Nuggets: Psychedelic 60's

Nuggets (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000003493
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,990 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dirty Water

2. Pushin' Too Hard

3. Psychotic Reaction

4. Let's Talk About Girls

5. Friday on My Mind

6. I See the Light

7. Why Pick on Me

8. Little Girl

9. Pleasant Valley Sunday

10. Lies

11. Laugh, Laugh

12. Wild Thing

13. Heaven and Hell

14. Valleri

15. Open My Eyes

16. Just a Little

17. Can't Seem to Make You Mine

18. Journey to the Center of the Mind

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars golden nuggets shining brightly !!!, June 28, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nuggets: Psychedelic 60's (Audio CD)

Nuggets: A Classic Collection From the Psychedelic Sixties has quite a few killer classics on it and if you like psychedelic music from the awesome `60s this CD is made just for you! The sound is excellent and the artwork is very nicely done. There is a good diversity of artists on this disc, too.

The CD starts with The Standells doing their awesome hit entitled "Dirty water." "Dirty Water" has a catchy melody and you won't forget this tune anytime soon if you haven't heard it already! "Dirty Water" just doesn't start the album; it's also a highlight of this CD. Great! The guitar work is excellent as The Standells sing and play this one up right! The Count Five also do their "Psychotic Reaction;" this classic golden nugget shines bright with some great percussion and guitar work--how about that musical interlude jam session? Even if it is comparatively brief, the interlude is still excellent rock music. The Easybeats also do a fantastic hit, "Friday On My Mind." "Friday On My Mind" has great harmonizing and it's always been one of my favorite hits from back in the day.

The Five Americans do "I See The Light" with lots of positive energy; and the electric guitar is perfect for this tune! Listen also for The Syndicate Of Sound doing their hit "Little Girl." "Little Girl" is instantly recognizable for us people who like their `60s rock. It has a fine psychedelic rock flavor to it and The Syndicate Of Sound never misses a beat, either! "Little Girl" is another major highlight of this album. The Monkees follow with "Pleasant Valley Sunday;" this tune sounds really fine and it fits in well with the other tracks on this CD.

"Laugh, Laugh" by The Beau Brummels has a great melody that I always enjoyed; and when I hear this song I cannot help but smile. Sure, the lyrics may not be the happiest; but it's a great song and it's very well arranged. "Laugh, Laugh" really has a great flavor to it and the harmonica is used very well. There's also The Troggs doing their huge hit called "Wild Thing;" they handle the complicated tempo and key changes like pros!

The Monkees do "Valleri" with all their might--and just one listen proves it! "Valleri" is an underappreciated number if you ask me. I really like the catchy melody of "Valleri" and if you like this type of music you're going to love this tune. "Just A Little" shows The Beau Brummels back again with another hit of theirs; "Just A Little" is very beautiful and this rock ballad impresses me.

The Seeds sing and play "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" with heart and soul; and the CD ends nicely with The Amboy Dukes performing "Journey To The Center Of The Mind." This psychedelic rock tune makes the perfect ending for this album--and there's great harmonizing, too!

Overall, Nuggets: A Classic Collection From the Psychedelic Sixties has a lot to like on it! I highly recommend this album for people who like psychedelic rock from the `60s and people who enjoy music from The British Invasion will enjoy this album, too.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most of the Nuggets You Need, June 25, 2005

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Danno (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nuggets: Psychedelic 60's (Audio CD)

If you believe rock and roll should be fun to listen to, rather than an obligation or a chore, you owe it to yourself to listen to this CD.

Rhino Records has a lot of different single CDs and boxed sets that carry the "Nuggets" title. Way back in the early 1970s, the "Nuggets" anthology was intended to collect songs recorded by the great mid-1960s American garage bands. This collection casts the net a bit wider, including songs by British Invasion protopunks like the Troggs, the underrated Aussie band the Easybeats, and the Monkees. All these songs were recorded by bands that simply didn't have very long recording lives, and the lion's share are one-hit wonders.

This is also one of the greatest rock and roll CDs of all time.

Bands like the Standells, the Count Five and the Chocolate Watchband may have tried their best to imitate the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, but ended up with a uniquely teenaged American identity of their own. Listening to this CD will take you back to a time before magazines like Rolling Stone existed, when no one in his right mind expected a rock star to have a serious opinion about politics, and when music was FUN rather than pretentious. All the songs here are short and performed passionately, no matter how primitive the musicians' abilities by today's standards. "Lies," for example, is probably the best Beatles knockoff ever recorded because the Knickerbockers were clearly having the times of their lives pretending to be the Fab Four (even if they couldn't follow up with anything even remotely as good). In a sense, this is punk rock before its time, but these are punks that didn't want to change the world. They only wanted to play rock and roll music. And, luckily, there were enough small, local labels out there that this music could not only be recorded but be local hits.

If you're tired of the bloated, formulaic, plodding music that passes for mainstream rock today, "Nuggets" provides the perfect antidote. There are several other volumes available, including boxed sets, but most of the cream of the crop are collected right here.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Let's Take A Trip, June 13, 2001

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jeff wilson (Newcastle, England) - See all my reviews

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A life changing blast of mad 60s American pop - loony tunes, bad hair, terrible shirts, dodgy guitar breaks, snotty-as-hell vocals and attitude to spare.

This collection epitomises the exuberance, vitality and blind energy of rock 'n' roll. Remember the first time you heard THAT band (whoever it was - it doesn't really matter because everybody had one group that made the hairs on the back of their neck stand up). Well, hearing this was just like that. As with most compilations some of it's just dreadful but this is a small price to pay when balanced against contributions from The Sparkles (No Friend of Mine - one of the classic proto-punk stompers), The Litter (Action Woman - heavy metal ten years too soon) and The Sonics (Strychnine - too intense for words).

I'm not kidding when I say this, but I had just about given up on the dross that's being foisted on us in the guise of pop music, but this has woken me up again. Nearly every song in this collection is by a band who maybe only released two or three singles and then vanished, and the fact that all this music is now thirty five years old and yet still blows the socks off almost anything that's currently out there tells its own story. The other point of note is the sheer variety of ideas in these songs. Imagine a time when you could play whatever you wanted to, because nobody had made up the rules yet. Imagine a time when fourtracking probably meant taking up all the lanes on a freeway at once. Imagine a time when two minute songs were actually recorded in two minutes. Well, if you can't imagine buy this record and take a trip. UK customers should be able to get hold of the UK box set, or alternatively buy all the volumes and make a night of it.