Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire & Beyond, 1964-1969

Disc 1
1	Making Time / The Creation 2:58
2	Father's Name Was Dad / Fire 2:29
3	I Can Hear the Grass Grow / The Move 3:07
4	My Friend Jack / The Smoke 3:01
5	My White Bicycle / Tomorrow 3:16
6	I'll Keep Holding On / The Action 3:39
7	When the Night Falls / The Eyes 2:33
8	Sorry / The Easybeats 2:35
9	Imposters of Life's Magazine / The Idle Race 2:19
10	How Is the Air Up There? / The La De Das 2:37
11	Mud in Your Eye / Les Fleur de Lys 3:03
12	Everything (That's Mine) / The Motions 2:03
13	Garden of My Mind / Mickey Finn 2:34
14	Take a Heart / The Sorrows 3:16
15	The Life I Live / Q 65 3:20
16	Midnight to Six Man / The Pretty Things 2:20
17	I See the Rain / Marmalade 3:48
18	The First Cut Is the Deepest / The Koobas 3:06
19	You Stole My Love / Mockingbirds 2:41
20	125 / The Haunted Album Version 2:32
21	My Mind's Eye / The Small Faces 2:03
22	Going Nowhere / Los Bravos 2:20
23	All Night Stand / Thoughts 2:05
24	War or Hands of Time / The Master's Apprentices 2:51
25	It's a Sin to Go Away / We All Together 3:50
26	A Dream for Julie / Kaleidoscope 2:47
27	I Read You Like an Open Book / The Tages 2:38
Disc 2
1	Children of the Sun / The Misunderstood 2:52
2	Save My Soul / Wimple Winch 3:06
3	Desdemona / John's Children 2:27
4	I Can Only Give You Everything / Van Morrison 2:42
5	Lost Girl / The Troggs 2:33
6	I Must Be Mad / The Craig 2:47
7	Say Those Magic Words / The Birds 3:15
8	Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad / Caleb 3:16
9	Daddy Buy Me a Girl / Golden Earring 2:41
10	Exit Stage Right / Ronnie Burns 2:30
11	Gone Is the Sad Man / Timebox 3:46
12	I'm Rowed Out / The Eyes 2:57
13	You've Got a Habit of Leaving / Davy Jones 2:29
14	Reflections of Charles Brown / Rupert's People 4:19
15	Words Enough to Tell You / The Mascots 1:58
16	That's the Way It's Got to Be / The Poets 2:36
17	14 Hour Technicolour Dream / Syn 2:54
18	Walking Through My Dreams / The Pretty Things 3:38
19	You Said / The Primitives 2:19
20	This Life of Mine / The Lost Souls 2:43
21	Shadows and Reflections / The Action 2:52
22	Friday on My Mind / The Easybeats 2:52
23	In the Land of the Few / Love Sculpture 3:57
24	For Another Man / The Motions 1:49
25	Fire Brigade / The Move 2:24
26	Gaby / Boots 2:32
27	Biff Bang Pow / The Creation 2:26
Disc 3
1	Your Body Not Your Soul / Cuby & the Blizzards 2:18
2	Cathy, Come Home / The Twilights 2:01
3	Circles (Instant Party) / Les Fleur de Lys 3:03
4	Get Down from the Tree / Matadors Album Version 3:30
5	Cry in the Night / Q 65 2:16
6	Changing the Colors of Life / Los Chijuas 3:00
7	Social End Product / The Bluestars 2:33
8	Crawdaddy Simone / The Syndicats 3:16
9	Don't You Remember? / The Sound Magics 2:14
10	It's My Pride / The Guess Who 2:47
11	Magic Potion / Open Mind 3:34
12	You're Driving Me Insane / Missing Links 2:57
13	Who Dat? / Jury 2:17
14	A Midsummer's Night Scene / John's Children 2:35
15	Listen to the Sky / Sands 3:46
16	How to Find a Lover / Mockingbirds 1:56
17	Days of the Broken Arrows / The Idle Race 3:49
18	By My Side / Elois 2:17
19	Path Through the Forest / The Factory 3:58
20	Love Hate Revenge / Episode Six 2:55
21	Pictures of Matchstick Men / Status Quo 3:11
22	The Train to Disaster / The Voice 2:49
23	Sad / The Playboys 2:55
24	Slaves Time / The Slaves 2:22
25	You Can Be My Baby / The Red Squares Single Version 2:18
26	I Wish I Was Five / Scrugg 3:19
27	Glendora / The Downliners Sect 2:44
Disc 4
1	Rosalyn / The Pretty Things 2:21
2	Come On / The Atlantics 2:55
3	The Madman Running Through the Fields / Dantalian's Chariot 4:11
4	How Does It Feel to Feel / The Creation US Single Version 3:08
5	I'm Just a Mops / Don Mopsick 2:58
6	Why Don't You Smile Now / The Downliners Sect 2:08
7	Nothin' / The Ugly Ducklings 2:27
8	Break It All / Los Shakers US Single Version 2:22
9	The Bitter Thoughts of Little Jane / Timon 2:20
10	Touch / The Outsiders 3:13
11	Vacuum Cleaner / Tintern Abbey 3:06
12	My Life / Thor's Hammer 2:20
13	Bad Little Woman / The Wheels 2:50
14	No Presents for Me / Pandamonium 2:52
15	Bat Macumba / Os Mutantes 3:08
16	Real Crazy Apartment / Winston's Fumbs 2:52
17	No More Now / The Smoke 2:12
18	No Good Without You / The Birds 2:40
19	Kicks and Chicks / Zipps 3:14
20	Dance Around the Maypole / Acid Gallery 2:41
21	Get Yourself Home / The Fairies 2:28
22	I'm Your Witchdoctor / Chants R&B 2:04
23	But You'll Never Do It Babe / Boots 2:32
24	One Third / The Majority 2:17
25	Flight from Ashiya / Kaleidoscope 2:40
26	Here Comes the Nice / The Small Faces 2:58
27	It's My Fault / The Rattles 2:08
28	When the Alarm Clock Rings / Blossom Toes 2:16

Barnes & Noble

Here's everything you always wanted to know about the '60s but didn't know where to find -- part two. Like the original Nuggets compilations and eventual box set, which chronicled America's mid-'60s garage rock explosion, this 109-track set all but ignores chart hits -- with occasional digressions like the Easybeats' "Friday on my Mind," that is. Instead, the compilers of this box o' rocks dug deep to find buried rock treasure secreted all around the globe. That includes remarkable contributions from unfairly ignored British groundbreakers like the Creation (whose wild-eyed "How Does It Feel to Feel" and "Biff! Bang! Pow!" should be rock radio staples) and the Smoke (wry purveyors of the sneaky, lysergic message of "My Friend Jack"), as well as Brazilian psychedelicists (Os Mutantes) and Dutch guttersnipes (Q 65). While many of the names on this set are unrecognizable, the faces behind them are -- or went on to be -- anything but obscure. John's Children, represented here by the wildly undulating psychedelic suite "A Midsummer Night's Scene," were fronted by none other than future T. Rex leader Marc Bolan, while Merseybeat mavens the Birds (the source of a pair of tunes) counted latter-day Rolling Stone Ron Wood as part of their flock. In all honesty, however, you don't need to know the history of the Idle Race (an early vehicle for ELO's Jeff Lynne) to appreciate the swirling majesty of their "Imposters of Life's Magazine"), nor do you need a fact sheet to grasp the primal ferocity of the Downliners Sect's "Glendora." The expansive, 100-page booklet -- packed with photos, essays, and as many details about the era as you can possibly digest -- does provide some grounding, though. David Sprague

All Music Guide

Nuggets, Lenny Kaye's original 1972 compilation of garage and psych, loomed large in the record collectors consciousness, canonizing a portion of rock that was originally laughed off while setting the standard for reissues. Rhino's 1998 box set of the same name expanded the scope of that record, replicating most of the original while gloriously spilling forth over three additional discs -- and, in doing so, it spurred a minor revolution, becoming one of the most talked-about reissues of the last half of the '90s. Rhino knew there was an audience thirsting for a sequel, and they gave them one in 2001, but they didn't take the easy way out. Instead of offering another round of American garage rockers, they decided to take the road less traveled, compiling four discs of hidden treasures from non-American garage and psych bands. Most of these cuts are from British bands, but there are also selections from a pre-fame Guess Who, the New Zealand act the Smoke, the Brazilian psychedelia of Os Mutantes, the exceptional Merseybeat stylings of Uruguay's Los Shakers, and the extraordinary Peruvian combo We All Together, among other non-Brit acts. It's a brilliant, even necessary, move, since most of these bands and songs have been only heard only by the most dedicated collectors -- the kind that are willing to risk money based on just hearing a band mentioned, not to hear the group themselves. Let's face it -- apart from the Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men," the Small Faces' "Here Comes the Nice," and the Pretty Things' "Rosalyn," the most familiar song here is the opener, the Creation's "Making Time," simply because it provided the indelible soundtrack to Max Fischer's yearbook in Rushmore. That's four songs out of 109 -- a ratio that should simply entice most die-hard rockers and record collectors, especially since the familiar names (the Move, Them, the Easybeats, the Troggs) are represented by songs that aren't heard all that often. So, the big question is, does Nuggets, Vol. 2 deliver and is it worth spending the money for 100-plus songs you've never heard before? Well, if you're even slightly interested in this, the answer is yes. That doesn't mean this isn't without its faults -- like any garage rock, if it's listened to in once concentrated burst, it becomes a little samey, which is also a by-product of its biggest flaw, namely how the compilers favor songs that sound like American garage and downplaying the delirious, precious frutiness of British psych. Still, that's a minor complaint, because the simple fact of the matter is this -- there's no better way to fall in love with this music, not just because it does its job so well, it just simply doesn't have any peers. Furthermore, a lot of this stuff is pretty hard to come by (personally, I spent about 150 dollars on a complete Idle Race collection, and it's much better to get their two best songs here). Also, much of the bands here are best heard in this context, since they have a song, maybe three, that were stunners -- and all of these stunners in one place is stunning. Stephen Thomas Erlewine