Caroline
2005
A's B's & Rarities
About This Album
The Arrows were a one-hit wonder who never had a hit (except in the U.K. where a couple of their singles reached the top 30). Explanation: they wrote and recorded the original version of "I Love Rock n' Roll" but while their version did nothing on the charts (as it was relegated to a B-side), Joan Jett's cover blew up and became a rock standard. The Arrows' original version is included on the 2004 collection A's, B's and Rarities which rounds up their seven singles recorded for Mickie Most's RAK label between 1974-1976. Along with "I Love Rock n' Roll" (which, incidentally, pales beside Joan Jett's incendiary cover), there are some good glammy pop singles here: "Touch Too Much" is a fine Chinn & Chapman rocker; "We Can Make It Together" is a sweet-sounding '60s-style love song; "My World Is Turning On Love" is a hooky slice of rock balladry. For the most part, though, the band is too tame sounding and polite to really make much of an impression; this is thanks both to Most's surprisingly sterile production and the band's sometimes lackluster performances. What this disc has that previous Arrows collections have lacked are some rediscovered rarities, like their version of Johnny Burnette's '60s hit "Dreamin'," their own take on the same tune (which added new lyrics and a vocal melody to the same musical track) called "Bam Bam Battering Ram," and a moody rocker, "Wake Up.
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