Finnish Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from a Remote Northern Country
It was around the year 2007 when Euphonic , a Finnish record collector, put together an unofficial 2-CDR compilation called Finnish Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from a Remote Northern Country, 1963–1968 . It was modelled after Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era , a 1972 double album of American psychedelic and garage rock from the mid-to-late 1960s. This collection was curated by Lenny Kaye and released by Elektra Records. Nuggets became a very influential release, inspiring several punk rock bands who came to prominence during the latter part of the 1970s. The compilation spawned not only several sequel albums and later, CD boxes, but also other record labels followed in its wake, with an endless series of obscure garage rock collections such as Pebbles , Rubble and Back from the Grave . Music follows its own fashions, there always being that vast undergrowth which doesn't fit into what's currently accepted as "hip" or "authentic...
