Originally appearing on LP from the Bam Caruso label in the 1980s, and then on CD on the Past & Present imprint in 2003, these first ten volumes (boxed) in the Rubble Collection were conceived and collected by Phil Smee. For fans of the Nuggets series, both the two American volumes and the British Nuggets, you won't find a lot of overlap. The Nuggets comps were and are for people who want what was at least the stuff of legend, if not readily available. The collection here digs deep and are, for the most part, flawless in what they present. This set, and its companion volumes 11-20 (a separate box), are very different creatures. For starters, they dig a lot deeper into the hopelessly obscure 45s and tapes of Brit psychedelia, freakbeat, Mod, and pop.For every cut by Sharon Tandy & les Fleur de Lys, the Glass Menagerie, Pretty Things, and Flying Machine and the Clique, there is at least one to match from acts like Peter & the Blizzards, Skip Bifferty, Life 'N' Soul, and Factotums. You're getting the idea. This is for the listener who wants to dig down and get virtually everything. There are some things missing here (the second box picked up a lot of that slack), and like other series' that go down into the underbelly of the '60s, some of what's here is drek. But there are real gems, too -- ,check out the Sharon Tandy cuts like "Hold On," on disc nine, or the Velvett Fogg's "Lady Caroline," on disc ten, or Fairytale's "Lovely People" that kicks off volume six. Then there's the completely cracked and whacked, such as Dragonfly's "Celestial Empire," Orange Seaweed's "Pictures in the Sky," and Focus Three's "10,000 Years Behind My Mind." In addition to these ten handsome volumes in a single fold-in case, there is a 93-page booklet completely annotating tracks and offering discographies for artists who actually had them. In 2007, Fallout in the U.K. reissued this box again, in a limited numbered (on the bottom) limited license, limited edition of 1000 copies at a more reasonable price than the previous version. [Thom Jurek, AllMusic. Score: 4/5 stars]
trax:01. Wimple Winch / Atmospheres 02. The Mirror / Faster Than Light 03. Caleb / Woman Of Distinction 04. Martin Cure And The Peeps / It's All Over Now 05. The Living Daylights / Always With Him 06. The Misunderstood / Never Had A Girl Like You Before 07. The Open Mind / Cast A Spell 08. The Dakotas / The Spider And The Fly 09. Wimple Winch / Rumble On Mersey Square South 10. The Open Mind / Magic Potion 11. The Living Daylights / Let's Live For Today 12. The Craig / I Must Be Mad 13. Unit 4 + 2 / I Will 14. The Hush / Grey 15. Wimple Winch / Save My Soul 16. The Mindbenders / The Morning After
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"The Rubble Collection" Vol. 1
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Many thanks
I'm looking forward to the rest of the collection
Music that will live forever!
As someone who bought the original vinyl LPs as they were released, I just wish the reviewers at Allmusic could write a review that treated its subject with the respect it is due and did the Rubble series justice. What the review fails to do is put the series into context.'Rubble' is the seminal collection of British Freakbeat and Psych and it was begun at a time when the genre had pretty much been thrown in the waste bin. Other than the 2 10 track 'Perfumed Garden' LPs released slightly before, there was nothing comparable at the time. It really was trailblazing.
The Rubble 'Collection' did not just appear one day as 2 10 volume sets. I doubt it was even originally perceived as a 20 volume series when 'the Psychedelic Snarl' was first released but just perhaps as 2 or 3 LP releases (just as 'Perfumed Garden' was). That it turned into a 20 LP series released over an 18 year period (1984-2002) speaks to its success.
As such each LP would likely have been painstakingly put together and many of them were compiled before the Internet was generally available (no discogs and 45cat to refer to) and before there were any real resources of information about UK Psychedelia (Vern Joynson published his first modest UK 60's music catalogue in the same year that 'The Psychedelic Snarl' was first released) and his magnificent tome 'The Tapestry Of Delights' was still 14 years away. For the first LPs even CD's were still largely a thing of the future. Apart from the odd article in the pop music press there was virtually no way to reference such music and the only way to hear it was if you happened upon one of those priceless gems in a junk shop or at a boot fair.
By the early 1980's virtually the whole catalogue of British psych (other than the likes of the Beatles) had been deleted by the major record labels. You simply could not buy it new. It was a case of finding the original tracks and/or building on personal knowledge of the 60's and then building each album track by track. As such I have little doubt that the series grew organically and suspect the contents of the early albums at least would have been in many ways constrained by what master tapes and clean recordings were available at the time.
There was no 'collection' as such and consequently any observations about what was 'missing' is missing the point completely. They could only include what they could find. These albums were about rediscovering Psychedelia after the watershed of the punk revolution when everything that had gone before was trashed ('no Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones'), they were not part of some grand 21st century music release strategy.........
Manny Kenth,
thank you for your comprehensive explanation, very interesting!
Yes, thanks Manny for that. I bought this album when it was relatively new and the Rubble series to me is essential. This album is a particularly good one, with the Open Mind tracks being particular highlights. If you like late-period British Invasion (1966-1969, let's say) and you only know the hits or stars, this is a great place to learn more.
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