[2022-11-11] The Trashmen "The Best Of The Trashmen" (Sundazed)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:16 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBFLCMGC/?tag=imwan-20

Description
The Trashmen's defining moment, 1963's "Surfin' Bird," is perhaps the ultimate lightning-in-a-bottle record. Their first true studio recording, it captures the group's interminable energy and mastery of live performance. But it also is the culmination of spirit and experiment that turned it into something new and, from the perspective of 50 years, unique.

The sound wasn't one that you could build a career by repeating, but it hasn't mattered; the swaggering performance has proven to be a confident, hustling agent for the band and their history, leading the remaining members on tours all over the world in recent years and gaining them repeated exposure on television and in movies.

This collection shows them to be variously a first-rate surf band, a great protopunk outfit, solid rockers with the raw essence of the earliest originators of the sound, and adept enough to work in some comedy and country. This scope of ability and interest is probably the true basis of the band's following now. But "Surfin' Bird" has more tenacity than other bands' entire better-performing catalogs, and with it, the Trashmen created a work that is arguably today the most relevant release from that storied decade.

Tracklist
1. Surfin’ Bird
2. King Of The Surf
3. Tube City
4. My Woodie
5. Sleeper
6. A-Bone
7. Dance Bird Beat
8. True Love (previously unissued)
9. Bad News
10. Malaguena
11. Ghost Riders In The Sky
12. Whoa Dad!
13. Ubangi Stomp
14. Walkin’ My Baby
15. Bird Bath
16. Reelin’ & Rockin’ (previously unissued)
17. Baja
18. Heartbeat
19. Mashed Potatoes
20. Think It Over
21. Peppermint Man

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

a wee bit pricey????

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:39 pm

Not at all. Sundazed releases aren't budget titles.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

Linda wrote:

Not at all. Sundazed releases aren't budget titles.

true

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:24 am

The release date has been pushed back to November 11th.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

in an odd sort of way i kind of want to hear 'my woodie'....we are talking 60's here.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

Renny wrote:

in an odd sort of way i kind of want to hear 'my woodie'....we are talking 60's here.

Nothing wrong (or odd) about that! Great stuff.

banzaibid · 05 Aug 2007

Renny wrote:

in an odd sort of way i kind of want to hear 'my woodie'....we are talking 60's here.

Your wish, as always... is my command.

PeterJ · 16 May 2007

"Interminable energy"? I always associated the word "interminable" with something endless but unpleasant. Maybe the copy writer doesn't actually like the group.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

banzaibid wrote:

Renny wrote:

in an odd sort of way i kind of want to hear 'my woodie'....we are talking 60's here.

Your wish, as always... is my command.

thank you for this, and as always, those 60's bands do everything in their power to skirt the censors don't they?

there was really some amazing plays on words back in the day for sure.

[2022-11-11] The Trashmen "The Best Of The Trashmen" (Sundazed)

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