Disc 3
|
| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Action, Action, Action - Keith Allison ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. Rebel Kind, The - Dino, Desi & Billy/Billy ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. High On Love - The Knickerbockers ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Fan Tan - Jan & Dean ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Halloween Mary - P.F. Sloan ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Somebody Groovy - The Mamas & The Papas ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. Daydreaming - Thorinshield ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Just Can't Wait - The Full Treatment ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Yellow Balloon - The Yellow Balloon ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Times To Come, The - London Phogg ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. No More Running Around - The Lamp Of Childhood ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Little Girls Lost-And-Found - The Garden Club ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Mothers and Fathers - The Moon ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. My Girlfriend is a Witch - October Country ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Montage Mirror - Roger Nichols ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Flower Eyes - The Pasternak Progress ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Come Down - The Common Cold ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Jill - Gary Lewis & The Playboys ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Daily Nightly - The Monkees ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. Don't Say No - The Oracle ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) - Hearts & Flowers ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. Rainbow Woman - Lee Hazelwood/Lee Hazlewood ~ Various Artists | |
| 24. Poor Old Organ Grinder - Pleasure ~ Various Artists | |
| 25. Baby, Please Don't Go - The Ballroom ~ Various Artists | | Disc 4
|
| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Sit Down I Think I Love You - Richie Furay/Stephen Stills ~ Various Artists | |
| 2. Splendor In the Grass - Jackie DeShannon/The Byrds ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. November Night - Peter Fonda ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Roses and Rainbows - Danny Hutton ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Lemon Chimes - The Dillards ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Here's Today - The Rose Garden ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. I Love How You Love Me - Nino Tempo/April Stevens ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Words [Demo] - Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. (You Used to) Ride so High - The Motorcycle Abeline ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Los Angeles - Gene Clark ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Once Upon a Time - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Darlin' You Can Count On Me - The Everpresent Fullness ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. I'll Search the Sky - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Come To the Sunshine - Van Dyke Parks ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Heroes and Villains [Alternate Take] - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. She Sang Hymns Out of Tune - Jesse Lee Kincaid ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Sister Marie - Nilsson ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Last Night I Had a Dream [Single Version] - Randy Newman ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Life is a Dream - Noel Harrison ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. Marshmellow Skies - Rick Nelson ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. I Think I Love You - Del Shannon ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. Change is Now - The Byrds ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. Truth is Not Real [Single Version], The - Sagittarius ~ Various Artists | |
| 24. You Set the Scene - Love ~ Various Artists | |
| 25. Inner-Manipulations - Barry McGuire ~ Various Artists | |
|
| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Andrew Sandoval. | | Photographer: Andrew Sandoval. | | WHERE THE ACTION IS! LOS ANGELES NUGGETS: 1956-1968, Rhino's 2009 sequel to their 2007 Nuggets box LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING, shifts the spotlight down the California 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 it up in the form of the Monkees. | | And all of it 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 but 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. |
Producer: Cheryl Pawelski; Alec Palao; Andrew Sandoval |
|
| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 09/22/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 19759 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227985868 |
|
|
| Professional Reviews |
| Spin (p.86)
- "[T]his thematically organized, exhaustively annotated four-CD box is a portable riot on the Sunset Strip."Q (Magazine)
(p.111)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The collection] makes a cast iron case for mid-'60s LA as a hotbed of creativity and weirdness." Record Collector (magazine)
(p.101)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[This focuses] on LA's Sunset Strip as epicentre of an inestimably influential scene, presenting 101 tracks which range from fascinating to downright mindblowing..." |
|
|
|
|
CD
