Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells the true story of San Francisco in the 1960s.
Love Is The Song We Sing : San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 is a comprehensive portrait of the psychedelic scene in San Francisco from the late 60's into the Summer Of Love right through into the early 70's and the scene's influence on music then and still continuing to this day. The hippie folk beginnings of bands like The Charlatans and Country Joe and The Fish to the early Grateful Dead are all here. Garage rockers like The Count Five or the Chocolate Watchband bring on the fuzztone guitars. The subsequent LSD influenced morphing of the two genres into what we now call psychedelia is well represented here with bands like Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The early sounds of free form FM radio with acts like Santana and Janis Joplin are also here. This box documents the birth of a movement as well as it's impact on society at large. An amazing snapshot of an incredibly creative period in American music history. Grab your favorite mind altering substance, pop this set on and be transported to another time when everyone believed music could fuel a revolution.

MP3: The Charlatans - Number One
MP3: Quicksilver Messenger Service - Codine
MP3: The Youngbloods - Get Together
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Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
Disc 1: Seismic Rumbles
1. Dino Valenti - "Let's Get Together"
2. Country Joe & The Fish - "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" (EP Version)
3. We Five - "You Were On My Mind"
4. The Charlatans - "Number One"
5. The Warlocks - "Can't Come Down"
6. The Beau Brummels - "Don't Talk To Strangers"
7. The Vejtables - "Anything"
8. Jefferson Airplane - "It's No Secret"
9. The Mystery Trend - "Johnny Was A Good Boy"
10. The Great! Society - "Free Advice"
11. The Grass Roots - "Mr Jones (A Ballad Of A Thin Man)"
12. Blackburn & Snow - "Stranger In A Strange Land"
13. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Who Do You Love" (Demo Version)
14. The Mojo Men - "She's My Baby"
15. The Wildflower - "Coffee Cup"
16. The Family Tree - "Live Your Own Life"
17. The Sons Of Champlin - "Fat City"
18. The Frantics - "Human Monkey"
19. The Tikis - "Bye Bye Bye" (Warner Bros. Single Version)
20. Country Joe & The Fish - "Section 43"
21. The Sopwith "Camel" - "Hello Hello"

Disc 2: Suburbia
1. Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"
2. The Front Line - "Got Love"
3. The Mourning Reign - "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
4. The Oxford Circle - "Foolish Woman"
5. The Stained Glass - "My Buddy Sin"
6. The Otherside - "Streetcar"
7. Teddy & His Patches - "Suzy Creamcheese"
8. The Immediate Family - "Rubiyat"
9. Syndicate Of Sound - "Rumors"
10. The Harbinger Complex - "Sometimes I Wonder"
11. The New Breed - "Want Ad Reader"
12. The Generation - "I'm A Good Woman"
13. The Chocolate Watchband - "No Way Out"
14. Butch Engle & The Styx - "Hey I'm Lost"
15. People - "I Love You"
16. Public Nuisance - "America"
17. Country Weather - "Fly To New York"
18. The Savage Resurrection - "Thing In 'E'"
19. Frumious Bandersnatch - "Hearts To Cry"

Disc 3: Summer Of Love
1. The Charlatans - "Alabama Bound"
2. The Mystery Trend - "Carl Street"
3. The Great! Society - "Somebody To Love" (LP Version)
4. Country Joe & The Fish - "Superbird"
5. The Beau Brummels - "Two Days 'Til Tomorrow"
6. Moby Grape - "Omaha"
7. The Serpent Power - "Up & Down"
8. Grateful Dead - "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)"
9. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Codine"
10. Big Brother & The Holding Company - "Down On Me" (Live)
11. Salvation - "Think Twice"
12. Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
13. Steve Miller Band - "Roll With It"
14. Notes From The Underground - "Why Did You Put Me On"
15. Sly & The Family Stone - "Underdog"
16. Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues"
17. The Ace Of Cups - "Glue"
18. Santana - "Soul Sacrifice"
19. The Loading Zone - "The Bells"

Disc 4: "The Man Can't Bust Our Music"
1. Santana - "Evil Ways"
2. Fifty Foot Hose - "Red The Sign Post"
3. Kak - "Lemonaide Kid"
4. The Sons Of Champlin - "1982-A"
5. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away"
6. Mad River - "Amphetamine Gazelle"
7. The Steve Miller Band - "Quicksilver Girl"
8. Mother Earth - "Revolution"
9. Moby Grape - "Murder In My Heart For The Judge"
10. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Light Your Windows"
11. Flamin' Groovies - "I'm Drowning"
12. Seatrain - "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Lady"
13. It's A Beautiful Day - "White Bird"
14. Grateful Dead - "Dark Star" (Single Version)
15. Blue Cheer - "Fool" (Single Version)
16. Jefferson Airplane - "Mexico"
17. Janis Joplin - "Mercedes Benz"
18. The Youngbloods - "Get Together"

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