Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
2. Dirty Water - The Standells
3. Night Time - The Strangeloves
4. Lies - The Knickerbockers
5. Respect - The Vagrants
6. Public Execution - Mouse & the Traps
7. No time like the right time - Blues Project
8. Oh Yeah - Shadows of Knight
9. Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds
10. Moulty - The Barbarians
11. Don't Look Back - The Remains
12. An invitation to cry - The Magicians
13. Liar, Liar - The Castaways
14. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
15. Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
16. Hey Joe - The Leaves
17. Romeo and Juliet - Michael & the Messengers
18. Sugar and Spice - The Cryan' Shames
19. Baby Please Don't Go - The Amboy Dukes
20. Tobacco Road - Blues Magoos
21. Let's Talk About Girls - The Chocolate Watchband
22. Sit Down, I Think I Love You - The Mojo Men
23. Run, Run, Run - Third Rail
24. My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
25. Open My Eyes - The Nazz
26. Farmer John - The Premiers
27. It's-A-Happening - Magic Mushrooms

Disc 2:

1. Talk Talk - The Music Machine
2. Time won't let me - The Outsiders
3. The Little Black Egg - The Night Crawlers
4. Talk Talk - The Music Machine
5. Last Time Around - The Del-Vetts
6. (We ain't got) Nothing yet - Blues Magoos
7. Journey to Tyme - Kenny & the Kasuals
8. No Friend of Mine - The Sparkles
9. Outside Chance - The Turtles
10. Action Woman - The Litter
11. Spazz - The Elastik Band
12. Sweet Young Thing - The Chocolate Watchband
13. Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
14. I Ain't No Miracle Worker - The Brogues
15. Seven & Seven Is - Love
16. Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders
17. Going All the Way - The Squires
18. I'm Gonna Make You Mine - Shadows of Knight
19. Trip - Kim Fowley
20. Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
21. Why Do I Cry - The Remains
22. Laugh, Laugh - The Beau Brummels
23. Little Black Egg - The Nightcrawlers
24. I Wonder - The Gants
25. I See the Light - The Five Americans
26. Who Do You Love - Woolies
27. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - The Swingin' Medallions
28. Live - The Merry-Go-Round
29. Steppin' Out - Paul Revere & the Raiders
30. Diddy Wah Diddy - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
31. Strychnine - The Sonics
32. Little Girl - The Syndicate of Sound
33. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos
34. Shape of Things to Come - Max Frost & The Troopers

Disc 3:

1. A question of temperature - The Baloon Farm
2. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - Hombres
3. Fight Fire - The Golliwogs
4. At the River's Edge - New Colony Six
5. Jack of Diamonds - The Daily Flash
6. Follow Me - Lyme & Cybelle
7. It's Cold Outside - The Choir
8. Beg, Borrow and Steal - Rare Breed
9. She's About a Mover - The Sir Douglas Quintet
10. Little Bit O'Soul - Music Explosion
11. Put the Clock Back on the Wall - The E-Types
12. Falling Sugar - The Palace Guard
13. Run Run Run - The Gestures
14. I Need You - The Rationals
15. Knock, Knock - The Humane Society
16. Primitive - Groupies
17. Psycho - The Sonics
18. So What!! - The Lyrics
19. You Must Be a Witch - The Lollipop Shoppe
20. Question of Temperature - The Balloon Farm
21. Maid of Sugar-Maid of Spice - Mouse & the Traps
22. You Ain't Tuff - The Uniques
23. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells
24. She's My Baby - The Mojo Men
25. Story of My Life - Unrelated Segments
26. I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time - The Third Bardo
27. Mirror of My Mind - We the People
28. Bad Little Woman - Shadows of Knight
29. Double Yellow Line - The Music Machine
30. Optical Sound - The Human Expression
31. Journey to the Center of the Mind - The Amboy Dukes

Disc 4:

1. (Would I still be) Her big man - The Brigands
2. Blues Theme (from the motion picture "The Wild Angels") - Davie Allan & The Arrows
3. Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) - The Chocolate Watchband
4. Too Many People - The Leaves
5. (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man - The Brigands
6. Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl - The Barbarians
7. Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
8. I Want Candy - The Strangeloves
9. Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
10. One Track Mind - The Knickerbockers
11. Out of Our Tree - The Wailers
12. I Think I'm Down - The Harbinger Complex
13. What Am I Going Do - The Dovers
14. Codine - The Charlatans
15. Johnny Was a Good Boy - The Mystery Trend
16. Stop-Get a Ticket - Clefs of Lavender Hill
17. Complication - The Monks
18. Witch - The Sonics
19. Get Me to the World on Time - The Electric Prunes
20. Mr. Pharmacist - The Other Half
21. Open Up Your Door - Richard & the Young Lions
22. Just Like Me - Paul Revere & the Raiders
23. You Burn Me up and Down - We the People
24. I Live in the Springtime - The Lemon Drops
25. Mindrocker - Fenwyck
26. Hold Me Now - The Rumors
27. Love's Gone Bad - The Underdogs
28. Why Pick on Me - The Standells
29. Bad Girl - Zakary Thaks
30. Blackout of Gretely - The Gonn
31. Voices Green and Purple - Bees
32. Blues' Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows

Product Details

• Released on: 1998-09-18
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Compilation, Import
• Dimensions: 1.82 pounds

From Amazon.com
That the most famous garage-rock record of all time, the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie," is buried on the last CD of this four-disc box is very much in keeping with the spirit of the (often) one-hit wonders that people Nuggets. Here, "Louie Louie" is just another great song. An elaboration on the 1972 double LP, which is included in its original sequence, this set piles on dozens more great moments of inspiration, guts, chutzpah, and sometimes sheer commercial calculation. How else to explain the advice "Look at yourself" from the likes of the Strawberry Alarm Clock, whose idea of mind expansion seems limited to putting together two very vaguely related nouns--"Incense and Peppermints"--so their swinging Farfisa-led track will have something, anything, for verbal content? There's loads of such wisdom on display here, prefab and otherwise, usually delivered as rabidly as possible. (Try the Remains' "Don't Look Back," Mouse and the Traps' "Maid of Sugar--Maid of Spice," or the Music Machine's "Talk Talk," which was actually a hit.) And remember: "The sky is falling / The ocean is calling / The world ... is spinning 'round ... and 'round." For sure. --Rickey Wright

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
En quatre CD, la messe est dite ! Avec cette boîte de Pandore, le label Rhino propose la compilation ultime du rock garage 60's, condensé cinq étoiles de la célèbre petite graine Nuggets (un double LP de 27 titres) plantée par Lenny Kaye en 1972 pour l'écurie Elektra. La maison Rhino réédite donc la bête et, mieux, la transforme en quatre CD sur lesquels s'entassent les combos les plus foncièrement rock du territoire US. Dans ce génial carambolage des plus flamboyantes poubelles de l'histoire du rock, l'éphémère est de rigueur, l'efficacité est immédiate ! Alors que les mid' 60's pullulent de génies et de styles en tout genre, le rock garage débarque en agitant le Do It Yourself, credo précurseur incitant n'importe quel groupe de n'importe quel patelin à se lancer dans n'importe quelle aventure rock'n'roll, aussi pourrie soit-elle… Non seulement "ils" le firent mais ils le firent avec une fougue dévastatrice : Count Five, Music Machine, Standells, Shadows Of Knight, Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, Remains, Chocolate Watchband et consorts livrèrent des hymnes radicaux à faire baver les Rolls qu'étaient les Beatles, Stones, Jefferson Airplane et autres Byrds. Là, et nulle part ailleurs, la substantifique moelle du rock'n'roll prend racine. Bref, pas de demi-mesure : ce coffret est une bombe qui pète à la gueule ! --Marc Zisman

Customer Reviews

Has got to be one of the Best box sets out there
This is the 60's rock I loved the most.Many of the songs I had forgoten the titles and or artist.This box set saves you a lot of time and energy to find all this material. I lived in the Detroit area where these songs played the air waves of the 60's to early 70's but very few are heard on radio any more, even on the so called oldies station's. The same narrow selection of songs are played over and over mostly the big hits and artist get played. Some of my fav. on this box set are Dirty Water,Night Time, Oh yeah,Farmer John,Little Girl,Beg Borrow & Steal,She's About a Mover,Little O'Soul,She's my Baby,Open up Your Door,Just Like Me,Hold me Down,Loves gone Bad,Black out Grety,There is enough music here to make two very solid cd's for the car for those hot summertime drives.

The ultimate car trip box set
This is possibly the greatest collection that Rhino has ever come up with. I had the original three Nuggets releases that Rhino did in the late 80's/early 90's and they were among my favorites in my early cd buying years. This set eclipses my discs, and adds so much that the extra money spent isn't difficult to think of as an investment. I've found that my favorite songs were mostly from the original three discs;
Lies - The Knickerbockers
Public Execution - Mouse & the Traps
Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
Let's Talk About Girls - The Chocolate Watchband
Open My Eyes - The Nazz
Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
Live - The Merry-Go-Round
I've also found some new favorites through listening to this set;
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - The Swingin' Medallions
It's Cold Outside - The Choir
Put the Clock Back on the Wall - The E-Types
What Am I Going Do - The Dovers
7 and 7 Is - Love
Don't get me wrong, these aren't the only great songs in this collection, just my favorites off the top of my head after a quick look through the list. This is a fascinating collection that gives a look at the songs that were regiional hits around the country, but occasionally also made little noise on a national scale. For a box set it's among the best money I ever spent.

It doesn't get any better than this
Collecting the complete Lenny Kaye NUGGETS double-LP set that has gone down in the history books and adding 3 more CD's chockful of garage/punk/psychedelic classics you've never heard of, the NUGGETS boxed set is better than essential. It's QUINTESSENTIAL, the end-all meet-all of all 60s garage compilations.

Hardcore collectors will champion the PEBBLES and BACK TO THE GRAVE series as a better representation of the genre by unearthing rarer than rare singles, but the NUGGETS set is far more accessible and covers everything from Beatles-wannabes to guitar-slammin' pre-punk to trippy folk-rock to rhythmic vocal showcases. I won't bother pointing out all the highlights, as each disc is a non-stop smorgasbord of excellent music. Only a handful of songs could have easily been left out ("Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen and "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs are a little too obvious, and "At the River's Edge" by The New Colony Six is awful), and if the music wasn't enough, you get a thoroughly researched book packed with essays and track-by-track history on each song, including personnel and record info!

If you don't have this one yet, what are you waiting for?! Shame on you for hesitating this long!!