Essential Pebbles, Volume 2

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Essential Pebbles, Volume 2
Compilation album
Released	1998
Recorded	Mid-1960s
Genre	Garage rock, psychedelic rock
Label	AIP
chronology
Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 (1997) Essential Pebbles, Volume 2 (1998) Essential Pebbles, Volume 3 (2000)

Essential Pebbles, Volume 2 is a compilation album in the Essential Pebbles series. Although subtitled Still More 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 1998 as #AIP-CD-1060. The cover drawing is a colored version of the cover of the Pebbles, Volume 11 LP, the first album in the Pebbles series that was released by AIP Records.

Notes on the tracks[]

The first CD, subtitled "The Best of the Rest of Pebbles Vinyl LPs" collects previously un-reissued, mostly American recordings from the LPs in the Pebbles series that are making their first appearance on CD; also, the tracks on the second CD have been previously un-reissued in any form.

Perhaps because of complaints from purchasers of the first volume, more information is included in the liner notes in this second volume. For instance, Mike Stax in his 1998 review of Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 in the Ugly Things fanzine, groused: "Unfortunately also, we're left in the dark regarding any info on these groups". The following information about some of the bands was taken from these liner notes. is one of at least 3 bands by the name that were recording in Louisiana alone. – also known as – is the only band on the first CD that has two included songs. Some of the members of are said to have later been in the Left Banke. "More than I Have" is an inventive psychedelic recording that was one of the best tracks on the higher numbered volumes in the Pebbles series and comes from a demo tape supplied by the band. "That Creature" is a bad-taste recording that includes the line "Leave that ugly thing from another planet", courtesy of a band from Georgia.

Track listing[]

Disc 1[]

1. : "How Many Times" – Rel. 1966
2. Neal Ford and the Fanatics: "Shame on You" – Rel. 1967
3. : "Generation" – Rel. 1967
4. : "Hey Conductor" – Rel. 1967
5. : "I'm Your Man"
6. : "Hey You"
7. : "It's Not Real"
8. : "I'm a Loner"
9. : "Man Enough for You"
10. : "On My Way Down the Road" – Rel. 1966
11. : "If You Still Want Me"
12. : "Shakin' with Linda"
13. : "I'm a Nothing" – Rel. 1966
14. : "Love"
15. : "More than I Have" – Rel. 1966
16. : "Nice Try"
17. : "Hey Girl"
18. : "She Taught Me Love"
19. : "That Creature"
20. : "The Point Is"
21. Danny's Reasons: "Triangles" – Rel. 1967
22. : "I'm a Man" (Elias B. McDaniel)
23. : "Something's Comin'"
24. : "Crack In My Wall"
25. : "You'll Never Know"
26. : "Laissez-Nous Vivre"

Disc 2[]

1. : "Shades of Blue"
2. : "Mike's Bag"
3. : "It Ain't a Big Thing"
4. : "More Feathers"
5. : "It's Not Fair"
6. : "But You're Gone"
7. Vistas: "Don't Know"
8. : "#38"
9. : "Louisiana Blues"
10. Dean Kohler: "Gooseberry Blues"
11. : "I Can Feel It"
12. : "Hard Life"
13. : "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly)
14. : "I'm a Man" (Elias B. McDaniel)
15. : "The Good's Gone"
16. : "Shake"
17. : "Stricken by You"
18. : "Get Out of My Life"
19. : "Always Always"
20. Crying Shame: "Come on Back"
21. : "Baby Won't You Follow Me Down"
22. : "I Wanted You"
23. : "It's Gonna Be Alright"
24. : "But I Still Love Her"
25. : "Eyes on You Baby"
26. : "Bad Seed"
27. : "Wine, Wine, Wine"
28. : "Gotta Find a Girl"
29. Lawson and Four More: "If You Want Me"