Best Of Top Of The Pops 1974 (Hallmark)

The pick of the Top Of The Poppers cover versions from 1974, well in theory. Actually i do have one of the original 1974 LPs that would have fed into this compilation and a couple of songs off that i think are better than those included here but anyway...

Truthfully this has some decent music on it and a good deal of quality cheese, "Love me for a reason" and "You won't find another fool like me" are excellent (both ironically and in their own right), as are the covers of "Sugar baby love" and "Seasons in the sun". In their own right they are good pop tracks. "Tiger feet" isn't bad either, its not an artistic triumph by any means but good fun and thats what pop is all about yeah?

It isn't all good though, i thought the cover of "Kung fu fighting" was a bit average, lacking the magic of the original, more a blue belt than a 10th dan so to speak. The "Waterloo" cover doesn't sound very ABBAesque, of course it doesn't have to sound like the original to be good, unfortunately it doesn't sound like anything much at all. Criticisms aside if you wanted a good compilation of the pop hit sounds of 1974 then really this serves very well indeed.