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The Amazing Colossal Band

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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!"

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.

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.

they can make the sounds that the Ventures and many others wanted. They can make great surf at hundred of miles from the sun and surf land. Few artist can do that (hey, the Supersónicos from Uruguay can play as well as Laika). Mika Hakinnen must listen Laika when he drives his grey F1: Go!Mika,Go!