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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (Sire)

Stephen Demorest, Circus, 4 August 1977

THERE'S NO way you can take rock & roll too seriously after listening to this stuff. Compiled by Lenny Kaye (yes, he's also lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group), this sampler of 27 hits from the psychedelic years 1965-1968 is a fascinating, thorough, and totally ridiculous souvenir of rock's adolescent growing pains.

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