Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
| Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965–1968 | ||||
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| Compilation album by Various Artists | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1964–68 | |||
| Genre | Garage rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, proto-punk, sunshine pop | |||
| Length | 77:25 | |||
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Elektra Sire |
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| Producer | Lenny Kaye | |||
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| Allmusic (LP) |  |
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a groundbreaking compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles released in the mid-to-late 1960s. It was assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, and Lenny Kaye, later lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group. The original double album was released on LP by Elektra in 1972 with liner notes by Kaye that contained one of the first uses of the term "punk rock". It was reissued with a new cover design by Sire Records in 1976 and expanded into four-CD box set by Rhino Records in 1998.
Jon Savage, in his history of the UK punk rock scene, England's Dreaming, cites Nuggets as a major influence on punk bands and includes it in his essential punk discography, alongside Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power and The Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat"
Many other compilation albums took their cue from Nuggets, including the Pebbles, Rubble - 20 volumes of mainly UK psychedelia released in the 1980s - and Back From the Grave series. Nuggets spawned an entire cottage industry of small record labels dedicated to unearthing and releasing obscure but worthy garage and psychedelic rock music from the 1960s.
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