#1055 The Troggs - Trogglodynamite

Cover songs were the bread and butter of the early British rock era, but there's a right way and a wrong way. These are the kind of covers that make you say, before you know that they're covers, wow this song is really ripping off Bo Diddley / Chuck Berry: the kind of covers that don't exactly put their own stamp on things. Even the originals are pretty pale, like the singsong Small Faces-lite of No. 10 Downing Street. A strangely bloodless, by-the-numbers collection of early garagey rock songs - you'd be better off mining the sources 2.5/5