The Infamous Troggs Tapes Megamix!

[charemaine]

this is the most f**kn funny thing i've heard in months. thanks for this!

[AccioPadfoot12]

Lol at the sheep comments! Well done on the mix. The original cracks me up every time.

[Jay1967]

What's the fuckin' sheep doin' in the studio?!!!

[dogjones65]

Love the wobble board!!!! It's a number one!!!

[CrowTheRabbiter]

Excellent stuff - certainly made me chuckle :-)

[joeyoddo]

Great minds think alike! I did my "megamix" a couple of years ago, but put it on the back burner for a while. It looks like we have a lot of the same ideas. I just kinda took 'em to the next level. Nice work!

[noisyneil]

wow this has got a fair few views!!! anyone mind if i vainly attempt some shameless self-promotion off the back of it?

check out my 'actual music' at facbook . com / noisyneilthomas

lord knows you have to hustle these days if you want a number one record... otherwise you may as well fekin retire. that i DO know. :-)

[jon1156]

DUBBA DUBBA DUBBA CHA! THIS IS GREAT! Good job!! I've had the original for years and this takes it it to a new level.

[jon1156]

DUBBA DUBBA DUBBA CHA!

[doppelganger22]

This is probably a fucking different tune nearly. But it is fucking good. Yep - that's it.... Noisyneil - you have succeeded where Reg and the lads signally failed - you have, demonstrably, put a bit of fucking fairy dust over the baaaaaastard. Utterly fucking brilliant!

[noisyneil]

@doppelganger22 thanks matey. i still listen to it now and then and it never fails to bring a smile to my grumpy mug... :-)

[stupidmonkkkeys]

Seriously.....this remix is genius!

You've taken a profanity filled band meltdown in the studio, and re-arragned the few musical bits in it............into 4 minutes of hook-laden pop, that's funny as hell!

Very clever shit, that actually makes the original argument better than ever!!

Nice job!

[noisyneil]

@stupidmonkkkeys aw thanks man... glad you enjoyed it! :-)

[johnholk]

I didn't think anything could possibly be funnier than the original. Awesome.

[Aarodin]

haha

[shemanic1]

fraid they are 'Ampshire accents, not Devonshire, I should know, they come from Andover, my home town

[noisyneil]

i have ammended accordingly :-)

[shemanic1]

cheers noisyneil (I used to know a noiseyneil years ago, had 2staffs....parked up near Andover for a while)

The Troggs are nice geezers, down to earth. I see Chris Britton quite often takin a coffee outside the Blue Onion, face buried in his newspaper. He is step-grandad to my nephew.

[PAULLONDEN]

Sprinkle some fuckin' fairydust

on the fuckin' bastard. «•»_«•»

[daryl060761]

Neil Peart of Rush refers to this during the You Tube video after the Colbert Report where they're all playing Rock Band. After the band crashes, Neil says "aw, I cont play ta that"!

[Jay1967]

classic

[mdpk1]

is there a goat in there with them or what?

[SteffanLlwyd]

The Troggs were not from Devonshire... Hampshire! (Andover I think.) This accent reaches from Cornwall to Lincolnshire with local differences of course, covering a big sweep of English countryside.

[sumby]

Ahh,

good times in music....

Have ya got it yet?

[PAULLONDEN]

Ride yer fuckin'pony,you fuckin'wild thing,

just fuckin'sing, or can'ts ya fuckin'

control yerself ¿

The fuckin'madmen were fucking right.

[MattJamesInnit]

Split ya hands....

[ItHadToBeSaid]

in a sane world, this would've been number fourteen for 1 week!

[Tubyubber]

what the fuck is that goat sound he makes all the time?

[MannaMachine69]

Lmfaoooo. That's his laugh...the poster has remixed it so he's repeating it all the time. You're spot on tho, he does sound like a goat. Maybe he was just "kid"-ding around.

[TomRaymondUK]

Ironically, the song they were trying to record here was called 'Tranquility'! There wasn't much tranquility in the studio that night..."fucking drummers, I've shit 'em!"

[soulrealitymusic]

brilliant!!! but how on earth can you tell!??!?!?

[TomRaymondUK]

Reg Presley said (during a TV interview about the Troggs' contribution to Spinal Tap) that they were working on a song called 'Tranquility' when this argument kicked off.

[AdolfMussoliney]

don't get the fuhrer started, he thinks you guys are GREAT!!....let's just leave it at that....

[Tubyubber]

it's just like that scene in Spinal Tap.... so that's were that came from

[TomRaymondUK]

You'll notice Nigel's accent even goes a bit 'Troggs-ish' when he says "you can't concentrate 'cuz of your fucking wife" :)

[hurculepwoirot]

in any Banana republic worth it's salt, Reg and the boys would be royalty....or at the very least entertaining them....that's royal people, like....by the way, I agonised for seconds over the capital 'B' in Banana..........

[cuntonasabbatical]

Reg Presley?...is that Elvis' lad...?

did he just say (speeded up, like)

"sprinkling fairy dust over the bastard"..sheer f***ing genius..if he did...

[justpissedoneself]

in a sane world, this would have been number 1for fourteen weeks....instead we had to put up with Bryan Adams!

[justpissedoneself]

let's take it from bar 34 gentlemen, can I hear a bit more oboe....

[justpissedoneself]

come on, who are fooling, this just must have been scripted.....luv!

[justpissedoneself]

"they done punk before it was even invented.."

Plato

[macthetablespoon]

rock 'n roll?...glamorous...?...so, that's just the 17 full-English breakfasts and a bacon ciabatta with pesto and brown sauce, luv...

[macthetablespoon]

giving cavemen a bad name

[macthetablespoon]

tempers are always frayed when you're arsembling a rock classic, mate!

[macthetablespoon]

Rose and Fred's favourite band, I heard......

they forgot more than that c**unt Mozart ever knew!

[chuckdee121]

I never knew about this, and it was a real treat! The Troggs did an Lp called mixed bag in the late 60's which had something similar, and I thought that was tops, but this is tops!!!

[lyndloo]

hey whats great about this ? am I missing somethin? cos all I hear is profanity and u can hear that on the street! please if this is all u got I say hang it up ! its awful!!

[noisyneil]

okay... i can see why you're anti. let me explain. this is not me swearing. there is a recording of a band called the Troggs ("Wild Thing" remember that one?) arguing over a recording session. i thought it was hilarious so i chopped up the parts and made a silly montage, including the actual parts of the song, which were never originally played together. if you don't like it, look elsewhere for amusement. best wishes, noisyneil.

[DirkJefferson]

The original tape is about ten minutes long and is downloadable. You can search google for "the troggs tape".

[DirkJefferson]

A bit of background: This is the famous tape that was the inpiration for Spinal Tap.

A studio engineer had released outtakes of the Troggs at work in the early seventies; typical banter. The tape made the rounds and eventually Rob Reiner heard it. Rob got inspired and made the Spinal Tap movie.

Note the similarities between this tape and the movie's characters. The Troggs were the real, original "Nigel Tufnel vs. St. Hubbins".

[DirkJefferson]

This is a historical treat. This is how early English groups hammered out their songs:

Imagine four working class yobs from provincial Andover, England. Do you think they carefully crafted their songs on sheet-music and used music theory? Arguing, demoing chords, rhythms, and swearing is how they wrote and worked out new songs. (The songs wouldn't have had that true Trogg greatness any other way ;-)

[bluesbrother37]

FUCKING AWESOME!!!

[nrf44972]

What's a pranny?

[noisyneil]

I reckon it's a hybrid of "pratt" and "fanny". ;P

[joesoc]

this is hilarious!! great job....troggboy, is Ronnie really your dad? HE IS A LEGEND....love it when he calls him a big pranny!!

[Troggboy]

Thank you! My Father Ronnie who is the late drummer of the Troggs would have been proud of the fairydust you've sprinkled on this baaaastard :o)

[noisyneil]

Happy to oblige! So glad I dun 'im proud! :o)

[yaws1324]

This response is for Troggboy: Hello, Troggboy. You must be Darren Bullis, right? Do you live in England? Have you worked with Reg Presley or the other members of the Troggs? And have you ever met Peter Staples? He's been out of the group for years now.

[Troggboy]

Hello yaws1324,

Yes, that's me :o)

Still live in England and have worked with Reg Presley and my Godfather Chris Britton in Berlin back in '94 with bassist Pete Lucas.

Can't say I ever met Pete Staples though. He was out of the group around about the year I was born.

I'm interested to know how you know me??

[lwcowgirls]

hehe!

[sitcomtrials]

Excellent! The only version I've got is the voices without the music, which is what my Kraftwerk version is based on. Did you stick the music on? Nicely done.

[noisyneil]

If you google for it there's a version with the bass, guitar and drums all separately. they never play it all together, so i worked my magic! :o)