Weekly Music Recap 40/2019: Surf Rider / Black Flamingos – ‘Are You Afraid of The Dark?’
Sorry guys, there’s no electronic music this week. Just electro guitars and a lot of reverb. Surf’s up!
Playlist of the Week: Surf Rider
The playlist of the week is Surf Rider. Current followers on Spotify: 1.742 | The new tracks this week are: The Fireballs (Bulldog), The Tourmaliners (Baja Norte!), The Head Henchmen (You’ll Never Surf Alone), Underwater Bosses (KGB Tsunami), Agent Octopus (Baby Octopus Walk), The Jagaloons (Bongo Banana), Durango14 (Maracaná) and Black Flamingos (Are You Afraid of The Dark?).
Complete Track List (this week)
| 1 | Bulldog | The Fireballs |
| 2 | Are You Afraid of The Dark? | Black Flamingos |
| 3 | Surf Rider | The Lively Ones |
| 4 | Crash | Creations |
| 5 | Maracaná | Durango14 |
| 6 | El Gato | The Chandelles |
| 7 | Overdrawn At Cortes Bank | The Torquays |
| 8 | Baja Norte! | The Tourmaliners |
| 9 | Surf Rat | The Rumblers |
| 10 | You’ll Never Surf Alone | The Head Henchmen |
| 11 | El Padrino | The Chukukos |
| 12 | Space Echoid | The Kilaueas |
| 13 | Baby Octopus Walk | Agent Octopus |
| 14 | Surfisfaction | Fred Guggenberger |
| 15 | Lisa Marie | The Denvermen |
| 16 | Our Favorite Martian | Bobby Fuller and The Fanatics |
| 17 | Bongo Banana | The Jagaloons |
| 18 | Return Of The Death Ray | The Bomboras |
| 19 | Theme from Pia Zawa | The Beat Tornados |
| 20 | A Flash of Green | Pollo Del Mar |
| 21 | Launch Pad | The Surfites |
| 22 | Bailar Con Freddie R. | Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited |
| 23 | Destino Cruel | Los Kahunas |
| 24 | Solaris Stomp | The Space Cossacks |
| 25 | Surf Buggy | Bang! Mustang! |
| 26 | The Aquamarines – Beyond the Sea | The Aquamarines |
| 27 | I Wish You Love | Blukomet |
| 28 | KGB Tsunami | Underwater Bosses |
| 29 | Last Train to Ozalj | Los Frenéticos |
| 30 | Mako Shark | The Surf Zombies |
| 31 | The Cruel Sea | The Dakotas |
| 32 | The Fishin’ Hole (Theme From The Andy Griffith Show) | Los Straitjackets |
| 33 | Mexican Spaceman | Susan & The Surftones |
| 34 | Morning Breath | The Concussions |
| 35 | The Jester | Jim Messina & His Jesters |
| 36 | Uprisin’ | The Cherokees |
| 37 | It Waked up the Atomic Age | The Cosmic Vampires |
| 38 | Steel Guitar Rag | The Greasy Gills |
| 39 | Relampagore | Lost Acapulco |
| 40 | (Please Don’t) Dead End | TarantinosNYC |
| 41 | Timbo | Leopold Kraus Wellenkapelle |
| 42 | Bedlam | The Belairs |
| 43 | The Wedge | Dick Dale and his Del-Tones |
| 44 | No, Mr. Bond. I Expect You To Surf! | The Nematoads |
| 45 | Pat Morita | Los Oxidados |
| 46 | Teen Beat | Sandy Nelson |
| 47 | Goldfinger | Blue Stingrays |
| 48 | Midnight Run | The Super Stocks |
| 49 | Jezebel | The Delstroyers |
| 50 | Soul Surf | The New Dimensions |
| 51 | Secret Agent Man | Los Coronas |
| 52 | Fathomless | The Fathoms |
| 53 | La Danza de Los Muertos | The Anacondas |
| 54 | Albufera Stomp | The Els A-Phonics |
| 55 | Bandolero! | The Surf Trio |
| 56 | Almondega | The Dead Rocks |
| 57 | Having An Average Weekend | Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet |
| 58 | Lindo Pulgoso | The Brillantina’s |
| 59 | Os Imperdoáveis | Super Stereo Surf |
| 60 | Ghost Wave | The Verbtones |
Song of the Week: Black Flamingos – ‘Are You Afraid of The Dark?’
As you may know, I am a big fan of surf music and Insturmental Rock. So it’s time to pay some more attention to this wonderful genre. A good opportunity is the new single of the band Black Flamingos. The new work of the American Trio is convincing all along the line. A beautiful melody, embedded in heavenly harmonies, perfectly played and embedded in a wonderful typical surf sound with a touch of vintage. What more do you want to write about it? It is similar to techno music. Surf tracks can rarely be analyzed extensively. Either they touch you or they don’t. And the Black Flamingos made it with ‘Are You Afraid of The Dark?‘. Many thanks for this piece of music.
Of course you can listen to the song on the ‘Surf Rider‘ playlist.
BLACK FLAMINGOS – Surfer Joe Summer Festival 2017:
