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Mixed Bag (The Troggs album)

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Mixed Bag
A kaleidoscope of multi-colored photos of the band's faces
Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 1968 (1968-04)
Genre
Length33:38
LanguageEnglish
LabelPage One
Producer
The Troggs chronology
Cellophane
(1967)
Mixed Bag
(1968)
The Troggs
(1975)

Mixed Bag (released in North America as Love Is All Around) is a 1968 studio album by British garage rock band The Troggs.

Reception

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Editors of AllMusic Guide scored Mixed Bag three out of five stars, with reviewer Richie Unterberger, calling the name appropriate for a "scrapheap" of songs compiled from singles, with several songs highlighted as strong, but the entire compilation being surpassed by the 2005 collection Hip Hip Hooray.[2] In Colin Larkin's The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, he scores this release three out of five stars.[3]

Track listing

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Side one

  1. "Surprise Surprise" (Reg Presley) – 2:49
  2. "You Can Cry If You Want To" (Presley) – 2:54
  3. "Say Darlin'" (Chris Britton) – 2:47
  4. "Marbles and Some Gum" (Pete Staples) – 2:06
  5. "Purple Shades" (Presley) – 2:25
  6. "Heads or Tails" (Britton) – 3:44

Side two

  1. "Hip Hip Hooray" (Geoff Stevens, John Carter) – 2:20
  2. "Little Girl" (Presley) – 2:59
  3. "Maybe the Madman" (Britton) – 2:14
  4. "Off the Record" (Staples) – 3:45
  5. "We Waited for Someone" (Presley) – 2:52
  6. "There´s Something About You" (Ronnie Bond) – 2:43

Personnel

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The Troggs

Additional personnel

Chart performance

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Mixed Bag peaked at 109 on the Billboard 200.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Chapman, Rob (September 2015). Psychedelia and Other Colours. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571282753.
  2. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "The Troggs – Mixed Bag". AllMusic Guide. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1919. ISBN 9780857125958.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 794. ISBN 0898201179.
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