This is the thread where you tell me whether SON OF NUGGETS is crap or genius

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The Other Half wants Son of Nuggets for our anniversary. He is convinced that it will be great simply because it's from Rhino.
I am convinced he would think Great Farts on Snare Drums: A Decade of Gas would be brilliant if it was released by Rhino, but that is neither here nor there.

Does anyone own this box set and what do you think?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

So, this is the followup box for Nuggets (USA) and Nuggets (everywhere else), right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

I think so. It was described to me as all the bands in the 80s and 90s that heard Nuggets (the original, I'm assuming) and said, Hey, Let's Form A Band!

which could go either way, really.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

wait, sorry, that's CHILDREN OF NUGGETS. my bad.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Children of Nuggets

TRACK LIST
VANISHING GIRL - The Dukes Of Stratosphear

HELP YOU ANN - Lyres

THE REAL WORLD - Bangles

RE LIVING IN VIOLENT TIMES - The Barracudas

THE TRAINS - he Nashville Ramblers

SEVEN YEARS - Watermelon Men

STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET - The Smithereens

WADING THROUGH A VENTILATOR - The Soft Boys

I CAN'T HIDE - Flamin' Groovies

THE GIRL FROM BALTIMORE - The Fleshtones

IT'S A GOOD THING - That Petrol Emotion

SHE'S FINE - The Stems

ALL MY LIFE - The Point

DOWN AT THE NIGHTCLUB - The Creeps

(MY GIRL) MARYANNE - The Spongetones

SHE TURNS TO FLOWERS - Salvation Army

YOU ARE MY FRIEND - The Rain Parade

MR. UNRELIABLE - The Inmates

(I THOUGHT) YOU WANTED TO KNOW - Chris Stamey And The dB's

SHE DON'T KNOW WHY I'M HERE (Single Version) - The Last

THERE MUST BE A BETTER LIFE - Biff, Bang, Pow!

SLAVE GIRL - The Lime Spiders

I MAY HATE YOU SOMETIMES - The Posies

I HELPED PATRICK McGOOHAN ESCAPE - The Times

IT'S ABOUT TIME - The Pandoras

I LIVE FOR BUZZ - The Swingin' Neckbreakers

I WANT YOU BACK - The Hoodoo Gurus

THIS DAMN NATION - The Godfathers

TELL ME WHEN IT'S OVER - The Dream Syndicate

WHENEVER I'M GONE - The Prisoners

NEW KIND OF KICK - The Cramps

AND SHE RIDES - The Long Ryders

MOTORBIKE BEAT - Revillos

TEARS (ONLY DRY) - The Vipers

25 O'CLOCK - The Dukes Of Stratosphear

DON'T GIVE IT UP NOW - Lyres

IF AND WHEN - Chris Stamey And The dB's

PABST BLUE RIBBON - The Untamed Youth

THERE SHE GOES - The La's

KINGSLEY J. - Vibrasonic

I CAN NEVER TELL - The Crawdaddys

MAKE ME STAY - The Green Telescope

EVERYDAY THINGS - The Plimsouls

I WANNA DESTROY YOU - The Soft Boys

IT'S YOU - Mickey & The Milkshakes

APOLOGY - The Posies

LIGHTS ARE CHANGING - The Bevis Frond

AHEAD OF MY TIME - The Droogs

WELCOME TO MY LOVE - The Funseekers

FLOWERS IN THE SKY - The Revolving Paint Dream

METAL BABY - Teenage Fanclub

THE UNGUARDED MOMENT - The Church

I CAN'T PRETEND - The Barracudas

OUT OF THE UNKNOWN - Died Pretty

L.A. EXPLOSION - The Last

I'LL CRY ALONE - Flamin' Groovies

SUNSPOTS (Single Remix) - Julian Cope

HINDU GODS OF LOVE - Lipstick Killers

DEATH AND ANGELS - Green On Red

BARBED WIRE HEART - The Sinners

PINK FROST - The Chills

SHE TOLD ME LIES - The Chesterfield Kings

BEAUTY AND SADNESS - The Smithereens

TEST DRIVE - The Mummies

BUSY MAN (EP Version) - DMZ

LOVE WILL GROW - The Stems

SHE GOES OUT WITH EVERYBODY - The Spongetones

HYPNOTIZED - The Plimsouls

NO APOLOGY - The Unclaimed

GOD KNOWS IT'S TRUE - Teenage Fanclub

YOU KEEP ON LYIN' - The Hoods

DON'T BREAK DOWN - The Sting-Rays

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED - The Fleshtones

BABY WHAT'S WRONG - The Cynics

PSYCKO (THEMES FROM PSYCHO AND VERTIGO) - Laika & The Cosmonauts

MY NAME IS TOM - The Jigsaw Seen

GENTLE TUESDAY - Primal Scream

WITH A CANTALOUPE GIRLFRIEND - The Three O' Clock

LIKE WOW - WIPEOUT! - The Hoodoo Gurus

BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST - The Fuzztones

PLAINS OF NAZCA (Single Version) - Sun Dial

GETTING OUT OF HAND - The Bangs

PLEASE DON'T TELL MY BABY - Mickey & The Milkshakes

ONE HALF HOUR AGO - The Rain Parade

YOU'RE MY LOVING WAY - The Aardvarks

TRANSFIGURATION - Screaming Trees

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA - United States Of Existence

WHERE THE WOLF BANE BLOOMS - The Nomads

CHEATED AND LIED - The Vipers

STRAWBERRIES ARE GROWING IN MY GARDEN (AND IT'S WINTERTIME) - The Dentists

WON'T NEED YOURS - Tell-Tale Hearts

WEAKNESS - Inspiral Carpets

YOU'LL KNOW WHY - The Miracle Workers

NOT MY MEMORY - The Unknowns

FAR AWAY - The Prisoners

AIN'T THAT A MAN - The Optic Nerve

MINK DRESS - Plasticland

TIGHT TURN (Album Version) - The Raybeats

ONE WAY TICKET - The Nerves

TRACY HIDE (Cover Version) - The Wondermints

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Well, the ones I know are great, so I'd like one.

Seems to be a bit light on sources, as Two track from the stratosphears? And "Motorbike Beat" The Revillos? Great, but does it qualify?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

i saw it last night for the first time. at first i was like holy crap, someone made a paisly underground box set! but the more I looked at the tracklisting the more dissapointed I was. Like, on one hand I wish it went deeper...on the other hand, even though it's not my "scene", where's the Gories? Oblivians? etc

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Looks great to me. Better than the original Nuggets, as a matter of fact.

And I guess, for once, they haven't been using the mono versions either :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Looking over this track listing makes me ponder once again why Mr Catty needs this box set when he's got just about every fucking thing on it. It's giving me the Left of the Dial flashbacks from last Xmas....

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh and "There she goes" the La's.

Two questions...

If that's on it, shouldn't "Loaded" Primal Scream be there too? It's the rules.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

There is *some* primal scream on there.

what was the second question?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

The Oblivians & Gories aren't on it because it's supposed to be 80s Nuggets (with a few 70s exceptions). Except it has a Teenage Fanclub song from '91, so who knows. Maybe there'll be a Grandchildren of Nuggets for those bands.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I looked at it yesterday. Some fine stuff there, but like Mark implied....they could have done more.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah, second question... (um, I was going to delete that line, then forgot)

OK, Wot no Boo Radleys?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Actually, more seriously, I remember Brian James of the Dammned was one of the first to try to revive 'psychedelia' after he left the band, back in 1978 or whenever. It was the band before "Tanz der youth" I think.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I didn't see it mention "80s", just the lost garage bands in between the original Nuggets and today's garage bands.

Better then the original nuggets? Not in my humble opinion.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Ful title: Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1995

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

So shouldn't there be some Brian Jonestown Massacre on there somewhere?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I stand corrected. The first I heard of this was on the Bomp! email list, which I no longer subscribe to, and it was described as being an 80's comp, this was a while ago, maybe over a year ago.

There's hardly anything on it from the 90s though!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

The Other Half wants Son of Nuggets
The Other Half? They were already on Nuggets I- "Mr. Pharmacist," right?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Actually I've just remembered, one theory put forward on the Bomp list as to why there's no Gories or Oblivians on this is because they would be on Son of Pebbles or Son of Back From The Grave, if such a thing existed.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Nuggets had pleny of raw garage rock on it. The Sonics? I just think the "curators" of this box had their taste and bias. Hell, I would've filled it with Crystalized Movements songs.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I would say definitely worth it. These are good to great '80s bands that weren't so great that I had to get all their full albums (other than Plimsouls and Teenage Fanclub), but made really great songs. Some of the choices may be puzzling, but I'm looking forward to getting this.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

There's not enough on this that I don't already have somewhere else, so I definitely won't be getting this, but I would say go for it if you're a newcomer to this sort of thing.

I still haven't got Nuggets II yet. I already have a lot of that on various Freakbeat comps, so I probably won't get that either unless I see it cheap somewhere (unlikely).

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was in chronological order.

But a hell of a good track list!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

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