Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968

As found here: http://pitchfork.com/news/35693-rhino-releases-la-nuggets-box-set/

CD1 (On the Strip):

01 The Standells: "Riot on Sunset Strip"
02 The Byrds: "You Movin'"
03 Love: "You I'll Be Following"
04 The Leaves: "Dr. Stone"
05 Buffalo Springfield: "Go and Say Goodbye"
06 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: "Zig Zag Wanderer"
07 Iron Butterfly: "Gentle as It May Seem"
08 Lowell George & The Factory: "Candy Cane Madness"
09 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: "If You Want This Love"
10 The Bobby Fuller Four: "Baby My Heart"
11 The Palace Guard: "All Night Long"
12 Sonny & Cher: "It's Gonna Rain"
13 The Guilloteens: "For My Own"
14 The Rising Sons: "Take a Giant Step"
15 The Association: "One Too Many Mornings"
16 The Knack: "Time Waits for No One"
17 The Doors: "Take It as It Comes"
18 Kaleidoscope: "Pulsating Dream"
19 The Seeds: "Tripmaker"
20 The Music Machine: "The People in Me"
21 The Sons of Adam: "Saturday's Son"
22 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: "Eventually"
23 Penny Arkade: "Swim"
24 The Joint Effort: "The Third Eye"
25 Spirit: "Girl in Your Eye"

CD2 (Beyond the City):

01 Thee Midniters: "Jump, Jive & Harmonize"
02 The Light: "Back Up"
03 The Bush: "To Die Alone"
04 The Premiers: "Get on This Plane"
05 The Odyssey: "Little Girl, Little Boy"
06 The Electric Prunes: "Hideaway"
07 The Merry-Go-Round: "Listen, Listen!"
08 The Spats: "She Done Moved"
09 The Turtles: "Grim Reaper of Love"
10 Ken & the Fourth Dimension: "See If I Care"
11 The Chymes: "He's Not There Anymore"
12 Opus 1: "Back Seat '38 Dodge"
13 The Humane Society: "Eternal Prison"
14 The Others: "Revenge"
15 Things to Come: "Come Alive"
16 The Velvet Illusions: "Acid Head"
17 Limey & the Yanks: "Guaranteed Love"
18 The Romancers (aka the Smoke Rings): "Love's the Thing"
19 Kim Fowley: "Underground Lady"
20 The Deepest Blue: "Pretty Little Thing"
21 The Whatt Four: "You're Wishin' I Was Someone Else"
22 The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band: "Hippy Elevator Operator"
23 The Mustangs: "That's for Sure"
24 Fapardokly (Merrell & the Exiles): "Tomorrow's Girl"
25 The Hysterics: "Everything's There"
26 The Yellow Payges: "Our Time Is Running Out"

CD3: (The Studio Scene):

01 Keith Allison: "Action, Action, Action"
02 Dino, Desi & Billy: "The Rebel Kind"
03 The Knickerbockers: "High on Love"
04 Jan & Dean: "Fan Tan"
05 P.F. Sloan: "Halloween Mary"
06 The Mamas & the Papas: "Somebody Groovy"
07 Thorinshield: "Daydreaming"
08 The Full Treatment: "Just Can't Wait"
09 The Yellow Balloon: "Yellow Balloon"
10 London Phogg: "The Times to Come"
11 The Lamp of Childhood: "No More Running Around"
12 The Garden Club: "Little Girl Lost-and-Found"
13 The Moon: "Mothers and Fathers"
14 October Country: "My Girlfriend Is A Witch"
15 Roger Nichols Trio: "Montage Mirror"
16 Pasternak Progress: "Flower Eyes"
17 The Common Cold: "Come Down"
18 Gary Lewis & The Playboys: "Jill"
19 The Monkees: "Daily Nightly"
20 Modern Folk Quintet: "Night Time Girl"
21 The Oracle: "Don't Say No"
22 Hearts and Flowers: "Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down)"
23 Lee Hazlewood: "Rainbow Woman"
24 Pleasure featuring Billy Elder: "Poor Old Organ Grinder"
25 The Ballroom: "Baby, Please Don't Go"

CD4 (New Directions):

01 Stephen Stills & Richie Furay: "Sit Down I Think I Love You"
02 Jackie DeShannon With the Byrds: "Splendor in the Grass"
03 Peter Fonda: "November Night"
04 Danny Hutton: "Roses and Rainbows"
05 The Dillards: "Lemon Chimes"
06 The Rose Garden: "Here's Today"
07 Nino Tempo & April Stevens: "I Love How You Love Me"
08 Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart: "Words" (Demo)
09 The Motorcycle Abeline (Warren Zevon & Bones Howe): "(You Used To) Ride So High"
10 Gene Clark: "Los Angeles"
11 Tim Buckley: "Once Upon a Time"
12 The Everpresent Fullness: "Darlin' You Can Count on Me"
13 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "I'll Search the Sky"
14 Van Dyke Parks: "Come to the Sunshine"
15 The Beach Boys: "Heroes and Villains" (Alternate Take)
16 Jesse Lee Kincaid: "She Sang Hymns out of Tune"
17 Nilsson: "Sister Marie"
18 Randy Newman: "Last Night I Had a Dream" (Single Version)
19 Noel Harrison: "Life Is a Dream"
20 Rick Nelson: "Marshmallow Skies"
21 Del Shannon: "I Think I Love You"
22 The Byrds: "Change Is Now"
23 Sagittarius: "The Truth Is Not Real" (Single Version)
24 Love: "You Set the Scene"
25 Barry McGuire: "Inner-Manipulations"

Pretty great track listing really and I like the counter-intuitive choices. Might pick this up, even though I've already got about 70% of what's on this.

The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band: "Hippy Elevator Operator"

Hehe

Some of the tracks are actually wholly-unreleased versions (the Tim Buckley one, for example, and the version of "Sit Down, I Think I Love You) - at least according to other websites.

my home town gets its own box set and it looks petty sweet. will buy this.

this looks so dope

i will be purchasing this

Peter Fonda: "November Night"

^^^^ what is this?

conveniently, this is coming out right before my birthday. i like the mix on this. the stuff i have is spread out on other comps, albums, and 45s and the there is enough stuff that i don't have/never heard that each disc will feel like a new thing. if you know what i mean.

i still would love to pitch rhino on the idea of a heavy nuggets - the roots of metal box. but it might mean extending the timeline to 71 or 72. wouldn't HAVE to. enough heavy stuff from 67 to 69, but it would be nice to include some dawn of 70's stuff.

do want

haha, i saw this on the arthur mag twitterstream and was thinking of posting something to this effect. looks good, but will prob. wait until i can find it used.

This looks great. On this note, check out the set by Kaleidoscope (the California one) up on Wolfgang's Vault now. Inspired 20 minute opener New Blue Ooze: http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/kaleidoscope-concert/20053376-3720.html

this is coming out tomorrow.

Amoeba Hollywood is doing something special as well:
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/hollywood/2009-september-22/los-angeles-nuggets-where-the-action-is-/artist.html

Hmm… To buy or to boot? I've already got a fair chunk of this, either on other comps or the albums… Enough that a couple of these discs I think I could assemble in their entirety. On the other hand, a good mix and Rhino always has awesome packaging. Anyone seen the liners etc. to know whether that's strong enough to justify it?

Just one disc into this and really enjoying it. Zappa's ghost kinda hovers over the whole thing, though...too bad "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" or "Trouble Every Day" couldn't be included for whatever reason.

Nice to see Thee Miditers and The Premiers in there. That East LA jumped-up R&B/garage stuff is so incredible.
Also cool to see that Dillards track and the DeShannon/Byrds one in there. Love those too.

I coulda sworn "The People In Me" was already on a Nuggets box, but I guess not? ...

4 The Rising Sons: "Take a Giant Step"

^^^^really dig this

I can't get over the Randy Newman track on this. Wild stuff.

Just got this the other day, finally. Like $30, new. Well worth it, to be sure.

yeah this box set is totally fucking ace. much better than the san francisco one (which is an amazing package and really interesting, but i find myself skipping more than half of the tracks).

rhino used to turn out stuff like this in their sleep (the first two doo wop boxes are the best things ever, for example), but now they seem to mostly devote themselves to repackaging michael bolton records and whatnot. but it's good to see what they are still capable of when they try.

so what's next? new york? boston? chicago? london?

A Texas one would be pretty great.

I think that Texas is probably the best bet, but who knows? I didn't really see the need for an LA box with the Rhino treatment, like a year ago, yet here we are and I'm pretty happy.

seems like a pacific NW garage/psych comp could be good.

Texas kinda sorta already happened. But more could be done yes.

I'd like to rep for Micro Werks killer Thee Midnighters box as next stop for folks in love with WTAI.

This was a great (one disc) Texas comp done by Rhino.

That Rhino set is pretty nice. I did a homemade expansion on it that's a road trip perennial. This video and its accompanying article should whet some appetites.

lovin this

Just got this today.

This is going to need a poll for each CD by Bee OK, and dad a's comments on each track, as per Nuggets 1 and II a couple of years ago.

http://www.rhino.com/shop/product/various-artists-where-the-action-is-los-angeles-nuggets-1965-1968?eml=rn/120710/actionimage

Special offer day at Rhino...

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has a similar collection out: three discs, only five tracks common with the Rhino box, a slight edge on included hit singles, and they were actually able to land a Zappa track.

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/heroes-villains-the-sound-of-los-angeles-1965-1968-3cd-box-set/

Listened to this podcast on the set a couple of weeks back. Had thought it was older I thinnk but m tending to listen to podcasts several in a row with like a track in between each one
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EsoSe90rxE70CFDUIJuRW?si=b0086974779f41ac

XP

Track Listing:

DISC ONE:

1 PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY (single version) – The Monkees
2 KICKS – Paul Revere and The Raiders
3 LET HER DANCE – Bobby Fuller Four
4 BUT YOU’RE MINE – Sonny and Cher
5 TOMORROW’S GIRL – Merrell and The ‘Xiles
6 SAND – Lee Hazlewood with Suzi Jane Hokom
7 ACID HEAD – The Velvet Illusions
8 ALONG COMES MARY – The Association
9 DON’T SAY NO – Ruthann Friedman
10 TWELVE THIRTY (YOUNG GIRLS ARE COMING TO THE CANYON) -The Mamas and The Papas
11 I CRIED MY EYES OUT – The Misunderstood
12 OUR LOVE SHOULD LAST
FOREVER – The Whatt Four
13 WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE – The Rogues
14 THE WIND BLOWS YOUR HAIR (demo version) – The Seeds
15 MY BABY’S BAREFOOT – The Syndicate
16 POINT OF NO RETURN – The Music Machine
17 CHICANERY – The Royal Teens
18 KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN – Kaleidoscope
19 A CHILD’S GUIDE TO GOOD AND EVIL – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
20 FLOATING DOWNSTREAM ON AN INFLATABLE RUBBER RAFT – The Second Helping
21 LET’S LIVE FOR TODAY – The Grass Roots
22 SHE SENDS ME – The Roosters
23 (CAUSE) YOU DON’T LOVE ME – The Odds and Ends
24 HELP YOURSELF – The Sanctions
25 I’M GOING BACK TO NEW YORK CITY – Somebody’s Chyldren
26 THE TRIP – Kim Fowley
27 SAY WHAT YOU MEAN – Glad
28 COME LOOKING FOR ME – Diane Hildebrand
29 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE – The New Wave
30 NEW HARD TIMES – Stone Poneys

DISC TWO:

1 HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY – The Mothers Of Invention
2 ZIG-ZAG WANDERER – Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
3 COMPUTER GIRL – Urban Renewal Project
4 THE MOST UP TILL NOW – The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
5 IT WON’T ALWAYS BE THE SAME – The Millennium
6 THE MUSIC SCENE – Fapardokly
7 JUST CAN’T WAIT – The Prophets Of Old
8 SHE GOT ME – The Misunderstood
9 MAKIN’ DEALS – The Satans
10 VIET NAM – Bobby Jameson
11 WITH NONE SHOES – The Leaves
12 BE HAPPY, BABY – The Odds and Ends
13 TEARS IN MY EYES – The Royal Teens
14 SUNSHINE GIRL (promo-only stereo mix) – The Parade
15 MR RICHLAND’S FAVORITE SONG – Nilsson
16 DO YOU LIKE WORMS (ROLL PLYMOUTH ROCK) – The Beach Boys
17 ALWAYS YOU – Roger Nichols and The Small Circle Of Friends
18 CARNIVAL SONG – Tim Buckley
19 FIRE ENGINE SKY – Michael Blodgett
20 I’M NOT LIVING HERE – Sagittarius
21 DON’T TURN THE LIGHT OFF – The Churchill Downs
22 NO SHAME – The Touch (Hunger)
23 UNCLE JACK – Spirit
24 AUGUST MADEMOISELLE – Children Of The Mushroom
25 LONG TIME – The Rose Garden
26 RUN* – The Candy Company
27 TOO MANY PEOPLE – Jim and The Lords
28 JUST WANNA BE MYSELF – The No-Nâ-Mees
29 SAY IT WITH A SMILE – The Heros
30 MOVE WITH THE DAWN – Mark Eric

DISC THREE:

1 YELLOW BRICK ROAD – Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
2 SHE COMES IN COLORS – Love
3 TIME WILL SHOW THE WISER (album version) – The Merry-Go- Round
4 JOHN WORKS HARD – The Laughing Wind
5 CALM ME DOWN (promo single version) – The Human Expression
6 WHY (alternative version) – The Byrds
7 I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING – The Heros
8 GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN – Grains Of Sand
9 YESTERDAY HOLDS ON – Moorpark Intersection
10 WINDY – Ruthann Friedman
11 DO I HAVE TO COME RIGHT OUT AND SAY IT – Buffalo Springfield
12 DRIVIN’ SIDEWAYS (ON A ONE-WAY STREET) – Merrell Fankhauser and H.M.S. Bounty
13 9 O’CLOCK BUSINESS MAN – The Peppermint Trolley Company
14 THE GREAT BANANA HOAX (extended mix) – The Electric Prunes
15 ISHA – Chris and Craig
16 SIT WITH THE GURU – Strawberry Alarm Clock
17 TRIP ON ME – The Forum
18 ROAD TO NOWHERE – Hearts and Flowers
19 SO YOU SAY YOU LOST YOUR BABY – Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers
20 LUXURY LINER – International Submarine Band
21 RUNNIN’ ON BACK – Del Shannon
22 SHE SLEEPS ALONE – The Parade
23 PIPE DREAM – Chad and Jeremy
24 END OF THE LINE – Boystown
25 SUMMER MAGIC* – The Paper Fortress
26 CUT YOUR LAWN – The Chyldren
27 A GIRL I KNEW (single version) – Steppenwolf
28 FLOWERS AND BEADS – Iron Butterfly
29 BLACK ROSES – Clear Light
30 HIPPY TOWN – Georgy and The Velvet Illusions

Yeah picked this up a little while back. Good stuff!

Urban Renewal Project is actually Sparks, even before they were Halfnelson! It's also a nice touch to put Gram Parsons and Gene Clark side by side.

This (Where the Action Is!) was the last of the Rhino CD compilation boxes AFAIK. I miss them. Do subsequent efforts by Sundazed, Ace, Cherry Red and others fill the void? With Cherry Red it always feels like they're churning them out with as many variations on the same genres/periods/scenes as possible. But I've never examined those compilations closely, and they might be better than I imagine.

Cherry Red has been on a ridiculous roll and all, and their mastering can sometimes vary depending on who is behind it, but if Alec Palao is involved there's usually quality control, and the David Green organized boxes have been generally great. You're correct re overlap and slight variation but I've found that if you stick to a few core series you usually can't go wrong re Cherry Red. Sundazed and Ace rarely fail (and Palao again works with both of them regularly).