The Trashmen

Anyway, their new album, The Waits of Fear, has just been released this weekend and that is The Ballad of Donny Steele.

And before Praelium, it was Sodom with their take on the Trashmen classic and it's been covered by loads of other bands too.

And that is Surfing Bird.

You can find that on the album M16.

But I feel like the '50s, '60s, and '70s probably has the lowest footprint in our Thundred.

Um, The Trashmen, Surfin' Bird.

Like, that is, to me, like, as one-hit wonder as you can get for, for that time period.

And the other one, a song that we named as the best song of the year when we did it, Spiral Staircase, More Today Than Yesterday.

I'm not one bit shocked about Surfin' Bird not making the list, because just like you said, I think there's a chance that the average person doesn't know that song is called Surfin' Bird-

Yeah

... and definitely doesn't know it's by The Trashmen.

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The biggest one we've talked about that is my favorite was on the very first episode.

The Trashmen got big with Surf and Bird, and then they made a song called Bird Dance Beat, which is the exact same fucking song.

Like, down to the papa umau maus, it's shameless.

And then...

Um, so, uh, for the period music, they reviewed Billboard's list of top 100 hits for each year from '62 through '68, considering many songs that he found that, quote, "Sometimes our dynamic range of the music was too great and we couldn't work in dialogue." So, you know, some songs where they wanted you to dialogue with the song in the background, but the song was too good, where do you cut it to talk, you know? Um, and there is a one, uh, s- uh, musical, or, uh, part at the end that's not on the list, but here we go.

It's, uh, Johnny Wright with Hello Vietnam; Dixie Cups, Chapel of Love; Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, Wooly Bully; Chris Kenner, I Like It Like That; Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'; The Trashmen, Surfin' Bird; Goldman Band, Marines Hymn; and The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black.

Um, again, all very good songs right there, and all very short songs.

It's not a very long soundtrack right there.