"Nuggets III: Artyfacts of the 80s" ?

Man if you're serious about that Nuggets III, that sounds horrible.

More info plz thx

Okay, then...
considering that my wish has already been granted, lets move onto the next decade...
Nuggets IV: Artyfacts of the 90s.
GO!

"I Often Dream of Trains" and "Strawberry Mind" - Robyn Hitchcock
"Hand in Hand" - The Three O'Clock
"Premonitions" - Bobb Trimble
"Sea and Sky" and "Arroyo" - SWA
"Kings and Queens" - Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth
"She Divines Water" - Camper Van Beethoven
"The Unknown Knows" - Voivod
"Makes No Sense at All" - Husker Du
"Walkin' with Jesus" - Spacemen 3
"Dream Away" - George Harrison
"Hit the North" - The Fall
"Flying Jelly Attack," "Twist Barbie," and numerous others by Shonen Knife

http://www.fleshtones.org/index.asp?inc=newsread&article=80

http://www.rhino.com/RZine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=327

I know a NUGGETS III would be miles better than a NUGGETS IV. If somebody compiled a box of 90's garage acts, we'd probably be forced to deal with the cornball likes of Nashville Pussy, the Makers and the Oblivians. Plus all those Estrus-type bands who thought they were Billy Childish (barf bag, pleez!).

http://prae-kraut.de/story6.html

scott you need japan wild favourites

I looked into the Nuggets concept more after checking out those shows this weekend. I was surprised how open-ended it really was - Jac Holzman was mostly interested in compiling great songs from albums that in their mind only had one truly great song. Other ideas were floated - for example, Kaye more or less had a counterproposal of doing eight volumes with each one focusing on a different region of the country, but Holzman said to focus on doing just one double LP. Kaye also was skeptical it would come out, so even though he had the idea of picking garage rock songs, he didn't feel the need to be doctrinal about it so he threw in some "weirder" stuff simply because he liked them and thought they sounded good in the mix of tracks. A follow-up volume didn't work out because of licensing issues, but there were quite a few hits, BIG hits in fact, that Kaye selected for that (and I imagine they contributed to the licensing difficulties that prevented the compilation from happening).

Anyway, I guess it's the kind of project a lot of people already did at home whether they realize it or not. I have a series of compilations I made doing just that - gathering the one great track by said artist or album from a particular era (or in my case, from each decade). But there's definitely a magic and a coherence in taste (or "vision" even if the compilation process was very casual) that makes that first Nuggets volume very special. I don't even think the second volume has that - "Do You Believe in Magic?" is one of my very favorite songs about rock n' roll, but it for some reason it makes that second volume feel too calculated, like it could've been added by a marketing person because they wanted a really big universally-approved hit that would convince parents (of the time) to buy it for their kids or something.

If I ran with the original concept Holzman had, I think the '80s compilation I'd make would be really poppy simply because the acts involved would only have the one track that I'd like to hear again. ("Bette Davis Eyes"!) The picks above are far more interesting and feel like an extension of the music Kaye compiled together, but they're also bands that I'd like to explore much more beyond one song.

*but for some reason

Some of the suggestions above are strange. Like Voivod and the Three O'clock are both fine, but how perverse to want to hear them on the same record?

Ok here’s some noms from me which I think qualify:

The Wake - crush the flowers
Blurt - the fish needs a bike
Maximum Joy - stretch
Lustt - Pillow talk
Dizzy K - excuse me baby
The Gist - love at first sight
Sizike - don’t stop
Joe Crow - compulsion
International Music System - an english
The Roches - come softly to me
Crash course in science - cardboard lamb

Ghisly Brown - let’s talk about it

Looveee 'Pillow Talk' only known it a few years

Yeah it’s a great song. Something about the nonchalant vocal delivery sounds very modern compared to other songs from the era and closer to indie pop from the past decade.

Here’s another one which should have been a chart hit and it’s relatively unknown:

Cube - Concert Boy