Friday, February 8, 2013

Friday Nuggets- The Troggs "I Can't Control Myself" (plus bonus)

As we wrote about here earlier this week, Reg Presley, lead singer for the Troggs died. Had they did nothing else, The Troggs would have still been Hall of Fame level artists just for "Wild Thing", certainly one of the greatest rock'n'roll songs of all time.

But they did many more songs that made them one of the foundational architects of the garage and later punk rock movements.

Here's "I Can't Control Myself," all full of sex and teenage desire, and great guitar sounds and those terrific Reg Presley vocals:

Plus a bonus, from 1967, "With a Girl Like You", certainly one that the Ramones and Buzzcocks listened to quite a bit:

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