The Amazing Colossal Band

Laika & The Cosmonauts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Upstart
• ASIN: B000003NOW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #78 in Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists > Surf Guitar

Track Listings

1. Delayrium

2. Floating

3. Tantrum

4. The A-Treatment

5. The Ipcress File

6. Global Village

7. The Avengers

8. Expose

9. Aztec Two-Step

10. The Downwinders

11. Cape Equator

12. O.C.C.C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center)

13. Get Carter

14. The Man From H.U.A.C.

15. Azure Blue

16. Intro

17. Skater Dater

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is serious fun, wired and inspired!, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Amazing Colossal Band (Audio CD)

When I first purchased this CD on a whim I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing. Would I listen to it once and put it away in some darkened recess of my room? Or would I listen to it over and over and over. Well, I'm (happy?) to report that it's the latter. This is pure inspiration! Their energy and enthusiasm is transmitted right through the speakers! These guys swing, funk, and rock like no others. Who knew that surf music could be made into high art? I can't wait to hear their other CDs. Jim-Bob says "Check 'em out!"

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surf/Spy Hip Gnosis, February 15, 2001

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Borg9 "Borg9" (MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Amazing Colossal Band (Audio CD)

It would be too easy to discount the sound on this album as being too Austin Powers-like. A more fair description would be: It's atomic, Len Deighton-like. Listening to this disc makes one nostalgic for the cold war. This is celluloid inspired music for the B-movie that is your life. A plastic organ surely belongs in the forefront of surf sounds?! Skater Dater is an anthem of unbridled delinquency. This band has a polished, yet sex-waxy feel. If you fancy Hawaiian guitars, go elsewhere. But if you dig 60s surf-on-steroids then you've found some aural saltwater taffy. This isn't your father's Woody wagon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for everyone who loves hair raising organ sounds, June 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Amazing Colossal Band (Audio CD)

Do you want to be taken to the planet of yesterday's tomorrows where you can hear music from old tv-series and movies played in an eerie way by a band dressed in hawaii shirts? Then the first step is to buy this Laika & The Cosmonauts CD. Hair raising organ sounds and excellent guitars, that is what this record is all about. If listening to Telstar or old Ventures classics is your idea of good time then I seriously recommend you to listen to this band.