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Various Artists - Michigan Nuggets (Belvedere)

Track listing:
  1. Who Do You Love - The Woolies 2:02
  2. East Side Story - Bob Seger & The Last Heard 2:26
  3. Respect - Rationals 2:40
  4. Mc5 - Looking At You 2:46
  5. Where You Gonna Go - Unrelated Segments 2:48
  6. We Gotta Go - Shy Guys 2:46
  7. Love's Gone Bad - Underdogs 2:27
  8. What's On Your Mind - Terry Knight & The Pack 1:47
  9. Human Beings - Because I Love Her 2:52
  10. Borderline - Mc5 3:14
  11. Farmer John - Tidal Waves 2:13
  12. Persecution Smith - Bob Seger & The Last Heard 3:04
  13. ? And The Mysterians - Can't Get Enough Of You Baby 2:00
  14. Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues - Southbound Freeway 2:33
  15. Rationals - Sing! 2:07
  16. Wanted - In The Midnight Hour 1:55
  17. Rationals - Leavin' Here 3:10
  18. Lookin' Back - Bob Seger System 2:42
  19. Mc5 - I Can Only Give You Everything 2:59
  20. You Talk Sunshine, I Breath Fire - Amboy Dukes 2:45
  21. The Man In The Glass - Underdogs 2:12
  22. Mc5 - One Of The Guys 2:18
  23. Chain Smokin' - Bob Seger & The Last Heard 2:45
  24. An Important Message - Dr. Jack Van Impe 0:57
  25. Heavy Music, Part 2 - Bob Seger & The Last Heard 2:49
  26. Rationals - I Need You 3:42
  27. Mc5 - I Just Don't Know 2:39
  28. Wait A Minute - Tim Tam & The Turn Ons 2:17
  29. Ormandy - Good Day 2:55
  30. Ballad Of The Yellow Beret - Beach Bums (Bob Seger) 2:28
  31. Sock It To Me Santa - Bob Seger & The Last Heard 2:11

Notes

A limited edition (1000 copies), unauthorized double album of Michigan rock from the '60s. It's real difficult to find these days, but it's one of the very best garageoriented compilations of the era, and a pretty diverse one. There's hot White soul from the Rationals, a rare single by the Amboy Dukes, fetchingly raw folkrock from the Human Beinzs and the Underdogs, burning garage punk from the Unrelated Segments, and even a castrato Four Seasons imitation by Tim Tam the TurnOns. The heart of the collection, however, are the five early, preElektra sides by the MC5, which are garage rock at its most metallic and furious, and the Dylanesque mid'60s hard rock sides by Bob Seger, a good decade before he broke nationally. The sound is excellent, as are the liner notes; it's worth paying collector prices for.