VA - Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965-1968 (2009)

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Artist: VA
Title: Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965-1968
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Rhino
Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock, Folk Rock, Pop Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 04:25:47
Total Size: 1,2/2 Gb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1 (On The Strip):
01. The Standells - Riot On Sunset Strip
02. The Byrds - You Movin'
03. Love - You I'll Be Following
04. The Leaves - Dr. Stone
05. Buffalo Springfield - Go And Say Goodbye
06. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer
07. Iron Butterfly - Gentle As It May Seem
08. Lowell George & The Factory - Candy Cane Madness
09. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - If You Want This Love
10. The Bobby Fuller Four - Baby My Heart
11. The Palace Guard - All Night Long
12. Sonny & Cher - It's Gonna Rain
13. The Guilloteens - For My Own
14. The Rising Sons - Take A Giant Step
15. The Association - One Too Many Mornings
16. The Knack - Time Waits For No One
17. The Doors - Take It As It Comes
18. Kaleidoscope - Pulsating Dream
19. The Seeds - Tripmaker
20. The People In Me - The Music Machine
21. The Sons Of Adam - Saturday's Son
22. The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Eventually
23. Penny Arkade - Swim
24. The Joint Effort - The Third Eye
25. Spirit - Girl In Your Eye

CD 2 (Beyond The City):
01. Thee Midniters - Jump, Jive & Harmonize
02. The Light - Back Up
03. The Bush - To Die Alone
04. The Premiers - Get On This Plane
05. The Odyssey - Little Girl, Little Boy
06. The Electric Prunes - Hideaway
07. The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen!
08. The Spats - She Done Moved
09. The Turtles - Grim Reaper Of Love
10. Ken & The 4th Dimension - See If I Care
11. The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore
12. Opus 1 - Back Seat '38 Dodge
13. The Humane Society - Eternal Prison
14. The Others - Revenge
15. Things To Come - Come Alive
16. The Velvet Illusions - Acid Head
17. Limey & The Yanks - Guaranteed Love
18. The Romancers (aka The Smoke Rings) - Love's The Thing
19. Kim Fowley - Underground Lady
20. The Deepest Blue - Pretty Little Thing
21. The Whatt Four - You're Wishin' I Was Someone Else
22. The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator
23. The Mustangs - That's For Sure
24. Fapardokly (Merrell & The Exiles) - Tomorrow's Girl
25. The Hysterics - Everything's There
26. The Yellow Payges - Our Time Is Running Out

CD 3 (The Studio Scene):
01. Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action
02. Dino, Desi & Billy - The Rebel Kind
03. The Knickerbockers - High On Love
04. Jan & Dean - Fan Tan
05. P.F. Sloan - Halloween Mary
06. The Mamas & The Papas - Somebody Groovy
07. Thorinshield - Daydreaming
08. The Full Treatment - Just Can't Wait
09. The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
10. London Phogg - The Times To Come
11. The Lamp Of Childhood - No More Running Around
12. The Garden Club - Little Girls Lost-And-Found
13. The Moon - Mothers And Fathers
14. October Country - My Girlfriend Is A Witch
15. Roger Nichols Trio - Montage Mirror
16. Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes
17. The Common Cold - Come Down
18. Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Jill
19. The Monkees - Daily Nightly
20. Modern Folk Quartet - Night Time Girl
21. The Oracle - Don't Say No
22. Hearts And Flowers - Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down)
23. Lee Hazlewood - Rainbow Woman
24. Pleasure featuring Billy Elder - Poor Old Organ Grinder
25. The Ballroom - Baby, Please Don't Go

CD 4 (New Directions):
01. Stephen Stills & Richie Furay - Sit Down I Think I Love You
02. Jackie DeShannon with The Byrds - Splendor In The Grass
03. Peter Fonda - November Night
04. Danny Hutton - Roses And Rainbows
05. The Dillards - Lemon Chimes
06. The Rose Garden - Here's Today
07. Nino Tempo & April Stevens - I Love How You Love Me
08. Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - Words (Demo)
09. The Motorcycle Abeline (Warren Zevon & Bones Howe) - (You Used To) Ride So High
10. Gene Clark - Los Angeles
11. Tim Buckley - Once Upon A Time
12. The Everpresent Fullness - Darlin' You Can Count On Me
13. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - I'll Search The Sky
14. Van Dyke Parks - Come To The Sunshine
15. The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains (Alternate Take)
16. Jesse Lee Kincaid - She Bang Hymns Out Of Tune
17. Nilsson - Sister Marie
18. Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream (Single Version)
19. Noel Harrison - Life Is A Dream
20. Rick Nelson - Marshmallow Skies
21. Del Shannon - I Think I Love You
22. The Byrds - Change Is Now
23. Sagittarius - The Truth Is Not Real (Single Version)
24. Love - You Set The Scene
25. Barry McGuire - Inner-Mannipulations

Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968, Rhino's 2009 sequel to their 2007 Nuggets box Love Is the Song We Sing, shifts the spotlight down the Californian coast, moving from the epicenter of the hippie universe in San Francisco to hipsville central in Los Angeles, the land where fringe-wearing folk-rockers strolled down the Sunset Strip alongside studio cats on the make. Both groups of hipsters are equally well-represented on Where the Action Is!, along with the teens raising a ruckus out in the suburbs and the stars who stretched out, all based on the sounds they heard coming from the Strip, the section of Sunset that serves as the fulcrum for this entire set. The compilers focus on a brief time, the four-year stretch from 1965 to 1968, where Los Angeles was overrun with dance clubs and nightspots, all giving bands as wonderful and distinct as the Byrds, Love, the Doors, the Seeds, Buffalo Springfield, and the Leaves places to explore, opening up avenues that others followed, either in music or spirit. Some of this filtered through the prism of the studio, where there were plenty of musicians infatuated with the sounds of Brian Wilson, who pops up toward the end on an alternate take of "Heroes and Villains," but there's also no denying the impact of hustlers and hucksters like Kim Fowley, or how Hollywood could package and polish all of this up in the form of the Monkees.
All of this is here in bright, flashing neon on Where the Action Is!, which helps make it one of the liveliest of the Nuggets boxes, but also the one that seems to stray furthest from the series' mission to excavate unheard garage rock and psychedelia; after all, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and the Doors are hardly unknown quantities or one-hit wonders. Yet, in its own way, Where the Action Is! is as crucial as any of the boxes that followed the first Nuggets set, for it documents a brief, shining moment in time where everything and anything seemed possible. It's not archeology, it's pop culture anthropology that does an excellent job of charting the rise of the L.A. underground, illustrating its first surfacing in the mainstream, connecting the dots in a fashion that may surprise even some dedicated pop and rock fans, those that might not realize how the Turtles, Bobby Fuller Four, the Standells, the Association, the Electric Prunes, Nilsson, Captain Beefheart. and Iron Butterfly were all connected, however loosely, or how Rick Nelson and Del Shannon got weird as the decade started to draw to a close. These connections, along with discovering dozens of gems from lesser-known artists, are the reason why Where the Action Is! winds up being a blast, as well as a revelation just like any other Nuggets set.

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