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'''''The 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 Highs in the Mid-Sixties series that had been released in earlier years. Only two more albums in the Pebbles series have been issued since the ''Essential Pebbles series'' was begun.
==Nature of the music==
The first volume selects tracks from the first 10 CDs in the Pebbles series plus ''Ear-Piercing Punk'', while the second volume collects recordings previously included on the LPs in the Pebbles series and Highs in the Mid-Sixties series that had not yet been reissued on CD. In the first two volumes, a second CD of "insanely rare bonus tracks" is provided in each volume. No information is provided about any of these recordings except that all but 2 are said to be previously un-reissued in any form. The third volume (both CDs) features recordings from continental European bands that had previously been featured in the Continent Lashes Back sub-series within the Pebbles series.
Each of the volumes in the ''Essential Pebbles series'' have as many tracks as many box sets: 55 in the first two volumes, and 48 in the third volume.
==Discography==
* Essential Pebbles, Volume 1; released as #AIP CD 1958 in 1997 * Essential Pebbles, Volume 2; released as #AIP CD 1960 in 1998 * Essential Pebbles, Volume 3; released as #AIP 1964 in 2000
==See also== * Pebbles series
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070510112242/http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories?category=*+AIP+* AIP Records — Mail Order Site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070409163407/http://www.bomp.com/AIP.html AIP Records — Historical Information]
==Web Radio== *https://web.archive.org/web/20070312010015/http://www.radio60.dyndns.org/
Category:Pebbles (series) albums