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Title: One-hit wonders for a reason.
Review: I wonder if we'll see a Nuggets in 2040 with "Oops...I Did it Again" or "Wannabe," because that's basically what this box set amounts to. I saved the $$ and bought this based upon a tremendous number of positive reviews. The first listen was fantastic. Every listen since then got worse and worse and I sold the damn thing a few weeks ago. Like any other musical movement (grunge being the best example), the psychedelic genre appears to have been populated with a few true artists and otherwise crammed full of no-talent hacks. There are some great bands represented here and a few great tracks worth repeated listening (Nazz, 13th Floor Elevators), but there is not enough material to even fill two discs, let alone four. Discs three and four wear thin very quickly, especially with the dopey frat rock of "Wooly Bully" and "Louie Louie." Lavishly packaged with wonderful liner notes, it's a shame the material represented simply wasn't of a higher caliber.
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