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Music CD - Various Artists: Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
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Music CD: Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $64.98
Our Price: $37.97
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Manufacturer: Rhino Records
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1. Let's Get Together - Dino Valenti
2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish
3. You Were On My Mind - We Five
4. Number One - The Charlatans
5. Can't Come Down - The Warlocks
6. Don't Talk to Strangers - The Beau Brummels
7. Anything - The Vejtables
8. It's No Secret - Jefferson Airplane
9. Johnny Was a Good Boy - The Mystery Trend
10. Free Advice - The Great! Society
11. Mr. Jones (A Ballad Of a Thin Man) - The Grass Roots
12. Stranger In a Strange Land - Blackburn & Snow
13. Who Do You Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service
14. She's My Baby - The Mojo Men
15. Coffee Cup - The Wildflower
16. Live Your Own Life - The Family Tree
17. Fat City - The Sons Of Champlin
18. Human Monkey - The Frantics
19. Bye Bye Bye - The Tikis
20. Section 43 - Country Joe & The Fish
21. Hello Hello - The Sopwith 'Camel'
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227998301
Format: Box set
Label: Rhino Records
Manufacturer: Rhino Records
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Rhino Records
Release Date: 2007-09-18
Studio: Rhino Records
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Summary: Soundtrack Of My Childhood
Comment: I was immediately attracted to this collection. I was a big fan of the first two Nuggets sets, both for their eclectic track selection and detailed scholarship ( especially when so little was known about some of the more obscure groups.) Even more exciting was the fact that it was the story of the San Francisco music scene; the place where I spent my childhood and the music I listened to. Could they really get this right, I sure hoped so.
Like many great scenes, some of the most definite expressions of this cultural earthquake came early. The Beau Brummels were really the first great San Francisco band. They took the Folk-Rock style so ubiquitious in the mid 60s and fused it with the energy of the English Invasion, very much as their counterparts the Byrds did in Southern California. They were not alone, with other bands like the Mojo Men, the We Five, and the Vejtables bringing a local presence to AM radio, to mix with Motown and Liverpool. The first disc really captures this moment, when the elements combined to bring the message of folk music, the electricity of the Beatles and the awareness of generational change together. Something was definitely happening and even Mr Jones knew it. The Dead were still a bar band named the Warlocks and their great "Can't Come Down" gives you a glimpse of their unique power, before they discovered 30 minute jams. Perhaps the most psychedelic band at this point in time were Country Joe and the Fish whose magnificent original version of "Section 43" is here along with the pre-Grace Airplane led by Marty Balin.
Disc 2 brings us the wider scene, the groups on the penninsula and other parts of the Bay Area that contributed to the tapestry. Most of these groups never found the recognition beyond a fine single or an impossible to find album, and this dic is a great treasure trove for even the most hardcore collectors. The momentum is building, the revolution is almost here.
We arrive at the Haight on disc 3, begining with the best recorded moment by the legendary Charlatans, "Alabama Bound." Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Airplane and Dead in their glory; so much was happening all at once. But we also had the Mystery trend, Serpent Power, Blue Cheer and Sly and the Family Stone. It was not a monolitic sound so much as a diverse embarrassment of riches, elements of R&B, Folk, Pop, Acid Rock and outright weirdness all going on on the same stage and echoing in the ears and often-expanded minds of the locals and runaways that populated the streets.
The final disc covers the aftermath of the explosion, with bands like Santana, It's a Beautiful Day and the Sons of Champlin getting their moment in the fog, if you will. Of all the discs, this one is the most familiar in terms of track selection, the energy diminishes despite the greatness of individual efforts. The Summer is over kids, back to real life.
The packaging is really singular in the history of cd packaging, not a booklet, a bonafide book. Great and previously unseen photos along with the complete backstory on everyone, famous and one-hit wonders alike. I do agree the discs are best removed and stored in jewel cases. This is time travel to a glorious past and history of a turbulant era as well. There is certainly tragedy and wistful sadness here as well as joy and love, but that is what makes it great art as well as cherished memories. They got it right.
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Summary: Your CDs will be damaged. Could have been one of the best.
Comment: The book style packaging for this set is wonderful for it's high quality and content. This is the best book/box set I've ever seen except for the CD storage. Rhino is now packaging all of their sets with the CDs tightly packaged in cardboard such that they must be damaged to be removed and then there's no way to put them back for storage without further damage. People need to start complaining directly to Rhino about this. The music on this set is wonderful but it's mostly well known material unlike some of the nugget sets. It would have been nice to see a little more lesser known tracks mixed in. If not for the CD packaging this would be the nicest box set I own.
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Summary: It's A Trip!
Comment: Will not rewrite all the same great 5 star comments but this is a trip in more ways than one! As for the packaging, it's first class and will not scratch the discs unless you use a screwdriver or tool (which the negative reviewer must be one) to pull from the sleeve. Venture the ride man!
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Summary: The Music By The Bay
Comment: Lot's of Reviewers have gone after Rhino Records concerning their Box Set Releases. Sound Quality, Packaging, Track Selection of Past Sets have been a Big Issue of Negatives for many Reviewers. Well about this Set called: "Love Is The Song We Sing"; San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, I will go on Record to say that Rhino, has hit a Home Run here.
This is a Hardcover Book of 120 Pages, filled with Great Text and some Wonderful Photographs of the Biggest American Music City of the 1960's. Packed into this Insightful Book are 4 Amazing Audio CD's of Music. All the right Bands are here with only a few of my favorites missing.
From the Beau Brummels {The First SF Band to recieve Air-Play} thro to the Youngblood's Massive 1969 Hit of Dino Valenti's: "Get Together", Good and Bad, Loud and Soft, this was The Sixties that I Remember growin' up in, and it was the Most Magical Place on the Planet (Along with London/ Liverpool}.
Two AM Radio Stations were our 'Colors', They were 1260 KYA and KFRC. On Tiny Transistor Radios we could listen to The Jefferson Airplane or Moby Grape, just as often as The Beatles or The Stones. Wild Posters on Storefront Walls and Windows in Day Glo, advertised Dance Hall Concerts featuring: "The Mystery Trend" or "The Sons Of Champlin". R.Crumb was peddling a strange little 'Comix' Book outta a baby's Carriage on Haight Street. It was for me at the Time, the very Center of The Universe.
The Song selection over the Course of these Four Discs is indeed Vast, with The Dead and Quicksilver right next to The Family Tree and Public Nuisance. There are 77 Selections in this Collection, Some Bands you have heard of: "Santana" and "Steve Miller Blues Band", to some that you only knew from Posters: "The Oxford Circle" and "The Mojo Men" and some Groups I sure can't remember at all: "Butch Engle & The Styx" and "Teddy And His Patches". From Bands that sounded just like: The Yarbirds, as: "The Count Five" with the Garage Anthem: "Psychotic Reaction" to the Soaring Violin of David LaFlamme and It's A Beautiful Day's, Classic: "White Bird". This Box/Book is Quite a Ride of Music and History.
This Box Set along with the Great Book: "San Francisco Rock", 1965-1985, by Jack McDonough, are Two Sides of the same Coin. Rhino Records, have really produced an enjoyable set of Music and History with this Excellent Package. It is an Honest Account {With the Good & Bad included} of what went down in Northern California, from: 1965-1975. Some of this Music drives my Wife and Kids Crazy...And that is Exactly what it is supposed to do! This is not for Everyone....But if your ears still Work and you are ready to expand your Mind a bit Sideways, Over Under Down....This could be your E-Ticket to the magic Kingdom...FIVE STARS !!!
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Summary: "WHAT EVER TRIP YOUR ON DUDE"............
Comment: An amazing collection of 77 folk, psychedelic songs. When I listen to these songs I can't help but hear how many of the more commercial successful rock bands( The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd etc.) of the time took a little something from some of these obscure tunes and bands and put it into their own recordings. San Francisco was definintly a place to spend time at to hear the fresh new psychedelic sound. The sound and times were happening in New York and just about everywhere at the time of 1965-1970. The remastering is in incredible on these tunes, even on my discman with headphones the sound is incredibly pristine. The book is incredible with photos and recording dates and amazing informative linear notes. This Box set is a collectible. I tell you, listening to this cd box set, really takes you back in time in current events and the music industry of 1965-1970. You know, when I listen to this cd set, I realize how less processed music was in the 1960s, bands made thier own music, today computers do most of the performing, I guess downloading of today takes away something from music regardless of age and genres. It is just not the same as going out and buying the old vinyl lp. I like the convience of a legal download myself, it's just when I hear these tunes I feel like I'm hearing them on the old Sears turntable. Incredible stuff, I really think this cd set should win some awards for music compilations, it's that good. If this box set interest you, you might want to take a trip with Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 and Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. A word of advice, it's nice to listen to the four cds in order, but it is better when you set your audio machine to shuffle, but of course that is your preference.
Believe me this cd compilation is a nice trip to take............
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Editorial Reviews:
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It wasn't all peace, love, and drugs that made San Francisco the fulcrum of the burgeoning hippie scene in the mid '60s. According to this sprawling 77-track, four-disc set--the third in Rhino's ongoing Nuggets series--it was the music that nurtured and helped create Haight-Ashbury. This expansive package succeeds in presenting the disparate acts involved in that cultural revolution through a detailed aural exploration. Sure, the usual suspects like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Janis Joplin are here, but it's the obscurities and oddities--some never previously available and many more extremely difficult to find--that provide intimate glimpses into the crevices, building blocks, and influences of what was later dubbed the "San Francisco Sound." The platters are broken down into rough category/chronological groupings, with disc three focusing on 1967, the Summer of Love whose 40th anniversary this box's release celebrates. Even there, acts such as the Ace of Cups, the Mystery Trend, and the Loading Zone fly way below the radar. There's lots to absorb, even for genre enthusiasts, but compiler Alex Palao's extensive, track-specific liner notes provide concise yet vital contextual background to guide the listener through a wildly diverse landscape that runs from the British Invasion-styled pop of the Beau Brummels and the soft folk of the Youngbloods to the furious garage psychedelia of the Count Five and the eardrum-bursting, proto-metal power rock of Blue Cheer. --Hal Horowitz
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