What's your favorite Nugget?

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Mine is "Talk Talk." It's on the first Nuggets box, disc two track one. Yours can be from that box, its sequel, or any number of similar collections or albums. But what IS yours?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(Mine's by the Music Machine, btw.)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...do I have to pick just one?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm partial to just about any Dovers track myself.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. this should definitely be a POO, actually, oh well. It came up last night when Kate Silver asked me after we left a bar. "It should be a thread," we both said. voila!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This is already a thread I think.

"Lies" - The Knickerbockers

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Lemme look at the track listing again tonight and think a bit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Spazz - The Elastik Band

"People gonna think! People gonna think! People gonna think you a spazz!!"

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm pushed to pick one it might be Pushin' To Hard.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Heard - Stop it Baby

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

off the top of my head... "liar liar" the Castaways

― chad (chad), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lies" seconded.

Runners Up:

Open My Eyes - The Nazz
Farmer John - The Premiers
Fight Fire - The Golliwogs
Stop-Get A Ticket - Clefs of Lavender Hill
Just Like Me - Paul Revere
I'll Keep Holding On - The Action

― darin (darin), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OPO:Nuggets

― a banana (alanbanana), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

a man can dream

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sagittarius: "My World Fell Down"

Other favourites are The Gants' "I Wonder", The Choir's "It's Cold Outside" and a couple of Beau Brummels tracks.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Too hard to POO this because of apples, oranges, etc.!

Double Yellow Line - Music Machine
1-2-5 - The Haunted
East Side Story - Bob Seger and the Last Heard
Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds
Mount Olympus - The Flower Power
Frustration - Mystic Tide

x-post - that Gants song is great

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Remains—Don't Look Back

― Taylor, Friday, 13 May 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

What Am I Gonna Do by The Dovers on Disc Four

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have the boxsets, only the double vinyl from 76 or whenever it came out (so i'm missing a lot of the tracks the boxes have), but i love....

Amboy Dukes’ “Baby Please Don’t Go”

specially when it get's all double time drums in the middle. doesn't it also reference Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun?

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Diddy Wah Diddy" by Captain Beefheart

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats is aces as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

no one's picking anything from the second box or outside of it? curious.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

USA #1! I don't have either box but I know most of the stuff on the first and much less of the stuff on the second so I'm afraid to pick.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, I have to pick A Midsummer's Night Scene from the second box (just because it's probably an underdog).

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

We All Together "It's A Sin To Go Away"

Fuck the US and the UK!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Making Time," from the second box. (If we want to narrow it down further, my favorite couplet from a Nugget is "my social life's a dud/my name is really mud" from "Talk Talk.")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the balloon farm "a question of temperature" (!)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The Factory, "Path Through the Forest"

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I See the Light by the Five Americans. That organ! I like to pretend it's a young Philip Glass playing organ. They have other good songs, a minor hit with Western Union.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Standells - Try It. Nasty, nasty stuff.

― space2k (space2k), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Talk Talk. I had a Music Machine reissue album on vinyl back in like 1984, and rue that I ever lost it. That Nazz single is fun too.

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

third bardo "I'm five years ahead of my time"

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a Music Machine reissue album on vinyl back in like 1984, and rue that I ever lost it.

Yeah, they had a lot of great songs and Talk Talk is nowhere near their best. Same with the Nazz. I guess after listening to comps like Back to the Grave for many years I tend to think of the idea of "nuggets" as meaning little pearls of brilliance from unknown bands, one hit wonders, etc. So I always find the official Nuggets comps a little strange because they treat a lot of bands with great albums as though they are only worthy of a compilation track. I suppose at in the '70s a lot of these bands were forgotten and unloved but I have trouble thinking of artists as Love or Beefheart belonging on there. Is that crazy or does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I take my initial answer back to second Making Time.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"I always find the official Nuggets comps a little strange because they treat a lot of bands with great albums as though they are only worthy of a compilation track. I suppose at in the '70s a lot of these bands were forgotten and unloved but I have trouble thinking of artists as Love or Beefheart belonging on there. Is that crazy or does anyone else know what I'm talking about?"

Absolutely. The original Nuggets, of course, was a two LP set that came out on Elektra in the early '70s. I don't know what the connection was to the later Nuggets LP series on Rhino, but the Rhino albums were definitely not that great--partly for the reasons that you state.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

mindrocker

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

said "Night Time" on the other thread but now I think ian is OTM, that Third Bardo track is fantastic.

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 14 May 2005 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Nazz, "Open My Eyes"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 14 May 2005 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Must Be A Witch" The Lollipop Shoppe

runners up
"Let It All Hang Out" The Hombres
"Don't Look Back" The Remains
"Five Years Ahead of My Time" - Third Bardo
"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost & the Troopers

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 14 May 2005 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Was "Be a Caveman" by the Avengers a Nugget? If so, I pick that one.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're Gonna Miss Me" - 13th Floor Elevators

You didn't reaaaaliiiiiize...

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's the Strangeloves love? I Want Candy is so obvious, but still gives me so much joy.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

UK "nugget" POO pick:

"With Love from 1 to 5" - The State of Mickey and Tommy

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Technicolor Web of Sound could be renamed the "Streaming Nuggets Channel."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"time won't let me"--the outsiders

― gossamer axe, Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the real answer to this thread:

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 14 May 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't Look Back," with "Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice" a fairly close second.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Not from the Nuggets box, but from the NME's "We have come for your children" comp.

"I" by umm The Knight somethingorothers...

Starts off very "Louie Louie" until the "OK Let's go" AND THEY DO! go off into a breakneck 'solo' which you think "They'll never get back into the song from this" AND THEY DO!!!

I had to repeat it five times, the first time I played it!

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, what did I say on that other thread from two years ago? oh yeah, "Talk Talk".

I'll stick with that for now.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever said the Dovers is OTFM...jesus christ are they good.

As for me, it's really, really, really tough, but right now I feel like saying "Last Time Around" by the Del-Vettes

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Sunday, 15 May 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine

― Good, But Not For Every One, Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlatens - Codine

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(i've heard so few of them unfortunatley)

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I missed this. It's also the Seeds' "Can't Seem to Make You Mine." For the yowl.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

gold

― fred schneider's chrysler, Sunday, 22 May 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have Nuggets, but I think Bonniwell Music Machine is the best of the early psyche lot... or in other words, I think the first post was right with "Talk Talk."

But, Nuggets (butt nuggets) aren't the best test of psyche rock. I prefer the rawness of the Pebbles comps or the perfection of Pink Floyd to anything on the Nuggest comps.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Sunday, 22 May 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"out of our tree" by the wailers

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 May 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, "Lick It" by the Dwarves. Holy shit, is that the way it should sound.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Sunday, 22 May 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

too many great songs. But, I love Mutantes' "Bat Macumba."

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"(You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings" - Gants

Also the flip of the Dovers song referenced above ("She's Gone") is incredible.

― JAS, Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Every time I see this thread, I go off to e-bay to geta cheap copy of Volume 2 box. Not that I've found one yet...

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/v3/01-24-2005.ns_24mavsBradley.G581HJG3N.1.jpg

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad Earl Boykins is finally getting his due recognition as a garage rock pioneer.

― Heidy- Ho, Sunday, 22 May 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

That Gonn song, ofcourse. Blackout, in something. Gretely? Something like that. "The universe is permeated with the odor of kerosene!"

― marcdrums (marcdrums), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

'I Ain't No Miracle Worker'. By a mile, though I love the range of choices here!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's gotta be Moulty by the Barbarians

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Let it all hang out"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuggets Box 1 "Primitive" by the Groupies
Nuggets Box 2 "Save my Soul" Wimple Winch
Outside of those collections, "I Satisfy" Mouse and the Traps.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not claiming it's the best, but my favorite is "No Time Like the Right Time" by the Blues Project

― Not Thaat Chuck, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Too many to pick one favorite...but Fire's "Father's Name Was Dad" would have to be way up there.

― mike a, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, no, "Strychnine."

see what I mean?

― mike a, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Changes all the time, but today it's lovebug's runner-up

"Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" -The Hombres

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 22 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Although it's possible that it's just the fakeout "Cigarettes and Whiskey" intro that won me over.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

chicken.

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

i change my answer to blackout of gretely

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Vol. 1: "I See The Light" Five Americans
Vol. 2: "Save My Soul" Wimple Winch
Vol. 3 (the weakest): "I Wanna Destroy You" Soft Boys

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

what's the one about the hook hand

The Barbarians "Moulty"

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Open Up Your Door" by Richard and the Young Lions.

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you all bought the Original "Nuggets" CD from Fopp, £5. (if you don't have the box)

There are plenty at reading.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Spazz by a country mile for me.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I forgot Diddy Wah Diddy and The Trip and Moulty. Those are the only songs on Nuggets that I'm a big fan of.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

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