Description
The Holy Grail of 60’s Garage and Psych.
Originally released as a double-LP in 1972 by Elektra Records, it celebrated 27 three-minute masterpieces that blazed brightly for a few weeks before fading from the charts.
The idea for Nuggets came from Jac Holzman, the founder of Elektra Records: “AM radio despised ‘long’ tracks, loosely defined as anything that exceeded three minutes, and this was true throughout the ’50s and ’60s. Even our Doors single, ‘Light My Fire,’ had to chop Robby’s incendiary guitar solo to fit the rigid AM formula. It’s what made me think about the snappy, short rock and roll singles that had jump-started AM rock radio, at its beginnings.” To excavate these hidden gems, Holzman recruited legendary guitarist Lenny Kaye: “It’s the songs in the end that make Nuggets so memorable, the lightning strikes of brilliance that move a record past genre into the realm of classic…Given the reins, I just played disc jockey, telling my ear-witness tale of inspiration derived, of desire and belief. Or daring to believe.”
Filled with fuzztone and Farfisa, the album pulses with an eclectic mix of songs by The Electric Prunes, The Standells, The Seeds, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Nazz, Count Five, The Remains, The Amboy Dukes, Magic Mushrooms, and Chocolate Watch Band.
Tracklist:
-LP1-
1. The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
2. The Standells – Dirty Water
3. The Strangeloves – Night Time
4. The Knickerbockers – Lies
5. The Vagrants – Respect
6. Mouse – A Public Execution
7. The Blues Project – No Time Like The Right Time
8. The Shadows Of Knight – Oh Yeah
9. The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard
10 The Barbarians – Moulty
11 The Remains – Don’t Look Back
12 The Magicians – Invitation To Cry
13 The Castaways – Liar, Liar
14 The Thirteenth Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
-LP2-
1. Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
2. The Leaves – Hey Joe
3. Michael And The Messengers – Just Like Romeo And Juliet
4. The Cryan Shames – Sugar And Spice
5. The Amboy Dukes – Baby Please Don’t Go
6. The Blues Magoos – Tobacco Road
7. Chocolate Watch Band – Let’s Talk About Girls
8. The Mojo Men – Sit Down I Think I Love You
9. The Third Rail – Run Run Run
10 Sagittarius – My World Fell Down
11 Nazz – Open My Eyes
12 The Premiers – Farmer John
13 The Magic Mushrooms – It’s-A-Happening
