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Permalink Surf Album Top 101 @ North Sea Surf Radio; Postponed untill further notice

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Another almost impossible task... and like the last top tens, I am immediately going to feel as though I am betraying other great records. I just have to look at this as a snapshot of favorites at this moment. In that, I am happy to share:

Name: Jamie Galatas
Country: USA

  1. Laika & The Cosmonauts - Instruments Of Terror
  2. The Fathoms - Fathomless
  3. The Bambi Molesters - Sonic Bullets 13 From The Hip
  4. The Space Cossacks - Tsar Wars
  5. Satan’s Pilgrims - Creature Feature
  6. The Madeira - Carpe Noctem
  7. The Tomorrowmen - It’s About Time
  8. The Treble Spankers - Araban
  9. The Penetrators - Locked & Loaded
  10. The Bomboras - Head Shrinkin’ Fun

After a fair amount of agony, and limiting myself to one album per band:

  1. Apemen Surfvival of de Onbeschoftste
  2. Volcanos Finish Line Fever
  3. Space Cossacks Tsar Wars
  4. Bambi Molesters Sonic Bullets
  5. Surf Trio The Curse of the Surf Trio
  6. Man or Astroman? Is it … ?
  7. Barbwires Searider
  8. Penetrators Locked and Loaded
  9. Family Dollar Pharaohs Haunted
  10. Langhorns S/T

Honorable mentions, no particular order:
Frankie and the Pool Boys, S/T; Madeira, Carpe Noctem; Mutants, Mutants Death Cult; Planet Seven, Pleasurecraft Recovery Theme; Wet-Tones Mucho Reverbo; Ultras, Surf-Pop-Sludge; Bomboras, Head Shrinkin’ Fun; Galaxy Trio, Saucers Over Vegas; Halibuts, Chumming; Satan’s Pilgrims, At Home With; Treble Spankers, Araban; Concussions, Magic Fingers.

nielsjansen wrote:

Dear Simon,
Thanks for your submission.
We are however looking for Surf Revival Albums so I am afraid you need to make some adjustments.
Cheers,

Thanks for the correction! I somehow missed this essential point...

I have deleted my old list, here is my new one:

  1. Jon & the Nightriders - Live at the Whiskey
  2. The Bambi Molesters - Sonic Bullets
  3. Plan9 - Beach Buster
  4. Los Twang! Marvels - Jungle of Twang
  5. Slacktone - Into the Blue Sparkle
  6. The Kilaueas - Profesor Volcanova
  7. The Razorblades - The Dark Side of the Beach
  8. The Treble Spankers - Hasheeda
  9. The TomorrowMen - It's about Time!
  10. Man or Astro-man? - Is it...

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

all good man, thanks for the entry
we have three albums in common, Hasheeda, Jungle Of Twang and Sonic Bullets Smile
Cheers,

Niels Jansen
Program Director
North Sea Surf Radio

To submit your surf music to North Sea Surf Radio send the tracks as .mp3 in 320kbps bitrate with correct tags to playlist@northseasurfradio.com via Dropbox.

North Sea Surf Radio: Website- Facebook - Twitter
North Sea Surf Festival: Website - Facebook - Twitter
The Phantom Four: Website - Facebook - Twitter

I only recently rediscovered "Hasheeda" in context of the discussion about the lost album of the Treble Spankers, I hadn't listend to it in years and it was a very interesting exoerience to revisit the record again. I almost forgot how big a role it had for me in shaping my personal understanding of surf music.

Concerning "Sonic Bullets" I am actually a bit suprised that it is part of quite a few lists so far. I always had the impression that it was the least favoured Bimbi Molesters album among surf music fans because of its turn to a more sophisticated and diverse production. Which is actually one of the things that make it valuable to me (and it was also the first album by them I got my hands on).

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

With Bambi Molesters it´s difficult, I could have easily picked As The Dark Wave Swells, Intensity or Dumb Loud Hollow Twang but tracks like Double Danger, Theme From Slaying Beauty, Malaguena and Chaotica made me pick Sonic Bullets in the end.

As for Hasheeda, The Treble Spankers got me into surf music in 1993 so that had to be my number one. I have seen them about a dozen times back then and they were awesome, lots of good memories.

Niels Jansen
Program Director
North Sea Surf Radio

To submit your surf music to North Sea Surf Radio send the tracks as .mp3 in 320kbps bitrate with correct tags to playlist@northseasurfradio.com via Dropbox.

North Sea Surf Radio: Website- Facebook - Twitter
North Sea Surf Festival: Website - Facebook - Twitter
The Phantom Four: Website - Facebook - Twitter

Bump!
Send in those Top 10´s everyone!

Niels Jansen
Program Director
North Sea Surf Radio

To submit your surf music to North Sea Surf Radio send the tracks as .mp3 in 320kbps bitrate with correct tags to playlist@northseasurfradio.com via Dropbox.

North Sea Surf Radio: Website- Facebook - Twitter
North Sea Surf Festival: Website - Facebook - Twitter
The Phantom Four: Website - Facebook - Twitter

Here are my top ten albums:

1 The Bambi Molesters - Dumb Loud Hollow Twang (1st edition!)
2 Saboteurs - Espionage Garage
3 The Fathoms - Fathomless
4 The Space Cossacks - Interstellar Stomp
5 Metalunas - X- Minus One
6 El Ray - Tick Tick Tick
7 The Kilaueas - Profesor Volcanova
8 The Surfites - Big Pounder
9 The Looney Tunes - Moderns sounds of…
10 The Bomboras - Head Shrinking Fun

Twang cheers!

Ralf Kilauea

www.kilaueas.de

https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien

Matthew Lentz
USA

I picked the stuff that got me into playing surf music after I got out of the army in 1990. Some of you would say it's not surf, but it definitely pushed me to form a surf band in 1992. So, these are things that either influenced me greatly, or just plain blew me away.

  1. Meshugga Beach Party : Sixteen Songs of the Chosen Surfers
  2. The Mummies: Never Been Caught (But Play Their Own Records was my favorite, killer organ instrumentals)
  3. The Phantom Surfers: 18 Deadly Ones
  4. The Untamed Youth: Some Kinda Fun
  5. The Untamed Youth: More Gone Gassers
  6. Jon and the Nightriders: Stampede
  7. The Baronics: Get Bach
  8. The Fathoms: Fathomless
  9. The Aqualads: Treasures
  10. The Phantom Surfers: Play Music from the Big Screen Spectaculars

I could change the order, but since #1 is the one that will stick (or Schtick), that's the one that would always remain at the top.

Matt "tha Kat" Lentz
Skippy and the Skipjacks: 2018-
Skippyandtheskipjacks.net
https://www.facebook.com/skippyandtheskipjacks
Otto and the Ottomans: 2014-2015
The Coconauts surf band: 2009-2014
www.theamazingcoconauts.com
Group Captain and the Mandrakes 2013
http://www.gcmband.com/
The Surfside IV: 2002-2005, 2008-2009
the Del-Vamps: 1992-1999, 2006-2007
http://www.dblcrown.com/delvamps.html

Last edited: Mar 06, 2014 23:59:03

Name: Dmitry
Country: Russia

1.Los Meteoritos - Surfin' Cemento
2.Sand Devils - Sand Devils
3.The Breakaways - Time Surfin'
4.Metalunas - X Minus One
5.Los Straitjackets - Jet Set
6.The Surfaris - Wipe Out(2002)
7.The Knights - Surfin' the Southwest, Santa Fe Style
8.The Mel-Tones - Surf Sensation
9.The One Night Standards - Sunset
10.The Mariners - Demon Surf

After some thought, I did not put in an album (vinyl) which I should have. It came out in the 80's & is REALLY surf music instrumentals...so

#11: The Cruncher "Go Surfin' With the Cruncher"

They were a German band & featured the talents of Herbert Hooke on lead guitar. Is anyone here familiar with them ?
BTD is correct in posting "a top 20 or 25 may have been better".

Last edited: Mar 07, 2014 10:38:01

jonfender wrote:

After some thought, I did not put in an album (vinyl) which I should have. It came out in the 80's & is REALLY surf music instrumentals...so

#11: The Cruncher "Go Surfin' With the Cruncher"

They were a German band & featured the talents of Herbert Hooke on lead guitar. Is anyone here familiar with them ?

Here's a link to his website

http://www.thecruncher-reverb.de/

I don't know, if they were really a band. As far as I know, Herbert Hooke plays most (all ?) instrumental parts.

BTD is correct in posting "a top 20 or 25 may have been better".

Name: Kevin
Country: USA

  1. The Barbwires - Searider
  2. Man or AstroMan? - Is it...
  3. The Space Cossacks - Tsar Wars
  4. The Madeira - Tribal Fires
  5. Slacktone - Into The Blue Sparkle
  6. Los Coronas - Gen-U-Ine Sounds
  7. The TomorrowMen - It's about Time!
  8. Laika & The Cosmonauts - Instruments Of Terror
  9. Kill Baby Kill - Corridor X
  10. The Bambi Molesters - As The Dark Wave Swells

Kevin
The Out of Limits
www.facebook.com/theoutoflimitsband
https://theoutoflimits.bandcamp.com/

Last edited: Mar 07, 2014 18:09:25

  1. Go Hunting - Fifty Foot Combo
  2. Hasheeda - Treble Spankers
  3. Raw & Alive '98 - Jon & The Nightriders (my god, what an energy)
  4. Unleashed - Eliminators
  5. Flippin' the bird with - Treblemakers
  6. Creature Feature - Satan's Pilgrims
  7. Chasing Ray - El Ray
  8. A haunting we wil go-go - Ghastly Ones
  9. X-50 - Surf Creatures
  10. Opiumparty - Los Banditos (I know this ain't a real 'surf album' and probably won't count but this is an outstanding instrumental record highly influenced by surf & instrumental music)

Greets,
Andy

www.LosVenturas.be

Name: Tom Kilauea
Country: Germany

  1. Bambi Molesters - Dumb Loud Hollow Twang
  2. Tremolo Beer Gut - Inebriated Sounds of The Tremolo Beer Gut
  3. Langhorns - Club Gabardino
  4. Fathoms - Fathomless
  5. Los Twang Marvels - Prueba del Fuego
  6. Man or Astro-Man? - Your Weight On The Moon
  7. Bomboras - Head Shrinkin' Fun
  8. Laika & The Cosmonauts - Instruments Of Terror
  9. Space Cossacks - Interstellar Stomp
  10. Boss Martians - 13 Evil Tales

My 10 cents Smile
Suprised that the Tremolo Beer Gut don't pop up more often, that is one hell of an album.

Aloha,
tom

Last edited: Mar 07, 2014 13:59:39

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  1. X-50 - Surf Creatures

A good choice and, I believe, the first album from the UK to get a mention.

Los Fantasticos

Name: Harry
Country: USA
1. Bambi Molesters - Dumb Loud Hollow Twang
2. Penetrators - Locked and Loaded
3. Blue Stingrays - Surf-N-Burn
4. Agua Velvets - Guitar Noir
5. The Eliminators - Unleashed
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Unfortunately this is as much as I have today. The rest of my surf collection is from the first wave. I will say that thanks to this site I seem to find something new almost every day.

Peter
Australia

  1. The Tremolo Beer Gut – Under The Influence Of The Tremolo Beer Gut
  2. The Alohas- Get Leid With The Alohas
  3. GT Stringer – Up Periscope
  4. Langhorns – Mission Exotica
  5. The Bitch Boys – Ride The First Wave
  6. El Ray – Tick Tick Tick
  7. The Bad Beers – Zombies From Beyond The Surf
  8. Messer Chups – Vamp Babes
  9. The Trashwomen – Spend The Night With
  10. Treble Spankers – Araban

Peter

http://www.youtube.com/user/jenipete
http://instromania-makhno.blogspot.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/Instromania3DRadio
https://www.facebook.com/GammaRaysInstroRock
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Slingshot-Dragster/15013389378

Neil McLeod
USA

  1. Space Cossacks - Tsar Wars
  2. The Eliminators - Unleashed
  3. Bambi Molesters - Sonic Bullets 13 from the Hip
  4. Madeira - Tribal Fires
  5. Slacktone - Into the Blue Sparkle
  6. The Aqua Velvets - The Aqua Velvets
  7. Los Straightjackets - Supersonic Guitars in 3D
  8. Boss Martians - 13 Evil Tales
  9. The Ultra - Surf, Pop, Sludge
  10. Blue Hawaiians- Sway

My apologies to all the worthy artists left off, I really don't have a top 10. Can I submit more lists with my other top 10's?

All I wish I knew what they were talking about

Last edited: Mar 08, 2014 12:04:35

Danny - USA

  1. Laika&TC - Instruments of Terror
  2. Bambi Molesters - Sonic Bullets!
  3. The Madeira - Carpe Noctum
  4. Space Cossacks - Tsar Wars
  5. Phantom Four - Morgana
  6. Satan's Pilgrims - Creature Feature
  7. The Mermen - Glorious Lethal Euphoria
  8. The Kilaueas - Professor Volcanova
  9. The Baronics - Get Bach!
  10. The Beat Tornados - Mission to Mir

Man that was hard. As soon as I press submit I'm sure I'll have regrets.

Danny Snyder

Latest project - Now That's What I Call SURF
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"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo

I'm back playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta

Last edited: Mar 10, 2014 13:29:13

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