(Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Folk-Rock / Country-Rock) VA - Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (4CD) - 2009, MP3 (tracks), 320 kbps

01 - The Standells: "Riot on Sunset Strip" (02:20)
02 - The Byrds: "You Movin'" (02:05)
03 - Love: "You I'll Be Following" (02:23)
04 - The Leaves: "Dr. Stone" (02:19)
05 - Buffalo Springfield: "Go and Say Goodbye" (02:18)
06 - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: "Zig Zag Wanderer" (02:32)
07 - Iron Butterfly: "Gentle as It May Seem" (02:25)
08 - Lowell George & The Factory: "Candy Cane Madness" (02:11)
09 - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: "If You Want This Love" (02:49)
10 - The Bobby Fuller Four: "Baby My Heart" (02:15)
11 - The Palace Guard: "All Night Long" (02:56)
12 - Sonny & Cher: "It's Gonna Rain" (02:36)
13 - The Guilloteens: "For My Own" (02:08)
14 - The Rising Sons: "Take a Giant Step" (02:54)
15 - The Association: "One Too Many Mornings" (02:51)
16 - The Knack: "Time Waits for No One" (02:09)
17 - The Doors: "Take It as It Comes" (02:14)
18 - Kaleidoscope: "Pulsating Dream" (01:51)
19 - The Seeds: "Tripmaker" (02:44)
20 - The Music Machine: "The People in Me" (02:51)
21 - The Sons of Adam: "Saturday's Son" (02:09)
22 - The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: "Eventually" (01:53)
23 - Penny Arkade: "Swim" (02:43)
24 - The Joint Effort: "The Third Eye" (02:12)
25 - Spirit: "Girl in Your Eye" (03:08)

01 - Thee Midniters: "Jump, Jive & Harmonize" (02:28)
02 - The Light: "Back Up" (02:47)
03 - The Bush: "To Die Alone" (01:54)
04 - The Premiers: "Get on This Plane" (02:30)
05 - The Odyssey: "Little Girl, Little Boy" (02:23)
06 - The Electric Prunes: "Hideaway" (02:40)
07 - The Merry-Go-Round: "Listen, Listen!" (02:34)
08 - The Spats: "She Done Moved" (02:27)
09 - The Turtles: "Grim Reaper of Love" (02:20)
10 - Ken & the Fourth Dimension: "See If I Care" (02:14)
11 - The Chymes: "He's Not There Anymore" (02:04)
12 - Opus 1: "Back Seat '38 Dodge" (02:27)
13 - The Humane Society: "Eternal Prison" (02:33)
14 - The Others: "Revenge" (01:51)
15 - Things to Come: "Come Alive" (03:01)
16 - The Velvet Illusions: "Acid Head" (03:05)
17 - Limey & the Yanks: "Guaranteed Love" (02:24)
18 - The Romancers (aka the Smoke Rings): "Love's the Thing" (02:02)
19 - Kim Fowley: "Underground Lady" (02:14)
20 - The Deepest Blue: "Pretty Little Thing" (02:46)
21 - The Whatt Four: "You're Wishin' I Was Someone Else" (02:28)
22 - The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band: "Hippy Elevator Operator" (03:08)
23 - The Mustangs: "That's for Sure" (02:06)
24 - Fapardokly (Merrell & the Exiles): "Tomorrow's Girl" (02:28)
25 - The Hysterics: "Everything's There" (02:14)
26 - The Yellow Payges: "Our Time Is Running Out" (02:38)

01 - Keith Allison: "Action, Action, Action" (02:12)
02 - Dino, Desi & Billy: "The Rebel Kind" (02:34)
03 - The Knickerbockers: "High on Love" (03:01)
04 - Jan & Dean: "Fan Tan" (02:20)
05 - P.F. Sloan: "Halloween Mary" (02:38)
06 - The Mamas & the Papas: "Somebody Groovy" (03:08)
07 - Thorinshield: "Daydreaming" (02:42)
08 - The Full Treatment: "Just Can't Wait" (02:45)
09 - The Yellow Balloon: "Yellow Balloon" (02:13)
10 - London Phogg: "The Times to Come" (02:55)
11 - The Lamp of Childhood: "No More Running Around" (02:51)
12 - The Garden Club: "Little Girl Lost-and-Found" (03:01)
13 - The Moon: "Mothers and Fathers" (02:04)
14 - October Country: "My Girlfriend Is A Witch" (02:06)
15 - Roger Nichols Trio: "Montage Mirror" (02:09)
16 - Pasternak Progress: "Flower Eyes" (02:31)
17 - The Common Cold: "Come Down" (02:30)
18 - Gary Lewis & The Playboys: "Jill" (02:16)
19 - The Monkees: "Daily Nightly" (02:30)
20 - Modern Folk Quintet: "Night Time Girl" (02:35)
21 - The Oracle: "Don't Say No" (03:06)
22 - Hearts and Flowers: "Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down)" (04:36)
23 - Lee Hazlewood: "Rainbow Woman" (03:11)
24 - Pleasure featuring Billy Elder: "Poor Old Organ Grinder" (03:56)
25 - The Ballroom: "Baby, Please Don't Go" (03:06)

01 Stephen Stills & Richie Furay: "Sit Down I Think I Love You" (02:49)
02 Jackie DeShannon With the Byrds: "Splendor in the Grass" (02:23)
03 Peter Fonda: "November Night" (02:59)
04 Danny Hutton: "Roses and Rainbows" (02:08)
05 The Dillards: "Lemon Chimes" (02:36)
06 The Rose Garden: "Here's Today" (02:30)
07 Nino Tempo & April Stevens: "I Love How You Love Me" (02:43)
08 Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart: "Words" (Demo) (02:17)
09 The Motorcycle Abeline (Warren Zevon & Bones Howe): "(You Used To) Ride So High" (02:34)
10 Gene Clark: "Los Angeles" (02:35)
11 Tim Buckley: "Once Upon a Time" (02:18)
12 The Everpresent Fullness: "Darlin' You Can Count on Me" (02:17)
13 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "I'll Search the Sky" (02:15)
14 Van Dyke Parks: "Come to the Sunshine" (02:56)
15 The Beach Boys: "Heroes and Villains" (Alternate Take) (02:59)
16 Jesse Lee Kincaid: "She Sang Hymns out of Tune" (02:18)
17 Nilsson: "Sister Marie" (03:00)
18 Randy Newman: "Last Night I Had a Dream" (Single Version) (02:04)
19 Noel Harrison: "Life Is a Dream" (02:00)
20 Rick Nelson: "Marshmallow Skies" (02:13)
21 Del Shannon: "I Think I Love You" (04:35)
22 The Byrds: "Change Is Now" (03:20)
23 Sagittarius: "The Truth Is Not Real" (Single Version) (02:59)
24 Love: "You Set the Scene" (06:51)
25 Barry McGuire: "Inner-Manipulations" (03:40)

"As yet another way of telling the high 60s story, this is a good one: 101 tracks from Los Angeles during that peak moment between 1965 and 1968, when the city of sun, smog and riot made its move to dominate American pop.
During those years, Los Angeles developed a creative youth culture - centred around the Sunset Strip - that matched anything in London or San Francisco. This was shut down by the police at the end of 1966 after weeks of teen protest - hence the set's opener, the Standells' deliriously exploitative Riot on Sunset Strip.
Where the Action Is! begins with the club groups - the Byrds, Love, the Leaves, Buffalo Springfield, the Seeds and the Doors - before taking a tour through LA's further-flung garage bands. Plenty of garages in SoCal, right? The third disc concentrates on "The Studio Scene", while the fourth covers psych to country rock (Van Dyke Parks, the Dillards, Gene Clark).
As usual in these affairs, well-known tracks are mixed with rescued obscurities (by Stephen Stills, Tim Buckley and the like). It's a good trip: journeymen rub shoulders with geniuses, go-go boots are worn with buckskin, the pigs are taunted, and an era evoked. It's sunny and warm out there, but the shadows are lengthening."
JON SAVAGE