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• The first CD collects tracks from the first 10 CD’s in the Pebbles series plus Ear-Piercing Punk, while the second CD collects “insanely rare bonus tracks”.

Essential Pebbles, Volume 1

Compilation Album

Released:	1997
Recorded:	Mid-1960’s
Genres:	Garage rock psychedelic rock
Label:	AIP

Chronology

Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 (1997)

Essential Pebbles, Volume 2 (1998)

Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 – also known as Essential Pebbles Collection, 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.

CONTENTS

Release Data

Notes on the Tracks

Track Listing

Disc One

Disc Two

Release Data

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Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 was released on AIP Records in 1997 as #AIP-CD-1058. The first CD collects tracks from the first 10 CD’s in the Pebbles series plus Ear-Piercing Punk, while the second CD collects “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).

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Notes on the Tracks

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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 such garage rock and psychedelic rock classics as “Green Fuz“, “I Never Loved Her“, “She’s Not Just Anybody“, and “Doin’ Me In“. Although the liner notes for Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 promise “many more” volumes in the Pebbles series, in fact AIP Records has closed out the series with the release of the final 2 CD’s 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 Girl, Go” by the Hombres – incorrectly identified as “Go Go, Girl” in the CD booklet and attributed to an “unknown artist” – was released as the B-Side of their 1967 hit single “Let it Out (Let It All Hang Out)“; and its lyrics feature a male narrator expressing his frustration about having to “stand in line” to see his girlfriend who has become a “hip-swingin’, fringe-slingin’, Watusi go go girl” in the presence of other men.

Small-sized photographs of the cover artwork for eleven Pebbles CDs are provided in the inner sleeve foldout, including a miniature of the cover artwork for the Ear-Piercing Punk compilation. A micro-depiction of the Pebbles, Volume 4 CD (which focuses exclusively on surf rock) and Surfbeat Behind the Iron Curtain compilations are also provided, though no surf rock or foreign recordings are included here. None of the tracks on the Pebbles, Volume 9 CD are included either. Unlike most of the AIP compilations, the liner notes are spare and convey little information.

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Track Listing

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Disc One

1. The Preachers: “Who Do You Love?” (Elias B. McDaniel)
2. The Grains of Sand: “Going Away Baby”
3. The JuJus: “You Treat Me Bad”
4. The Haunted: “1-2-5”
5. The Wilde Knights: “Beaver Patrol”
6. The Lyrics: “So What!”
7. The Green Fuz: “Green Fuz”
8. Teddy and His Patches: “Suzy Creamcheese” (Frank Zappa)
9. T.C. Atlantic: “Faces”
10. William Penn Fyve: “Swami”
11. The Tree: “No Good Woman”
12. The Plague: “Go Away”
13. The Gentlemen: “It’s a Cry’n Shame“
14. The Omens: “Searching”
15. The Foggy Notions: “Need a Little Lovin'”
16. Dean Carter: “Rebel Woman”
17. The Lost Agency: “One Girl Man”
18. The Trolls: “Every Night & Every Day”
19. The Starfires: “I Never Loved Her”
20. Beckett Quintet: “No Correspondence”
21. The Dovers: “She’s Not Just Anybody”
22. The Hysterics: “Won’t Get Far (labeled as “Everything’s There”)”
23. The Good Feelings: “Shattered”
24. The Breakers: “I Ain’t Dead Yet”
25. The Uncalled For: “Do Like Me”
26. GONN: “Doin’ Me In”
27. The Mile Ends: “Bottle Up and Go”
28. Bohemian Vendetta: “Enough”
29. Keith Kessler: “Don’t Crowd Me”

Disc Two

1. The Motifs: “Someday”
2. The Shays: “Brainwashed”
3. Les Sinners: “Sinnerisme”
4. Missing Lynx: “Hang Around”
5. The Mixed Emotions: “Can’t You Stop It Now”
6. Thunderbolts: “Heart So Cold”
7. Strangers: “What a Life”
8. Roosters: “You Gotta Run”
9. Peter & Wolves: “Hey Mama”
10. Peter & Wolves: “I Can Only Give You Everything”
11. Sound Apparatus: “Travel Agent Man”
12. The Shades: “Down the Road Apiece”
13. Dynamic Nutones: “Sick & Tired”
14. Dry Grins: “You’re Through”
15. Hustlers: “Sky Is Black”
16. Other Half: “Girl with the Long Black Hair”
17. Thorns: “I’m in Love”
18. Malibus: “I’ve Gotta Go”
19. Malibus: “I Want You to Know”
20. Creations: “I Want You”
21. [Unknown Artist]: “I Just Don’t Know”
22. [Unknown Artist]: “Fed Up”
23. The Banshees: “I’ve Had It”
24. Roy / Bristols: “It’s Your Fault”
25. Terry Dee / Roadrunners: “Some Other Guy”
26. The Hombres: “Go Girl, Go”

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