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500 Greatest Albums

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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 - Various Artists


Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 - Various Artists
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This collection of sixties garage rock, compiled by rock critic and soon-to-be Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, became a touchstone for Seventies punks. The twenty-seven-track, two-LP set was a radical idea in 1972 — while rock was getting bigger, Nuggets established a new canon out of forgotten AM-radio hits — brutally simple singles, such as the Standells' "Dirty Water," the Shadows of Knight's "Oh Yeah!" and the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction." Rhino expanded Nuggets into a sprawling four-CD box in 1998.

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