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{{Infobox album
| name = Essential Pebbles, Volume 2
| type = compilation
| artist =
| cover = Essential-Pebbles-2-cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded = Mid-1960s
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Garage rock]], [[psychedelic rock]]
| length =
| label = [[AIP Records|AIP]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Essential Pebbles, Volume 1]]
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = [[Essential Pebbles, Volume 3]]
| next_year = 2000
}}

'''''Essential Pebbles, Volume 2''''' is a [[compilation album]] in the [[Essential Pebbles series]]. Although subtitled '''Still More Ultimate '66 garage classics!''', not all of the recordings on the album were originally released in 1966.

==Release data==
This album was released on [[AIP Records]] in 1998 as #AIP-CD-1060. The cover drawing is a colored version of the cover of the [[Pebbles, Volume 11 (LP)|Pebbles, Volume 11]] LP, the first album in the [[Pebbles series]] that was released by [[AIP Records]].

==Notes on the tracks==
The first CD, subtitled "The Best of the Rest of Pebbles Vinyl LPs" collects previously un-reissued, mostly [[United States|American]] recordings from the LPs in the [[Pebbles series]] that are making their first appearance on CD; also, the tracks on the second CD have been previously un-reissued in any form.

Perhaps because of complaints from purchasers of the first volume, more information is included in the [[liner notes]] in this second volume. For instance, Mike Stax in his 1998 review of [[Essential Pebbles, Volume 1]] in the ''Ugly Things'' fanzine, groused: "Unfortunately also, we're left in the dark regarding any info on these groups". The following information about some of the bands was taken from these liner notes. [[The Rogues (garage rock band)|The Rogues]] is one of at least 3 bands by the name that were recording in [[Louisiana]] alone. [[Evil Enc Group]] – also known as [[Evil Encorporated]] – is the only band on the first CD that has two included songs. Some of the members of [[Magic Plants]] are said to have later been in [[the Left Banke]]. "More than I Have" is an inventive psychedelic recording that was one of the best tracks on the higher numbered volumes in the [[Pebbles series]] and comes from a demo tape supplied by the band. "That Creature" is a bad-taste recording that includes the line "Leave that ugly thing from another planet", courtesy of a band from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

==Track listing==

===Disc 1===

# [[The Rogues (garage rock band)|The Rogues]]: "How Many Times" – Rel. 1966
# [[Neal Ford and the Fanatics]]: "Shame on You" – Rel. 1967
# [[Jelly Bean Bandits]]: "Generation" – Rel. 1967
# [[Sonny Flaherty / Mark V]]: "Hey Conductor" – Rel. 1967
# [[Denims]]: "I'm Your Man"
# [[Evil Enc Group]]: "Hey You"
# [[Ravin' Blue]]: "It's Not Real"
# [[Jaybees]]: "I'm a Loner"
# [[Spirit (garage rock band)|Spirit]]: "Man Enough for You"
# [[Wig Wags]]: "On My Way Down the Road" – Rel. 1966
# [[Four Fifths]]: "If You Still Want Me"
# [[Soul Survivors (garage rock band)|Soul Survivors]]: "Shakin' with Linda"
# [[Magic Plants]]: "I'm a Nothing" – Rel. 1966
# [[Live Wires (band)|Live Wires]]: "Love"
# [[Inmates (garage rock band)|Inmates]]: "More than I Have" – Rel. 1966
# [[Les Sinners]]: "Nice Try"
# [[Cole & the Embers]]: "Hey Girl"
# [[Kama Del Sutra]]: "She Taught Me Love"
# [[Sweet Acids]]: "That Creature"
# [[Evil Enc Group]]: "The Point Is"
# [[Danny's Reasons]]: "Triangles" – Rel. 1967
# [[Baker Street Irregulars (garage rock band)|Baker Street Irregulars]]: "[[I'm A Man (Bo Diddley song)|I'm a Man]]" ([[Elias B. McDaniel]])
# [[Dee & Tee]]: "Something's Comin'"
# [[Yo Yo's]]: "Crack In My Wall"
# [[Original Sinners]]: "You'll Never Know"
# [[Les Lutins]]: "Laissez-Nous Vivre"

===Disc 2===
# [[Purple Haze (garage rock band)|Purple Haze]]: "Shades of Blue"
# [[Dawn 5]]: "Mike's Bag"
# [[Denny Noie / Catalinas]]: "It Ain't a Big Thing"
# [[Fading Tribesmen]]: "More Feathers"
# [[Lost Souls (garage rock band)|Lost Souls]]: "It's Not Fair"
# [[Spires of Oxford]]: "But You're Gone"
# Vistas: "Don't Know"
# [[Chimes (garage rock band)|Chimes]]: "#38"
# [[D. C. Drifters]]: "Louisiana Blues"
# [[Dean Kohler]]: "Gooseberry Blues"
# [[Children (garage rock band)|Children]]: "I Can Feel It"
# [[Why Four]]: "Hard Life"
# [[Why Four]]: "Not Fade Away" ([[Buddy Holly]])
# [[Doo & Diddits]]: "I'm a Man" ([[Elias B. McDaniel]])
# [[Night Watch (garage rock band)|Night Watch]]: "[[The Good's Gone]]"
# [[Night Watch (garage rock band)|Night Watch]]: "Shake"
# [[Rick & the Rivals]]: "Stricken by You"
# [[Sinders]]: "Get Out of My Life"
# [[Abstracts (garage rock band)|Abstracts]]: "Always Always"
# [[Crying Shame (band)|Crying Shame]]: "Come on Back"
# [[Berries (garage rock band)|Berries]]: "Baby Won't You Follow Me Down"
# [[Outcasts (garage rock band)|Outcasts]]: "I Wanted You"
# [[Lunduns]]: "It's Gonna Be Alright"
# [[Ye Court Jesters]]: "But I Still Love Her"
# [[Checkmates (band)|Checkmates]]: "Eyes on You Baby"
# [[Inner Prism]]: "Bad Seed"
# [[Classics 5]]: "Wine, Wine, Wine"
# [[Inn Crowd]]: "Gotta Find a Girl"
# [[Lawson and Four More]]: "If You Want Me"

[[Category:Pebbles (series) albums]]
[[Category:1998 compilation albums]]

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