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| 1. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) | |||
| 2. Dirty Water | |||
| 3. Night Time | |||
| 4. Lies | |||
| 5. Respect | |||
| 6. A Public Execution | |||
| 7. No Time Like The Right Time | |||
| 8. Oh Yeah! | |||
| 9. Pushin' Too Hard | |||
| 10. Moulty | |||
| 11. Don't Look Back | |||
| 12. Invitation To Cry | |||
| 13. "Liar, Liar" | |||
| 14. You're Gonna Miss Me | |||
| 15. Psychotic Reaction | |||
| 16. Hey Joe | |||
| 17. Just Like Romeo And Juliet | |||
| 18. Sugar And Spice | |||
| 19. Baby Please Don't Go | |||
| 20. Tobacco Road | |||
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In 1972 Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group compiled a double vinyl album for Electra records. It consisted of half-forgotten mid-sixties singles by semi-obscure American bands. He cannot possibly have had any idea of what he was starting. At the time compilation albums were few and far between - unlike today. Furthermore the idea of compiling an album of relatively small hits and complete misses must have seemed totally crazy. Now 34 years later that original album is back - and at a budget price too! In the intervening years it has spawned an entire 'Nuggets' franchise. For example it has been been re-issued on vinyl (by Sire Records), given its name to a whole series of albums (also on vinyl) from Rhino (now sadly deleted), inspired the creation of three excellent box sets (Nuggets, Nuggets II and Children of Nuggets) as well as three single CD compilations - all with the name 'Nuggets' in their title (Nuggets, More Nuggets and Even More Nuggets). In fact, one could also argue that it helped create the whole garage-band compilation genre, as evidenced by the success of series such as Rubble, Pebbles, Psychedelic Pstones and such. However, surely the greatest evidence of its success is that many of the bands that appeared on the original Nuggets double-album are better known now than they were in their prime. Browse around Amazon or wander around your local record store and you can easily find material by the Standells, the Seeds, the Shadows of Knight, the 13th Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watch Band.
And what of the music itself? Certainly a great deal of it is basic and discordant with little sophistication or technical expertise. However it is all infused with a tremendous energy and vitality with liberal helpings of street-corner punk attitude for good measure. Stylistically, everything from the early-Beatles (masquerading as the Knickerbockers) to Dylan (in the guise of Mouse and the Traps)is represented. But there is plenty of experimentation and innovation too - the Magic Mushrooms, Sagittarius and the Electric Prunes. Of course it all sounds a little quaint now, but it is still an enormous pleasure to hear it again as it was originally compiled.
Thank you Mr Kaye for having the vision to create and market the original concept. Because of you I have had many many happy years of musical discovery and listening pleasure.
Welcome back Nuggets!
And what of the music itself? Certainly a great deal of it is basic and discordant with little sophistication or technical expertise. However it is all infused with a tremendous energy and vitality with liberal helpings of street-corner punk attitude for good measure. Stylistically, everything from the early-Beatles (masquerading as the Knickerbockers) to Dylan (in the guise of Mouse and the Traps)is represented. But there is plenty of experimentation and innovation too - the Magic Mushrooms, Sagittarius and the Electric Prunes. Of course it all sounds a little quaint now, but it is still an enormous pleasure to hear it again as it was originally compiled.
Thank you Mr Kaye for having the vision to create and market the original concept. Because of you I have had many many happy years of musical discovery and listening pleasure.
Welcome back Nuggets!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is probably one of the most essential albums i have ever bought. There is not a song on this
compilation which is average, or below parr. The reason i bought this was because of the word psycedelic
in the title and thought thats my kind of thing, but this is genuinely amazing, this is definitely the best
fiver i have ever spent on anything, 27 brilliant tracks. Honestly, you will not be wasting any money what so ever. Buy it, and i promise you wont be able to take out the stero for a very long time.
compilation which is average, or below parr. The reason i bought this was because of the word psycedelic
in the title and thought thats my kind of thing, but this is genuinely amazing, this is definitely the best
fiver i have ever spent on anything, 27 brilliant tracks. Honestly, you will not be wasting any money what so ever. Buy it, and i promise you wont be able to take out the stero for a very long time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I am only just realising how influential this compilation has been to me, and that's before I ever heard it. Friends and record shops hav been recomending 60's garage and r&b and other to me for the last couple of years, and it's mostly stuff they heard on this compilation. Buy this and you'll wise up pretty fast to what really made the 60s so strong, if there were bands like this around today they'd probably never make it, this cd will make you think about a whole load of stuff, challenge your perceptions and get you excited about doing it.
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Looks good , who's performing what ?
Having looked at the track listing there not any names of groups on this collection .I can put a name to a possible few and also people have mentioned a few names in their reviews... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. H. M. Griffiths
Its Nuggets
Why are you reading a review. It's as essential as owning a pair of shoes & cheaper than a magazine
Published 14 months ago by Owens
Disappointing, but not too bad for the price
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In 1965, American music was on its' knees. Between 10th April & 28th May, every number one was by a British act. Read more
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greatest vinyl various artists compilation ever
The greatest vinyl various artists compilation ever. Especially delightful to non USA people as many had been hits in the States but eleswhere these were entirely fresh and... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2007 by B
High energy nostalgia
Despite being a teenager in the 60's, I'd only actually heard one of the 27 tracks before (The Electric Prunes' 'I had too much to dream'). Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2007 by Ian Williams
Reissue of Lenny Kaye's classic compilation..
Does `Nuggets' need an introduction? Possibly...This 1972 compilation selected by Lenny Kaye, music journalist and long-time member of the Patti Smith Group, had a great effect in... Read more
Published on 3 July 2006 by Jason Parkes
This record changed lives...
Simply one of the greatest albums you will ever buy. A distillation of the finest US garage punk from the late 60s, this first appeared in the early 70s and, like they used to say... Read more
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