Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1995

Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

As its title makes clear, Children of Nuggets is the first Nuggets release to stretch beyond the '60s heyday of garage rock and psychedelic music. Instead of once again returning to that seemingly bottomless well -- which has not only brought the original 1972 double LP, Nuggets, but such imitators as the Pebbles and Rubble series, plus Rhino's expanded four-disc 1998 box set and its 2001 sequel, which focused on singles from the U.K. and around the world -- the four-disc box Children of Nuggets is devoted to bands from the '70s, '80s, and '90s (but primarily the '80s) that were inspired by the original Nuggets LP, along with other trashy, intoxicating rock and guitar pop from the '60s. They weren't just inspired by this music -- they patterned …  » Read more

Tracks

Disc 1

				Title	Performer	Time
		1		Vanishing Girl	Dukes Of Stratosphear	2:30
		2		Help You Ann	Lyres	2:30
		3		The Real World	Bangles	2:35
		4		We're Living in Violent Times	Barracudas	2:47
		5		The Trains	Nashville Ramblers	3:07
		6		Seven Years	Watermelon Men	2:47
		7		Strangers When We Meet	Smithereens	3:46
		8		Wading Through a Ventilator	Soft Boys	3:20
		9		I Can't Hide	Flamin' Groovies	3:14
		10		The Girl from Baltimore	Fleshtones	2:30
		11		It's a Good Thing	That Petrol Emotion	2:34
		12		She's Fine	Stems	2:35
		13		All My Life	Point	2:05
		14		Down at the Nightclub	Creeps	3:18
		15		(My Girl) Maryanne	Spongetones	2:43
		16		She Turns to Flowers	Salvation Army	2:33
		17		You Are My Friend	Rain Parade	3:06
		18		Mr. Unreliable	Inmates	2:52
		19		(I Thought) You Wanted to Know	dB's, Stamey	3:18
		20		She Don't Know Why I'm Here [Single Version]	Last	3:26
		21		There Must Be a Better Life	Biff Bang Pow	3:05
		22		Slave Girl	Lime Spiders	2:51
		23		I May Hate You Sometimes	Posies	3:23
		24		I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape	Times	3:04
		25		It's About Time	Pandoras	2:22
		26		I Live for Buzz	Swingin' Neckbreakers	2:26
		27		I Want You Back	Hoodoo Gurus	3:10

Disc 2

				Title	Performer	Time
		1		This Damn Nation	Godfathers	2:46
		2		Tell Me When It's Over	Dream Syndicate	3:33
		3		Whenever I'm Gone	Prisoners	2:47
		4		New Kind of Kick	Cramps	3:29
		5		And She Rides	Long Ryders	4:30
		6		Motorbike Beat	Revillos	2:22
		7		Tears (Only Dry)	Vipers	2:56
		8		25 O'Clock	Dukes Of Stratosphear	5:05
		9		Don't Give It Up Now	Lyres	3:36
		10		If and When	Stamey	2:39
		11		Pabst Blue Ribbon	Untamed Youth	2:41
		12		There She Goes	La's	2:42
		13		Kingsley J.	Vibrasonic	4:33
		14		I Can Never Tell	Crawdaddys	2:44
		15		Make Me Stay	Green Telescope	3:06
		16		Everyday Things	Plimsouls	2:29
		17		I Wanna Destroy You	Soft Boys	2:53
		18		It's You	Mickey & The Milkshakes	2:18
		19		Apology	Posies	5:14
		20		Lights Are Changing	Bevis Frond	4:56
		21		Ahead of My Time	Droogs	2:40
		22		Welcome to My Love	Funseekers	2:48
		23		Flowers in the Sky	Revolving Paint Dream	2:24
		24		Metal Baby	Teenage Fanclub	3:39

Disc 3

				Title	Performer	Time
		1		The Unguarded Moment	Church	3:10
		2		I Can't Pretend	Barracudas	2:31
		3		Out of the Unknown	Died Pretty	4:07
		4		L.A. Explosion	Last	2:27
		5		I'll Cry Alone	Flamin' Groovies	2:14
		6		Sunspots [Single Remix]	Cope	3:32
		7		Hindu Gods (Of Love)	Lipstick Killers	3:22
		8		Death and Angels	Green On Red	2:15
		9		Barbed Wire Heart	Sinners	4:00
		10		Pink Frost	Chills	3:59
		11		She Told Me Lies	Chesterfield Kings	2:18
		12		Beauty and Sadness	Smithereens	3:24
		13		Test Drive	Mummies	1:29
		14		Busy Man [EP Version]	DMZ	3:22
		15		Love Will Grow	Stems	3:15
		16		She Goes Out with Everybody	Spongetones	2:27
		17		Hypnotized	Plimsouls	2:55
		18		No Apology	Plimsouls	2:05
		19		God Knows It's True	Teenage Fanclub	4:56
		20		You Keep on Lyin'	Hoods	2:32
		21		Don't Break Down	Sting Rays	2:49
		22		The World Has Changed	Fleshtones	3:10
		23		Baby What's Wrong	Cynics	2:28
		24		Psycko (Themes from Psycho and Vertigo)	Laika & The Cosmonauts	2:24
		25		My Name Is Tom	Jigsaw Seen	4:25

Disc 4

				Title	Performer	Time
		1		Gentle Tuesday	Primal Scream	3:47
		2		With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend	Three O'Clock	2:52
		3		Like Wow - Wipeout!	Hoodoo Gurus	3:12
		4		Bad News Travels Fast	Fuzztones	2:41
		5		Plains of Nazca [Single Version]	Sun Dial	3:45
		6		Getting Out of Hand	Bangs	2:15
		7		Please Don't Tell My Baby	Mickey & The Milkshakes	1:44
		8		One Half Hour Ago	Rain Parade	4:12
		9		You're My Loving Way	Aardvarks	2:44
		10		Transfiguration	Screaming Trees	3:55
		11		A Scandal in Bohemia	United States Of Existence	2:32
		12		Where the Wolf Bane Blooms	Nomads	2:15
		13		Cheated and Lied	Vipers	2:26
		14		Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden (And It's Wintertime)	Dentists	3:20
		15		Won't Need Yours	Tell-Tale Hearts	2:45
		16		Weakness	Inspiral Carpets	4:18
		17		You'll Know Why	Miracle Workers	3:07
		18		Not My Memory	Unknowns	2:23
		19		Far Away	Prisoners	5:23
		20		Ain't That a Man	Optic Nerve	2:37
		21		Mink Dress	Plasticland	2:50
		22		Tight Turn [Album Version]	Raybeats	3:54
		23		One Way Ticket	Nerves	2:10
		24		Tracy Hide [Cover Version]	Wondermints	4:48

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