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Desert Island Surfing
| Telstar | 1 votes |
| Walk Don't Run | 2 votes |
| Squad Car | 1 votes |
| Wipe Out | 3 votes |
| Apache | 0 votes |
| Perfidia | 0 votes |
| Pipeline | 0 votes |
| Miserlou | 6 votes |
| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2009 10:15 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 02 2009 10:50 AM |
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OK, let's see how Important a poll can be in the post-yt era on here as we choose the one surf-rock tune, from the below choices only, that you have to take with you on your desert-island mix tape. I tried to go with original artists but not sure if I did. Which is the best and why? A) Telstar -- The Tornados [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras B) Walk, Don't Run -- the Ventures [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ11y7pYl-8 C) Squad Car -- Eddie & the Showmen [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUoSVVujARk D) Wipe Out -- the Surfaris [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg E) Apache -- The Shadows [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-rPDwzM9M F) Perfidia -- The Ventures [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUcnoracMM G) Pipeline -- The Chantays [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo H) Miserlou -- Dick Dale & the Del-Tones [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
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| metirish Oct 02 2009 10:19 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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Jeez , I only know one song from this list and I only know "Wipe Out" through "The Fat Boys" version. Obvioulsy growing up in wet and miserable Tipperary didn't lend itself to surf music.
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| sharpie Oct 02 2009 10:26 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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All worthy, though I hadn't heard "Squad Car" before. I'm going "Miserlou" with "Apache" and "Walk, Don't Run" right behind.
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| The Second Spitter Oct 02 2009 10:29 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 02 2009 10:31 AM |
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No "Wedding Cake Island"? On edit: here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQtZFb4o8Es
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| Edgy DC Oct 02 2009 10:30 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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This is a great poll. I recommend adding "The Hawaii 5-0 Theme." I realize it's drenched in horns and not surf guitar but the rumblin drums definitlely qualify it. If you don't know them all (I don't), then I recommend you listen.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2009 10:31 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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Hmmm. Put up the Midnight Oil poll!
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| metirish Oct 02 2009 10:37 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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I'll listen and vote when I get home.
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| Fman99 Oct 02 2009 10:43 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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Dick Dale rules. If it's good enough for Tim Roth to rob diners to it's good enough for me on Cuntkick Island.
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| cooby Oct 02 2009 05:30 PM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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Alllllways loved Telstar. I wonder if the blonde in the DelTones vid is in a rest home by now.
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| Edgy DC Oct 02 2009 09:34 PM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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The "Pipeline" video link was broken, so I stuck another link in there --- one of them playing on the Lawrence Welk show. I can't vote "Perfidia" because that's a song I know the lyrics to, which keeps it from being a pure instrumental in my head. I went with "Walk, Don't Run." It tells me that a watchable movie made on the cheap is about to start on channel nine. It's also a good oddball dancefloor filler. Dick Dale is runnng away with this thing. I know he's the big kid on the block but still I'm surprised a bit. Did he string his guitar upside down? It kind of looks like he did. And his bass player looks like Al Franken.
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| cooby Oct 03 2009 08:05 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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I think it's funny how the other guitarists are practically statues against his energy. Prolly he made them! Neat song and I always wondered what it was, but Telstar for me, I often think of it even now.
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| The Second Spitter Oct 03 2009 09:19 AM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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[quote="Edgy DC":3a7yla1v] I recommend adding "The Hawaii 5-0 Theme." [/quote:3a7yla1v] Watch @ 1:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc4MSie-P0k That's a great flick, btw. I'll write a review one of these days.
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| TheOldMole Oct 03 2009 05:39 PM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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Went with Wipeout but feel like I should have gone with Dick Dale. I'd take Duane Eddy playing Peter Gunn over any of these.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2009 08:23 PM Re: Desert Island Surfing |
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I've been wikipediaing these songs as I listen. Telstar was more about outer space than surfing, and probably isn;t guitar enough to win. But a great melody and change. Two interesting things about Walk Don't Run: The Ventures recorded it with a session drummer who was given a choice to take 1/4th of the profits or 25 bucks for the recording. He chose the cash! That song I found out was written 5 years earlier by Johnny Smith, a jazz guitarist who is still alive at age 87. A true classic, could take the gold. Squad Car! Thrilling! Fierce! Fun! Begs you to speed as you hear it. The Showmen were named for the model of amplifiers they used. Wipe Out -- Originally the B-side of the single "Surfer Joe" -- not an instrumental, but completely awesome in its own right. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6LKzhQcDc The drum solo in Wipe Out was a sped-up version of the drummer's high school marching band cadence. Doubly awesome. The Shadows apparently were a big influence on Mark Knopfler's guitar style, which scores them points with me, but being British I don't think Apache takes it. The Ventures, I think, do a mean cover of it though. It's chilling, man. I didn't think I knew Perfidia had origins as a vocal song, though I just listened to a version and it's obvious I had. Pipeline is also pretty ferocious, great contrast from that cheesed-up Lawrence Welk video! A serious contender. One time a guy with a boom box on the sideline played "Miserlou" loudly just as my team was "pulling" to start a tournament ultimate frisbee game. That's like a kickoff in football, and in serious ggame it's a big intense sprint as the O forms their opening play and the D hustles to take marks. Every player on both teams couldn't resist clapping as they took their positions. clapclap. CLAP clapclap CLAP It was awesome. The end. Oh and the winner is... ...Squad Car...
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