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- Date Released: January 1, 1975
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Oldies
- Label: Collecting Records
Essential bad-boy proto-punk, featuring the eternal "Wild Thing."
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We Say...
Long before it was hip to be square, the Troggs (short for troglodytes, meaning cavemen) used the blunt thuggishness of working-class England to reach an early pinnacle of proto-punk rock. Unlike other British Invasion bands, who strove to be clever and stylish, singer Reg Presley's crew were more like stylistic forerunners of the Ramones: loads of sexy, surly attitude without fancy moves or pretty faces. Oddly, the thrilling gimme-it-now thrust of songs like "Wild Thing" and "I Can't Control Myself" occasionally came fitted out with such un-punk attributes as ocarina solos, strings and schmaltzy romance. This compilation contains straightforward remakes of the band's amazingly durable hits (including "With a Girl Like You," "Love Is All Around," "Anyway That You Want Me"), the entirety of a 1983 album called Black Bottom (which boasts such fun tracks as "Strange Movies") and a medley of rock & roll standards that ably proves the versatility of the chords A, D and E.
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They Say...
The Troggs were one of the toughest and most gloriously unpolished bands to emerge from the U.K. during the British Invasion era -- the leering, monolithic pound of "Wild Thing" and "I Can't Control Myself" was about the closest thing to the Stooges that emerged on vinyl before James Osterberg reinvented himself as Iggy Pop, and lead singer Reg Presley all but defined the word "lascivious" with his guttural howls and moans on their best recordings. The Troggs had dropped off the charts by the end of the '60s, but they were the sort of band that simply didn't believe in giving up, and in 1975 they returned to the studio to cut their first album in five years. Simply called The Troggs, the album found the group updating their sound just a bit, with the results at times suggesting a cross between Status Quo-style boogie and blue collar glam in the manner of Slade, especially on the honest self-celebration of "Full Blooded Band." The Troggs is dominated by covers, boasting only three new songs, but one of them, "Summertime," was inspired sleaze in the classic Troggs tradition (and features the best rudely suggestive stutter since "My Generation"), and you can't argue that the grimy and stripped down re-imagining of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" (which rewrites the opening line as "I like the clothes she almost wears") took the song someplace Brian Wilson never would have imagined. The Troggs' take of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" doesn't need to go on for five-and-a-half minutes, and the reggae-influenced recut of "Wild Thing" doesn't work especially well, but The Troggs demonstrate that these guys never forgot how to be rude and crude in the studio, and at their best they turned it into an art form -- not that they'd ever dream of calling it that.
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| 01. |  |
Wild Thing |
2:42 |
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| 02. | |
With A Girl Like You |
2:15 |
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| 03. | |
Love Is All Around |
2:43 |
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| 04. | |
Little Pretty Thing |
3:05 |
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| 05. | |
Anyway That You Want Me |
2:49 |
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| 06. | |
I Can't Control Myself |
3:09 |
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| 07. | |
I Love You Baby |
4:29 |
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| 08. | |
Black Bottom |
2:55 |
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| 09. | |
Louie Louie Medley |
4:13 |
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| 10. | |
Save The Last Dance For Me |
2:35 |
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| 11. | |
I Do Do |
2:54 |
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| 12. | |
Strange Movie |
3:05 |
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| 13. | |
Bass For My Birthday |
3:35 |
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| 14. | |
Last Night |
3:02 |
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| 15. | |
Hot Days |
3:01 |
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| 16. | |
I Don't |
3:35 |
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| 17. | |
Widge You |
4:03 |
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| 18. | |
Feels Like A Woman |
3:42 |
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18 Total Tracks, 57:52 Total Length
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