NUGGETS II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969 Box Vol. 4 Poll

is Why Don't You Smile Now the Reed/Cale song?!?

(I don't have this set unfortunately)

Yes. It's a monster!

Creation/Downliners Sect/Birds are my top 3.

i don't know how to choose between ashiya and vacuum cleaner

the intro of one third always makes me think of the vines

so how exactly did a British freakbeat/r&b band get a hold of a Reed/Cale tune?

They beat up Reed and Cale for it?

This is the last of the Nuggets CD's. :-(

Actually, no. Unless you mean this box set (and the first one) only. There is one box set of San Francisco nuggets, and not at least there's the "Sons Of Nuggets" box, which is a marvellous collection of mostly little known 60s influenced gems from the 80s and 90s.

As great as "Here Come The Nice" is, this must be "Flight From Ashiya"!

Finally, dude! You spaced these out waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long!

Anyhoo, definitely The Blossom Toes here. "When The Alarm Clock Rings" is appallingly irresponsible, achieving the Platonic ideal of punk through effeteness and ineffectuality. In fact, it comes closer to punk than anything else in the box since it took a more antithetical route to get there. And "Think of things you'll do during
this new day of toiling/Think of things you'll wear while your eggs are boiling" is one of rock's greatest couplets.

P.S. Zipps singer sounds like Mark E. Smith (e.g. "kicks-uh!").

From the liners:

"("Why Don't You Smile Now?") had been released Stateside by an obscure R&B group called The All Night Workers. The Sect heard the song's possibilities and bent it to suit their needs...It appeared on The Rock Sect's In, the Sect's third album, in April 1966 - a full year before anyone in Britain had heard of The Velvet Underground." (81)

i know about but don't own Love Is the Song We Sing and Children of Nuggets. so i meant, for poll purposes, this is the last CD. the number ones will have to face off however.

i don't know, is ILM interested in more Nuggets? II has taken a big hit compared to the original.

Finally, dude! You spaced these out waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long!

sorry, it was on a three week cycle with my other polls. every other week would probably work better.

Good attention to detail from the NUggetts compilers:

Nuggets 1 opens with "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night", and Nuggets II closes with "When The Alarm Clock Rings".

P.S. Zipps singer sounds like Mark E. Smith (e.g. "kicks-uh!").

Nice thought - but not really to these ears.

Have to give this one another spin. 'Here Come The Nice' is the standout, but I have a hard job seeing the Small Faces as a Nuggets band. Their hits got fairly regular airplay growing up in the seventies, and they've since been canonised by Mod culture to a point perhaps beyond the Who. Maybe it's different over the pond. For me, the thing with Nuggets was always "This sounds like all that great old stuff you know, but you've never heard it before."

. . might go for 'Touch', a regular Edinburgh garage scene floor-filler.

I wonder about that "All Night Workers" thing...

1) That was the name of a single by the Downliners Sect about a year previously
2) The song was offered to Chris Farlowe first. (citation: a recent e-bay auction)

I have the All Night Workers version, so it does exist. Have wondered about the Downliners Sect single with the same name myself though.

Voting Kaleidoscope. Psych rock-paper-scissors: Winston's Fumbs wield Thor's Hammer smashes Dantalian's Chariot runs over Winston's ...

1. The perfect Nuggets voice. 2. More marriage proposals should have guitar solos like this. 3. The jazz-inflected playing is more cool calm and collected than the subject deserves. 4. Guitar is great and redeems the throwaway lyrics. 5. Is this here just for the sake of "Engrish LOL"? 6. Cale and Reed are kings of spite! A punk "Cry Me A River." 7. Exuberant nihilism! 8. Who let "I Saw Her Standing There" in here? 9. The sadism of the lyrics is clearest when he pronounces the title not as "bitter" but "beater." 10. Creepy though I don't think that's what they're shooting for. 11. Sounds drenched ... Psychedelia? You're soaking in it! 12. Singsongy vocals undercut by fuzz guitar. 13. The mocking guitar notes after the raveups are the funniest moments on either box. 14. Anti-welfare psych. 15. Useful lyrics for kindergarten math teachers. 16. Great drumming! Theme song for a sitcom as yet unmade. 17. Snaky snakecharmer Eastern modalities, blasted. 18. Laconic, then rousing, exultant -- this is how to end a song! 19. So many pseudo-bohemian touchstones namechecked it's like an '00s parody of the real thing. 20. Before I had heard any I was afraid all psych was about this. 21. The lout's entreaty. 22. Harmonica attempts to restrain the guitar to no avail. 23. Every element of the song is a taunt. 24. Swiftian anti-sleepism proposal: you sleep so much already why not just kill yourself? Nice giving/give in wordplay. 25. Shanty from another world. Makes you feel off-kilter. 26. Ode to a dealer, but if he thinks "you don't need money" it's not a workable business model. 27. More apologies should rock like this. 28. Riposte to The Majority.

But You'll Never Do It Babe - The Boots

There is a load of good stuff here but Flight from Ashiya is the great lost pop sike single. Hell, it's one of the best 60's singles full stop. How was it not a hit?

Good attention to detail from the NUggetts compilers:

Nuggets 1 opens with "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night", and Nuggets II closes with "When The Alarm Clock Rings".

thanks! i actually agree with the criticism that i took too long for these polls, live and learn.

polls or threads like these actually brings out the vast knowledge that ILM possess, such a great board!

ok i figure ashiya will be well represented in the voting so i'm giving it to tintern abbey

after revising this will have to go with "Here Come the Nice" but "Why Don't You Smile Now" and "Bad Little Women" came very close.

Pandamonium - "No Presents for Me", which is also on the awesome Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks album.

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wow, really low turnout, but can't argue with #1