Nuggets From Nuggets: Choice Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Nuggets From Nuggets

“Before he was part of Patti Smith’s seminal punk group, Lenny Kaye assembled Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965 – 1968 for Elektra Records. Kaye was a music writer and producer at the time, and his vision for Nuggets was a series of eight installments focusing on different regions of the US, but the label wanted something more manageable. Nuggets’ first saw life as a double-album in 1972, then ballooned out to a four-disc box set in the late 90s before this twenty-track distillation was released in 2000.   Nuggets from Nuggets is true to the aims and spirits of the original double-album with twenty of the best known hits, obscurities, cult hits, and novelties from the four-disc version repeated here. If you all you need is a single-disc of 60s garage ” read more

500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"In 1972, Lenny Kaye’s two-LP compilation of trashy classics inspired a garage-rock revival. The digital era brought a four-CD box set of the concept, but this 20-tracker is truer to the aims of the original. Standout track: The 13th Floor Elevators, “You’re Gonna Miss Me”"