NUGGETS II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969 Box Vol. 3 Poll

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here now is CD3 of 4, poll will last five days.

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Poll Results

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21. Pictures Of Matchstick Men - The Status Quo 6
19. Path Through The Forest - The Factory 4
8. Crawdaddy Simone - The Syndicats 2
11. Magic Potion - The Open Mind 2
3. Circles - Les Fleur De Lys 2
20. Love Hate Revenge - Episode Six 1
17. Days Of The Broken Arrows - The Idle Race 1
26. I Wish I Was Five - Scrugg 1
15. Listen To The Sky - Sands 1
14. A Midsummer's Night Scene - John's Children 1
27. Glendora - The Downliners Sect 1
12. You're Driving Me Insane - The Missing Links 1
5. Cry In The Night - Q'65 1
9. Don't You Remember? - The Sound Magics 1
2. Cathy, Come Home - The Twilights 0
25. You Can Be My Baby (single version) - The Red Squares 0
24. Slaves Time - The Slaves 0
23. Sad - The (Australian) Playboys 0
22. The Train To Disaster - The Voice 0
4. Get Down From The Tree (album version) - The Matadors 0
13. Who Dat? - The Jury 0
6. Changing The Colors Of Life - Los Chijuas 0
18. By My Side - The Elois 0
7. Social End Product - The Bluestars 0
16. How To Find A Lover - The Mockingbirds 0
10. It's My Pride - The Guess Who 0
1. Your Body Not Your Soul - Cuby & The Blizzards 0


Bee OK, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

i delayed No Thanks for one more week (sorry), wanted to get this one in next.

guess you will have to click link to see artwork on this thread.

will listen before voting.

Bee OK, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

i need some time to think about this one

crawdaddy simone, path through the forest, you're driving me insane, magic potion... there's been moments when any of these songs sounded like the best song ever

King Boy Pate (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

Status Quo. May have been their one and only great single.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

Not.

Actually, "Paper Plane" still had vestiges of their past psychedelic roots along with their future direction (or lack of)...

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:41 (seventeen years ago)

Well, "Ice In The Sun" was OK, but dunno about "Paper Plane".

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

Trust me.

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

oh, and "Black Hills of Melancholy" is hilarious in a sort of "follow up to Matchstick men" kind of way...

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:45 (seventeen years ago)

close your eyes and "Listen To the Sky" wins, hands down for me. the other stand outs were "Crawdaddy Simone," "It's My Pride," "Magic Potion," "By My Side," "Love Hate Revenge" and "Pictures Of Matchstick Men."

Bee OK, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

is that a double kick in magic potion?? first time i heard that song it took me a couple of hours to recover.

King Boy Patinka (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

Easy - 'Path Through The Forest'.

Dr.C, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 11:59 (seventeen years ago)

"Circles" is one of a tiny handful of more-than-credible Who covers in existence. But Q'65 gets the nod.

Sara Sara Sara, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

Q65 is a monster yeah I missed that one reading through this first time.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

'Crawdaddy Simone', but 'Circles' runs it very close. Honorable mentions to "Train to Disaster' and 'Listen to the Sky' . . and the whole damn thing, really. This box is so amazing.

Soukesian, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

'It's My Pride'

Always detested 'Crawdaddy Simone'.

Bob Six, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

My two favorite songs on the entire box show up here: "Days Of The Broken Arrows" and, I can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet, "A Midsummer's Night Scene." Come on, people - "A Midsummer's Night Scene" is the most Nuggets II track in all of Nuggets II. I don't know - maybe I was influenced by the booklet pic of the Children kicking up leaves in their jammies. But this tornado really brings out the wood sprites and forest nymphs and hicksy pixies and LOTR motherfuckers to sniff each other's butts and inject some frug into fantasy. In short, what filk (not a misspelling) oughta sound like. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay gets my vote.

And actually, my third fave song on the box might be "Love Hate Revenge" esp. for that remarkable voodoo ceremony where the guitar solo should be. Nastier than Deep Purple too.

Then there's "Pictures Of Matchstick Men," "Glendora," "Social End Product." Hell, after the biff bang pow of the first seven or so cuts on Disc One, this just might be the best disc of all.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

Oh and can someone defend "Circles" please. And in your defense, tell me how on your planet it rocks out harder than "Social End Product." Cuz, um, "Social End Product" is the snot-nosed punk that kicks the cane out from underneath Old Lady "Circles."

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

Is "Circles" the Small Faces song?

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

No, wait, that one was called "Green Circles", I believe.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

No this is a Who cover.

Actually, the original wasn't all that hot to begin with.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, of course. Yes. From the Who's debut, no?

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

Yup. Which wasn't all that hot to begin with...

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

ok i went for the missing links. what a stormer.

Lovenasium (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

Not from The Who's debut, but you will find it on the "My Generation" 2CD deluxe edition though.

Mark G, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

It was on the US version.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

Fair enough then.

Mark G, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

this just might be the best disc of all.

― Kevin John Bozelka

this is so OTM.

as i was re-listening to this last night, i was thinking this is the best of all the Nuggets discs. then it ends with "I Wish I Was Five" and the glorious "Glendora."

Bee OK, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:24 (seventeen years ago)

Not from The Who's debut, but you will find it on the "My Generation" 2CD deluxe edition though.

the version on the US the who sings my generation is far superior (noisier, trashier) to the later version that first appeared on the ready steady who! ep and is now on the a quick one cd. and the original version is fucking crashing and furious. i yield to no one in my love of nuggets ii, but anything with keith moon kind of comprehensively demolishes anything without him.

the fleur de lys' "circles" has that tremendous richard thompson/rick neilsen guitar throughout...but like sara sara sara upthread, i can't deny q'65's awesomeness.

Lawrence the Looter, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:45 (seventeen years ago)

So is this the "fucking crashing and furious" one?

Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:50 (seventeen years ago)

yep.

Lawrence the Looter, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

Question for Those Who Were There: were US and UK punks circa 1977 into this stuff at the time? (Other than Lenny Kaye.)

1. Rejects the central 60s trope of "deepness." 2. Does not sound like Ken Loach. 3. This is one of the bedtime lullabies I sing with my 2-year old though we leave out the jawdrop guitar parts. 4. Its existence is amazing (and fact that it's on Supraphon is hilarious) but not up to snuff here. 4. Vicious. 5. Dirty. 6. Most boring solo on the box? 7. Sounds like a punk but talks like a slacker. Begging to be covered--has anyone? 8. Insane. Also clever: "he always walks alone" cues the background singers to join in, and "no axe to grind" cues the axeman to start grinding. 9. Dull! 10. Nuggets romanticism = the wounded wildman. 11. Stooge-ish! Nice doof-genius move of twiddling a different effects knob for the last word sung in every line. 12. Guitarist sticks to a two-note riff until he builds up enough potential energy to explode, then does so. 13. Nice beauty-in-ugliness moment: guitar solo shimmers though everything else in the song growls. 14. Starts like Desdemona with hippie-dippier lyrics, ends like several simultaneous songs. 15. Epic reminder to dreamy hippies with heads in the clouds: you're in a warzone. 16. Every trick in the mod pop handbook. 17. How can such downer lyrics be played so peppy? 18. Prime robot-punk except for the unfortunate let's-break-it-down section. 19. Drums like like a steady scythe clearing the thicket. 20. The id. 21. Perfect psych single. 22. Schizoid: which part of the harmony is the Voice? 23. Majestic. 24. Had they heard the Monks? 25. Pretty on overdrive. The drums are nuts. Charming how thrilled they sound when they yell "Whooo!" 26.27. Five/Alive; Glendora/Store-a; when you come up with such a couplet the rest of the song really writes itself.

Voted Love Hate Revenge.

dad a, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

Cheers - another great summary!

"were US and UK punks circa 1977 into this stuff at the time?" - Pretty sure Julian Cope was, and I'd guess the Damned, particularly given the later Naz Nomad project.

Soukesian, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

On "Circles" - this is a song The Who basically threw away, taken up by a sharp bunch of mod chancers, tweaked, freaked and polished until it glows. Which is the kind of circumstance Nuggets et al are all about. I'm not going to attempt the impossible "better than the original" argument, but having listened to the that, a "more-than-credible" cover pretty much nails it.

The lyric is also tight, sharp and unforced. None of which applies to "Social End Product". That cane has a blade in it.

Soukesian, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

great post as always dad a!

in addition to battles of number ones, i'm going to put up all the discs from I and II against each other. this one is my favorite disc but will have to see how it plays out on a ILM poll.

Bee OK, Saturday, 20 September 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Fleur de lys trump the Ready Steady Who Circles, but original, anarchic Who version wins. The Fleur de lys
track to hear is Liar.

Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 21 September 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

Correction, the song is called "You're Just a Liar" and its on the Turning Point comp Reflections

Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 21 September 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Who's Circles is like a demo for the Fleur de Lys version, with the lyrics improved by judicious copyediting and the French horn dropped in favor of killer guitar parts. But Kevin, saying the Who's debut record wasn't all that hot is just a big pile of wrong.

dad a, Monday, 13 October 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

Well, I'd still have you over for dinner knowing you felt differently.

Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 13 October 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

I've already eaten but thanks for that, agree to disagree & all respect.

dad a, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

the guitar solo at the end of "Crawdaddy Simone" is nuts

El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

though in retrospect i would vote for "magic potion" by the open mind

El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)


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