Glad All Over

's first album might seem a bit on the meager side outside of the context of the first flush of the British Invasion. At the time, though, it was a pretty exuberant slab o' vinyl that rocked pretty hard for the most part, paced by the three Top 10 singles and It was a huge seller as well, peaking at number three and remaining in the charts almost as long as the albums by their chief competitors of the era, . And it does have a few decent, though not great, original songs that don't show up on greatest hits compilations: the solid the raucous rip-off and the surprisingly savage an inversion of with its snaky, growling guitar riffs and dirty sax. There's also some pure filler, like the and the infantile It certainly ranks among their best non-greatest-hits albums, which isn't as high a recommendation as it sounds, since the group's LPs weren't that good overall. ~ Richie Unterberger