{"id":28338,"date":"2024-10-27T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2024-10-08T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:07:50","slug":"album-review-return-of-halloween-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/album-review-return-of-halloween-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Return of Halloween Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Way back in 2014, Rock Beat Records put together a three-CD set called Halloween Nuggets: Monster Sixties a Go-go<\/i><\/a>. Of a piece with some other fine compilations from the same folks (2012\u2019s Surf Age Nuggets<\/i><\/a>, 2013\u2019s Los Nuggetz: \u201860s Garage & Psych from Lain America<\/i><\/a>), this st brought together a bunch of rare and\/or obscure sides that listeners would be unlikely to find elsewhere. The surf and Latin comps featured lavish packaging and detailed liner notes, but \u2013 one presumes \u2013 by the time of Halloween Nuggets<\/i>, the budget had been somewhat exhausted; it featured no liner notes and extremely hard-to-read track listings. But hey, it was undeniably fun.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a decade. The Halloween Nuggets<\/i> box set is long out of print, but its nearly 100 tracks \u2013 mostly songs, but also scattered movie trailers that fit in nicely \u2013 are now being meted out on single-disc sets. Return of Halloween Nuggets<\/i> is the third in the series, following on the heels of (you guessed it) single-disc sets called Halloween Nuggets<\/i> and More Halloween Nuggets<\/i>. Limiting each disc to about 20 tracks means that listeners who missed out on the box set can look forward to two more in the series.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s all the same material, re-sequenced in seemingly random fashion. But that scattershot approach takes away not one bit from the quirky appeal of the set. Most of these tracks date (one presumes) from the pre-Beatles era, though there are some garage-y cuts to be found. The styles are delightfully all over the map: the girl group (with marimba) stylings of \u201cDevil\u2019s Gotten Into My Baby\u201d is undeniably fun. \u201cThe Chiller\u201d is a surf\u2019n\u2019drag instro with Batman<\/i> styled fuzz guitar, maniacal laughs and screams.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve heard of more than one of the artists on this set (a film trailer featuring Vincent Price, decades before his work with noted vocalist Michael Jackson), then give yourself a gold star. These cuts were likely one-offs by studio cats, or by acts who had one or two tunes in \u2018em. Kinda like the artists on the other comps, which is all fair and good.<\/p>\n

Uniformly wacky, Return of Halloween Nuggets<\/i> is a fun listen any time of year, but if you live in a neighborhood where kids still go door to door on All Hallows\u2019 Eve, slap this disc on the hi fi and hip the kiddos to some vintage sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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