Monday, August 10, 2020

It's Th' Surfin' Sitar Sound Of Auckland!

The Music Convention were nutsoid. This swell collection is called, inadequately, The Psychedelic Pop & Surf Sounds Of The Music Convention. They do some 20's-style stuff that sounds like Sopwith Camel, a cover of Nilsson's One, some swimmy pop-psych with sweet harmonies, some savage surf instrymentals (with the accent on mental) with lashings of hang-ten electric sitar. If that's not enough to wax your board, check out their duds on the cover. Nutsoid to the max! But - they could play. Not that they let technical ability stand in the way of having fun. The Music Convention - th' Isle O' Foam© salutes you!
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8 comments:

  1. Jack Kerouac's CatAugust 10, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    Ah, the beat of the bellyboard.

    Look at that wave, Brah!

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  2. Kwai ChangAugust 11, 2020 at 4:03 AM

    If they're really surfers...
    shouldn't they be wearing full height Royal Guardsmen hats?
    THAT's probably why they look like Chad And Jeremy And Peter And Gordon...
    on a 'you shouda been here yesterday' kind of day!
    Move over, Misirlou!

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  3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2020 at 6:48 AM

    For him as don't gots - https://workupload.com/file/vsS9LTaJeJC

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  4. Kwai ChangAugust 11, 2020 at 12:27 PM

    Nobody surfing today and the waves are perfect!
    Ain't that how it ALWAYS is. The cover sure doesn't prepare the listener for what's going on here. It's strange how the songs are in alphabetical order but that artwork doesn't do justice to the music. Thank you, for the pleasant surprise...
    They are like a choral reef!

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  5. Kwai ChangAugust 13, 2020 at 1:11 PM

    This is a fucking great album...
    and nobody noticed.
    Calling all cars...calling all cars...
    be on the lookout for lone psych album with completely fuddy duddy cover!
    An album without cool graphics is still worth hearing.
    Shane! Shaaaaaaaaaaaane!!! Come back!!!
    Sleeperville...and hear I stand
    a convention of one...

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  6. UncleBAugust 15, 2020 at 1:30 AM

    I'd make a comment here, but it'd just be a gremmie tandeming with a hodad in an instant wipe out...

    Wait. I lied.

    "Creaming"

    AND

    "Creaming on a Midnight Wave"???

    Awrite... TMI...

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  7. MrDaveAugust 16, 2020 at 9:43 PM

    Thanks Farq and apologies for the lackluster comments recently. I'm out of practice

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