The Metalunas: Ballistic Bikini
10/19/2013
Weekend Music
I'm a pushover for this sound, and the accompanying kitsch.
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"Kitsch"? What are you talking about ? This is pretty near musical perfection...
Posted by: Daniel Nichols | 10/19/2013 at 09:21 PM
YES! like surf guitar.
Posted by: Beth | 10/19/2013 at 10:24 PM
Yes indeedy. As you may be aware, there was a big revival of this sound maybe 20 years or so ago. I don't know anything about this group, The Metalunas. But everybody knows this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk
Perish the thought, Daniel--I was referring to the art work as kitsch, not the music.
Posted by: Mac | 10/19/2013 at 11:18 PM
I see I didn't really get my whole thought out last night--I was sleepy. I don't know much about The Metalunas (album obtained almost free from eMusic 8 or 10 years ago), but they seem to be part of that revival, which probably is continuing. Their stuff, and some of the others I've come across in this vein, has a tongue-in-cheek quality in the titles and album art, as in this example. But regardless of that, they do the style really well. And it's a style I've loved since first hearing it in my early teens or so.
Posted by: Mac | 10/20/2013 at 08:48 AM
I'd take Dick Dale over Clapton anytime.
Posted by: Beth | 10/20/2013 at 07:42 PM
I wouldn't go *that* far. But I do like Dick Dale. He's still active, you know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh3UUA82TnE
I never knew he plays like Hendrix: left-handed and upside-down.
Posted by: Mac | 10/20/2013 at 08:34 PM
Yeah, that stuff is fun. You may like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM3KctMd2h0
Not exactly surf, but a cut from one of my all time fave Christian albums, one I played to death in my early college days, circa 1980.
Posted by: Rob G | 10/21/2013 at 06:37 PM
Very good. Kinda punky in a fun way, without the baggage. I'd never heard of them.
Posted by: Mac | 10/21/2013 at 07:40 PM
They only did the one record under that name. Previous stuff had more of a novelty feel to it and was done as "Ishmael United." After that Rev Counta album the main guy, Ian Smale, went on to do a lot of children's work/music in the Evangelical community in Britain.
That one record though is very good. Like you said -- punk without the baggage. Some of it has a ska feel as well.
Posted by: Rob G | 10/22/2013 at 08:26 AM