Essential Pebbles, Volume 1
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| Compilation album | ||||
| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | Mid-1960s | |||
| Genre | Garage rock, psychedelic rock | |||
| Label | AIP | |||
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Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 is the first compilation album in the Essential Pebbles series. Although subtitled Ultimate '66 garage classics!, not all of the recordings on the album were originally released in 1966.
This album was released on AIP Records in 1997 as #AIP-CD-1058. The first CD collects tracks from the first 10 CDs in the Pebbles series plus Ear-Piercing Punk, while the second CD are "insanely rare bonus tracks" that are previously un-reissued in any form (except for 2 that were previously included on a rare 1982 compilation album).
As mentioned in the introductory liner notes, the recordings on the first CD serve as "a sort of 'greatest hits' for seasoned listeners" as well as an introduction to the Pebbles series, with the inclusion of well-known garage and psychedelic classics such "Green Fuz", "I Never Loved Her", "She's Not Just Anybody", and "Doin' Me In." Although "many more" volumes are promised in the Pebbles series, in fact AIP Records has closed out the series with the release of the final 2 CDs in 1999 and 2007."
The second CD offers generally more obscure tracks. "Travel Agent Man" by Sound Apparatus might be viewed by some as "take off" on "Secret Agent Man," albeit with veiled drug references. "You Gotta Run," by the Roosters from Los Angeles, is in a more melodic vein. The final cut, "Go Go, Girl," by the Hombres, was released as the B-Side of the single "Let It All Hang Out" in 1967, is attributed to an "unknown artist", and its lyrics' feature a male narrator expressing his frustration about having to "stand in line" to see his girlfriend become a "hip-swingin', fringe-slingin' Watusi go go girl" in the presence of other men.
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