I Can't Control Myself

Episode 31 contemplates the conundrum expressed in The Troggs' 1966 hit, "I Can't Control Myself." Reg Presley and the boys find some flakes of the same fairy dust they sprinkled over their former hit, "Wild Thing" and, like all discussion of the band, our talk drifts towards the topics of minimalism and negative space in their work (2:00). Big Maybelle had a fling with the song the next year, and both her vocals and Bob Gallo's arrangement are bold, brash, and brassy, with a funky drum break the cratediggers of hip hop have somehow missed, until we pointed it out (55:58).  The Teenbeats are the final contenders, and we comment on the romantic and sexual implications of their fast & furious rendition, which was a hit with Montreal modsters in 1980 (1:25:58).