Essential Pebbles, Volume 1

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Essential Pebbles, Volume 1
Compilation album
Released	1997
Recorded	Mid-1960s
Genre	Garage rock, psychedelic rock
Label	AIP
chronology
Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 (1997) Essential Pebbles, Volume 2 (1998)

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.

Release data[]

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).

Notes on the tracks[]

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.

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 (which focuses exclusively on vocal surf music) and 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.

Track listing[]

Disc 1[]

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. : "So What!"
7. The Green Fuz: "Green Fuz"
8. Teddy and His Patches: "Suzy Creamcheese" (Frank Zappa)
9. : "Faces"
10. : "Swami"
11. : "No Good Woman"
12. : "Go Away"
13. The Gentlemen: "It's a Cry'n Shame"
14. : "Searching"
15. : "Need a Little Lovin'"
16. : "Rebel Woman"
17. : "One Girl Man"
18. : "Every Night & Every Day"
19. The Starfires: "I Never Loved Her"
20. : "No Correspondence"
21. The Dovers: "She's Not Just Anybody"
22. : "Won't Get Far (labeled as "Everything's There")"
23. : "Shattered"
24. : "I Ain't Dead Yet"
25. : "Do Like Me"
26. GONN: "Doin' Me In"
27. : "Bottle Up and Go"
28. Bohemian Vendetta: "Enough"
29. : "Don't Crowd Me"

Disc 2[]

1. : "Someday"
2. : "Brainwashed"
3. : "Sinnerisme"
4. Missing Lynx: "Hang Around"
5. : "Can't You Stop It Now"
6. : "Heart So Cold"
7. : "What a Life"
8. : "You Gotta Run"
9. : "Hey Mama"
10. : "I Can Only Give You Everything"
11. : "Travel Agent Man"
12. The Shades: "Down the Road Apiece"
13. : "Sick & Tired"
14. : "You're Through"
15. : "Sky Is Black"
16. Other Half: "Girl with the Long Black Hair"
17. : "I'm in Love"
18. : "I've Gotta Go"
19. : "I Want You to Know"
20. : "I Want You"
21. [Unknown Artist]: "I Just Don't Know"
22. [Unknown Artist]: "Fed Up"
23. The Banshees: "I've Had It"
24. : "It's Your Fault"
25. : "Some Other Guy"
26. The Hombres: "Go Girl, Go"