NUGGETS Psychedelic Artyfacts 1965-1968 1st Press ELEKTRA Garage/Psych EX+ 2LP

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NUGGETS
Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
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ELEKTRA Records 7E-2006
Original 1972 issue Double LP
Original INNER SLEEVES included
1st PRESSING

VINYL is EX+/EX+
Very close to Near Mint throughout with only a very few faintest sleeve marks among the 4 sides, viewed under hard bright light. Labels are pristine all 4 sides.
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COVER is VG+ (STRONG)
Vibrant gatefold cover is extremely clean with only faintest touch of shelf wear; some age-toning around edges, mostly on back, in white background. No creases, writing, soil or other marks. Flat, even spine and all seams completely intact with no splits.

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NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

The original - 1972 FIRST PRESS on ELEKTRA Butterfly labels
Compiled, assembled and liner notes by Lenny Kaye?

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side A: 1 7E-2006 A MM ESR
?Side B: 1 7E-2006 B-1 MM ESR
?Side C: 1 7E-2006 C MM ESR
?Side D:  1 7E-2006 D MM ESR

Record 1 labeled and plays sides A & D, record 2 labeled and plays sides B & C

1st Press Labels with "Elektra Records, 15 Columbus Circle, New York City 10023" address in rim text.
NO Warners logo or text on labels (added to rim text on 2nd press of the same year).

Original 'Something out of the ordinary' ELEKTRA company inner sleeves are NM with no splits, creases or soil.

? & © 1972 by Elektra Records?
Mastered at Elektra Sound Recorders

RARE clean 1972 FIRST PRESS of the famous Original 1st NUGGETS double LP
 ...featuring a 27 songs cast of classic sixties garage & psychedelic "nuggets"
 ... the first of such compilations ...widely copied, but never equaled!

Compiled from choice American psychedelic and garage rock singles released in the mid-to-late 1960s - Incredibly influential on the coming punk rock scene!

Compiled by eminent rock critic Lenny Kaye, 1972's Nuggets was the anthology responsible for reviving interest in mid-'60s American garage rock which by 1972 had been cast off and forgotten. Now legendary, this first pressing 2-Lp set was intended as the ideal 'cream of the crop' of choice garage & psych classics in the 27-song selection. All important permutations of the mid-'60s garage style are present: primitive fuzz, garage-folk-rock, psychedelic dementia, protest rock, etc. Major heroes, Chocolate Watch Band, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Music Machine, the Seeds, The Barbarians, The Leaves, The Remains, The Shadows of Knight, The Electric Prunes, The Standells, The Sonics and many others are all represented.

If it's possible to give a five-star rating, it's tempting to do so here. No one could have possibly satisfied all rabid garage collectors with any single set of classic garage/proto-psych songs, but that's not really the point here; the object was to provide a wide-ranging set of '60s garage rock that would entertain, represent the considerable span of garage styles, and present the songs in the best possible quality (in mono or stereo), whether from the master tapes or best existing copies. Still after 45 years on, it is the best single source on vinyl for those who thirst for original '60s garage rock with a track selection geared toward cream-of-the-crop quality and depth, rather than any particular narrow collector prejudices.?

ALL MUSIC GUIDE REVIEW by MARK DEMING
"If one had to point to a single initial salvo that launched the garage rock revival movement in the 1970s and ‘80s, it would have to be the release of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 in 1972. Elektra Records had approached rock critic Lenny Kaye (not yet the guitarist with the Patti Smith Group) with the notion of compiling an album of great, overlooked rock tunes, but what Kaye came up with was something significantly different -- an overview of the great, wild era when American bands, goaded by the British Invasion, began honing in on a tougher and more eclectic rock & roll sound, and kids were reawakened to the possibilities of two guitars, bass, and drums.

Coming up with a simple definition of this period and its sound proved daunting -- the word "garage" appears nowhere in the liner notes to Nuggets, and Kaye's notion of "the first psychedelic era" was only part of the story -- the frequent bursts of fuzztone, Farfisa organ, and vocal sneering in the 27 tunes Kaye selected codified a musical approach that flourished in the mid-'60s, and at a time when rock was becoming more self-consciously serious and arty, the primal power and sheer sense of fun audible in this music seemed like a minor revelation that became a clarion call to musicians, fans, and music scribes around the world.

NUGGETS proved to be of seismic importance in the years after its release, but just as importantly, it's a blast to listen to; Kaye's sequencing gives the album the joyous flow of a great afternoon of AM radio, and the album blends hits both big ("Pushin' Too Hard" by the Seeds, "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five) and small ("You're Gonna Miss Me" by the 13th Floor Elevators, "Hey Joe" by the Leaves) with high-quality obscurities ("Don't Look Back" by the Remains, "It's A-Happening" by the Magic Mushrooms) and early efforts by future stars (Leslie West in the Vagrants, Todd Rundgren in the Nazz, Ted Nugent in the Amboy Dukes). And while many of the garage compilations that would follow would focus relentlessly on the obscure and the noisy, Kaye's set not only demonstrates that some of this stuff actually made the charts, but that there was as much great psychedelic pop as snotty proto-punk pouring out of America's rec rooms back in the day. And Kaye's liner notes were nearly as important as the music in defining the importance of this music and its era.

Very few "oldies" compilations have had an influence approaching that of Nuggets, and even fewer are as rewarding to listen to; if you care about rock music in the '60s, you need to own this album."
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TRACK LISTING
Side One:
1. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
2. Dirty Water - The Standells
3. Night Time - The Strangeloves
4. Lies - The Knickerbockers
5. Respect - Vagrants
6. A Public Execution - Mouse
7. No Time Like The Right Time - The Blues Project

Side Two:
1. Oh Yeah - Shadows Of Knight2. Pushin Too Hard - The Seeds
3. Moulty - Barbarians
4. Don't Look Back - The Remains
5. Invitation To Cry - The Magicians
6. Liar Liar - The Castaways
7. You're Gonna Miss Me - The Thirteenth Floor Elevators

Side Three:
1. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
2. Hey Joe - The Leaves
3. Just Like Romeo And Juliet - Michael And The Messengers
4. Sugar And Spice - The Cryan Shames
5. Baby Please Don't Go - The Amboy Dukes
6. Tobacco Road - The Blues Magoos

Side Four:
1. Let's Talk About Girls - Chocolate Watch Band
2. Sit Down I Think I Love You - The Mojo Men
3. Run Run Run - The Third Rail
4. My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
5. Open My Eyes - Nazz
6. Farmer John - The Premiers
7. It's A Happening - The Magic Mushrooms.

THE KING OF ALL GARAGE ROCK ALBUMS - in SUPERB, Super-Clean 1st Press Sound

Vinyl kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeves to protect both the original inners and the vinyl.
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve.
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