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I didn't buy many "new" surf cds this year. Most of the time I buy
a new CD it turns out to be some modern progressive sounding surf
crap. The one I did buy that was from 2004 was The Nebulas - It's
Go Time! Which I surprisingly liked. I've been told their first
album was slightly better, but I enjoyed this one.
Bill
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...>
wrote:
>
> I'll start this off:
>
> CD of the year: The Bambi Molesters - Dumb Loud Hollow Twang Deluxe
> Runner-up: Evan Foster - Instrumentals
> In close running: The Lunatics - Tour du Monde
> The Nebulas - It's Go Time!
> The Hellbenders - Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
>
> (These five are all really close to each other - they're all truly
> fantastic CDs. Maybe it's not even fair to rank them, but I do
think
> that the BMs and Evan are just a slight cut above.)
>
> Honorable mentions:
> El Ray - Tick... Tick... Tick...
> The Wet-Tones - Mucho Reverbo
>
> (Two European bands that have put out albums with some great surf
> music!)
>
> The biggest discovery of the year: The Lunatics - Tour du Monde
>
> (I expected something good from these guys based on their first
live
> CD, but this surpassed my highest expectations. It took several
> listens to get really into it though, but it was totally worth
it.
> It's available from Double Crown if anybody is interested in
picking
> it up - skip the first song, though - it's terrible!)
>
> The biggest disappointment of the year: a tie
> Laika & The Cosmonauts - Local Warming
> The Infrareds - Sounds From The Darkroom
>
> (Two great bands with two pretty crappy albums - what happened?
L&TC
> have completely left surf music behind which is a bit sad. The
> Infrareds put out an uninspired, sterile-sounding, surf-music-by-
the-
> numbers album. Those guys can do a lot better.)
>
> The most promising improvement (i.e., the band to watch):
> The Bitch Boys - Ride The First Wave
>
> (I don't think it deserved to be listed in the top five, but I
have
> been enjoying this CD. I think it's heads and shoulders
above "...In
> Heat" This is a band to watch in the future.)
>
> Brian Neal <brian@s...> wrote:
> > I almost want to postpone the poll so I can go
> > out and buy some of the stuff I don't have that's on this
list!!!
>
> I agree. The CDs I listed here are the only ones that I have from
> 2004. It'll be interesting to see other people's votes to see
what
> else to pick up.
>
> I'd say strictly based on my top five CDs (plus the honorable
> mentions) that it's been a good year for surf music! Though the
> scene is not where it was in, say, '98 or '99, I see many signs
that
> things are getting better again. It seems that the surf music
scene
> is no longer going to come and go but is rather here to stay,
which
> is very cool. It may have highs and lows, but I think we can
count
> of good releases coming out every year. Yeay!
>
> Ivan
>
> PS On Thursday Los Straits and the Hellbenders are playing in
> Detroit - I'm a bit sick right now, but if I feel better by then
> that'll be a nice way to (almost) ring in a new year! Let's hope
> it'll set the tone for 2005 - lots of surf shows!
