"But in 1976, Seymour Stein of Sire Records reissued the album and it gained a new lease of life. The new version had an immediate impact. 'It introduced it to a new generation of bands,' Kaye says. 'Television started covering the 13th Floor Elevators. Ramones [who later covered the Seeds] had a sensibility of wanting to shorten things and on Nuggets the tracks are very compact.' It also began to infiltrate the UK. Jon Savage cites it as a key catalyst for punk in the genre's definitive book England's Dreaming, the Undertones would cover a song from it, and Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen said it contained 'some of the most important records ever made'."
Daniel Dylan Wray at The Guardian discusses Lenny Kaye's Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968.
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