Track Listing
1. Let's Get Together - Dino Valenti
2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish (EP version)
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 - 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 Wildflowers
16. Live Your Own Life - The Family Tree
17. Fat City - Sons Of Champlin
18. Human Monkey - The Frantics
19. Bye Bye Bye - The Tikis (Warner Brothers Single Version)
20. Section 43 - Country Joe & The Fish
21. Hello Hello - Sopwith Camel
DISC 2:
1. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
2. Got Love - Front Line
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed - The Mourning Reign
4. Foolish Woman - Oxford Circle
5. My Buddy Sin - The Stained Glass
6. Streetcar - Otherside
7. Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy & His Patches
8. Rubiyat - The Immediate Family
9. Rumors - Syndicate Of Sound
10. Sometimes I Wonder - Harbinger Complex
11. Want Ad Reader - The New Breed
12. I'm a Good Woman - The Generation
13. No Way Out - Chocolate Watchband
14. Hey I'm Lost - Butch Engle & The Styx
15. I Love You - People
16. America - Public Nuisance
17. Fly to New York - Country Weather
18. Thing in "E" - Savage Resurrection
19. Hearts to Cry - Frumious Bandersnatch
DISC 3:
1. Alabama Bound - The Charlatans
2. Carl Street - The Mystery Trend
3. Somebody to Love - The Great Society (LP version)
4. Superbird - Country Joe & The Fish
5. Two Days 'Til Tomorrow - Beau Brummels
6. Omaha - Moby Grape
7. Up & Down - The Serpent Power
8. Golden Road, The (To Unlimited Devotion) - Grateful Dead
9. Codine - Quicksilver Messenger Service
10. Down on Me - Big Brother & The Holding Company (live)
11. Think Twice - Salvation
12. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
13. Roll With It - Steve Miller Band
14. Why Did You Put Me On - Notes From The Underground
15. Underdog - Sly & The Family Stone
16. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
17. Glue - The Ace Of Cups
18. Soul Sacrifice - Santana
19. Bells, The - The Loading Zone
DISC 4:
1. Evil Ways - Santana
2. Red the Sign Post - Fifty Foot Hose
3. Lemonaide Kid - Kak
4. 1982-A - Sons Of Champlin
5. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
6. Amphetamine Gazelle - Mad River
7. Quicksilver Girl - Steve Miller Band
8. Revolution - Mother Earth
9. Murder in My Heart For the Judge - Moby Grape
10. Light Your Windows - Quicksilver Messenger Service
11. I'm Drowning - Flamin' Groovies
12. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady - Seatrain
13. White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day
14. Dark Star - Grateful Dead (Single Version)
15. Fool - Blue Cheer (Single Version)
16. Mexico - Jefferson Airplane
17. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
18. Get Together - The Youngbloods
| Details | | Producer: | Alex Palao (Compilation) | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Liner Note Authors: Ben-Fong Torres; Gene Sculatti.
As the fourth Nuggets box from Rhino, LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO 1965-1970 is easily the most specific and idiosyncratic yet, a set devoted to a time and a place: namely the Bay Area that sowed the seeds of the Summer of Love in 1967. Released in conjunction with that 40th anniversary, LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING is surely a time capsule, but it may not be as much interest to those who lived through it as those who pine for the glory days of free love, hippies, and psychedelia. No less of an authority than legendary rock critic Greil Marcus noted in his Interview magazine review that many of these bands are obscure to him -- and he lived through the time, in the Bay Area, so he should know. Chances are the average listener looking for a heavy dose of nostalgia will also find LOVE IS THE SONG rather overwhelming in its reliance on momentary sensations and obscurities, but that's kind of the point of all the Nuggets sets: to dig way deeper than the surface and find the best of its chosen subculture. Fans of Nuggets know this, but the odd thing is that they may not be entirely satisfied with this set either, as it deviates from the Nuggets formula in a couple of crucial ways. First, there are some genuinely huge songs by genuinely huge bands -- like Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," Country Joe & the Fish's "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag," Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues," and Santana's "Evil Ways" -- a few more marquee names than normal (including the Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, and Moby Grape), and bands are occasionally repeated, but the biggest musical difference is that this is a decided shift away from the wild, wooly guitar rock of the previous Nuggets, lacking both the raw garage and hard, swirling psychedelia that has been the hallmark of the series. Instead, LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING is firmly within the camp of the hippies, documenting their rise, their peak, and softly disguising their fall by ending the set in 1970, when the Summer of Love was still echoing strongly but just beginning to fade.
This set takes its time to get to 1967, as that legendary summer doesn't roll around until disc three, but the pace never seems leisurely, as the first two discs document how that summer came to be, beginning with Dino Valenti's "Let's Get Together" (which provides the chorus to the Youngbloods' "Get Together," the '60s standard that closes the set), then winds its way through a lot of folk-rock before tougher, bluesier, trippier sounds work their way into the mix toward the beginning of the second disc. Just like the hippies, LOVE never really abandons these folkie beginnings and that communal vibe is always present even as soul, jazz, bluegrass, blues, and avant-garde bubble toward the surface. Ultimately, it's best to view this box set as a document of the era of the hippies, a piece of pop culture anthropology that might not be perfect but there is no comparable compilation to this, no other set that has the same scope or ambition.
Editorial Reviews
[T]his is a wonderful tutorial for those who missed the golden age of Bay Area rock, and a memory-filled souvenir for folks who were there.
Dirty Linen
4 stars out of 5 -- The reckless joy of the acid-garage tumult and utopian dreaming on these four CDs proves once and for all that San Francisco, in the second half of the Sixties, was the most exciting rock & roll city in America...
Rolling Stone
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