I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves

Artist: The Strangeloves
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074644707526
EAN: 0074644707526
ASIN: B0000027HI

Release Date: 1995-06-06

I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves

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Tracks:

Cara-Lin
Sendin' My Love
(Roll On) Mississippi
I Want Candy
It's About My Baby
Just The Way You Are
Night Time
No Jive
Rythm Of Love
Satisfaction
I Gotta Dance
Hang On Sloopy
New Orleans
Hand Jive
Out In The Sun
Love, Love (That's All I Want From You)
I'm On Fire
Honey Do
I Wanna Do It
Quarter Three

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Customer Reviews:

EDUCATIONAL....................................................2006-01-03

THREE GUYS FROM THE BRONX OR WAS IT BROOKLYN , TRYING TOO BLUFF
THEIR WAY THRU BY CLAIMING THEY WERE BROTHERS AND FROM AUSTRALIA.
THEY DIDN'T FOOL ANYONE BACK IN THE MID-60'S . THIS IS A CLASSIC
EXAMPLE OF THINGS NOT BEING WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE. THE MUSIC AIN'T
BAD THO....EVEN IF IT'S ALL STUDIO MUSICIANS . THE BACKING TRACKS
ON " HANG ON SLOOPY " ARE WHAT THE ALSO USED FOR THE MC COY'S
VERSION , THE STANGELOVES ALLEGEDLY FINDING THE MC COYS ON TOUR AND
BECOMING THEIR PRODUCER'S . I RECALL BACK THEN THAT THE MC COYS
HAD WON A TALENT SEARCH , OR SO , THAT WAS THE STORY BACK THEN.

Just what the doctor ordered........2005-08-25

The Strangeloves were a "three hit wonder" back in the mid-'60s, although "I Want Candy" is the only one of those hits that is really remembered today. Supposedly three brothers from Australia, they were actually a three man writing/producing team from New York. This CD contains almost all of the recordings ever released by the Strangeloves. The recordings are fun, but most of them are highly derivative of "I Want Candy", featuring heavy percussion and vocals yelled by all three guys. But if you are looking for a Strangeloves CD, this is the one to get.

a dark horse - great "Australian" garage band (hoax or not).......2004-03-13

Their first album had this claim in the liner notes that they were from Australia - but they were really a non-band - a group of session musicians from NYC, of all things.

It was quite the mystique, really, and the music itself was/is awesome to boot. Garage rock was at the height of its early inventiveness, and "I Want Candy" was up there in the stratosphere. The followup, "Cara-Lin" was a bit of a knockoff (though at the time I liked it better). "Night Time" also really rocked - with tremendous tremelo strumming on lead guitar; and matchless, gutsy spoken vocal riffs at various junctures.

Part of the Strangeloves' signature sound was the loud, quick unison "heys" and strong tom-tom beats at the bridges. "Candy" had great jazzy, repeating guitar riffs; "Cara-Lin" had a powerful honking sax, somewhat like early Dave Clark Five tunes. Generally, their overall feel was a relentless, driving energy (at differing tempos, depending on the song).

As I remember, their b-sides were quite good as well.

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