Nuggets: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes

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1. The original “Nuggets” by Lenny Kaye was a godsend, and this song one of the highlights. A song by the 2nd (faux) Prunes was featured in the soundtrack of “Easy Rider” but quite unlike the earlier Prunes.

   • Have you heard the whole boxset. Disc 1 of the box (the same as the original 2-LP set) might be the strongest, but the quality is high throughout.

     • Yes, heard the whole thing, and there are some great “nuggets” in the extended set. But you’re right, the original is consistently good. These box sets I find are wonderful for diehards and completists, but are usually “watered down” by non-essentials.

2. That was very psychedelic.

   • Sure is! Like a definition for the genre.

3. “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” by The Electric Prunes is one wild-sounding psychedelic song. I could picture at as an early Pink Floyd track. Pretty cool!

   • Yup, it’s a pretty good definition for the genre. It’s out there, but still pretty listenable.

4. Have always liked this song, though for many years I thought it was called – and they were singing – “I had too much to drink last night”.

   • Obviously it’s playing on that cliché, and it does make sense. You can tell it’s written by a professional songwriter, right? Most Nuggets tracks don’t really do wordplay.

5. So . . . . track 1??? Is this the end of the series??? If so, great work, well done, really have enjoyed these articles, learned a lot about artists familiar and artists obscure.

   • There’s always Nuggets II next, although it’ll be interesting to see how much info is out there for the more obscure acts. Thanks for reading!

6. I love this song…I heard it on oldies stations in the 1980s…I also like 25 O’Clock. I’m a huge fan of the psychedelic period as you know…. great track.

   • I don’t think I ever heard it on the radio, it got shuffled off by tightening playlists by the 1990s. Seemed instantly familiar on Nuggets thanks to 25 O’clock.

     • I learned most of these songs while working in the 80s in a locked stock room. You know how I feel about mainstream 80s…I haven’t changed since then so I listened to an oldies channel everyday…they played a lot of 1960s songs of all sorts.

       • I only really like mainstream rock music from the 1980s onwards if it’s purposely synthetic like U2 or The 1975. Otherwise it feels sterile.

         • There is not much there for me… that is why I like the alternative so much. There are single songs here and there that I liked (Georgia Satellites, Black Crowes )but not a continuing cycle.

         • They’re both a bit rootsy, right? Probably not in that too-clean-cut zone.

         • Yes rootsy is it…the too-clean-cut zone is why I got out of it.