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Terry Reid - Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) 4:19
  2. Tinker Taylor 2:53
  3. Erica 3:55
  4. Without Expression 4:50
  5. Sweater 2:04
  6. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart 5:00
  7. Season of the Witch 10:09
  8. Writing on the Wall 4:46
  9. Summertime Blues 5:27
  10. When You Get Home 3:40
  11. Loving Time 3:41
  12. The Hand Don't Fit the Glove 2:56
  13. This Time 1:50

Notes

Bang, Bang introduced a hard rocker whose eclecticism was both impressive and unnervingly inconsistent. The covers of "Season of the Witch" and "Summertime Blues" are overlong and dated, but the frenetic version of Cher's "Bang, Bang" is inspired, and the rendition of Gene Pitney's "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" shows his poppier roots. Over half of the material was penned by Reid, and while these compositions are sometimes generic, late-'60s hard rockers, he also shows a facility for Donavonesque folk-rock "("Sweater"") and impressive soul-rock vocalizing ("When I Get Home"). Originally not released in the U.K., it's ironically only available now as a U.K. import.