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| Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 4478
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.6
MPN: 165564
UPC: 081227998301
EAN: 0081227998301
ASIN: B000PHX0VE
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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Disc 1
| • | Let's Get Together - Dino Valenti | | • | I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish | | • | You Were On My Mind - We Five | | • | Number One - The Charlatans | | • | Can't Come Down - The Warlocks | | • | Don't Talk to Strangers - The Beau Brummels | | • | Anything - The Vejtables | | • | It's No Secret - Jefferson Airplane | | • | Johnny Was a Good Boy - The Mystery Trend | | • | Free Advice - The Great! Society | | • | Mr. Jones (A Ballad Of a Thin Man) - The Grass Roots | | • | Stranger In a Strange Land - Blackburn & Snow | | • | Who Do You Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service | | • | She's My Baby - The Mojo Men | | • | Coffee Cup - The Wildflower | | • | Live Your Own Life - The Family Tree | | • | Fat City - The Sons Of Champlin | | • | Human Monkey - The Frantics | | • | Bye Bye Bye - The Tikis | | • | Section 43 - Country Joe & The Fish | | • | Hello Hello - The Sopwith 'Camel' |
Disc 2
| • | Psychotic Reaction - Count Five | | • | Got Love - The Front Line | | • | Satisfaction Guaranteed - The Mourning Reign | | • | Foolish Woman - The Oxford Circle | | • | My Buddy Sin - The Stained Glass | | • | Streetcar - The Otherside | | • | Suzy Creamcheese - Teedy & His Patches | | • | Rubiyat - The Immediate Family | | • | Rumors - Syndicate Of Sound | | • | Sometimes I Wonder - The Harbinger Complex | | • | Want Ad Reader - The New Breed | | • | I'm a Good Woman - The Generation | | • | No Way Out - The Chocolate Watchband | | • | Hey I'm Lost - Butch Engle & The Styx | | • | I Love You - People | | • | America - Public Nuisance | | • | Fly To New York - Country Weather | | • | Thing In 'E' - The Savage Resurrection | | • | Hearts To Cry - Frumious Bandersnatch |
Disc 3
| • | Alabama Bound - The Charlatans | | • | Carl Street - The Mystery Trend | | • | Somebody To Love - The Great! Society | | • | Superbird - Country Joe & The Fish | | • | Two Days 'Till Tomorrow - The Beau Brummels | | • | Omaha - Moby Grape | | • | Up & Down - The Serpent Power | | • | The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - Grateful Dead | | • | Codine - Quicksliver Messenger Service | | • | Down On Me - Big Brother & The Holding Company | | • | Think Twice - Salvation | | • | White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane | | • | Roll With It - Steve Miller Band | | • | Why Did You Put Me On - Notes From The Underground | | • | Underdog - Sly & The Family Stone | | • | Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer | | • | Glue - The Ace Of Cups | | • | Soul Sacrifice - Santana | | • | The Bells - The Loading Zone |
Disc 4
| • | Evil Ways - Santana | | • | Red the Sign Post - Fifty Foot Hose | | • | Lemonaide Kid - Kak | | • | 1982-A - The Sons Of Champlin | | • | How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks | | • | Amphetamine Gazelle - Mad River | | • | Quicksilver Girls - Steve Miller Band | | • | Revolution - Mother Earth | | • | Murder In My Heart For the Judge - Moby Grape | | • | Light Your Windows - Quicksilver Messenger Service | | • | I'm Drowning - Flamin' Grooves | | • | Portrait Of the Artists As a Young Lady - Seatrain | | • | White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day | | • | Dark Star - Grateful Dead | | • | Fool - Blue Cheer | | • | Mexico - Jefferson Airplane | | • | Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin | | • | Get Together - The Youngbloods |
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It wasn't all peace, love, and drugs that made San Francisco the fulcrum of the burgeoning hippie scene in the mid '60s. According to this sprawling 77-track, four-disc set--the third in Rhino's ongoing Nuggets series--it was the music that nurtured and helped create Haight-Ashbury. This expansive package succeeds in presenting the disparate acts involved in that cultural revolution through a detailed aural exploration. Sure, the usual suspects like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Janis Joplin are here, but it's the obscurities and oddities--some never previously available and many more extremely difficult to find--that provide intimate glimpses into the crevices, building blocks, and influences of what was later dubbed the "San Francisco Sound." The platters are broken down into rough category/chronological groupings, with disc three focusing on 1967, the Summer of Love whose 40th anniversary this box's release celebrates. Even there, acts such as the Ace of Cups, the Mystery Trend, and the Loading Zone fly way below the radar. There's lots to absorb, even for genre enthusiasts, but compiler Alex Palao's extensive, track-specific liner notes provide concise yet vital contextual background to guide the listener through a wildly diverse landscape that runs from the British Invasion-styled pop of the Beau Brummels and the soft folk of the Youngbloods to the furious garage psychedelia of the Count Five and the eardrum-bursting, proto-metal power rock of Blue Cheer. --Hal Horowitz
Album Description
Rhino's Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 4-CD Box Set Celebrates The 40th Anniversary Of "The Summer Of Love" Forty years ago the world turned its ears toward San Francisco as a wave of talented bands gave birth to the American counterculture. On August 27, Rhino remembers that magical confluence of time and place with LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970, a 4-CD box set of classics and rarities from the golden age of Golden State rock. SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is the last word on one of popular music's defining regional scenes -- though as scenes go, the music it produced is remarkably diverse. The 77 tracks heard here share little beyond an artistic adventurousness long encouraged in the City by the Bay (which was a magnet for free thinkers from the days of the Beats. Seismic Rumbles, as the first CD of SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is subtitled, maps the fault lines separating the pop sounds of the early 1960s from more adventurous rock inspired by the arrival of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. By mid-decade, most of the pieces were in place for what would soon be called "The San Francisco Sound," and Disc 1 features the pre-Grateful Dead group The Warlocks, the original line-up of the Jefferson Airplane, a pre-hit Grass Roots, influential existentialists The Charlatans, and Country Joe & The Fish posing that timeless question "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 The Music By The Bay January 15, 2008
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
Lot's of Reviewers have gone after Rhino Records concerning their Box Set Releases. Sound Quality, Packaging, Track Selection of Past Sets have been a Big Issue of Negatives for many Reviewers. Well about this Set called: "Love Is The Song We Sing"; San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, I will go on Record to say that Rhino, has hit a Home Run here.
This is a Hardcover Book of 120 Pages, filled with Great Text and some Wonderful Photographs of the Biggest American Music City of the 1960's. Packed into this Insightful Book are 4 Amazing Audio CD's of Music. All the right Bands are here with only a few of my favorites missing.
From the Beau Brummels {The First SF Band to recieve Air-Play} thro to the Youngblood's Massive 1969 Hit of Dino Valenti's: "Get Together", Good and Bad, Loud and Soft, this was The Sixties that I Remember growin' up in, and it was the Most Magical Place on the Planet (Along with London/ Liverpool}.
Two AM Radio Stations were our 'Colors', They were 1260 KYA and KFRC. On Tiny Transistor Radios we could listen to The Jefferson Airplane or Moby Grape, just as often as The Beatles or The Stones. Wild Posters on Storefront Walls and Windows in Day Glo, advertised Dance Hall Concerts featuring: "The Mystery Trend" or "The Sons Of Champlin". R.Crumb was peddling a strange little 'Comix' Book outta a baby's Carriage on Haight Street. It was for me at the Time, the very Center of The Universe.
The Song selection over the Course of these Four Discs is indeed Vast, with The Dead and Quicksilver right next to The Family Tree and Public Nuisance. There are 77 Selections in this Collection, Some Bands you have heard of: "Santana" and "Steve Miller Blues Band", to some that you only knew from Posters: "The Oxford Circle" and "The Mojo Men" and some Groups I sure can't remember at all: "Butch Engle & The Styx" and "Teddy And His Patches". From Bands that sounded just like: The Yarbirds, as: "The Count Five" with the Garage Anthem: "Psychotic Reaction" to the Soaring Violin of David LaFlamme and It's A Beautiful Day's, Classic: "White Bird". This Box/Book is Quite a Ride of Music and History.
This Box Set along with the Great Book: "San Francisco Rock", 1965-1985, by Jack McDonough, are Two Sides of the same Coin. Rhino Records, have really produced an enjoyable set of Music and History with this Excellent Package. It is an Honest Account {With the Good & Bad included} of what went down in Northern California, from: 1965-1975. Some of this Music drives my Wife and Kids Crazy...And that is Exactly what it is supposed to do! This is not for Everyone....But if your ears still Work and you are ready to expand your Mind a bit Sideways, Over Under Down....This could be your E-Ticket to the magic Kingdom...FIVE STARS !!!
Beyond The Fringe September 19, 2007
31 out of 45 found this review helpful
What raises this collection above the norm is the selection of obscure tracks by the lesser known bands of the California scene of the middle 60's. There is a sprinkling of familiar songs spread throughout the collection, but the lion's share are tracks you've never heard before, some not so great, but many a delight. Add to that one of the best packages I've ever seen in a box set; a large format book packed with rare photos and details about the bands and songs.
This collection is a must have, one of Rhino's best ever.
Seventy seven slices of paradise October 13, 2007
19 out of 34 found this review helpful
There are a few very well known songs here, but wisely Alec Palao decided to give the main focus to lesser known artists and songs, while still giving ample coverage to all of the giants of the scene and moment. Very beautifully composed 120 page hardcover book with essays and tons of photos as well as track-by-track commentary from Palao. I grew up on this music and still there are many songs or versions of songs I'd never heard before. The single version of Dark Star?! Too bad Rick Griffin didn't live long enough to do the metallic-on-black cover art. Anyway, DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
 The Fourth Nuggets? September 26, 2007
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Okay, so I finally got the new Nuggets box. Or at least I think it's a Nuggets box as Rhino put that word so far back in the title as to be almost an afterthought. It's a four-disc set like the other three so for argument's sake let's call it the fourth in the series. It's certainly designed to be a Nuggets compilation as San Francisco is practically the last city one would think of to form a basis of garage rock and the liner notes look askance at all the acid-fried jamming of the Bay Area's usual suspects to concentrate on the more primitive aspects of the local music scene. I say "local" but the bands profiled in this epic set are from all over Northern California. But in order to serve the thesis that the Bay Area was home to scads of great Nuggets-type bands the definition of "San Francisco" had to be enlarged somewhat and with that said they did a great job!
First off the packaging is great. It's in a book-like form with loads of color and black and white pictures, many of which take up a full page. The opening shot of the Dead, Quicksilver, Big Brother, the Airplane and the Charlatans is beautiful and one I'd never seen. The discs are all crammed into the back page and are far too tight which may cause some scratching when you pull them out. I had a problem with disc one having some glue from the book on it and the last two songs wouldn't play. I had to go home and use some lighter fluid to clean it off and now it plays fine, so consider yourself warned.
The music runs the gamut from the obvious to the never-heard-before with the emphasis much more on the latter. They unearthed more Nuggets-like gems from the Bay Area than I thought I'd ever hear and put 'em right alongside the Dead, Country Joe, the Airplane, etc. If you liked the last three boxes you'll enjoy this one and the packaging beats 'em all.
be VERY CAREFUL ON TAKING THE CD'S OUT. September 30, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Nuggets box sets is what got me started getting into garage style music from obscure bands. It's now been almost 6 years and I am still finding gems. My [...] site is a testament to that.
Anyway I got this "box set" or should we say "book set" because the enclosed book is one of the finest I have ever seen that came with CD's.
[...] did a fine review of this 4CD set and I concur with them.
And as for the reviews here, there are for the most part accurate, especially the one about being careful taking them out to play. When I first saw how tightly they were inside I decided to be VERY CAREFUL ON TAKING THE CD'S OUT. Whew no scuff marks.
After listening to the set a few times I came to the conclusion that disks 3 & 4 have the most 5-star rated songs. I did manage to get seventeen 5-star songs out of the set. Yes the big names are here, but I was interested in the more unknown bands (being a garage-head), and there are some good ones. Below are IMO 5-star songs:
(Disc 1)
(8) It's No Secret - Jefferson Airplane - 1965 - " QUOTE: Although originally recorded on the Airplane's debut album in 1966 with excellent results, the band continued to keep it in their live sets through the years."
(Disc 2)
(2) Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy & His Patches - 1966 - "One of the MOST psychotic songs to be ever made. Garage Sci-Fi/Psych beat." - Love Is The Song We Sing: Suburbia (Rhino Disc 2)-2007.
(18) Thing In "E" - Savage Resurrection - 1967 - "A quirky Pop-Rock song that will CATCH your attention. BEST garage style song in this box set. " - Love Is The Song We Sing: Suburbia (Rhino Disc 2)-2007.
(Disc 3)
(3) Somebody To Love (LP Version) - The Great! Society - No.05 on 5/6/1967 - "9 weeks Top 40, by Jefferson Airplane. First recorded by the Great Society in 1966; The BEST version. Good first impression." - Love Is The Song We Sing: Summer Of Love (Rhino Disc 3)-2007.
(6) Omaha - Moby Grape - 1967 - " It's got that late '60s Folk-Rock beat."
(9) Codine - Quicksilver Messenger Service - 1967 - " A classic song from that era."
(10) Down On Me (Live) - Big Brother & The Holding Company - 1968 - " Janis Joplin was one of the PILLERS of rock in the late '60s IMHO."
(11) Think Twice - Salvation - 1967 - " A soft folksy song that works it way into some fine rock guitar riff. Notable drum work."
(12) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane - No.08 on 7/1/1967. 9 weeks Top 40.
(13) Roll With It - Steve Miller Band - 1967 - " One of my FAVORITE bands. I followed them for the longest time."
(Disc 4)
(1) Evil Ways - Santana - No.09 on 2/7/1970. 11 weeks Top 40. - " A CLASSIC from this era."
(2) Red The Sign Post - Fifty Foot Hose - 1968 - "HEAVY metal/Psychedelic at times. Female vocals." - Love Is The Song We Sing: "The Man Can't Bust Our Music" (Rhino Disc 4)-2007.
(6) Amphetamine Gazelle - 1968 - " ROLL up a dollar bill and snort this fast paced folk-rocker."
(13) White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day - 1969 - "QUOTE: This is perhaps the best-known track from Bay Area psychedelic pop rockers."
(15) Fool (Single Version) - Blue Cheer - 1970 - " Garage style song."
(17) Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin - 1970 - "QUOTE: ...studio version recorded October 1, 1970, possibly the final complete vocal take Janis put to tape, that is legend."
(18) Get Together - The Youngbloods - No.05 on 8/2/1969 - "One of my BEST and FAVORITES. This song defines the late '60s." - Love Is The Song We Sing: "The Man Can't Bust Our Music" (Rhino Disc 4)-2007
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