The tragic death of Reg Presley brought
him back to celebrity status in the media for a day, and reanimated
interest in The Troggs' 60s back catalogue among "oldies"
fans. But while most of them don't remember much more than "Wild
Thing" and "Love Is All Around", there's much more to
discover, and I guess that visitors of spurensicherung are familiar
with all the classics and all the rarities from that relatively short
period in the group's career. But The Troggs never quit, and even
after the announcement of Reg's retirement a year ago, the rest of
the band kept on gigging with a new singer. And while this sounds
like the honourable, but ill-fated attempt of The Lords to find a
replacement for Lord Ulli, Reg seemed to be quite happy about it.
What we're trying to do here as a tribute to the king is compiling
the best of the group's material from the years when they were looked
upon as old fashioned, out-dated, out-burned, old hat, boring old
retro-farts with a long gone hit from the 60s. Those were the days
when even die-hard troggsters like us tended to wait a while and
reliably pick the new Troggs album out of the bargain bins six months
later. I've got reggae versions, disco versions and tekkno versions
of "Wild Thing", all by The Troggs, plus stuff like Reg
doin' it with Suzi Quatro etc. Well, we all have to pay the rent, and
some of the later albums like "Au" or "Athens Andover"
at best have their moments. In fact it's just one moment on both for
me, and LPs like the 1976 Penny Farthing "Troggs Tapes"
don't work as a whole, while the self-titled 1975 predecessor on the
same label has one fine and one indigestible side. But I can't cunt
roll myself: when you put together all these bits and pieces, odds
and ends meet around the great "Black Bottom", and here you
have the result of our Troggaeology in the 70s, 80s and 90s: STARS ON
45 PINTS! Ladies and gentlemen, the only acceptable kind of sexual
harassment: THE TROGGS!!! (Eat your fart out, Brüderle...)
TROGGLIST:
01- Fast Train
02- Coz We're Dancing
(b- and a-side of German-only
single, Polydor,80)
03- I Don't
04- Feels Like A Woman (1981 version)
05- I Love You Baby
06- Black Bottom
07- Strange Movie (1981 version)
08- Bass For My Birthday
09- Little Pretty Thing
(03-09: Black Bottom, RCA,81)
10- I Got Lovin' If You Want It
11- Good Vibrations (album version)
12- No Particular Place To Go
13- Summertime (album version)
(10-13: The Troggs, Penny
Farthing,75)
14- Walking The Dog (from "Au
Album", New Rose, France,89)
15- I'm In Control (from "Athens
Andover", Page One,92)
16- Get You Tonight (album version)
(from "The Troggs", Penny Farthing,76)
17- Save The Last Dance For Me ( From
EP "Troggs On 45", New Rose 82, French release)
18- I'm On Fire ( single b-side, Pye,
73)
19- Gonna Make You (1976 recording) (
single version, German Penny Farthing,76)
20- Just A Little Too Much ( single,
Raw, UK,78. B-side by different artist)
21- Young And Beautiful (Released as
Reg Presley solo 7" b-side only in Germany, Page One, 70)
22- I'll Buy You An Island (single
version, Penny Farthing, 76)
if this is gonna be acceptable as a
bonus for you... well, we'll gonna give you the sins of our second
youths anyway. The Pope on drums, van daale on the mic and some
musicians you might find via your favourite search engine but better
forget (some of them are dead, some of them better are not mentioned,
some of them will turn up when you least expect them to): two
versions of you know what recorded incidentally on location
(rehearsal room and, yep, we dared, live in Beutelsbach, Germany
1983). Ego me absolvo und meine frau auch.
(left: van daale / right: the lolly pope)
23 - The Pinkees - I Can't Control
Myself
24 - The Pinkees - I Can*t Cunt Roll
Myself
(more of The Mightless Pinkees on
kraut mask replica)
(mp3 / 256 kbps / DIRECT DOWNLOAD / all pictures included)
1 comment:
Tolle Compilation. Ich bin hin und weg von 'Black Bottom'. Was für eine großartige Platte.
Vielen Dank!
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