Label: Repertoire Records (Europe), REPUK 1062
Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Andover, Hampshire, England
Time: 65:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 330 Mb
The
title of Mixed Bag was an appropriate description of this rather
scrapheap Troggs assembly, as it wasn't really a regular album. Instead,
it was a budget-priced compilation matching eight songs that appeared
on British and American singles in 1968 with four others that made their
first appearance on the LP. Although all but one of the tracks was a
Troggs original ("Hip Hip Hooray" being the lone exception), and
although there were a few solid cuts, overall it was disappointing due
to the weakness and surprisingly low energy of many of the songs. "Hip
Hip Hooray" was somewhat puerile bubblegum, and "Little Girl," a small
British hit, was a lame attempt by Reg Presley to keep milking the pop
ballad style he'd used the much better effect in earlier hits like "Love
Is All Around." In brighter news, the old salacious Troggs sound
surfaced to good effect in "Say Darlin'"; "You Can Cry if You Want To"
was one of Presley's better soft numbers; and both "Purple Shades" and
"Maybe the Madman" were two of the band's best ventures into
psychedelia, albeit of the rather tongue-in-cheek sort. All of the best
numbers, however, were the ones most likely to show up on later best-of
compilations, making it only of interest to collectors and completists.
If you're among the fans who do want it, however, you should seek out
the 2005 Repertoire CD Hip Hip Hooray, which contains everything on
Mixed Bag and adds 11 songs from rare 1970 and 1973 singles (including
three tracks from Reg Presley solo singles of the era) as bonus cuts.
(allmusic.com/album/mixed-bag-mw0000840883)
01. Hip Hip Hooray (02:19)
02. You Can Cry If You Want To (02:50)
03. Say Darlin' (02:45)
04. Marbles And Some Gum (02:05)
05. Purple Shades (02:24)
06. Heads Or Tails (03:43)
07. Surprise Surprise (02:47)
08. Little Girl (02:57)
09. Maybe The Madman (02:13)
10. Off The Record (03:43)
11. We Waited For Someone (02:51)
12. There's Something About You (02:42)
13. Lazy Weekend (03:24)
14. Let's Pull Together (02:48)
15. Young And Beautiful (02:54)
16. Everything's Funny (02:12)
17. Feels Like A Woman (03:31)
18. Listen To The Man (03:17)
19. Queen Of Sorrow (02:41)
20. Strange Movies (02:56)
21. I'm On Fire (02:13)
22. 'S Down To You Marianne (03:12)
23. Hey Little Girl (02:53)
thanks!
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