Tropical Daze
May 18, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Images: Douglas Bicicleta.
As suburban children we floated at night in swimming pools the temperature of blood; pools the color of Earth as seen from outer space.
We would float and be naked - pretending to be embryos, pretending to be fetuses - all of us silent save for the hum of the pool filter. Our minds would be blank and our eyes closed as we floated in warm waters, the distinction between our bodies and our brains reduced to nothing, bathed in chlorine and lit by pure blue lights installed underneath diving boards. Sometimes we would join hands and form a ring like astronauts in space; sometimes when we felt more isolated in our fetal stupor we would bump into each other in the deep end, like twins with whom we didn’t even know we shared the womb.
- Douglas Coupland, Life After God.
- Cramps - Green Door
Psychedelic Jungle (IRS, 1981) - Jacuzzi Boys - I Fought a Cocodrile
I Fought a Cocodrile (Carrera, 2009) - White Denim - Mirrored and Reversed
Fits (Full Time Hobby, 2009) - Tame Impala - Remember Me
Remember Me (Modular / 2008) - The Intelligence - Thank You God for Fixing the Tape Machine
Fake Surfers (In The Red, 2009) - The Shadows of Knight - Shake
Shake 7″ (Buddah, 1968) - The Ugly Ducklings - Just In Case You Wonder
Somewhere Outside (Sundazed!, 1966) - The Strange Boys - This Girl Taught Me a Dance
And Girls Club (In the Red, 2009)
Every summer my musical diet consist almost exclusively of a mix with garage, rockabilly, surf and everything in between. Fortunately for me there’s always some great new releases and reissues in the genre waiting for me every summer as soon as the heatwaves kick in and it appears this year will be no different from the rest.
I’d like to make a long series of posts delving into this musical obsession of mine with the hopes of infecting anyone with this garage bug fever I have, but I’m afraid I’ll end up alienating everybody in here so I promise I’ll try to keep it as brief and as colorful as possible, perhaps two or three other posts with some electronic or jazz interval posts in between… I’m still unsure about it… please do let me know if you enjoy this particular kind of music so I can decide on how much you’re all willing to take in the following days. Until then, have a fun week!
The excerpt is absolutely great… it seems written by me :P
I have to buy this Couplan’d book (but I have to finish Bergson’s “creative evolution” first) seems beautiful.
I sincerely disagree with you on the approach you take with readers: I would like to “have you” exactly the way you are, exactly the way you feel yourself second by second… let’s float, “junglize”…
If you reflect on this, you can see that your note is a little bit in contrast with the excerpt.
Tomorrow I will listen to the songs :)
That’s a great mix of surfy, garagey stuff up there. Kudos!
I actually like this kind of stuff more than the “softer” fare you’ve been offering for the past few months. I’d say go for it! I’ve recently gotten into garage [think I was bitten by the same bug that got you] and would love to hear some more.
i agree with kat, the motel needs a (upbeat) garage for the summer vacations
(although i hate summer and youth and everything that envolves any of those hahaha)
Alright it’s been decided then: Buzzsaw pop and garage rock will be the sound of our Summer!
Now we just need to find someone with a big pool and some cold beers.
ditto. garage, slack rock sounds like summer to me. pavement, aoogah. thanks moka.
Fantastic post!! I love it! Some really sweet tunes…thank you. Question, where do the images come from???
thanks
Kenny
Glad you liked it!
Oh shizzle, Kenny I forgot to credit the artist. I’ve already updated the post with a link to his flickr account. Thanks for the heads up.
yes me like it too i can dance in my chair at work:)
Yes, yes, more just like this! A wonderful list.
Please! Do make more posts like this.
Great tracks (definitely going to a party’s playlist or a get-together for two), groovy artworks, and Coupland - kudos for you.
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Lo he gozao como un niño chico con la de Tame Impala. Que clasicazo, que versionaca.
¿Por cierto alguien sabe de quien es la versión original de ese Remember Me?
Lo averigüé, lo dejo aqui por si a alguien le resulta de interes.
El original era de Blueboy (buscar en youtube), que sampleo a Marlena Shaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BeN75XgfQ
Muchas gracias julitros! esa era una duda que me abrumaba desde hace tiempo. Pensar, yo aqui hace unos meses subi la cancion de woman in the ghetto (aqui: http://www.moteldemoka.com/2009/02/02/rewind-night-time-is-the-right-time/) y nunca habia notado el parecido. Aunque en mi defensa, la version de Woman in the Ghetto en vivo y la version del album que tengo yo son muy distintas y la version de The Blue Boy esta basada en la version en vivo.
Me gusto mucho la de Blue Boy, muchas gracias, hizo que me gustara la de Tame Impala aun mas. Una decision de cover muy curiosa.
Moka, you seem to have struck a nerve. Go for it.
La verdad es que si, la de Tame Impala se come a la de Blueboy. Remember Me para cancion del verano YA. xD
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