Mr_Reverb63
Joined: Jul 10, 2007
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San Pablo, CA
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Posted on May 12 2008 09:02 PM
ok here's my top ten in no particular order...
1-Maelstrom - Tomorrowmen (No im not kissing ass!!! haha one of my all time faves)
2-The Last Wave - The Dynotones(makes me want to race my imaginary hotrod!!!!)
3-Bullwinkle Part II - The Centurions(when im cruisin haha)
4-Playa De Los Muertos - The Bomboras (love the organ)
5-Reverb 10,000 - Man or Astroman?
6-Nightmare At the Drag - the Trashwomen (  Elka!! haha no i love this song! so lo-fi yet so freaking goooood!)
7-Yang Bu -Jim Messina and his Jesters
8-Frailachs - MBP (gotta love that song!!!!)
9-The Rising Surf - The Tandems(practically the wedge but i love this version)
10-Cat on a Hot Foam Board - The New Dimensions or Ghastly ones Version love em both
ah i have way too many favorites!!!!1 too bad though i might have left out some great ones that i can't remember right now. 
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Serpico
Joined: Dec 30, 2007
Posts: 443
Falun Sweden
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Posted on May 13 2008 08:43 AM
okay guys, heres my list:
- "A Go-Go Dancer" - The Looney Tunes
- "Liquid Chaos" - The Detonators
- "Scalped" - Dick Dale
- "Teleport" - Pollo Del Mar
- "Center Of The Universe" - The Dead Rocks
- "Yozora No Hoshi" - The Ventures
- "Impact Zone" - North Of Malibu
- "La Caja Del Muerto" - The Barbwires
- "Dripping Springs TX" - Pollo Del Mar
- "Walk Dont Run ´64" - The Ventures
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wooza
Joined: Apr 24, 2006
Posts: 1618
Ithaca, NY
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Posted on May 13 2008 10:08 AM
Serpico
"Center Of The Universe" - The Dead Rocks
Ooh, interesting choice. I've usually really gotta be in the mood to want to listen to the Dead Rocks, but this one always does it for me. Not in my top ten, but a very cool song nonetheless. (I even just proposed it to our band as a potential cover!)
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Serpico
Joined: Dec 30, 2007
Posts: 443
Falun Sweden
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Posted on May 13 2008 10:41 AM
and i must add one: "Radarmen From The Moon" - Urban Surf Kings
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Tikibot
Joined: May 13, 2008
Posts: 33
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Posted on May 14 2008 11:08 AM
- Ace of Spades (Link Wray)
- Underwater (Frogmen)
- Vaquero (The Fireballs)
- Rompin' ( Jerry Warren and the Tremblers)
- Pacifica (Los Straitjackets)
- Kon Tiki (The Shadows)
- Planeta Atlon (Los Derrumbes)
- Fish Taco (Dick Dale)
- Planet from Outer Space (Atomic Mosquitoes)
- Intoxica (The Revels)
It would have been easier to list the ten surf songs I dislike the most!
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BlindBlake
Joined: Mar 23, 2008
Posts: 21
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Posted on May 14 2008 11:14 AM
curbsurfer
surf party- the astronauts,
firewater-the astronauts,
I've been looking for these two songs and a few others from the Rarities Album, but it looks like it's gonna run over $20 plus S & H. Anybody know if they're available for download anywhere?
They're not on iTunes or eMusic.
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Klas
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 2294
Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted on May 14 2008 12:36 PM
There are currently two new copies available for under $15 from Amazon market sellers:
http://www.amazon.com/Rarities-Astronauts/dp/B000001AY1/
The CD is great with lots of rare material from their surf period (about 2/3 of the 28 tracks) and a must have for anyone digging the Astronauts.
— T H E ✠ S U R F I T E S
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BlindBlake
Joined: Mar 23, 2008
Posts: 21
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Posted on May 14 2008 12:52 PM
Thanks Klas. That's the lowest price I've seen.
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LHR
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
Posts: 2123
The jungle
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Posted on May 14 2008 10:24 PM
This post has gotten to re-listen to Jim Messina and his Jesters. I mentally dismiss them because, even though it was maybe his best work, Jim Messina refuses to acknowledge that he had any connection to these recordings (curiously, he has not done so with his Poco stuff!) I had sorta forgotten just how really good that band was.
Ten songs is hard, though, and mine are all here in this post somewhere. Except for one top-ten that I did not see:
Heartbeat - Avengers VI
Such a simple vamp, but that tune really swings, IMO.
— SSIV
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IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
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Posted on May 14 2008 10:52 PM
LHR
This post has gotten to re-listen to Jim Messina and his Jesters. I mentally dismiss them because, even though it was maybe his best work, Jim Messina refuses to acknowledge that he had any connection to these recordings
Not true - I read an interview with him where he talks about that period quite freely. I even excerpted parts of that interview in another thread - see here - scroll down a bit.
You're probably confusing him with Glenn Frey, who when asked about it said he never played surf music. And he was right! People thought he was the Frey in Messina-Frey songwriting credits, but he wasn't. See the above thread.
Ivan
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DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11058
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on May 14 2008 11:24 PM
MrReverb63_
ok here's my top ten in no particular order...
1-Maelstrom - Tomorrowmen (No im not kissing ass!!! haha one of my all time faves)
consider it kissed 
— Danny Snyder
"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo
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LHR
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
Posts: 2123
The jungle
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Posted on May 15 2008 12:14 AM
Ivan: Well, I'll be. I stand corrected. I had always heard he flatly disavowed this work. And I always thought that was a shame and silly, because they were just teenagers when it was recorded.
— SSIV
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sidewalksurf
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 243
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Posted on May 15 2008 10:50 AM
like y'all, I've got many faves....but right off the top of my head
1) Morpheus - The Toads
2) Margaya - Fender IV
3) Bombora - Original Surfaris
4) Bobby Fuller 4 - Our Favorite Martian
5) Tube City - The Trashmen
6) Hot Doggin - The Astronauts
7) Latin'ia - The Sentinels
8 ) The Wedge - Dick Dale and the Deltones
9) Contact - The Pyramids
10) Pipeline - The Chantays
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P2gee
Joined: Jul 05, 2006
Posts: 264
Waco Texas
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Posted on May 17 2008 01:15 PM
Well, lessee here:
- Walk Dont Run - Ventures
- Wrong Planet - LSJ
- Matilda - String-a-Longs
- Miserlou - Red Elvises
- Lonely Girl - Ventures
- Pigmy Dance - 50 Foot Combo
- Dead Sea Stroll - Atomic Mosquitos
- Sunset at the Wedge - Varatones
- Bumble Bee Twist - Ventures
- Spanish Blue - Longboard Ranch
This is tough. Each of these songs is easily tied with another song I would consider my favorites. 10 is not enough......I could go to 50 pretty easy
— 2012-2013: FILTHY POLAROIDS
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Mr_Reverb63
Joined: Jul 10, 2007
Posts: 916
San Pablo, CA
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Posted on May 17 2008 01:33 PM
P2gee
Well, lessee here:
- Miserlou - Red Elvises
mann that version is freaking awsome! i believe its called surfing in siberia though.
Dannysnyder
consider it kissed
OH is that why we're playing during MBPs break in SF? HAHAHA J/K mann the power of words!!
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klob
Joined: Apr 30, 2009
Posts: 344
Austin, TX
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 03:43 PM
Been having fun reading this old thread and checking out Spotify to hear other people's lists. Here's mine, not in any order and not quite off the top of my head:
El Gato - The Chandelles
Latini'a - The Sentinals
Miserlou (Greatest Hits 61-75 version) - Dick Dale
Yang Bu - Jim Messina & the Jesters
Psyko - Laika & The Cosmonauts
With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow - The Mermen
Varykino Show - The Mermen
Ultimate Wave - Eddie Day
Aunt's Invasion - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
Shockwave - Zorba & The Greeks
I feel like I should make a separate post for the top ten Laika & The Cosmonauts songs, maybe I'll take some time do that in a few weeks.
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Last edited: Oct 17, 2012 17:03:14
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ChadShivers
Joined: Sep 07, 2010
Posts: 560
Atlanta
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 10:47 AM
Barbwires - La Caja Del Muerto
Mark Brodie & the Beaver Patrol - Bad Hair Day
Eddie and the Showmen - Las Olas
Huntington Cads - Never to Return/New Dimension (tie)
Kill, Baby...Kill! - Love Theme for a Twisted Mind
Man or Astro-man? - As Estrelas Agora Elas Estão Mortas
Mermen - Obsession for Men
Space Cossacks - Apes of Wrath
Ventures - Bulldog (Live in Japan '65)
Volcanos - Coast Highway/Surfin' St. Helens (tie)
Honorable mentions:
Avengers VI - Time Bomb
Chandelles - El Gato
— The Squares - 1995-2002
The Mystery Men? - 2012-
MOONBASE - 2012-2017
The KBK - 2017-2022
The Frigidaires 2021-
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 8528
Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 11:11 AM
Well, for today and the forseeable future, these are, by Eddie & the Showmen.
And the Angels Sing
Toes on the Nose
Mr. Rebel
Lanky Bones
Far Away Places
Showmen Stomp
Movin'
We Are the Young
Dark Eyes
Border Town
Scratch
Break Time
Thanks, Eddie, for everything!
— This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.
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WhorehayRFB
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
Posts: 3331
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 12:55 PM
LHR wrote:
Ivan: Well, I'll be. I stand corrected. I had always heard he flatly disavowed this work. And I always thought that was a shame and silly, because they were just teenagers when it was recorded.
No shit. I, too, was misled by said rumor.
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stratomatic
Joined: Jan 11, 2012
Posts: 114
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 02:54 PM
Esperanza-Dick Dale
Surf Rider-The Lively Ones
Pipeline-The Chantays
Squad Car-Eddie and The Showmen
Rumble at Waikiki-Jon and The Nightriders
Speedboat-The Torquays
El Borracho-The Eliminators
Ewa on The Beach-Frankie and The Pool Boys
Gonzales-The Shadows
Sidewalk Surfin'-Dee Dee Ramone
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