Children of Nuggets: Original ARtyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Box set, Original recording remastered
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Vanishing Girl - The Dukes of Stratosphear
- Help You Ann - The Lyres
- The Real World - The Bangles
- We're Living in Violent Times - The Barracudas
- The Trains - Nashville Ramblers
- Seven Years - Watermelon Men
- Strangers When We Meet - The Smithereens
- Wading Through a Ventilator - The Soft Boys
- I Can't Hide - The Flamin' Groovies
- The Girl from Baltimore - The Fleshtones
- It's a Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion
- She's Fine - Stems
- All My Life - Point
- Down at the Nightclub - The Creeps
- (My Girl) Maryanne - The Spongetones
- She Turns to Flowers - The Salvation Army
- You Are My Friend - Rain Parade
- Mr. Unreliable - Inmates
- (I Thought) You Wanted to Know - Chris Stamey, The dB's
- She Don't Know Why I'm Here [Single Version] - The Last
- There Must Be a Better Life - Biff Bang Pow!
- Slave Girl - Lime Spiders
- I May Hate You Sometimes - The Posies
- I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - Times
- It's About Time - The Pandoras
- I Live for Buzz - Swingin' Neckbreakers
- I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus
- This Damn Nation - The Godfathers
- Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate
- Whenever I'm Gone - The Prisoners
- New Kind of Kick - The Cramps
- And She Rides - The Long Ryders
- Motorbike Beat - Revillos
- Tears (Only Dry) - The Vipers
- 25 O'Clock - The Dukes of Stratosphear
- Don't Give It Up Now - The Lyres
- If and When - Chris Stamey, The dB's
- Pabst Blue Ribbon - The Untamed Youth
- There She Goes - The La's
- Kingsley J - Vibrasonic
- I Can Never Tell - The Crawdaddys
- Make Me Stay - Green Telescope
- Everyday Things - The Plimsouls
- I Wanna Destroy You - The Soft Boys
- It's You - Mickey & the Milkshakes
- Apology - The Posies
- Lights Are Changing - The Bevis Frond
- Ahead of My Time - Droogs
- Welcome to My Love - Funseekers
- Flowers in the Sky - Revolving Paint Dream
- Metal Baby - Teenage Fanclub
- The Unguarded Moment - The Church
- I Can't Pretend - The Barracudas
- Out of the Unknown - Died Pretty
- L.A. Explosion - The Last
- I'll Cry Alone - The Flamin' Groovies
- Sunspots - Julian Cope
- Hindu Gods of Love - Lipstick Killers
- Death and Angels - Green on Red
- Barbed Wire Heart - Sinners
- Pink Frost - The Chills
- She Told Me Lies - Chesterfield Kings
- Beauty and Sadness - The Smithereens
- Test Drive - The Mummies
- Busy Man [EP Version] - DMZ
- Love Will Grow - Stems
- She Goes Out With Everybody - The Spongetones
- Hypnotized - The Plimsouls
- No Apology - The Unclaimed
- God Knows It's True - Teenage Fanclub
- You Keep on Lyin' - Hoods
- Don't Break Down - The Sting Rays
- The World Has Changed - The Fleshtones
- Baby What's Wrong - Cynics
- Psycko (Themes from Psycho and Vertigo) - Laika & the Cosmonauts
- My Name Is Tom - The Jigsaw Seen
- Gentle Tuesday - Primal Scream
- With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend - The Three O'Clock
- Like Wow -- Wipeout! - Hoodoo Gurus
- Bad News Travels Fast - The Fuzztones
- Plains of Nazca [Single Edit] - Sun Dial
- Getting Out of Hand - The Bangs
- Please Don't Tell My Baby - Mickey & the Milkshakes
- One Half Hour Ago - Rain Parade
- You're My Loving Way - The Aardvarks
- Transfiguration - Screaming Trees
- A Scandal in Bohemia - United States of Existence
- Where the Wolf Bane Blooms - The Nomads
- Cheated and Lied - The Vipers
- Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden (And It's Wintertime) - The Dentists
- Won't Need Yours - Tell-Tale Hearts
- Weakness - Inspiral Carpets
- You'll Know Why - Miracle Workers
- Not My Memory - The Unknowns
- Far Away - The Prisoners
- Ain't That a Man - The Optic Nerve
- Mink Dress - Plasticland
- Tight Turn - Raybeats
- One Way Ticket - The Nerves
- Tracy Hide [Cover Version] - The Wondermints
Free Music Notes for Children of Nuggets: Original ARtyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996
Free Music Review: The full loaf and more
Hit: 5 Stars
If you approach this box set expecting a bunch of neo-garage revivalism, you will be instantly disappointed; the fluttering guitars and soaring harmonies of "Vanishing Girl," the first song here, have nothing to do with the Standells and only a passing similarity to the Electric Prunes. It's not like anything you'd really find on a Pebbles or Back From The Grave disc, and its psychedelic flourishes aren't even remotely acidic. The song isn't raw or crude or wild. Instead, it's an otherworldly pop masterpiece, full of quiet anguish and subtle humor, with delicately bewitching vocals shimmering over and around a stunning cascade of emotive melody, underneath which is a 60s-inspired rhythm full of sunshine and hypnosis. After that comes the Lyres' "Help You Ann," which is a quintessential anthem for garage rock revival, with tremolo guitars and snarled vocals and a cheesy organ and all that other good stuff. This set isn't dominated by either sound- "Vanishing Girl" and "Help You Ann" help set the template for Children Of Nuggets, but they're not the entire blueprint. Sparkling pop and pounding garage rock sit comfortably aside neo-psych, post punk, surf revival, new wave, power pop, and just about every other cool method of sound creation that existed between 1976 and 1996. The result is, first and foremost, that a bunch of great music is rescued from obscurity. This is a beautifully guided tour of everything that happened beneath the surface of the post 'Nam, post Nixon, post Frampton planet earth, a gorgeous affirmation of the freewheeling spirit of the 60s. It's living, breathing, rockin' proof that people really did put the lessons of the Beatles and the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and the Green Fuz to good use. Sometimes, they even hit the charts!
Does this multi-genre approach contradict the Nuggets spirit? Well, I would like to remind you that the original Nuggets LP, as compiled by Lenny and Jac, wasn't just about the Count Five and the Seeds. I mean, how do you explain the inclusion of Sagittarius' stunning pop symphony "My World Fell Down," or the Cryan Shames' sparkling "Sugar And Spice," or Mouse's Bob Dylan-inspired "A Public Execution," or the sheer studio art of bands like the Strangeloves and the Third Rail on the original LP? Nuggets wasn't just about mining the dingy garages of America, you know- it was about diving headfirst into the untapped musical gold mines of the 60s, peering into the shadow of the 'Stones and the Monkees to see what else was going on, and finding out that the answer was a resounding "a whole lot!" It's about artyfacts, man, artyfacts, and it don't matter where you dug 'em up from as long as you really dug 'em, dig? And that's why this set is a great addition to the Nuggets family, and why every fan of great music owes it to themselves to pick up a copy.
Children of Nuggets: Original ARtyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996 Poster
It would take thousands of dollars (or as many hours in download time) to hoard the most coveted songs from the eighties' top secret power pop bands, garage combos and post-new wave throngs into one collection. Or you can let Rhino Records, which masterfully conspired with writer/musician Lenny Kaye late last century to inflate and repackage Kaye's original Nuggets compilation, do the legwork. These four discs, though chaotically sequenced, scour all sides of the ponds to capture the vitality and innovation of mostly 1980-'85, introducing (or reintroducing) to-be-influential bands like San Francisco's Flamin' Groovies, New York's Raybeats, England's Soft Boys, Australia's the Church and Sweden's Nomads. Where else can you find XTC spin-off Dukes of Stratosphear, the La's "There She Goes" and the Bangles a half-decade prior to their manic Monday, along with the Cramps, the Plimsouls, the db's and the Bevis Frond in a single shebang—and with Rhino's ample, informative, transcendent liner notes, to boot? --Scott HolterAlternative Rock Music CDs
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