The Leisure Experiment

The Leisure Experiment Artist: Tiki Tones
Label: Two Eleven Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 670917013921
EAN: 0670917013921
ASIN: B00004SH9I


Release Date: 2000-04-11

The Leisure Experiment


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Tracks:

  1. il Vespa
  2. Juicy
  3. Topless Holiday
  4. Blood & Sand
  5. Green Bananas
  6. Music To Watch Girls By

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Born-Again Bachelor Pad Musicians.......2004-07-27

I read so much about this over the last couple years, I knew what I was in for. Nice, but but thrilling. See, they started out with a guy named Josh Agle (SHAG) as lead guitarist. SHAG got so successful doing paintings, he had to quit music. In a truly bizarre twist for the bar band scene, The Tiki Tones, rather than have the dignity of going belly-up (as Josh's other band, The Huntington Cads, did), mutated.

Seems someone-- I don't understand all the details-- HIRED new musicians to carry on the band's name. Then they completely changed their sound. Out went south-sea island stuff (no more OOGA-chaka-chaka-OOGA-chaka-chaka). Instead, they went for 60's futuristic bachelor pad music stuff. This puts them, more of less, in the same area as Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, as well as certain recordings by Finland's The Cybermen and The Hypnomen. However, while those 2 are real bands, and S.S.S.U. is a pair of genius studio producers (2 people doing all that sound!), these guys in CA have 5 people in their band, plus 10 more listed as additional musicians. And somehow, so typical of the California music scene (the big-business end of it, anyway), ALL those people, and it doesn't sound half as good as what Ernest Maechi & Karen Diblitz do all on their own in Zurich, Switzerland (S.S.S.U.). Nice-- just not, WOW!!!!!

And, there's only 6 songs on this thing, clocking in at barely over 15 minutes. Best track is probably Green Bananas, which I downloaded off the internet 2 years ago. They also do a cover of Music To Watch Girls By, but's it's nowhere near as good as the original by The Bob Crewe Generation (which I've been listening to a lot lately, by some odd coincidence).

And meanwhile... what continues to be infuriating is The Tiki Tones' 1st CD, IDOL PLEASURES, is out-of-print, and the thing has so far refused to turn up anywhere for a reasonable price. Every time it shows up at the GEMM site, some fool's selling one for like $30 or so. Could this have anything to do with the noteriety of SHAG, I wonder? (His one contribution to the 2000 disc, by the way, was "design".)

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Short Tales and Tall ~ Gilli Smyth & Daevid Allen
  2. A House All on Fire ~ Maquiladora
  3. Cleveland International Records, 1977-1983 ~ Various Artists , Ronnie Spector , Southside Johnny , Meat Loaf , Ian Hunter , Michael Kamen , and Iron City Houserockers
  4. Slain by Yatsura ~ Urusei Yatsura
  5. A Tribute to the Misfits ~ Various Artists
  6. The Best of the Doors ~ The Doors
  7. Ghost Area
  8. Urban Dogs ~ Urban Dogs
  9. Size 14 ~ Size 14
  10. Live-Mosquitos Tour

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Up at Minton's ~ Stanley Turrentine

Snowfall ~ Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra

The Stars of Jazz #2 ~ Various Artists

Red Letter Days ~ Geoff Eales

Candoli Live ~ Conte Candoli

Gipsy Kings - Les Plus Belles Chansons ~ Gipsy Kings

Essential Masters of Jazz ~ Musette

Legacy ~ SanTee, Robby Bee

4 Bastardos Ao Vivo Em Sao Paulo ~ Riistetyt

Grandes Sucessos Sertanejos ~ Durval & Davi