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Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969. (Carousel Corner).
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969 (Rhino)
When we reviewed the original Nuggets box set (No. 75), we suggested that Rhino's next target was the British invasion. We wouldn't dare suggest that Rhino was listening, but here it is ... the lesser lights of seminal Brit Pop and ... Australia, Mexico, Japan, Uruguay (Uruguay?!), the Netherlands, and many others. The original Nuggets collection focused on pyschedelia, the dawn of punk and its D.I.Y. sensibility, and Nuggets II, also a four-disc box set, trains its eye on post-Beatles pop wannabes also nurtured in the car parks of the Empire and beyond. Some succeeded, in greater and lesser measure, and some didn't.
Of course one scans the track listing on the back of the box for hits and fave raves. I found The Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind" and The Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men", but stateside treasures such as The Honeycombs' "Have I the Right?" and Freddie and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" are MIA. Then again, bereaving a handful of hits misses the point. (And if you really crave all the hits, Sire's History of British Rock is your spot o' tea.)
Nuggets II reveals in massive, almost numbing, quantities that the D.I.Y. sensibility wasn't confined to the garages of suburban America -- its ethos flourished everywhere. Japan's The Mops performs the inadvertently hilarious "I'm Just A Mops" with equal measures of fractured English and somber gravity. Uruguay's Los Shakers pitch in with "Break It All", Mexico's Los Chijuas' with "The Changing Colors of Life" -- so well rendered that one mistakes it for an L.A. folk-rock track -- and Czechoslovakia's The Matadors with "Get Down from the Tree". Depending on which movement they were trying to emulate, the groups sport The Beatles' matching jackets and skinny ties or The Stones' casual free dress, tho' the former dominates. Not to be outdone groups from Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark take numerous bows.
And just as Nuggets cast a flinty peek at stars-in-waiting, the history lesson continues on Nuggets II. Davy Jones ("You've Got the Habit of Leaving") became David Bowie; Love Sculpture ("In the Land of the Few") begat Dave Edmunds; the Golden Earrings ("Daddy Buy Me a Girl") dropped the plural for ...
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