18 garage-indebted Australian artists including Pond, The Straight Arrows, and The Laurels provide this exclusive track-by-track breakdown of Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era, a covers album celebrating the 40th anniversary of New York based Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye’s enduring 1972 garage rock compilation, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era.
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era: 1965-1968 is a groundbreaking compilation album of American 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”.



1. Velociraptor – I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) [03:20]
2. Pearls – Dirty Water [03:58]
3. The Straight Arrows – Lies [02:44]
4. Tiny Migrants – A Public Execution [03:04]
5. The Living Eyes – Oh Yeah [03:01]
6. Davey Lane – Moulty [03:21]
7. Palms – Don’t Look Back [02:15]
8. Eagle and the Worm – An Invitation to Cry [04:19]
9. Step-Panther – Liar Liar [01:45]
10. The Laurels – You’re Gonna Miss Me [03:42]
11. The Murlocs – Psychotic Reaction [03:49]
12. Pond – Hey Joe [03:00]
13. The Gooch Palms – Just Like Romeo and Juliet [02:12]
14. Baptism of Uzi – Baby Please Don’t Go [08:17]
15. The Frowning Clouds – Let’s Talk About Girls [02:13]
16. Montero – My World Fell Down [04:16]
17. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Open My Eyes [02:31]
18. Bloods – Farmer John [02:28]



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