While Rhino is set to release an "alternative" 80s box-set entitled
Left Of The Dial, we here at NBT are more eagerly lookin' forward to the long promised
Children Of Nuggets set, tho' there's some serious head scratchin' goin' on over some of the more dubious selections that made it to the set's shortlist. Comments on this?.
3 comments:
Somebody reminded me of a shortlist for a imaginary project a couple o'yers ago:
From: "Jeroen Vedder"
NUGGETS: ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS FROM THE THIRD
PSYCHEDELIC ERA 1980 - 1989.
1.Hoodoo Gurus - Let's All Turn On
2.Nomads - The Way You Touch My Hand
3.Lyres - How Do You Know (2nd version)
4.Chesterfield Kings - I Can Not Find Her
5.Prisoners - Hurricane
6.Gun Club - Sex Beat
7.Girl Trouble - She No Rattle My Cage (45 version)
8.Cramps - Green Fuzz
9.Wipers - Romeo
10.Fleshtones - Shadowline (IRS version)
11.Droogs - Stranger In The Rain
12.Sickidz - Needlehead
13.Pandoras - It's About Time
14.Sid Presley Experience - Hup, Two, Three, Four
15.Milkshakes - Out Of Control
16.Lipstick Killers - Hindou Gods Of Love
17.Mighty Lemon Drops - My Biggest Thrill
18.Barracudas - Summer Fun
19.Lime Spiders - Out Of Control (45 version)
20.Screaming Blue Messiahs - Good & Gone
21.Tell-Tale Hearts - It's Just A Matter Of Time
22.Del Lords - Cheyenne
23.Slickee Boys - When I Go To The Beach
24.Flamin' Groovies - Way Over My Head
25.Plasticland - Elongations
26.Ben Vaughn Combo - My First Band
27.Minutemen - Voodoo Slaves
OK, now you go and be Lenny Kaye, I'd love to see anybody else's
take on this. And yeah, yeah, yeah, not all of this is strictly
"garage", but that never really was the point, was it ?
Jeroen
Right, what I was trying to say there was that this was my shortlist for a potential 80s Nuggets set. Still looks rather solid IMHO...
That C.O.N. set does boast a rather surprising tracklisting! Actually, I'm surprised that there's enuff great stuff to even put a box together! I'd question the picks of Plimsouls (what, no Zero Hour?) and Prisoners (huh, where's Nobody Wants Your Love?), among many others ... Where's the Wylde Mammoths, You Am I, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Thanes, Oblivians, Muffs, 68 Comeback, Compulsive Gamblers, Hellacopters etc etc etc etc???????? Gaaah, Primal Scream and That Petrol Emotion?!?!? Fuck RIGHT off! Seems a VERY So.Cal-o-centric selection, and I have no doubt that any NBT reader could put together a far better selection ... Shame that this box will undoubtedly get reviewed in the 'right' (i.e. wrong) places, and thus codify 'the movement' in a far worse way than all'a those 'beat Nazis' who think that The Standells' haircuts are the apex of mondern civilisation ever did ... Balls! Joss
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