One great little pickup I made over the holidays is the Saints' box set, The Greatest Cowboy Movie Ever Made. It is essentially the first three albums Chris Bailey made after Ed Kuepper left the band plus a previously unreleased disc of live material. I was introduced to the Saints back in 1988 when Prodigal Son came out, so I've always had a soft spot for the post-Kuepper Saints. I had never heard any of these albums and only a couple of these songs. Highly recommended if you like your garage rock to err on the side of hooks and melody.

Sounds like a great box set, MJ, and once I'd love to pick-up. Especially considering all I have of the early Saints is scattered across v/a collections.

For anyone who can find it a great price (like I did), I recommend The Rubble Collection, Vol. 1-10. Rubbles is another garage/psych series. More obscure material than the Nuggets collections, though they feature more well known artists than Pebbles set of albums. However, the Rubbles series seems to run OOP and OOS more often than the other two groups. Excellent songs, great quality and I hope they reissue Vol. 11-20 soon.

Had never seen it until recently when I came across a bargain priced used copy of The Seeds' Evil Hoodoo. Released in '95 on a Demon records label, this is a very nifty collection of Seeds tracks, many I hadn't heard before. Their most well known singles are here, "Pushin' Too Hard" and "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" plus fourteen other songs from their four albums. Other fun numbers include "Wind Blows Your Hair", "Rollin' Machine", the country-tinged "Mr. Farmer" and "Fallin' off the Edge (Of My Mind)".

On the Off the Hip label, the Wrong Turn's Nothing Grows From Scars is a very nice gathering of crunchy Aussie garage rock tracks. A duo who hails from the old Seminal Rats group. Couple great covers ("Slow Down", "Skinny Minnie") and some great originals ("One On One", "You Don't Know"). Jam Records is offering this one now, and probably Koolkat will soon if it ain't already.

THE HIVES
THE STROKES
WHITE STRIPES
ARTIC MONKIES
THE VINES
PINK SPIDER
THE RAMONES
THE CLASH
THE SUBWAYS