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Bill,
You bought my two surf CD's this year.
Les
On Dec 28, 2004, at 9:52 AM, supertwangreverb wrote:
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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!
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