Re: feeling ambitious

or is it maybe that i'm hopelessly retro?
it could even bee (ouch! little motherfucker...) because of our fearless leader's new book (how much was a signed copy again?
whichever, but all of a sudden i feel like taking the entire next two months, logging on to TP and designating each day that passes with a 'this next nugget track is fucking great' and here's why thread.

insp. by some guy called lenny.
lenny kaye or something like that.

btw its a group project so just pick a few numbers, like in lotto.



Post Edited (06-25-09 17:37)

Sure, I'll start -

The Nightcrawlers - "Little Black Egg" because it has a great circular guitar riff, a great melody and lyrics that sound like they have to mean something but were in fact about exactly what they sounded like they were about, finding a little black egg in a tree. Which is just genius.

My turn? Cool. Thanks.

"Last Time Around," by the Del-Vetts. Urgent drumming, a roaring guitar riff, echoey shouts leading into the chorus, then a terrific bridge featuring some Byrdsy guitar and these lyrics:

Well it's taken me over and it's swallowed me up
I'm caught in a landslide I can't interrupt
I'm run outta town and I've run outta luck
I know this is the last time around

From there, the lead guitarist goes into a solo that just about any axeman of his time would've given a kidney to come up with; it ends on a mean, drawn-out, feedback-drenched whiplash note, as the band revs back into the verse and the bridge again. That second bridge culminates in a false ending, before the band heads back into the verse riff again to fade-out. Totally righteous.

And of course, the band has one of the just plain coolest-sounding names in the Nuggets canon. Just rolls right off the tongue, the way a great band name should.

Delvin wrote:

> And of course, the band has one of the just plain
> coolest-sounding names in the Nuggets canon. Just rolls
> right off the tongue, the way a great band name should.

Del-Vetts sounds good to Del-vin? Really?

The first song to really strike me as something more than just good Garage-psych was The Remains' "Don't Look Back!"

The Remains: you gotcher Beatles link, yer Parsons link, and yer Michael J. Fox link.

When they start their talk-talk-talkin' remember just one thing:

Truth is the light! The light is the way!
The less folks know the more they have to say!

"Action Woman" by the Litter, just cuz it rocks like a mofo.

I'm also partial to We the People's "You Burn Me Up and Down," which manages to be moody and rocking at the same time, like a Catherine Wheel song.

Does anyone have the box set Children of Nuggets? I'm thinking of buying it, so tell me what you think.

One of my faves is Moulty, the drummer whose hand was cut off. Very moving, funny and weird at the same time.

I agree with Delvin on Children of Nuggets. The concept may be slightly dubious, but the music is exemplary. I rediscovered some old faves and picked up on some new ones through it.

I have the Children of Nuggets box. Love it.

Arguably, it's a dodgy concept for assembling a box set (compared to the first two in the series) — collecting songs from the psych-inspired bands of the '80s and '90s. But there's no faulting the song selection or the sheer enjoyment factor.

True Retail Story:

I once asked Lenny Kaye "Is there anything I can help you with?"

He politely said "no" and walked away with his daughter.

Lenny Kaye was the subject of my most embarrassing celebrity encounter, when I asked him after a Patti Smith show "When is the next Nuggets coming out?", due to the anecdote he sometimes told to illustrate Nuggets' wide influence, of traveling in Scandinavia and constantly being asked that question.

He just sighed resignedly and muttered "It's already out," and that's when I realized the poor guy probably gets asked that exact same question after every Patti show by some douchebag like myself trying to appear clever.



Post Edited (06-27-09 22:45)

this one

michael baker wrote:

> this one

They get an amazingly good sound despite the complete lack of amplifiers and microphones. <grin>

I'll go with Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle" (Nuggets 2)...to me, it's the ultimate psychedelic tune. Especially when "m-y-y-y whi-i-i-i-ite bicy-y-y-c-c-c-le" gets dragged out over the backtracked backing track.

God bless Lenny Kaye.

Nuggts 1 - It's A Happening. Spray the weed! A zephyr breeze! The sky is falling! The ocean's calling. A mushroom hangs above the ground. Can you believe -- it's a happening.....