NUGGETS II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969 Box Vol. 2 Poll

Misunderstood and this one isn't even really close.

"Desdemona" although "Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad" is pretty outrageous in sound and sentiment.

Alex is right.

jesus christ i can't choose between phrasing / save my soul / i must be mad

fire brigade! i'm rowed out! i suspect this might be my favourite volume

i went for i must be mad

was "say those magic words" by the birds a huge hit? because it should've been.

Kind of funny how I end up voting for Swedish bands in these Nuggets II polls, but the Mascots one here is ace.

"Biff! Bang! Pow!" is my initial reaction but will probably cast my vote for something else. as i make polls, i dig out the said CD and listen to it that week.

I will always vote for "Friday On My Mind" when offered, but "Lost Girl" is fab too. The Misunderstood had higher highs elsewhere.

Nuggets II/2 ... a fraction that reduces to I/1 = 1, right? Even the title describes a unity in duality. Good, since this box wants the old mind/body conundrum both ways, upping the ante of the first box's mostly US primal stomp with mostly Brit powerhouse headtrip psych. It wants to leave you both gutpunched and mindblown, though either one on its own would be plenty of accomplishment for any song to achieve. So voting for one that gives it to you both body and mind: Children of the Sun, with overheated bent notes as analogue for bent mind and trippy hippy lyrics bellowed by a caveman.

1. Prototype for the genre. 2. Xtian garage rock! But the final descent suggests the singer couldn't save himself. 3. Though he's basically speaking instead of singing he still manages to seem off-key. Redeemed by monster guitar after every verse. 4. Van in overdrive, bona fide classic, delivers on its promise. 5. Who let Redd Kross in here? 6. Brilliant guitar moves: start at fever pitch then back down, chug along menacingly for two minutes, then randomly place a chaotic five-second solo in the middle of a chorus. 7. Sluggish where it could have been thuggish. 8. The guitar crams in all the notes into the solo that it avoided during the soaring metallic verses and the vocal was apparently faxed to tape via a dot matrix printer. What's not to like? 9. No redeeming qualities. 10. If it had been born earlier this could have been a skiffle song: the psych elements don't feel intrinsic, just grafted on. 11. Stately! But for extra disorientation everyone plays out of synch during the break halfway through. 12. It's the You're Gonna Miss Me riff, but with less vitality! 13. Bowie's whiny tunefulness and the sloppy drumming bring to mind a more competent (hence less interesting) Shaggs. 14. The Procol Harum ripoff organ solo is best enjoyed by imagining it played by Schroeder. 15. Who let the Beatles in here? 16. Something endearing about this: bold statements made by a zero-macho voice, klutzy guitar, and when they really want to let loose they break out the maracas. Coffeehouse psych. 17. Silliness of the guitar tone and the harmonies actually add to the great (anti-job, anti-society, pro-girl, pro-suicide) lyrics, which take care to include a verse listing the technicolour spectrum. 18. Fantastic guitars and vocals, but the drums are a weak link & the song overstays its welcome. 19. This is more like it! Push the UK blues raveup style to the extreme & tack on immortal lines: "I love you baby but you ain't no use to me." 20.21. Yes, there were self-pity anthems before indie. 22. Always ignored this song on oldies radio but in this context its tightness and rightness are self-evident. Love the way he says "nag." 23.24. How many songs about dudes getting dumped can one comp bear? 25. Maxed out gimmicks-per-second ratio. 26. Singer sounds like he's one yeehaw away from a hoedown. 27. Songs that sound like other songs: Biff Bang Pow! (1966) and A Legal Matter (1965).

Going to be impossible choices all through this. Could have been "Children of the sun", probably should have, but in the end it's 14 Hour Technicolour Dream. One of the best cuts on the first Freakbeat comp I heard, and always seemed like such a perfect, epic panorama of 60's Blow-Up London.

surprised by all the love for children of the sun - it's a great song, but not even in the top 50% of this comp for me..

4. I Can Only Give You Everything - Van Morrison

This is strange.. The track is by "Them", so it should at least be "Them feat. Van Morrison", and yet the book goes out of it's way to detail the band in the blurb but allocate the artist credit to Van, solely...

Yeah that bugged me as well.

Wimple Winch craps on all the other songs on this.

Walking Through My Dreams - just ahead of Biff Bang Pow

Save my Soul just ahead of Walking Through My Dreams.

"Friday On My Mind"

was thinking alone the lines of "Lost Girl," "Gone Is The Sad Man," "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" and "Shadows & Reflections" (the Action are my favorite band from this collection). but really nothing rocked me harder than The Easybeats tonight.

oh i forgot "Gaby" another top notch song.

"Fire Brigade"

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quite a surprising result!

only 22 votes :-(

my pick is number one for once.

Friday on my Mind is great, though I went for the Syn. Pretty broad spread otherwise. Surprised no-one went for the Creation track.

i <3 friday on my mind but i went for the wimple witch joint is :-0