NUGGETS: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 Box Vol. 4 Poll

This one isn't close. Monks >>>>> everything else by a huge margin.

but... I WANT CANDY

and the OG Louie Louie!!!

i think it's going to be "Get Me To The World On Time" but going to listen to this before voting.

Meh, I wish those two tracks (and the Strawberry Alarm Clark) weren't even on the boxed set.

my top 10:

1. Love's Gone Bad - Underdogs
2. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
3. The Witch - Sonics
4. Complication - Monks
5. Open Up Your Door - Richard & The Young Lions
6. Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In) - Chocolate Watchband
7. Codine - Charlatans
8. Stop-Get A Ticket - Clefs Of Lavender Hill
9. Just Like Me - Paul Revere & The Raiders
10. I Live In The Springtime - Lemon Drops

Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In) - Chocolate Watchband

LOUIS LOUIS

(the proper spelling)

Blackout Of Gretely - Gonn

Had to relisten to figure this out. Sentimental favorite is still Zakary Thaks, but lord what competition. OK let's give it to em right now!

1. Rocks so much harder than I'd assumed based on both song and band name. 2. A bit slack, this is no Hey Joe. 3. Class consciousness/self-consciousness riven with (motivated by?) passive aggressive insecurity toward women, somehow that's so so sixties. 4. All novelty, camp value counts for something but this can't fade out fast enough. 5.6.7. = the fun for kids oldies radio drunken campfire signalong medley! Each of them is better than each of the others! 8. Yes every segment (verse, chorus, bridge) should be exactly one couplet long, anything else is wasting time! 9. Coming up next this feels like it runs through too many breakdowns -- three and a half minutes, whoa there, this ain't prog, boys! 10. What is a harbinger complex, exactly? 11. This is fine but it's really competing out of its class here. 12.13. Well these are more like it, not very nice and probably insane. 14. God those drums. 15. Easily the greatest song of all time. 16. See 15. 17. So bipolar, he sounds like two different singers on verse and on chorus, then instead of resolving the tension the song just goes into orbit. 18. Who let Billy Childish in here? 19. OK, everyone on this side of the room play something gruff and fuzzed out, everyone on the other side go jangly and chimey, might as well right? 20. While we're at it: simultaneous guitar solos? Sure, no problem. 21. "You make me live/You satisfy!" (Bloodcurdling scream.) 22. While we're breaking all the rules, let's just toss the drums out the window. 23. Why wasn't this #1 in 15 countries? 24. Thank god for effects pedals! With every beat it sounds like this song is digging a bigger hole in which to bury itself. 25.26.27. = the been mistreated, defiant music/defeated lyrics, angry young man medley! (Also applies to the rest of the CD.) 28. Just gets crazier as it goes along, forget what I said about the Wailers, I could use about an hour of this song. 29. The Scared Straight of psychedelia. 30. Perfect exit music for the box set's closing credits, this isn't over, they're just driving off to terrorize another town.

This music can't possibly be related to anything called "peace and love."

I'm going with the Scared Straight of psychedelia, "Voices Green and Purple" (aka "The Drugs Don't Work"). And, as usual, I bet they were lying. And, as usual, it matters not a whit.

I Wan't Candy = I Want Not Candy?

Complication

good summery of all the songs here dad a, i like what you did there.

Thanks, I like what you're doing with these polls. Nuggets seems especially poll-appropriate, there's so much shared ground here that it makes sense to focus on the songs by sussing out the distinctions. And I can imagine most of these groups in a Battle Of The Bands in some HS gymnasium so picking the last band standing in an 30-way rumble feels true to their spirit.

mindrocker

good on ya dad a

i always felt like mindrocker didn't quite rock my mind enough to qualify for that title. like "mindbreaker" by the litter, that's closer.

Has to be "Louie Louie". "Get Me To The World On Time" 2nd.

Thanks to this poll, I've dug out all three box sets.

Haven't actually played them yet, but have been reading the excellent books you get in with them.

As with all of these, pretty much impossible to call, but Louie Louie edges it - such a monolithic slab of garage punk, and so many other great tracks use it as a template.

Right:

http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/sounds/iron_leg/knightriders.mp3

This track was on one of the NME compilations, not the Nuggets sets, but is one of my favourite tracks of all time, and I'd be voting for if if I could. It's that good, trust me. Some other place seemed to suggest this was produced by Sly Stone (i.e. Sylvester Stewart) back before.

I found a nice page with pics, etc.

http://ironleg.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/the-knight-riders-i/

interestingly, i just got the vejtables anthology on sundazed and that has sly stone prod credits too. i didn't know he did production, especially back then.

Produced the Great Society too, didn't he? And ended up having to play a lot of their instruments for them because they were so shit at playing?

Yeah, back then he did a lot of production.

'mr pharmacist'!!

Didn't Sly produce the Mojo Men too? There's something on the first disc that's him as well.

Beau Brummels, Mojo Men, Great Society - lots of stuff.

Never understood the love for The Monks. I wonder if Colin is still on here (used to post as Brakhage), because he kept trying to convince me that they were good… I've come around on the ABBA, The Fall, and the mid-period Bowie, but I still can't understand his love for The Monks (or the endless drum and bass/jungle interchangable thumping, or Coldplay).

And regarding that Underdogs tune, it's a cover of such a great Chris Clark track that every time I hear it, I'm kinda disappointed by their comparatively limp version.

I Wan't Candy = I Want Not Candy?

if you are wondering if this is the same song that i believe Bow Wow Wow made popular in the 80's, than yes it's the same song.

wait, i thought that read "I wan't candy = I wan't candy?" so...nevermind.

Just being snarky. Great polls, Bee OK.

I still can't understand his love for The Monks

Apart from "Complication," I don't think the album captured them very well. But this 1966 footage of them on German TV certainly did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWR4r78CWEQ

It's like they invented, um, many, many genres.

^^^ My all-time favorite music footage.

I think the Monks 7" had all the best songs.

it was tough choosing between "blackout of gretely" and "just like me", so i picked "codine".

"i want candy", "louie louie" and "wooly bully" are a bit too big for this poll. it's like having "good vibrations" or something on there. disqualified!

this is easily my favorite volume of the series

Not as good as Vol. 2 (my favourite) but that's in relative terms. Partly because probably nobody else will vote for it, partly out of sentimentality (owned it since kindergarten, 35 yrs ago) and partly because it's worthy, I go with The Raiders. Great contented-to-demented vocal. (Plus, the double-tracked duelling-fuzztone solo is one of the earliest in existence, for people who care about that sort of thing.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

It has to be Louie Louie.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

three songs with no votes would be in my top 5 (harbinger complex, we the people, i want candy)

i love blackout of gretely but the first 30 seconds is the best bit by far

The Witch is a deserving but surprising champion, especially since it looks like four people said they were favoring Louie Louie, which would have tied it if someone wasn't too wasted to actually submit a vote -- in its own way, a fitting tribute and testimonial.

Glad to see I wasn't the only vote for Bad Girl, too bad I Want Candy and Why Pick On Me got jilted since they're so great. Bee OK, would you do a final showdown deathmatch poll between the #1 vote-getters from each CD?

sorry I didn't vote - couldn't decide

Bee OK, would you do a final showdown deathmatch poll between the #1 vote-getters from each CD?

yes, that's a great idea, will put it up in a day or two.

Vol. 1 had 59 votes but this one only had 33 votes, BOO. hope that Nuggets II will have interest as i will do that one in a few weeks time.

"Apart from "Complication," I don't think the album captured them very well. But this 1966 footage of them on German TV certainly did:"

Wow, yeah. If the album had been more like that (stronger rhythm section, better mixing of organ freakout), I would have listened to it a lot more times. That's actually some pretty great stuff.

Now I just gotta figure out why he loves the other artifacts…

(I voted for The Sonics…)

The original members of GONN have reunited. They are playing at the Blue Fugue in Columbia MO tonight. Anyone seen them in the last couple of years? i think that they've played a handful of shows in the midwest in 2008 and 2009. Will they open with Blackout of Gretely?

I'm thinking of going to see them when they play the (last) Dirty Water Club in London next month. No idea what they're going to be like now though.

This version of "I Live in the Springtime" is so fuzzy
http://youtu.be/mUJHY-KGDTE

this is so good. today i would vote Knickerbockers "One Track Mind."

Great version: fuzz guitar-adelic.

Woke up with "baaaby likes to eat in fancy restaurants" in my head. Vol 4 is a real hit parade.