The Original Soundtrack From Five Summer Stories [Soundtrack]

Honk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: GNP Crescendo Records
• ASIN: B000001P10
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Creation

2. Blue Of Your Backdrop

3. Brad And David's Theme

4. High In The Middle

5. Hum Drums

6. Bear's Country

7. Made My Statement (Love You Baby)

8. Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand

9. Lopez

10. Blue Of Your Backdrop (Instrumental)

11. Tunnel Of Love

12. Pipeline Sequence

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 30-AUG-1991

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treat for the ears, April 24, 2000

By 

John Moulis (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Original Soundtrack From Five Summer Stories (Audio CD)

I first heard this album as a 13 year old in 1972. It was playing over the speakers in a record store and I pretended to look at record covers on the racks so I could hear the whole thing. It was captivating music. Before the last track finished I had bought the album and then played it over and over at home. When I visited my cousins on the north coast they told me about the movie (which to this day I have never seen). This album still sounds as fresh and vibrant today as it did back in the 1970s. It may be a movie soundtrack but it stands alone as a master work with or without the movie. Picking out the best track is difficult but High In the Middle probably wins by a nose. Some of the best steel guitar playing ever committed to record can be heard on Bears Country, a stunning instrumental track which evokes lazy summer days at the beach. The Blue Of Your Backdrop, Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand, Pipeline Sequence the list goes on. It is truly an aural treat and a fine example of the west coast sound in its earliest and purest form. Do yourself a favor and buy this album. It is one of rock music's last undiscovered gems.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STOKED!, May 1, 2000

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"takfam" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Original Soundtrack From Five Summer Stories (Audio CD)

I grew up in Hawaii in the '70s, and first saw "Five Summer Stories" in the old Haleiwa surf theatre on the North Shore of Oahu. I bought this CD a few years ago, and I was astonished and delighted to re-discover how good Honk actually was. Too bad Honk will remain unheard by most people. They were an excellent band, exquisitely capturing the essence of laid-back, California-Hawaii surf culture of the '70s. It's one of those mysterires how such an excellent, original band could remain so obscure to this day. Their arrangements and harmonies, as well as musicianship, on cuts like "Blue of Your Backdrop" and "Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand" are timeless. The instrumentals "Lopez" and "Pipeline Sequence" are masterful-- as good as anything else produced in that era. "Pipeline Sequence" received a lot of airplay in Hawaii in those days, and is still THE surf instrumental for us Hawaii surfers who came of age back then. Honk's music is light-years better than the frenetic, punked-out surf video music of today. So get this CD, relax, and remember (or imagine) what it was like to paddle out to Sunset Beach on a huge west swell, with no leash and a single fin, and Barry Kanaiaupuni, Jeff Hakman, and Gerry Lopez calling the shots out there!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HONK ON CD!!!!!!!!, August 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Original Soundtrack From Five Summer Stories (Audio CD)

For those of you who haven't had the privelage of toting around this Honk record album (you know, vinyl?) for the past 25 years, you are very lucky to have the opportunity to purchase it in CD. I grew up on Maui and was a "surfer gal", playing my Honk album after long days at the beach, re-visualizing the beauty of the waves, sun and sand while listening to the articulate instrumentals and vocals on this album. In this day of the regeneration of historical american folk tunes, I truly believe Honk-Five Summer Stories deserves a place in our musical history for the melodic songs, and calming instumentals which represent a brief, yet heartfelt era. Anyone who enjoys music as a "getaway", this one will take you where you want to go....