Mixed Bag (The Troggs album)

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

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

Reception

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

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

The Troggs

Additional personnel

Chart performance

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

References
  1. Chapman, Rob (September 2015). Psychedelia and Other Colours. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571282753.
  2. 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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