Saturday, November 20, 2010

It's A Bikini World I'm Livin' In Re-up Again


Bikini World

1997


For the Eekster!


Can't get enough of these surf comps! Bikini World is especially hip as it includes a passel of artists that usually avoid the hi-fi world of the compact disc, including Phantom Surfers, Untamed Youth, and the Trashwomen, as well as a bunch of bands I'd never heard of like The Royal Knightmares, The Hillbilly Soul Surfers, and Sir Bald Diddley & his Hounourable Right Big Wigs (well, that's how they spell it). As a collection, it's uniformly hot spit, especially Untamed Youth's blow torch summer epic, "Tube City" and the painfully-punned "Surfs You Right" by Finland's finest, Laika & the Cosmonauts. "Scalpin' Party" by Jackie & the Cedrics has some of the most percolating percussion I've ever encountered, but, disappointingly, they just fade out instead of come up with a proper ending. "XKE!" from Seattle's own Boss Martians, is, as you might expect, eerie and extradimensionally cool. You may think you've heard this stuff a million times, but we both know that's not enough. Gnarly. --John Chandler


1 Sloth in Molasses Phantom Surfers
2 Aphrodesia Trashwomen
3 Tube City Untamed Youth
4 Rumors of Surf Southern Culture On The Skids
5 It's a Bikini World Boardwalkers
6 Surfs You Right Laika & The Cosmonauts
7 The Hipster Royal Nightmares
8 Scalping Party Jackie & the Cedrics
9 Xke! Boss Martians
10 Surfer's Deal Daytonas
11 Renegade Hillbilly Soul Surfers
12 Fathomless Fathoms
13 Calhoun Surf Los Straitjackets
14 Time Bomb Bomboras
15 Chaeto Sir Bald Diddley & His Honourable Big

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

hi,would you please upload this album again? the link is broken,thanks bye

ronald33 said...

Still looking for "fair use" situations of exotic steel guitar music...audio or video...can be
country-western or Hawaiian.

Still looking for Coral album by
Frank Sorrell (The Magic Sounds of Frank Sorrell and His Four Guitars")