"Children Of Nuggets" Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996 - CD 2

...Far from sounding monotonous, Children of Nuggets has a tremendous variety of sounds, styles, and attitudes. As producer Alec Palao states in his introductory liner notes, the idea was to adhere to Lenny Kaye's idea for the original Nuggets LP, which was to "compile together the good tracks from all those albums that only have one good track," not caring whether the featured songs adhered to a strict definition of what was or was not garage or psych...
...Of course, Palao and his co-producer, Gary Stewart, and their assistants on this project do have a template to follow and not just because there are bands that were tagged at the time as '60s revivalists. They have Kaye's work to guide them; plus they have the work of Greg Shaw, the journalist and record label head who championed this music at first in his fanzine, Who Put the Bomp, and then on his Bomp and Voxx labels. Stewart salutes Shaw at the conclusion of the booklet for Children of Nuggets, and in a way, this set does function as a tribute to the music Shaw helped shepherd during the '80s, since it celebrates all kinds of '60s-inspired guitar pop made in the post-punk years -- music that arguably wouldn't have existed without Shaw's input...to be continued... - allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
trax:
1 This Damn Nation - The Godfathers 2 Tell Me When It's Over - The Dream Syndicate 3 Whenever I'm Gone - The Prisoners 4 New Kind Of Kick - The Cramps 5 And She Rides - The Long Ryders 6 Motorbike Beat - The Revillos 7 Tears (Only Dry) - The Vipers, 8 25 O'Clock - The Dukes Of Stratosphear 9 Don't Give It Up Now - The Lyres 10 If And When - Chris Stamey & The dB's 11 Pabst Blue Ribbon - The Untamed Youth 12 There She Goes - The La's 13 Kingsley J. - The Vibrasonic 14 I Can Never Tell - The Crawdaddys 15 Make Me Stay - The Green Telescope 16 Everyday Things - The Plimsouls 17 I Wanna Destroy You - The Soft Boys 18 It's You - Mickey & The Milkshakes 19 Apology - The Posies 20 Lights Are Changing - The Bevis Frond 21 Ahead Of My Time - The Droogs 22 Welcome To My Love - The Funseekers 23 Flowers In The Sky - The Revolting Paint Dream 24 Metal Baby - The Teenage Fanclub