Search - Tremeloes :: Definitive Collection

Best comp so far

Zub | Forks Twp., PA | 06/09/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As the backing group for Brian Poole, the Tremeloes had a number of big hits in the U.K. during the early 60's with one of those tunes, "Someone, Someone" scraping the bottom of the American top-100. After Poole left for a solo career that essentially died on the vine, the Tremeloes went on to even greater success in the U.K. and made some noise on the American charts. Their cover of the Four Seasons "Silence Is Golden" just missed the top 10 and three other tunes of theirs made it into the top 50. While there are a number of Tremeloes compilation discs in the market, many of them are of marginal quality and/or are rerecordings. This collection from Castle, U.K. gathers up all their charted recordings and presents them in the best sound yet. In addition, this piece contains as a "bonus" disc, their first post-Poole album in its entirety, "Here Come The Tremeloes". Though they failed to see any more American hits after '67, they continued to chart in the U.K. until 1971. An attempt at a change in style left them hitless thereafter but in the early 80's when F.R. David's "Words" failed to chart, realizing the potential of the song the Tremeloes recorded their own version. Seeing this renewed interest in the tune, David's record company promoted his original version effectively trumping the Tremeloes attempt at getting back into the music buying public's good graces. The Tremeloes excellent treatment of "Words" appears in this collection. As previously mentioned, the sound quality here is a definite plus with many tracks in stereo (2-11,15,24-26) although the "Here Come The Tremeloes" bonus disc is in mono. Presence of studio chatter on some tracks confirms the use of original masters on at least some of these tunes. The liner notes booklet contains some backround on the group's history and a few pics. While the Rhino is one of the better Tremeloes collections available, this piece does have better sound quality overall and for a comprehensive best-of, this is the top choice."