Recommend to me some Troggs [Edit: RIP Reg Presley, February 2013]

Having said that, surely any decent greatest hits would be enough for most people? Avoid anything that says anything like "due to limitations of the original source tape... songs have been re-recorded featuring at least one member of the original group"

You can find it here:
http://collee.tripod.com/mainpage/troggs.htm

Dug out the two-disc Archaeology compilation for the first time in years yesterday -- forgot how good they were. And after years of being familiar with the Spiritualized cover it's nice to remember how "Any Way That You Want Me" originally was.

oooh i want that set! cmon payday

Oh, I thought this was about the Rutles.

Just dial 6654321

Cousin Jane!

got the full albums Cellophane and Mixed Bag from some russian blog the other day - surprisingly great all the way through! "Jingle Jangle" off the first LP (From Nowhere) also surprisingly great early Reg Presley ballad w/harpsichord and huge hook. love these guys

recommended

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4281/tynan6in.gif

what the hell is that

Just thanking you.

From Nowhere

I haven't listened to the entirety of this one yet, but I know the singles, and remembered "Jingle Jangle" from taping it off a college radio station broadcast years n years ago

HER EMOTION!!!

I kinda wish the whole song was just a loop of the last 30 seconds or so when the tambourine kicks in

Apparently Chuck Prophet shared on FB the news that Reg Presley has been diagnosed with lung cancer and is retiring from performing, ending the Troggs after more than 45 years.

Word has come in from a friend of a friend on FB that Reg Presley has passed on due to the combination of cancer and a series of strokes. He apparently passed peacefully at home with family and friends. No further/formal word yet.

!!! aw no

Possible confirmation here:

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1061297945

:(

they made the most rockin harpsichord song ever imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvUbDfRCOJg

However, in contrast:

https://twitter.com/empiresend/status/298541124807704576

Clear as mud.

Okay, we have confirmation:

http://www.wenn.com/all-news/the-troggs-leader-reg-presley-loses-cancer-battle/

:( RIP

Aw shit :(

rip :(

never forget the troggs tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4ase-1-FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9n46CZLAH8

"all we need to do is prinkle some fairy dust on the bastard"

"piss on the tape?"

*sprinkle

love when they get him to play:
YEAHHH!!!
(waits a beat)
NO!!

YA BIG PRANNY

gone to the great crop circle in the sky RIP

Damn. Bye Reg.

I hope he got a lot of money from With A Girl Like You towards the end of his life, seems like that song shows up everywhere

filthy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzHpGjvRgTc

oh man, I was just listening to them for pleasure this afternoon (while skimming the Bangs' essay no less!)

RIP

reg earned a fortune in royalties from wet wet wet's cover of love is all around, which was a number 1 in the UK for something like three months. he spent the money on researching crop circles and related phenom.

money well spent lol

I thought I had their Sire best-of, but I guess not. "With a Girl Like You" is my favourite, and hearing "Wild Thing" on the car radio soon after Game 6 of the '93 World Series remains a vivid memory.

"one... two... three... four..."

*pause*

"You're doing it wrong!"

I have never figured out what song they're actually arguing about on that track

'Tranquility'.

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It was a half-written ballad called "Tranquilty" that iirc was never actually released.

whenever I hear the Troggs version of Love is all Around I think of Bill Nighy's terrible Christmas is All Around from Love Actually.

"So if you really love Christmas, come on and let it snow'

but I mean that in a good way because I'm the dork who liked that music ...and I love the Troggs song

music? movie

xpost:

That's right. The Troggs Tapes is from a session they did in the mid '70s at DJM Studios in London... as you can hear from the tapes, they struggled to record the song ('Tranquility'), so the session was aborted. The song was never recorded properly and never came out, but the engineer kept the tape running, captured all of the arguing and whatnot, and here we are!

RIP

"How about a fucking 12-string on it?"

RIP Reg

When discussing space travel, Presley tended to depart from the standard vernacular, referring to interstellar craft as “the bugger” or “the bastard”, and to interplanetary communications systems as “tackle”. In 1994 he claimed to have obtained footage of a metallic disc seen hovering over crops, an object which, he said, was “nosin’ around at corn height”, and “sniffin’ around the field”. This, he argued, was “one of the little fellers – the ones with the big cow eyes, which in UFO circles we call the greys. I’ve got a sneaking feeling that they are engineered by aliens who can see the future; if they know a woman is going to lose a baby they take it and they convert it. They put in a bit of extra brain. Maybe no vocal. But they can mind-read you.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9849602/Reg-Presley.html

I'd never seen Flirting, so I bought a cheap used copy on the weekend. Started watching it last night. Serendipitous (4:51):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPiO-JJ_ZPY

great movie

Finished it tonight--yeah, it really is. (So as not to take over a Troggs thread.)

Either one of these will do:

The band attempted to capitalise on this new exposure with two collaborations on new versions of "Wild Thing". A 1992 recording with actor Oliver Reed and snooker player Alex Higgins failed to chart,[13] but another version the following year featuring Wolf from the TV show Gladiators reached number 69 in the UK Singles Chart.[3][14]

nice