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I have to strongly second the recommendation for the Euro Boys "Jet
Age" CD. Mostly non-surf, but the surf tracks that are on there are
really great. There are five true surf songs:
Monkeyface (really cool!)
Point of No Return (awesome! even a nice theremin touch)
Hong Kong Cockfight (like the Ventures' doing surf)
Hava Nagilah (pretty straight cover of DD's version, with a bit more
production, like A Run For Life)
Siamese Island (breezy, midtempo summer surf, very nice)
Not quite surf, but close:
Satan's Little Helper (heavily Davie Allan influenced)
Mr. Wild Guitar (the Ventures meet Duane Eddy meet Los Straits)
Girlfriend in Tacoma (lounge exotica with dry surf guitar lead)
Grenoble Village Olympique (Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys instrumental)
The rest of it is too seventies- or lounge-influenced for my taste,
but these nine tracks make the CD well worthwhile. Especially if
you buy it on half.com from $6, which I did.
Ivan
PS I also got their second CD, but I couldn't hear any surf on that
one. Too bad...
--- In , "captainspringfield"
<captainspringfield@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In , "DP" <noetical1@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone here ever hear of the EUROBOYS? I believe that they are
made
> > up of ex-TURBONEGRO band members.
>
> The lead guitarist, Knut Schreiner (sp?), aka Euro Boy, has played
in
> Turbonegro from "Apocalypse Dudes" (side note: Everyone, buy that
> album right now) on. As far as the others go, I have no idea what
> they're up to now that Turbonegro is back together. He pretty much
> replaced the entire band after "Long Day's Flight Until Tomorrow"
> anyways.
>
> > I recently heard their "Jet Age" CD...cool stuff...
> >
> > ...lots of "surf-like" reverberated instrumentals mixed up with
> some
> > funky 70s style instrumentals.
>
> It's a great album, minus the elevator music tracks. "Point of No
> Return" is an amazing surf-ish tune (not to mention their fairly
> surfy take on "Hava Negila"), and "Satan's Little Helper" is a
dead-
> on Davie Allan homage. It seems like they really tried to capture
the
> feel of a movie soundtrack, because it changes dramatically from
> track to track.
>
> Their style changed pretty drastically afterwards, though, with
many
> more songs featuring vocals and nothing even close to surf to be
> found. The songs got much longer, too. Still, their later stuff
has
> some really good psychedelic/funk/lounge/rock instros. And the
vocals
> aren't too bad, either.
>
> > I really like their version of Lalo Schifrin's "Enter the
Dragon".
> >
>
> The Turbo AC's do a pretty punked out version on one of their
> albums ... I forget which one, though.
>
> -Warren
