While I love doing the Gremmy Awards, I hate that so much weighs on my own quirky opinions. Every year there are some great records that don't make the lists but that I genuinely enjoyed, and that feels like a snub. So I started asking a few other people to help out, spread out to different point of views. People that I know are very involved in surf, are following new releases closely, but don't have a platform of their own to espouse their opinions. Three surf nuts from all over the globe have stepped forward. I've given them full reign on how they want to do it.
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There are some things that deserve recognition other than just the albums themselves. This is the category where I get to spill out the rest of those observations. These categories change year to year.
the razorblades - beach racer (the dark side of the beach)
jon and the nightriders - Catalina (stampede)
the surfdusters - hero of the beach (save the waves)
twang! marvels - runaway from zardoz (prueba del fuego)
the tiki creeps - tiki creepin' (idol worship)
the revels - soft top (45)
the scouts - custer stomp (45)
The Teemates - Nightfall (45)
holidays - dark valley (45)
the tempests - lemon lime (strummin mental vol 4)
the earthworms - Mo' Taters (45)
Mostly old stuff (classics even!) unless it's brand new stuff from Shoot the Pier or The Evanstones. But I also got some really great 45s in the mail this weekend, so you'll be hearing some of that. Tune in!
Here's last week's playlist
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My wife and I are both not the sort of people that pay attention to lyrics. Hilariously, I sequestered myself in a genre of music that foregoes them altogether, she chose a different, equally obscure music where the lyrics sound like gibberish to her. So yeah, this isn't surf by any stretch of imagination; Blato Zlato does traditional Balkan music (mostly Bulgarian) with a slight experimental twist. This is their first LP and my wife has been going crazy making it happen. She's one of the vocalists, though she arranged a number of the songs.
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