Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 is the first compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 in the Essential Pebbles series

Essential Pebbles series

rightThe Essential Pebbles Collection is a series of compilation albums of obscure garage rock and psychedelic rock recordings that were originally released in the mid-1960s. As the name implies, the series was created by AIP Records as a distillation of the albums in the Pebbles series and the...

. Although subtitled Ultimate '66 garage classics!, not all of the recordings on the album were originally released in 1966.

Release Data

This album was released on AIP Records

AIP Records

AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw's Bomp! Records, being launched in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series. The abbreviation AIP stands for "Archive International Productions". The first 10 volumes in the Pebbles series had been released by BFD Records of Kookaburra,...

 in 1997 as #AIP-CD-1058. The first CD collects tracks from the first 10 CDs in the Pebbles series

Pebbles series

Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP...

 plus Ear-Piercing Punk

Ear-Piercing Punk

Ear-Piercing Punk is a compilation album issued in both LP and CD formats of obscure 1960s garage rock that was originally released on AIP Records in the late 1970s...

, while the second CD are "insanely rare bonus tracks" that are previously un-reissued in any form (except for 2 that were previously included on a rare 1982 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

).

Disc 1

1. The Preachers: "Who Do You Love" (Elias B. McDaniel)
2. The Grains of Sand: "Going Away Baby"
3. The Ju Jus: "You Treat Me Bad"
4. The Haunted: "1-2-5"
5. The Wilde Knights: "Beaver Patrol"
6. The Lyrics: "So What!"
7. The Green Fuz: "Green Fuz"
8. Teddy & Patches: "Suzy Creamcheese" (Frank Zappa
   Frank Zappa
   Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
   
   )
9. T. C. Atlantic: "Faces"
10. William Penn V: "Swami"
11. The Tree: "No Good Woman"
12. The Plague: "Go Away"
13. The Gentlemen: "It's a Crying Shame"
14. The Omens: "Searching"
15. The Foggy Notions: "Need a Little Lovin'"
16. Dean Carter: "Rebel Woman"
17. The Lost Agency: "One Girl Man"
18. The Trolls: "Every Night & Every Day"
19. The Starfires
    The Starfires
    The Starfires was an American garage rock band from Los Angeles, that is best known for one of the most sought-after singles of the mid-1960s, "I Never Loved Her", which can command prices of $1000 or more...
    
    : "I Never Loved Her"
20. Beckett Quintet: "No Correspondence"
21. The Dovers
    The Dovers
    The Dovers were an American garage rock band of the mid-1960s. The Dovers were an example of mid-1960s folk rock and pop, heavily influenced by the British Invasion and American groups such as The Byrds.-Career:...
    
    : "She's Not Just Anybody"
22. The Hysterics: "Won't Get Far (labeled as "Everything's There")"
23. The Good Feelings: "Shattered"
24. The Breakers: "I Ain't Dead Yet"
25. The Uncalled For: "Do Like Me"
26. GONN
    GONN
    GONN is a 1960s American garage rock band from Keokuk, Iowa whose signature song is "Blackout of Gretely". Although releasing only two singles in 1966-67, the band also recorded numerous other tracks that have been collected on three retrospective albums. Following a 1989 solo album released by...
    
    : "Doin' Me In"
27. The Mile Ends: "Bottle Up and Go
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28. The Bohemian Vendetta: "Enough"
29. Keith Kessler: "Don't Crowd Me"

Disc 2

1. The Motifs: "Someday"
2. The Shays: "Brainwashed"
3. The Sinners: "Sinnerisme"
4. Missing Lynx
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   : "Hang Around"
5. The Mixed Emotions: "Can't You Stop It Now"
6. Thunderbolts: "Heart So Cold"
7. Strangers: "What a Life"
8. Roosters: "You Gotta Run"
9. Peter & Wolves: "Hey Mama"
10. Peter & Wolves: "I Can Only Give You Everything"
11. Sound Apparatus: "Travel Agent Man"
12. The Shades: "Down the Road Apiece"
13. Dynamic Nutones: "Sick & Tired"
14. Dry Grins: "You're Through"
15. Hustlers: "Sky Is Black"
16. Other Half
    The Other Half (band)
    For the Canadian 2000s tour band, see: Leslie Carter.The Other Half were a psychedelic hard rock band, based in San Francisco, active in the mid to late 1960s.-History:...
    
    : "Girl with the Long Black Hair"
17. Thorns: "I'm in Love"
18. Malibus: "I've Gotta Go"
19. Malibus: "I Want You to Know"
20. Creations: "I Want You"
21. [Unknown Artist]: "I Just Don't Know"
22. [Unknown Artist]: "Fed Up"
23. The Banshees: "I've Had It"
24. Roy / Bristols: "It's Your Fault"
25. Terry Dee / Roadrunners: "Some Other Guy"
26. [Unknown Artist]: "Go Go Girl"