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What Tiki Music Are You Listening To? (plus reviews) |
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
|  Posted: 2010-10-07 10:18 am Permalink
James Chance and the Contortions, live in NYC 1981
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TikiGoddess
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 06, 2002
Posts: 417
From: Penna
| Posted: 2010-10-07 12:46 pm Permalink
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JOHN-O
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2458
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2010-10-07 10:48 pm Permalink
Actually here's an idea to add more meaningful content to this thread. Rather than just naming the song or album you're listening to, how about posting a review (and album picture) of the music?
This could be a vintage album or net-new Tiki music. Maybe something like this that I did for the Ding Dong Devils..
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=37363&forum=17&vpost=546323
Also having listened to the same Les Baxter comp (that I'm sure everyone here owns) over and over, I've been seeking out the original concept albums. It's really great stuff to hear the music in the exact context that Les Baxter intended. I will be posting those reviews on this thread.
Please feel free to do the same with whatever you're listening to. 
And it would be nice to stick to the definition of "Tiki Music" on this forum.
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Sophista-tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 13, 2005
Posts: 1598
From: Seattle WA
| Posted: 2010-10-12 4:56 pm Permalink
Thee Swank Bastards in the truck
Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers in the house
Frank Sinatra in the studio
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JOHN-O
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2458
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2010-10-19 10:04 pm Permalink
Wow, I try to raise the bar and then (hardly) no one wants to play anymore. 
Right now I'm listening to an album of Louis Prima and Keely Smith live at the Sahara Lounge.
This is really great stuff. It capture the improvisation, joking around, and song retakes of their live Vegas show.
People remember it as the "Rat Pack Years" but to me, Louis Prima and Keely Smith were the definitive Las Vegas act.
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Quiet Village Idiot
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 13, 2007
Posts: 146
From: Stockholm, Sweden
| Posted: 2010-10-20 02:16 am Permalink
Just been listening to the new reissue of the Tiki Tones' "Suburban Savage".
Never heard them before, but I would certainly buy more of their stuff on the basis of this one. Cool, surfy instrumental rock, rather than exotica. Weird that they do a cover of the James Taylor Quartet's "In the Park", but rename it "Zombi Hut".
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quispquake
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 30, 2010
Posts: 20 | Posted: 2010-10-20 07:11 am Permalink
Found a REALLY COOL ONE a couple of weeks back...the name of the band is "The Water Melon Group", and the album is called "Cool Music".
There's a GREAT version of "Quiet Village" on here (check out the Youtube someone put up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvYS0I0rmN8 ), as well as a lot of other exotica tracks (Jungle Flower, ALL of side 2). What little info I could find about it, is that this was a project by Toshio Nakanishi who was the lead singer of Japanese New Wave band "The Plastics".
It's a really excellent album!!! I know Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra did SOME exotica music, but is anyone aware of any more Japanese exotica? I'm totally digging on this one...
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Quiet Village Idiot
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 13, 2007
Posts: 146
From: Stockholm, Sweden
| Posted: 2010-10-21 12:29 am Permalink
Hey, nice find!
The only other modern-day Japanese exotica I'm aware of is Kenny Sasaki and the Tiki Boys, who have several CDs available from CDBaby.
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tikiyaki
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: May 18, 2004
Posts: 2677
From: The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA
| Posted: 2010-10-21 10:43 am Permalink
The New Kenny Sasaki album is quite good.
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quispquake
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 30, 2010
Posts: 20 | Posted: 2010-10-21 2:16 pm Permalink
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On 2010-10-21 00:29, Quiet Village Idiot wrote:
Hey, nice find!
The only other modern-day Japanese exotica I'm aware of is Kenny Sasaki and the Tiki Boys, who have several CDs available from CDBaby.
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Cool! I'll check them out!!!
Surprisingly, the Water Melon thang is from 1984! Not a ton of exotica going on at that time!!!
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-10-21 10:54 pm Permalink
Watermelon were friends of Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, who early on went to Hawaii to see Martin Denny play, and also recorded the Denny-esque theme song for Pewee's Playhouse. The early Exotica revival (with artists like Throbbing Gristle,Boyd Rice and Monitor) was ten years ahead of the early 90s Tiki revival.
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bigtikidude
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 8259
From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2010-10-26 7:25 pm Permalink
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On 2010-10-20 02:16, Quiet Village Idiot wrote:
Just been listening to the new reissue of the Tiki Tones' "Suburban Savage".
Never heard them before, but I would certainly buy more of their stuff on the basis of this one. Cool, surfy instrumental rock, rather than exotica. Weird that they do a cover of the James Taylor Quartet's "In the Park", but rename it "Zombi Hut".
[ This Message was edited by: Quiet Village Idiot 2010-10-20 04:38 ]
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congrats,
try to find also the Idol Pleasures cd.
for sale here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=tiki+tones+cds&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&client=firefox#q=tiki+tones+cds&hl=en&client=firefox&hs=3ib&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&prmd=ivs&source=univ&tbs=shop:1&tbo=u&ei=vYzHTIuhLIq-sQPTkoCODQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQrQQwAg&fp=499faa430ac3503f
and also the 2- 45s,
"songs for Rum drinkers"
and "Wilt Disner Presents the Enchanted Tiki Tones"
and if you didn't know,
Shag was the Guitarist in the Tiki Tones.
Surprises me how many tiki people don't know that he was a musician also,
other bands include the Swanp Zombies, and the Huntington Cads.
Jeff(btd)
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Quiet Village Idiot
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 13, 2007
Posts: 146
From: Stockholm, Sweden
| Posted: 2010-10-27 12:33 am Permalink
Cheers Jeff, and thanks for the tips. I knew Shag was in them, but didn't know which instrument he played, as all the members used stage names.
I mean - how many pseudonyms does one guy need?
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HelveTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 23, 2010
Posts: 128
From: a tiny little Island in Switzerland
| Posted: 2010-10-27 12:50 am Permalink
I saw Shag with the Tiki-Tones at the Lava Lounge in Hollywood back in 1999.
I think he played a Blue Fender Jaguar guitar then...
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Atomic Tiki Punk
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 4021
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2010-10-27 01:31 am Permalink
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On 2010-10-19 22:04, JOHN-O wrote:
Wow, I try to raise the bar and then (hardly) no one wants to play anymore.
Right now I'm listening to an album of Louis Prima and Keely Smith live at the Sahara Lounge.
This is really great stuff. It capture the improvisation, joking around, and song retakes of their live Vegas show.
People remember it as the "Rat Pack Years" but to me, Louis Prima and Keely Smith were the definitive Las Vegas act.
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I was hanging out in the New York, New York casino sometime in the late 90s
when Sam Butera & Keely Smith came on the main stage, I did not even know that they were playing that night
it was a real amazing show!
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