Wild Thing/The Kitty Cat Song/Ride Your Pony/Hi Hi Hazel/I Just Sing/Evil/The Yella In Me/With A Girl Like You/Our Love Will Still Be There/Louie Louie/Jingle Jangle/When I’m With You/From Home/Jaguar & Thunderbird/I Can’t Control Myself/Night Of The Long Grass
Hampshire pop group The Troggs enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the mid sixties with mostly simple, pounding beat music. Their debut LP From Nowhere includes their chart topping hits With A Girl Like You and Wild Thing plus the No. 2 I Can't Control Myself. (UK:6)
"The Troggs are a hard band to pin down. Wild Thing is easily the song they are most known for, and while the sloppy rock presented there is certainly one side of the group, they did everything ranging from bubblegum to straight rock 'n' roll to proto-metal during their short career."
"They somehow managed to become relatively well-known while playing the simplest of songs typical of early 1964-65 era garage rock/teen pop - but actually doing this in the era of psychedelia and experimentation. Their most famous genre was dirty, distorted, 'caveman' garage rock, and clearly that was the genre where they excelled at most."
"The Troggs' debut was pretty obsolete for the standards of 1966 if one approaches it from a purely musical perspective, but it's still groovy fun despite all the 'lightweightness', if only because the music is so fresh, exciting and catchy."
"Who needs professional approach anyway when the first track on here is Wild Thing? That might be the simplest song ever written - the classic three chords, plus a staggeringly slow tempo."
"All in all, a pretty damn solid way to start a career - too bad this was 1966, and The Troggs were starting their career in just about the same way as every British band was starting theirs in about 1963."
"While there were plenty of garage bands about before The Troggs, they had a pretty distinctive sound and their best records are tight, snappy and devoid of anything unnecessary."
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