THE STRANGELOVES/I WANT CANDY BANG 211 (-65) US MONO

  A band totally new to me I'm still learning about, but seemingly they were more a New York songwriting/production team than the Australian sheep farm brothers they posed as in the press. The story about them is long and winding and I'm not repeating it here. If You're interested go the Wikipedia article  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangeloves . Apparently it wasn't the songwriting team who performed the band's songs, instead the recordings were made by various session musicians, who also performed live as The Strangeloves. This was a one-off album, released as a follow-up to the successful "I Want Candy" single. It can also be seen as a kind of collection as it contains four A-sides and three flips from their Bang label 45:s. But all that aside this is actually an ok garage album. The style is rather common though it is primitive enough and most of the songs have a haunting up-tempo feel that might make you wanna dance. I guess for many the Bow Wow Wow cover of "I Wan't Candy" is the best version  https://monolover.blogspot.com/2024/04/bow-wow-wowi-want-candy-afl1-4375-82-us.html  . Yet the one here was the original and certainly good enough by itself. The cover of Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" sounds a little too tame for me, but most of the rest do please. Exemples below. Originally also issued in Canada, Germany, Italy and Argentina. Japan 2017 CD on Oldays Records (ODR 6443) came with three bonus tracks. Premiere US had label as shown here in a fully laminated stickered cover.  (YZÄ*)  (ÖXCÅ*)