Little Latin Lupe Lu/Long Green/Do You Love Me/New Orleans/Walking The Dog/David’s Mood/Something’s Got A Hold On Me/Let The Good Times Roll/Ooh Poo Pah Doo/Great Balls Of Fire/Linda Lou/Death Of An Angel
US garage band The Kingmen's achieved their highest US album chart placing with their second LP Volume II, despite the lack of a major hit single. The group's primitive basic sound compared unfavourably with that of many British Invasion bands. (US:15)
"The Kingsmen were a good garage rock style band in the 1960s. They were arguably the most successful of the garage bands, since they had seven songs that made it into the Hot 100. This album is a typical one for them, since it contains two lower placed chart singles and a bunch of cover songs. Singer Lynn Easton was actually a decent, if derivative, songwriter. As for the cover songs that make up the bulk of the album, they are okay, for the most part. But none of them come close to matching the versions that were recorded by the original artists."
"Let's face it: they were awful. A lot of throwaway knock-offs on the twelve-bar blues form, which a lot of groups of that era did. If nothing else it'll give you a fresh appreciation of what The Beatles brought to the rock scene."
"I'm not sure why anyone would want to listen to this. I guess I had too high expectations as I thought I would be getting a tight, garage-rock band. Instead I got very bland, vanilla covers of classic songs. Overall, this was a disappointment to me."
"The Kingsmen were little more than a standard issue, R & B influenced frat-rock cover band. They played music for teenagers who wanted to get in a couple of dances. The songs are, for the most part, dull and unoriginal covers of the rock standards of the day."
"This disc is a demonstration of a mediocre rock band who only managed to record one truly great song. It is an album full of filler, and probably not one that you'll play all that often."
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