Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968

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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles that were released during the mid-to-late 1960s. The album was created by Lenny Kaye, and produced under the supervision of Elektra Records founder, Jac Holzman. Kaye was a writer and clerk at the Village Oldies record shop in New York and later become the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group. The project was initially conceived as a series of roughly eight LP installments focusing on different US regions, but Elektra convinced Kaye that one double album would be more commercially viable. It was released on LP by Elektra in 1972 with liner notes by Kaye that contained one of the earliest known uses of the term "punk rock". It was reissued with a new cover design by Sire Records in 1976. In the 1980s, Rhino Records issued Nuggets in a series of fifteen installments, in 1998 as a 4 CD box set, and in 2023 as a 5 LP box set.

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