Hit Single Anthology

Hit Single Anthology Artist: The Troggs
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 042284816427
EAN: 0042284816427
ASIN: B000025XE5


Release Date: 1991-05-02

Hit Single Anthology


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Tracks:

  1. Wild Thing
  2. From Home
  3. With A Girl Like You
  4. I Want You
  5. I Can't Control Myself
  6. Gonna Make You
  7. Anyway That You Want Me
  8. 66 5 4 3 2 1
  9. Give It To Me
  10. You're Lyin
  11. Night Of The Long Grass
  12. Girl In Black
  13. Hi Hi Hazel
  14. As I Ride By
  15. Love Is All Around
  16. When Will The Rain Come
  17. Little Girl
  18. Maybe The Madman

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Album Description

Low price compilation for the British Invasion act. 18 tracks including 'Love Is All Around' & the classic 'Wild Thing'. Fontana Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Flipping over the first 9 singles and their flipsides........2005-11-06

The review title refers to what this CD consists of: This influential band's first 9 singles along with their flipsides chronologically ordered. I gave this CD five stars because even the flipsides are great (e.g., "I Want You", "As I Ride By"). Simple and raw mostly. Caveman rock (a precursor to the punk sound). Other influences? "Give It To Me" sounds like a pre-evolved Bay City Roller's "Saturday Night." Also: a Troggs session was recorded with the band bickering in the studio (available elsewhere as the Trogg Tapes), which supposedly became the inspiration for the movie "Spinal Tap." I mention this only because "Love is All Around" reminds me of Tap's "Flower People" and the rest of the CD sounds like 60's alternatives to "Big Bottom." Not necessarily the music, but the mind-set is pretty much in the same place. Much more than "Wild Thing," but more of the same, as well.

5 out of 5 stars Love is all around these wild things.......2005-10-19

The success of Wet wet wet's cover of Love is all around, featured in the soundtrack of Four weddings and a funeral and which spent many weeks at number one in the UK charts, sparked interest in the original sixties version by the Troggs, whose style was raw rock'n'roll. Their lead singer, Reg Presley, had a distinctive, suggestive style.

The Troggs began their run of chart hits with Wild thing, a novelty song that reached number two in the UK but topped the charts for six weeks in America. By the time it peaked in America, the Troggs were on their second UK single - With a girl like you, which went all the way to number one. Thus, they occupied the number one positions in Britain and America simultaneously, but with different songs, but they never reached number one again in either country. Nevertheless, they had several other major UK hits including Love is all around, I can't control myself and Anyway that you want me, all of which made the UK top ten, together with the top twenty UK hits Give it to me and Night of the long grass.

This collection includes all the essentials. The Troggs were a somewhat odd sixties group but that's why they are worth listening to.

5 out of 5 stars Doin' the Wild Thing.......2003-02-22

The Troggs are almost considered a one-hit wonder for their famous "Wild Thing" [not to be confused with Tone-Loc's song of the same title]. Who else had a sound with a tasty metallic edge, and also managed to get all the way to #1 on the charts with a truly funny seduction song? (The Kinks "A Well Respected Man" and Dedicated Follower of Fashion" were more at social satire, and thus 'half-serious'; plus they didn't make it all the way to #1. But doesn't "A Well Respected Man" have an utterly astonishing sound to it!?!?)

In our new era of nearly indestructible media, it's conceivable that "Wild Thing" will live forever . . . any healthy 10-year old [or hormone-raging teenager] hearing it from now until eternity will instantly identify with, and cherish it.

What's not usually known about the Troggs is possibly the most titillating rock song of all time ["I Can't Control Myself"], and possibly the best slow love ballad of the psychedelic era ["Love is All Around"]. The lyrics and the playing/singing of "I Can't Control Myself" still get my chakras spinning pretty fast. Some well-crafted rhymed lines (there are plenty more good ones): "your slacks are low and your hips are showing"; "this kind of feeling can move a nation" - but it's also how they are sung, and how they jam out from their musical context. The song is a strong tonic. To hell with Viagra . . . just play this song a few times!

And "Love is All Around" still makes me melt. What are its nearest rivals for best radio rock ballad of the late 60's? Right off the bat I think of "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, which, however, is a little quick-paced to be considered a true ballad, as is Johnny Rivers' "Summer Rain". There's "Get Together" by the Youngbloods, truly a heavyweight contender. Tommy James and the Shondells had a brace of terrific slow tunes. The Rascals' offerings, however, are also a bit too quick-paced to qualify. What about "Something" by the Beatles?

"Something" (by the Beatles) is like a 60's upgrade (gorgeous as it is) of Bing Crosby (gorgeous as he sounded some twenty years before); it is good enough that it easily transcends the era from which it has sprung. For our purposes, the Troggs' ballad goes one better, serving as a steady conduit by which the sense of eternity which expressed itself in late-sixties music and culture can still be heard and felt (especially by many of those who lived it). It channels the energy of the late sixties like a true icon of the era, as much as "Something" overflows those half-dreamed boundaries. The greatness of the Beatles' multi-temporal eclecticism notwithstanding, my vote goes to "Love is All Around".

And let's not forget that the Troggs were one of the inventors of British punk . . . which as it were, was not really invented, but sort of 'sprang from the earth'. The Who, the Kinks and Them came before the Troggs; and we can't forget the Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Yardbirds [though these three had a more bluesy than a metallic edge]. Then there were literally dozens, possibly even scores of American bands (starting in '66 or even earlier) playing off the energy and sounds of these influential British oracles.

By the way, (if you have never listened to it) the song "Night of the Long Grass" is NOT to be missed!

4 out of 5 stars

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