festival/record label run by my friend Alyssa who was brought bands like Chocolate Watchband back together for the event. Of particular note is the track "Hey Little Ghoul" by the Deadites. Even though that's one of Hank's bands I have to say I was huge fan of theirs the first time I saw them, a good year before we became a thang.

For the longest time Nuggets had a claim going of something like "The best record never available on CD." (I think it was on Rolling Stones list of Best 50 albums ever or something). Rhino should've put the original album out as the sampler, but, alas, they didn't. Come on, "Wooly Bully" over "Don't Look Back"? That's fucked.

As for the original question: Where are people on this classic box set of psychodelia fro mthe us during 1965 and 1968?

I don't stand anywhere on it. I have the Rhino version of Nuggets (the aforementioned Monkees-filled one from the 80's), so I didn't totally trust them on the box. I do have the 1970's double LP, which I love too much for words, and a bunch of the other better tracks that fill out the three discs of the box on other albums, but I can't imagine it being better than Vol. 2.

Absolutely on the money, Alasdair! I had this on repeat play for ages yesterday. Staggeringly great track with a unique atmosphere, interesting sonics and great tune. I love the proto-kraut drumming to.

soft pop
psych pop

wow. so much goodness on one beautifully packaged release, for a mere fiver.
loving this. a whole new world beckons.
so, where to go next ?

The full box set, I guess, though it'll set you back about sixty quid and never features in sales. I've only seen it once second-hand, £20 in MVE, and that was only because the CDs looked as though someone had been using them to cook omelettes.

The Pebbles compilations are pretty good as well.

ooh. just had a nice bonus, or, a lot more probable, the boxset will be added on my Special Birthday Want List.
not that my wife ever checks the bloody list.

What's your favorite Nugget?

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So a quick note that Lenny Kaye was the guest on the latest Ace Records podcast yesterday

https://soundcloud.com/ace-records-ltd/the-ace-records-podcast-25-lenny-kaye

And a bit of news he mentions offhand: a 5 LP 50th anniversary version will be coming out on Rhino towards the end of the year. No specifics, so time to speculate. A distillation of the 4 CD box set? Some alternate choices?

I always wondered why ? And the mysterians 96 tears wasn't included in the 4cd set. Feels like an oversight.

Too broadly compiled already probably. Even in the 60s it appeared on tons of "Super Hits"-type albums.

Abkco Records owns the Cameo/Parkway catalogue, which includes "96 Tears", and they notoriously held that stuff hostage for years, not licencing or anything until the mid-'00s.

"years during the CD era", I mean.

I always wondered why ? And the mysterians 96 tears wasn't included in the 4cd set. Feels like an oversight.

― ringworm, Thursday, March 3, 2022 1:17 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Too broadly compiled already probably. Even in the 60s it appeared on tons of "Super Hits"-type albums.

― everything, Thursday, March 3, 2022 1:29 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently it was meant to be on Lenny Kaye's never released second volume
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era,_1965%E2%80%931968

I hadn't seen that vol 2 tracklust before, interesting. Some others there not on the 4cd.

UGly Things had a list of possible inclusions that didn't make the cut or something to similar effect in an issue a couple of years ago. as in what was in the work i progress versions.
I need to get this recent Lenny Kaye book about historic music scenes.

vol 2 tracklust

An accurate description of past decades regarding this thing, yes.

Freudian slip!