Pebbles, Vol. 1: Original 60s Punk & Psych Classics

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archive Int'l / Aip
• ASIN: B000026HGN
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,964 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #78 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1960s

Track Listings

1. Letter - Action Woman

2. Preachers - Who Do You Love

3. Floyd Dakil Combo - Dance Franny Dance

4. Outcasts - I'm in Pittsburgh

5. Grains Of Sand - Going Away Baby

6. Ju Jus - You Teat Me Bad

7. Haunted - 1-2-5

8. Soup Green -Like A Rolling Stone

9. Wig - Crackin' Up

10. Positively 13 O'Clock - Psychotic Reaction

11. Kim Fowley - The Trip

12. Elastic Band - Spazz

13. Split End - Rich With Nothin'

14. Shadows Of Knight - Potato Chip

15. Wild Knights - Beaver Patrol

16. Sparkles - Ain't No Friend of Mine

17. Gonn - Blackout Of Gretely

18. Third Booth - I Need Love

19. Weed - It's Your Time

20. Surprise Track

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good kick-off to an essential series, June 1, 2004

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Casey Scott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pebbles, Vol. 1: Original 60s Punk & Psych Classics (Audio CD)

The PEBBLES series is well-documented as the underdog follow-up to the infamous NUGGETS set, but real music lovers in the know have learned it is the far superior collection, compiling more obscure tunes by more obscure bands. Now, to be fair, not all the volumes in the series are really worth getting. VOL. 1 is a superb introduction to the series. Word of warning: The Litter's "Action Woman", The Haunted's "1-2-5", Kim Fowley's "The Trip", The Elastic Band's "Spazz", The Sparkles' "No Friend of Mine", and Gonn's "Blackout of Gretely" all have appeared on either NUGGETS or NUGGETS II, but they're presented here sounding like they're blaring out of your turntable, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Plus "Blackout of Gretely" is much longer here than it appears on NUGGETS!

Not all the songs on this set are worth a relisten, but some of the real gems are The Preachers' "Who Do You Love" (quite a departure from the familiar Woolies version), The Grains of Sand's "Going Away Baby", The Split Ends' "Rich With Nothin'" (great song about a rich girl who turns her back on her roots), and The Wild Knights' "Beaver Patrol", which must be one of the raunchiest rock records ever recorded. A bonus track, "It's Your Time" by The Weeds, is really cool, too!

Another word of warning: Wig's "Crackin' Up" and The Third Booth's "I Need Love" are not included on this CD, despite being on the track listing. Most of the best songs on this CD would be included on the later ESSENTIAL PEBBLES compilations, but this is still one disc you shouldn't be without in your 60s garage band collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great garage sloppers from the masters!, May 2, 2006

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Cool Cat "Rich" (Springfield, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pebbles, Vol. 1: Original 60s Punk & Psych Classics (Audio CD)

This whole damn series is great! This is what rock is about! The pebbles series is the best in psychedelic freak outs and punk that makes Jhonny Rotten hide under his bed. This is a good primer for what lies ahead. The politcally incorrect song "Spazz" by the Elastik band is a great funny song about, how do I say it nicely, the mentally challenged, then you got "Beaver Patrol" by a bunch of horny teenagers looking for some action and then the song "Black Out of Greteley" the best line of the song being " the universe is permeated with Kerosene" then a insane scream and they just rip in to the song. Picks up where Rockabilly stopped in 1959.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it's your time!, November 28, 2011

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pebbles, Vol. 1: Original 60s Punk & Psych Classics (Audio CD)

This is like the classic series of records that put out tons of lost music from the sixties. Mainly garage rock and psych rock , alot of it premetal and prepunk in style. It's great stuff. Songs like 'it's your time' are what it's all about. The best stuff is usually from the midsixties. Simple and fun and this comp series brings that to you. If you love punk rock then this is a must have to see what some guys or gals in garages came up in the 60's. Which still has some of the best pop rock ever ,but this is the heavier sounds. There was no metal so these folks got loud and hard in their own way. The sound quality is basic , they took rare singles and put on here. many of these songs were only on some regional singles, so when they created the pebbles series in the 70's-80's they just did what they could. They did not clean the sound up for this series on cd. SO if you hear crackling that's what it is. Nuggets does a better job than this series but this one found alot of really rare songs and there's no other way to get them.