My Soul Has Been Psychedelicized: A '60s Garage Rock Compilation - Volumes 4 and 5

As I was putting this compilation together, I had an ongoing internal dialogue with myself about two particular issues.  First, I wasn't sure if I should focus exclusively on songs that were never hits to give more attention to the deserving, obscure stuff.  I'm still not sure if I made the right "decision, but I do love the songs that close Volumes 4 and 5, and they just flow so well, too.

 

Secondly, I kept debating what to call this compilation - i.e., was it "garage rock" or "nuggets?"  And in the case of the latter, what precisely defines a 60s song as a nugget?   I kind of went with the decision to make it a nugget compilation, even though I still can't really define a nugget that well, and the title says it's garage rock.  After, I put it all together, I looked at the Wikipedia page for the boxset, "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era" and was heartened to see this quote from Lenny Kaye, the set's compiler/producer,  "I would've made it more 'garage rock' as opposed to these kind of weirder things, like Sagittarius or even the Blues Project. A lot of it falls outside the parameters of what we've come to define as garage rock." I guess it's best to just give those contradictions a big hug and then listen to the music. :)

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Volume 4 The Times To Come	London Phogg
Air Conditioned Man	Thursday's Children
Pushin' Too Hard	The Seeds
Vete Ya	Los Speakers
Baby What's Wrong	The Henchmen
She Sleeps Alone	The Parade
You Were on My Mind	We Five
La Carta	Los Mustang
You Ain't Tuff	The Uniques
No Matter What You Do	The SW4
The Way	July
This Life Of Mine	The Lost Souls
Un Train	Benjamin
Eternal Prison	The Humane Society
Diddy Wah Diddy	Captain Beefheart
Psychotic Reaction	Positively 13 O'Clock
Fiesta en laguna	Los Ampex
Let Her Dance	The Bobby Fuller Four
Volume 5
Boys	Os Demónios Negros
Never Knew I Had It So Bad	Thee Midniters
Mona	Teddy Boys
Too Much Monkey Business	Satins [Portugal]
I'm Not Talking	The Galaxies
Bailemos	Termits
Can't Come Down	The Warlocks
Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White	The Standells
Graveyard	Phantom Five
Steppin' Stone	W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band
Esta Bota Son Para Caminar	Gloria Benevides
All Night Long	The Palace Guard
Bad Woman	Fallen Angels
Ain't It Hard?	Electric Prunes
Who Do You Love	The Woolies
Sweet Young Thing	The Chocolate Watch Band
I'm Coming Home	The Ministry Of Sound
Friday On My Mind	The Easybeats