 Theme
|
|
|
|
 Search
|
|
|
|
 Poll Booth |
| What is your favourite Fleshtones album on Yep Roc?
|
|
 ASP Portal |
|
|
|
|
 Children of Nuggets 27 August 2004
| Look out for a four CD boxset from Rhino Records in the spring entitled Children of Nuggets and featuring "The Girl from Baltimore" and "The World Has Changed". Why the compilers did not see fit to call upon "American Beat" as the sure-fire party starter is bewildering given that it is an early example of a return to 60s garage band influences, a rousing call to arms for the Chesterfield Kings, Milkshakes, Barracudas et al, and neatly quotes the riff from "Gonna Make You Mine" by the Shadows of Knight. But hey, at least the band has two primo slices of wax on the collection while other influential bands (e.g. the Cannibals) are not even represented.
Posted By Steve Coleman
Add Comment
|
|
User Comment
| For those interested, here is the track selection for Children of Nuggets:
1 Aardvarks You're My Loving Way
2 Bangles The Real World
3 Bangs Getting Out Of Hand
4 Barracudas I Can't Pretend
5 Barracudas (We're Living In) Violent Times
6 Biff Bang Pow The Chocolate Elephant Man
7 Chesterfield Kings She Told Me Lies
8 Chills Pink Frost
9 Church The Unguarded Moment
10 Cramps New Kind Of Kick
11 Crawdaddys I Can Never Tell
12 Creeps Down At The Nightclub
13 Cynics Cat And Mouse
14 dBs If And When
15 dBs I Thought You Wanted To Know
16 Dentists Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)
17 Died Pretty Out Of The Unknown
18 DMZ Busy Man (EP version)
19 Dream Syndicate Tell Me When It's Over
20 Droogs Ahead Of My Time
21 Dukes Of The Stratosphere 25 O'Clock
22 Dukes Of The Stratosphere Vanishing Girl
23 Flamin' Groovies I Can't Hide
24 Flamin' Groovies Yes It's True
25 Fleshtones The Girl From Baltimore
26 Fleshtones The World Has Changed
27 Funseekers Welcome To My Love
28 Fuzztones Bad News Travels Fast
29 Green On Red Death & Angels
30 Green Telescope Make Me Stay
31 Hoodoo Gurus I Want You Back
32 Hoodoo Gurus Like Wow - Wipeout
33 Hoods You Keep On Lyin'
34 Inmates Mr Unreliable
35 Inspiral Carpets Weakness
36 Jigsaw Seen My Name Is Tom
37 Julian Cope Sunspots
38 Laika and the Cosmonauts Psycko (Themes From Psycko & Vertigo)
39 LA's There She Goes
40 Last She Don't Know Why I'm Here (45 version)
41 Last LA Explosion
42 Leopards Psychedelic Boy
43 Lime Spiders Slave Girl
44 Lipstick Killers Hindu Gods Of Love
45 Long Ryders And She Rides
46 Lyres Help You Ann
47 Lyres Don't Give It Up Now
48 Milkshakes Please Don't Tell My Baby
49 Milkshakes It's You
50 Miracle Workers You'll Know Why
51 Mummies Test Drive
52 Nashville Ramblers The Trains
53 Nerves One Way Ticket
54 Nomads Where The Wolf Bane Blooms
55 Opal Northern Line
56 Optic Nerve Ain't That A Man
57 Pandoras It's About Time
58 Pandoras Stop Pretending
59 Plimsouls Everyday Things
60 Plimsouls Hypnotized
61 Point All My Life
62 Posies Apology
63 Posies I May Hate You Sometimes
64 Primal Scream Gentle Tuesday
65 Prisoners Whenever I'm Gone
66 Prisoners Far Away
67 Rain Parade One Half Hour To Go
68 Rain Parade You Are My Friend
69 Raybeats Tight Turn
70 Revillos Motorbike Beat
71 Revolving Paint Dream Flowers In The Sky
72 Salvation Army She Turns To Flowers
73 Screaming Trees Transfiguration
74 Sinners Barbed Wire Heart
75 Smithereens Beauty And Sadness
76 Smithereens Strangers When We Meet
77 Soft Boys Wading Through A Ventilator
78 Soft Boys I Wanna Destroy You
79 Spongetones (My Girl) Mary Anne
80 Spongetones She Goes Out With Everybody
81 Stems Love Will Grow
82 Stems She's Fine
83 Sting-Rays Don't Break Down
84 Sun Dial Plains Of Nazca
85 Swingin' Neckbreakers I Live For Buzz
86 Teenage Fanclub Metal Baby
87 Teenage Fanclub God Knows It's True
88 Tell-Tale Hearts Won't Need Yours
89 That Petrol Emotion It's A Good Thing
90 Three O'Clock With A Cantaloupe Girlfriend
91 Times I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
92 Unclaimed No Apology
93 United States Of Existence A Scandal In Bohemia
94 Unknowns Not My Memory
95 Untamed Youth Pabst Blue Ribbon
96 Vibrasonic Kingsley J
97 Vipers Tears (Only Dry)
98 Vipers Cheated And Lied
99 Watermelon Men Seven Years
100 Wondermints Tracy Hide (Cover version)
Posted By nw5steve |
|
User Comment
| Wow -- was just thinking about this two weeks ago. So many good acts, so many great and defining songs of the garage era missing.
The two 'shtones cuts, for starters, aren't even their best examples of super rock. If they're gonna use any 'shtones at all, what about "Screaming Skull," "Stop Fooling Around," "Living Legends," "American Beat" (the REAL national anthem), "Mod Teepee," "Theme From The Vindicators," "Ride Your Pony," "Roman Gods," "Shadow-Line" and/or "Candy Ass"?
Or while we're at it, the spinoff stuff: "Baby Don't You Do It," "Way Down South" and "Full Time Men" (Full Time Men); "Psilocybe" (Mad Violets); "I Go Wild" (The Wild Hyenas); "Through the Night" and "I'm Gonna Knock You Out" (Love Delegation)?
That's just the 'shtones. Here's a partial list of the other MIA's:
Lyres -- I'm Telling You Girl, Not Looking Back, She Pays the Rent (fast version), We Sell Soul, How Do You Know, Stacy, Soapy, I'll Make It Up to You
Chesterfield Kings -- 99th Floor, I'll Go, Live Life
Cynics -- Baby What's Wrong, Creepin'
The Pandoras -- Hot Generation
Vipers -- Nothing's From Today (Battle of the Garages Vol. 2 version), Who Dat, Never Alone, Tellin' Those Lies, Got the Hurt
Mosquitos -- Darn Well, That was Then, This Is Now
The Secret Service -- What's Going On
The Brood -- And I Know, Satisfyin', Knock on My Door
The Double Naught Spys -- You Better Tell Me Now, I Can't Understand, Tryin' My Best, Tears from My Eyes
The Mummies -- Stronger Than Dirt
The Creeps -- Ain't No Square
The Nomads -- The Way You Touch My Hand, I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time
The Shoutless -- I Tell No Lies
The Gories -- Nitroglycerine, Hey Hey We're the Gories
Outrageous Cherry -- Georgie Don't You Know, Pale Frail Lovely One, Girl you Have Magic Inside You
Marshmallow Overcoat -- 13 Ghosts
The Long Ryders -- 10-5-60, Looking for Lewis and Clark
True West -- Lucifer Sam
The Friggs -- Bad Word for a Good Thing
Hoodoo Gurus -- In the Echo Chamber, Down on Me, What's My Scene, Party Machine, Come Anytime, Leilani, Bittersweet
Cosmic Psychos -- She's a Lost Cause
The Tryfles -- Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) (Yes, a Christmas song)
Smithereens -- Tracy's World, Girl Don't Tell Me
Swingin' Neckbreakers -- Wait, Same All Over the World, Take Your Life, Little Pink Medicine, Pool Hoppin', I Live for Buzz, Shake It Some More, I Took My Baby Home
The Flaming Sideburns -- Street Survivor
Laika & the Cosmonauts -- Global Village
Raybeats -- The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt
dB's -- She's Got Soul
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Camel Walk
The Untamed Youth -- Girl and a Hot Rod, Santa's Gonna Shut 'Em Down, Santa's Midnight Run (Yes, another 2 Xmas songs)
The Point -- On Comet (Come to think of it, maybe the best of the "Midnight Xmas Mess" tunes should be on a bonus disc)
The Mooney Suzuki -- Persephone
The Plimsouls -- Hush
Anyway, time for bed. Feel free to pile on here, but I can't see doing any such "Children of Nuggets" collection without any of these songs ...
Fran from Fresno (via New haven)
Posted By franman |
|
User Comment
| Well Fran, from someone who was checking out a lot of the garage bands in London during the 80s, I would like to see the songs by Inspiral Carpets, LAs and Jesus & Mary Chain replaced by material by the Cannibals (e.g. I've Gone), the X-men, and Surfadelics. The last two were even favourites at Alan McGee's club, the Living Room, near the Post Office Tower circa 1984. Furthermore, the three bands nominated cherished 60s garage music to a fair greater degree and allowed this to permeate their music. Nothing against the Las/J&MC/Inspiral Carpets as people but I would hardly consider them as "Children of Nuggets". Most of the musicians I admire on the garage rock scene do not appear to be interested in half measures and which is why I think someone like Mike Spenser from the Cannibals should be represented at the expense of those bands with a bigger commercial pull. But then again, Rhino needs to attract the casual punter so I guess compromise is the order of the day for such a product. In the meantime, I suppose we can always make our own definitive compilations and stick them on a P2P network. Where to start though...
Posted By nw5steve |
|
User Comment
| Steve, I'm pretty sure Gary and Alec didn't want that list posted for public viewing just yet, as the final track list is not set in stone just yet (this was just a working template, in other words). You can read more discussion on this topic on the Shakin' Street forum at the GaragePunk.com Forums message board. Here's a direct link:
http://www.garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760
Posted By kopper |
|
E-mail: info@fleshtones.org
|
|
|
Quick Links
Members Online
External Links