October 2, 2019 Playlist

   
The Best of the Classic Albums of the Week for
PLEDGE DRIVE
Featuring New Classic Album of the Week #600
     
"Wild Thing" by The Troggs (1966)
(NEW) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Troggs "Wild Thing"  1966 (UK) 
It was tough to find an album to induct as Classic Album of the Week #600: I wanted something that was both influential and "unsung." I finally settled on the debut album by an underappreciated but singular sixties band who were an important precursor to punk and metal. Of course everyone knows the title track from this album, which was by far their biggest hit in America, though they had several more hits in their native Britain and if you delve into their discography a little deeper they were the all-time masters of lascivious caveman rock. "Trogg" is short for troglodyte, a term which is usually prejorative when you're talking about music, but The Troggs really own their primitive stomp and dumb/horny teenage lyrics. Which I think already makes them the punkest rock band around way back in 1966! The idiot savant distorted guitar riff of "Wild Thing" (which is exactly the same as "Louie Louie", the ultimate stupid rock song) is also as heavy as anything you'd hear on the radio in the pre-metal years. And if you think "Wild Thing" was a masterpiece of stoopid heaviness, most of their songs are like that, in fact "Wild Thing" might not even make a list of their ten best songs! Though to be fair, they did occasionaly sink into bubblegum cheese (punk and bubblegum have always been more musically similar than either would admit), and even worse are the Troggs' sappy ballads (including their second-biggest hit "Love Is All Around" which has exactly the same chords as "Wild Thing" only played slower!)
(N) = New Release
 
Artist Song Album Year Country
HawkwindSonic Attack
   --> Time We Left This World Today (live)
 		Space Ritual
CLASSIC ALBUM - Oct 23, 2009		1973
UK
ChromeSlip It To The AndroidAlien Soundtracks
CLASSIC ALBUM - Jul 31, 2009		1977
USA
Von LMORadio World Future Language
CLASSIC ALBUM - Jun 8, 2006		1981
USA
EnoNeedles In The Camel's Eye
 		Here Come The Warm Jets
CLASSIC ALBUM - Oct 5, 2012		1974
UK
PavementGrave Architecture
 		Wowee Zowee
CLASSIC ALBUM - Jun 14, 2013		1995
USA
 
 
The Pink FairiesDo ItNever Never Land
CLASSIC ALBUM - Feb 7, 2007		1971
UK/Canada
Amon Düül IIEye-Shaking King
 		Yeti
CLASSIC ALBUM - Sep 13, 2006		1970
Germany
CanOh Yeah
 		Tago Mago
CLASSIC ALBUM - Mar 22, 2006		1971
Germany/Japan
NEU!Hero
 		NEU! 75
CLASSIC ALBUM - Mar 28, 2014		1975
Germany
   
 
The TroggsWild ThingWild Thing
 (NEW) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK 		1966
UK
The TroggsI Want YouWild Thing
 (NEW) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK 		1966
UK
The TroggsGonna Make Younon-album B-side1966
UK
The Count FiveDouble-Decker BusPsychotic Reaction
 CLASSIC ALBUM - Aug 26, 2014
1966
USA
The SeedsPictures & Designs
 		A Web Of Sound
CLASSIC ALBUM - Dec 10, 2008		1967
USA
MC5Looking At YouBack In The USA
 CLASSIC ALBUM - Jul 8, 2011
1970
USA
The StoogesDown On The StreetFunhouse
CLASSIC ALBUM - Sep 6, 2006		1970
USA
Speed Glue & ShinkiStoned Out Of My MindEve
CLASSIC ALBUM - Dec 5, 2007		1971
Japan/Philipines
New York DollsPrivate WorldNew York Dolls
CLASSIC ALBUM - Sep 11, 2019		1973
USA
 
  
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of InventionInca RoadsOne Size Fits All
CLASSIC ALBUM - Dec 20, 2013		1975
USA
The Mothers Of InventionBrown Shoes Don't Make ItAbsolutely Free
CLASSIC ALBUM - Dec 26, 2007		1967
USA
FaustPicnic On A Frozen River / Deuxième Tableau
 		Faust IV
CLASSIC ALBUM - Oct 7, 2008		1973
Germany
Captain Beefheart & His Magic BandKandy KornMirror Man
CLASSIC ALBUM - Jan 14, 2011		rec. 1968, rel. 1971
USA
 
  
Neil YoungOn The BeachOn The Beach
CLASSIC ALBUM - Nov 12, 2010		1974
Canada
The Guess WhoAll Hashed OutArtificial Paradise
CLASSIC ALBUM - Dec 28, 2012		1973
Canada
FunkadelicMaggot BrainMaggot Brain
CLASSIC ALBUM - Jul 5, 2013		1971
USA
 
  
Far Out (Far East Family Band)Nihonjin ("Japanese People")Far Out
CLASSIC ALBUM - May 15, 2009		1973
Japan
      
   
   
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