60's Garage Rock Page

MyGen Profile Generator Well first off folks theres too much too have to explain and so little time?..so we'll say it as simple as possible??..this MySpace was made in honor of EVERY!!! 60s garage rock band?..this page was made for everything garage in the 60s..we have created a page where friends can come in and experience that mind boggling torture that was 60s Garage Rock n Roll!!!!..and now! for some garage rock history..Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American pop and rock songs from the mid- to late 1960s, assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records. Assisting him was Lenny Kaye, who later became the guitarist for the Patti Smith Group. Together, the two men assembled a 2-LP set. The album was originally released by Elektra Records in 1972, and reissued, with a new cover design, in 1976 by Sire Records. The liner notes, penned by Lenny Kaye, gave a brief biography of each band.The stripped-down music of groups like the 13th Floor Elevators, the Electric Prunes, the Blues Magoos and the Chocolate Watchband resonated with budding musicians of the 1970s who were tired of corporate rock. Many credit the influence of these groups on the punk movement that was to later explode in both the UK and the United States. Jon Savage, in his history of the UK punk movement England's Dreaming, cites Nuggets as a major influence, and includes it in his essential punk discography, alongside Iggy and The Stooges' "Raw Power".Nuggets gained credence with rock music critics and was on the Rolling Stone "Top 200 Albums" list. Infamously, unlike the other 199 albums, Nuggets took quite a while to appear on CD. Many labels marketed some of the songs on the original LP in compilation discs like Rhino Records' Nuggets series and the Pebbles series, but none of them ever compiled the original LP, with the exact same songs in the original sequence.It wasn't until 1998 that Rhino brought the original LP to CD, keeping the original song sequence and liner notes intact. However, rather than releasing a single-disc release of the original LP, Rhino put the original disc in a box set with three other discs, an extra 91 songs in total that were not on the original LP. Contrary to popular belief, many of the songs were actually American Top 40 hits: more than a third of the original Nuggets would fall into that category, while Rhino's expanded set featured such smash hits as "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock (#1), "Louie, Louie" by The Kingsmen (#2), "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (#2), "Little Bit O'Soul" by The Music Explosion (#2), and "Time Won't Let Me" by The Outsiders (#5).The box set was very successful, successful enough that in 2001, Rhino released another four-disc box set, called Nuggets, Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire & Beyond. While the original Nuggets LP and the first box set concentrated on the American scene, the second Nuggets box shifted its focus to the rest of the world, collecting cuts from the United Kingdom (such as the Pretty Things and the Small Faces), Japan (The Mops), Iceland (Thor's Hammer) and Brazil (Os Mutantes).The Pebbles series is an extensive group of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP Records. In all, the Pebbles series has made available over 500 obscure, mostly American "Original Punk Rock" songs recorded in the mid-1960's — primarily known today as the garage rock and psychedelic rock genres — that were previously known only to a handful of collectors. The name "Pebbles" is a diminuitive of the name of the seminal Nuggets album of similar music; since in almost all cases, the recordings compiled on these albums were, at best, regional hits with little or no national exposure. By contrast, several of the bands presented on the original Nuggets compilation had one or more national hit songs, such as the Seeds, Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, the Standells, Count Five and others. Following on the heels of the success of the Pebbles series, dozens of other series of garage rock compilation albums have been started, with numerous albums being released each year for several decades.The Pebbles series refers to the recordings on their albums as "Original punk rock and psychedelic rock from the fabulous Sixties". The term "punk rock" was coined by Lenny Kaye, who was involved in compiling the original Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, in reference to the numerous American bands that were formed in the wake of the British Invasion. Some of the recordings of this type were credited to individual musicians, but most were made by young combos and rock bands that were typically composed of teenagers, and they invariably come from 45 singles. In many cases, the band would release a routine cover song of a well-known hit as the "A" side of a single and include a more interesting original song as the "B" side that would be more appropriate for inclusion on a compilation album. However, the wyld covers by some of the garage rock bands are as renowned as any of the original songs, and numerous cover songs have also been compiled on the Pebbles series."Punk rock" is now mainly applied to several waves of bands that formed in the 1970's and later – many of which cite the music on Nuggets and Pebbles albums as major influences. This type of music is now generally identified as the genres of garage rock, named after the practice venue that most young bands utilize, and psychedelic rock, since many songs were designed to be enjoyed while under the influence of psychoactive drugs such as marijuana and LSD...This is a list of compilation albums featuring recordings entirely or mostly in the garage rock and psychedelic rock genres of rock music. For the most part, the recordings that are compiled on these albums were originally released in the mid-1960's and into the 1970's. In order to encompass the musical forms that are included in the Pebbles series, the list includes compilations of British and European recordings in the same general style (although the terms utilized in these cases include "Nederpop", "freakbeat", "mod", "beat" and others).The Nuggets and Pebbles albums were the pioneering series, so they are listed first, followed by the remainder in alphabetical order. "Pebbles" is a takeoff on the name "Nuggets" (which may itself be based upon "rock" music), and this is true of many of the other series, particularly the older ones: Boulders series, Rubble series, Rough Diamonds series, Digging for Gold series, Hearts of Stone series, and a new one, Gravel series.Despite the fact that many of the recordings being anthologized on these albums are extremely rare, the sheer volume of available garage rock recordings that have already been compiled is staggering. In all, there are reportedly more than 1,000 compilation albums of this sort, plus numerous other albums that concentrate on particular garage rock bands and artists. A large number of these compilation albums were released in limited runs of as little as 400 to 500 copies, such as the original 1978 release of the first album in the Pebbles series. Thus, many of these compilation albums have become rarities in themselves.Most of these compilation albums were released in long series over a number of years, although many are standalone records. In many cases, the albums were first released on LP and later on CD; but many albums originated on CD, including some new volumes in established LP series. There are also numerous new LP's that are issued each year, including more than a few on 10" disks.There are many on-line reference resources for garage rock and psychedelic rock music. Although most concentrate on the bands rather than the compilation albums, an exception is the remarkable database "Searchin' for Shakes", published by Ugly Things fanzine, which is available on line as well as in download form.As good as most of these albums are, the list of inventive names that have been devised for these compilation albums is a treat in itself.Some of these albums and series have a more eclectic group of songs than these two genres — the Born Bad series, for instance, includes numerous rockabilly rarities, novelty songs and instrumental rock recordings, with several being releases from the 1950's — but fit as well into this category as any other. In a few cases, such as the Rough Diamonds series, the series itself is compilation in nature, although the individual albums are by specific artists. Some of the albums are released in series but with significantly different names — e.g., Rave with the Amphetamine Generation and Riot of the Amphetamine Generation — so these albums are listed individually rather than trying to create a series name.Generally speaking, the list does not include compilation albums of punk rock (as the term is generally utilized today), pop music and surf music. Compilation albums covering music from the late 1970's and later (even if the music is clearly garage rock or psychedelic rock) have also been omitted, as typified by the third Nuggets box-set, Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1995. Exceptions are compilations such as Rockabilly Psychosis and Garage Disease, which include some older tracks as well as newer releases.While most of these compilations center on American recordings, other albums include music from Europe in the same vein, including the second Nuggets box set and the 10 albums in the Pebbles series that are subtitled The Continent Lashes Back. More recently, compilations of this type of music from Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere have been released, to the extent that garage rock and psychedelic rock recordings could truly be regarded as a category of world music; these compilation albums are also listed herein.When known, the city, state, country or region of origin of this music is given in parentheses. "US" covers the United States of America, while "UK" covers all parts of the United Kingdom (England, Ireland, Wales, etc.). 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