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![]() Ian from Lethbridge, CanadaI love the orcarina solo in the middle!.Mark from Byrdstown, TnI love the rough garage sound this song has.Most everything recorded today is too polished and artificial.For an instant the Troggs captured IT.IT being a sublime moment of great joy in 2 minute song.Of COURSE this song was always intended to be a bit under the arm, so a joke version is not a stretch at all. I also got a big kick out of the parody verion done with Sam Kinison. Simply fantastic bit of showmanship, right through the dying hum of his guitar through his overcharted amp. Anyone who has ever seen the footage of Jimi first humping, then lighting up, then smashing his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival will know why that performance was what broke him through here in his homeland of the U.S. No work on instrumentality or production is anywhere to be found here, and yet it rocks, and it rocks BECAUSE of those flaws, not despite them. Oldpink from New Castle, InWhooh! Talk about primitive.The other possibility is that this was slowed down or speeded up, which would also cause a slight exaggeration in the tuning. The ocarina in the solo sounds just a tad off also, the out-of-tune guitars would explain this. The guitars were probably tuned to each other (in this day before electric guitar tuners) so they don't sound out of tune with each other. Alan from City, MiAnybody tried to play along with this song (Troggs version), supposedly in the key of A, and it just doesn't sound right? And neither does Bb! Basically, I assume, the guitars were not tuned exactly right (no keyboard in this, so no need to tune to the keyboard).Bob from Owen Sound, OnThis was the first full song I learned on bass guitar! It's so simple yet so awesome! The song really good!.Ryan from Anahola, HiThe Jimi Hendrix Experience played this song at the Monterey Pop Festeval, 1967.Had it bombed, it would have been cited as How Not To Make A Record. Amateurish, pseudo-macho delivery of the sophomoric lyrics. ![]() Couldn't believe it when it soared to Number One.
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