''Pebbles, Volume 2'' is a
compilation album
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featuring American
underground psychedelic
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and
garage rock
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musical artists from the 1960s. It is the second installment of the
''Pebbles'' series and was released on BFD Records in 1979 (''see''
1979 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.
Specific locations
* 1979 in British music
* 1979 in Japanese music
* 1979 in Norwegian music
Specific genres
* 1979 in country music
* 1979 in heavy metal music
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).
[
Musical highlights includes the opening number, "Makin' Deals", by the Satans, which features the lyric, "Can you guess my name?", two years prior to ]the Rolling Stones
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on their song, "Sympathy for the Devil
"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones. The song was written by Mick Jagger and credited to the Jagger–Richards partnership. It is the opening track on the band's 1968 Studio album, album ''Beggars Banquet ...
", and in a similar fashion to Mick Jagger
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's snarling vocals
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. Among the tracks on the album, the Choir's "It's Cold Outside
"It's Cold Outside" is a song by the American garage rock band the Choir, written by member Dann Klawon, and first released on Canadian-American Records in September 1966. It was later re-released in 1967 on Roulette, with Dann's last name inco ...
", the Zakary Thaks' " Bad Girl", and the Lyrics' "So What!" are arguably the most known for their additional inclusions in the '' Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968'' box set
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Artists ...
, in 1998. The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes are an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. Much of the band's music was, as music historian Richie Unterberger described it, possessed of "an eerie and sometimes anguished ambiance." T ...
' wah-wah pedal
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advertisement and the Sons of Adam's rendition of Arthur Lee's song, "Feathered Fish" received their first commercially accessible release with the album.compact disc
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. The reissue includes tracks by the Avengers, Satan and the D-Men, Undesyded, the Mark VI, the Quid, which was the only non-American group on the album, and an additional song by the Choir.
Track listing
Side one
#The Satans: "Makin' Deals" - 2:08
#The Moving Sidewalks
Moving Sidewalks were an American rock band formed in 1966 from Houston, Texas. They released several singles and an album, before bassist Don Summers and keyboardist Tom Moore were drafted into the army, bringing the band to an end. Vocalist/gu ...
: "99th Floor" - 2:13
# The Sons of Adam: "Feathered Fish" - 2:28
#The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes are an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. Much of the band's music was, as music historian Richie Unterberger described it, possessed of "an eerie and sometimes anguished ambiance." T ...
: Vox wah-wah pedal advertisement - 1:03
#The Road: "You Rub Me the Wrong Way" - 2:22
#The Lyrics: "So What!" - 2:42
#The Buddahs: "Lost Innocence" - 2:10
# The Zakary Thaks: " Bad Girl" - 2:04
# The Green Fuz: "Green Fuz" - 2:06
Side two
#The Squires
The Squires or Neil Young & The Squires were a Canadian band formed in 1963 in Winnipeg. It was one of the first bands of singer-songwriter Neil Young.
Recordings
Young formed the Squires in 1963, and the group played at community clubs, high ...
: "Go Ahead" - 2:15, ''vinyl-only track''
#The Little Boy Blues
The Little Boy Blues were an American garage rock band from Chicago, Illinois active in the mid to late 1960s, who are considered early pioneers in protopunk. They are best known for songs such as "The Great Train Robbery" and their version of ...
: "I Can Only Give You Everything" - 2:27
# The Dovers: "She's Gone" - 2:18
#Phil and the Fanatics: "I Must Run" - 2:40
#The Dovers: "What Am I Going to Do" - 2:28
# The Choir: "It's Cold Outside
"It's Cold Outside" is a song by the American garage rock band the Choir, written by member Dann Klawon, and first released on Canadian-American Records in September 1966. It was later re-released in 1967 on Roulette, with Dann's last name inco ...
" - 2:46
#Bobby Fuller
Robert Gaston Fuller (October 22, 1942 – July 18, 1966)Bashe, P. R., & George-Warren, H., ''The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'' (Third ed.). New York, Fireside, 2005, p. 360 was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist ...
: "Wine Wine Wine" - 2:43
#The Litter
The Litter was an American psychedelic and garage rock band, formed in 1966 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. They are best remembered for their 1967 debut single, "Action Woman". The group recorded three albums in the late 1960s before ...
: "I'm a Man" - 3:48, ''vinyl-only track''
1992 CD bonus tracks
#The Choir: "I'm Going Home" - 2:35
#The Avengers: "Be a Cave Man" - 1:56
#The Mark VI: "Don't Want Your Lovin'" - 2:49
#Satan and the D-Men: "She'll Lie" - 3:08
#Undesyded: "Freedom of Love" - 2:49
# The Quid: "Crazy Things" - 3:00
References
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Pebbles (series) albums
1979 compilation albums