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Track List: Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets / Various
Album Details: Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets / Various
- Release Date:
- 05/11/2004
- Label:
- Rhino Handmade
- UPC:
- 603497782123
Pro Reviews: Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets / Various
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Since the first Nuggets in 1972, the entire series has been grounded in the gritty, dirty sound of garage rock, so much so that Rhino's 2001 box set of British and foreign psychedelic nuggets favored harder rock over the fruity, precious side of British psych. Collectors treasured rare singles before Nuggets, but the series created an aesthetic that emphasized the raw, trippy, wild and wolly over the soft, lush, harmonyladen psychedelicized sounds of AM pop radio. Rubbles, Mindrockers, The Trash Box all of them were dedicated to freaky guitar rock, and that mindset ruled until the latter half of the '90s, when the well had started to run dry, as labels like Sundazed issued the complete recorded works of obscure garage rockers that released only one single during their lifetime. Around this time, collectors including many thirdgeneration music fanatics, raised on the era of CD reissues, not record fairs began to favor the soft sunshine pop of the late '60s, when square vocal groups started to get hip and record trippy. Bands like the Millennium, the Association and Yellow Balloon became hip currency, as did producers like Curt Boettcher and songwriters like Paul Williams. This was close to anathema for the hardcore garage rock fiends because this was not rock roll, it was pop music whose commerical aspirations failed. Nevertheless, most hardcore record geeks have a fondness for this stuff, since it's not only melodic and wellproduced, but it's terribly interesting to hear how underground ideas were borrowed and assimilated into mainstream music; often, it's as strange as it was in the underground, if not stranger. Fans of this breed of psychedelic pop were insatiable, and there was a certain thrill to the fact that it was hard to track down, since it was either issued in Japan, buried as album tracks on reissues, or never made it to CD at all. That's why Rhino Handmade's foray into the sound with Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults and its companion release Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults is so welcome while they're only available as limited editions (primarily sold via rhinohandmade.com, they're also the first widelyavailable American samplers of this style. That alone would make them noteworthy, but what makes them essential (at least for hardcore record collectors), is that they're expertly done. |
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