[.ca] V1 Essential Pebbles

Why not...:
just buy all 10 volumes of the Pebbles collection instead on CD (or even better get all the vinyls if you can find them) if you are an avid 60's garage freak like myself? Might as well search out the original LP's of Nuggets too and any other great 60's comps like Psychedelic Microdots, Good Things are Happening, Cicadelic 60's etc and stuff from Collectables, Crypt, Norton, Eva, One-Way, Fantasy (has Fugs!), Decal, Sundazed, Rhino (the old Rhino releases), Jerden, Mercury etc records. Might I suggest a book for the must-haver? "Fuzz, Acid & Flowers: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage, Psychedelic and Hippie-Rock (1964-1975). I believe it's in its 4th Edition by now. Thee bible of American bands worth \osomething\c ... Also there is a British/European version of a similar name. May The Man never get in the way of your search!

USA Today:
I was getting my oil changed at the local walmart the other day when I saw a lead article in USA today about how kids are starting to listen to the same music their parents did. Most of the kids quoted complained about a lack of quality with todays rockers. This is true. The problem is that no kids are learning to make it anymore. The essential pebbles collection has none of this. All of the songs here were made by kids who were emulating everyone else they could see. 1966 was the most prolific musical year in history. And there are no bad songs on disc one. Even disc two is historically interesting. By the way, there are no master tapes to make the cd from. The singles are all that survives now. Some of what is on disc two has only one copy known worldwide. It saddens me to think what likely has been lost over the years. This is the disc that made me get off my rear end and break out the old bass guitar, at age 42. If you know a kid who listens to Queen or the Rolling Stones, get them this and the nuggets box. We need new blood very badly.

Don't think twice about picking this one up!:
It goes without saying, with a collection title like ESSENTIAL PEBBLES, each song should be a winner. Disc 1 collects the creme de la creme of the first 10 CD volumes of the PEBBLES garage/punk series, and not one of these songs is bad! From The Preachers' "Who Do You Love" to Teddy and Patches' "Suzy Creamcheese" to The Trolls' "Every Day and Every Night" to The Uncalled For's "Do Like Me" to Keith Kessler's "Don't Crowd Me", all 29 tracks are a superb primer for the newcomer to the garage scene and will have you scrambling to get every volume of the PEBBLES collection (buyer beware: not all of them are this great). The last three songs, The Mile Ends' "Bottle Up and Go", Bohemian Vendetta's "Enough", and "Don't Crowd Me", are from the EAR PIERCING PUNK CD, an offshoot volume of the PEBBLES run. Disc 2 is where the collection starts to wane. Containing 26 rare 45's and acetates from around the U.S., including some groups whose names are unknown (!), this is the real reason that even those who have every PEBBLES CD will be in heaven with this set. Not every song on this disc is a classic; as a matter of fact, you might say some of them deserve to be left in the dusty vaults they came from. But the highlights include: The Motifs' "Someday", The Shays' "Brainwashed" (which is bleeped for profanity!), The Sinners' French-language "Sinnerisme", The Mixed Emotions' "Can't You Stop It Now", The Thunderbolts' "Heart So Cold", Peter and the Wolves' "Hey Mama" and "Only Everything" (a cover of Them's "I Can Only Give You Everything"), The Shades' "Down the Road Apiece", The Dynamic Nutones' "Sick and Tired", The Hustlers' "The Sky is Black", The Thorns' "I'm in Love", and an unknown group's "Fed Up". Unfortunately a lot of the songs tend to sound identical to one another, but the fact that they probably weren't heard outside of their particular region makes them a real treat to finally be able to experience!

• Who Do You Love - The Preachers
• Going Away Baby - The Grains of Sand
• You Treat Me Bad - JuJus
• 1-2-5 - The Haunted
• Beaver Patrol - The Wild Knights, The Wilde Knights
• So What! - The Lyrics
• Green Fuz - Randy Alvey & the Green Fuz, Randy Alvey & the Green Fuz
• Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy & His Patches, , Teddy & His Patches
• Faces - Atlantic, T.C.
• Swami - William Penn V,
• No Good Woman - Tree
• Go Away - The Plague
• It's a Crying Shame - The Gentlemen
• Searching - The Omens
• Need a Little Lovin' - The Foggy Notions
• Rebel Woman - Dean Carter
• One Girl Man - The Lost Agency
• Every Night and Every Day - The Trolls
• I Never Loved Her - The Starfires
• No Correspondence - Beckett Quintet
• She's Not Just Anybody - The Dovers
• Everything's There - Hysterics
• Shattered - The Good Feelings
• I Ain't Dead Yet - Breakers
• Do Like Me - Uncalled For
• Doin' Me In - The Gonn
• Bottle Up and Go - The Mile Ends
• Enough - Bohemian Vendetta
• Don't Crowd Me - Keith Kessler
• Someday \o*\c - The Motifs
• Brainwashed \o*\c - The Shays
• Sinnerisme \o*\c - Los Sinners
• Hang Around \o*\c - Missing Lynx
• Can't You Stop It Now \o*\c - Mixed Emotions
• Heart So Cold \o*\c - Thunderbolts
• What a Life \o*\c - The Strangers
• You Gotta Run \o*\c - The Roosters
• Hey Mama - Peter & the Wolves
• Only Everything \o*\c - Peter & the Wolves
• Travel Agent Man \o*\c - Sound Apparatus
• Down the Road Apiece - The Shades
• Sick and Tired \o*\c - The Dynamic Nutones
• You're Through \o*\c - The Dry Grins
• Sky Is Black \o*\c - The Hustlers
• Girl with the Long Black Hair \o*\c - The Other Half
• I'm in Love \o*\c - The Thorns
• I've Gotta Go \o*\c - The Malibus
• I Want You to Know \o*\c - The Malibus
• I Want You \o*\c - The Creations
• I Just Don't Know \o*\c
• Fed Up \o*\c
• I've Had It \o*\c - The Banshees
• It's Your Fault \o*\c - Bristols, , Roy & the Bristols
• Some Other Guy \o*\c - Terry Dee & the Roadrunners, The Roadrunners
• Go Go Girl \o*\c