Well, I can't believe I've gone this long without a tribute to one of my favorite bands, Southern Culture on the Skids. Not sure when I discovered them, but it's been ten or fifteen years. Their goofiness and energy got me; I just hadn't heard anything else like their brand of, well, what do we call it? Surfabilly fits. They combine rock, country, rockabilly, surf, etc. They get pretty silly. They're another band that makes it hard for me to pick favorites; I like almost all their songs. I've tried to pick some songs from each of four categories that strike me as typical for them: goofy songs, covers, suggestive songs, and instrumentals. I've hard a hard time finding decent videos, so these aren't necessarily their best songs, just the best videos out there.
They haven't been hugely successful, but they've been playing for years and still tour. Some of their songs have made it into movies- Super Troopers, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Beavis and Butthead, Happy Gilmore. Yeah, not exactly high class, but look at their name again...
First the goofy. I think Banana Puddin' was the first SCOTS song I heard, though I was aware of them before that.
Camel Walk is probably the closest thing to a hit SCOTS have had. And I guess it, and Banana Puddin', are both goofy and suggestive...
Suggestive? Eight Piece Box might be, a little. You'll notice some crowd participation, including fried chicken being thrown into the crowd...
Nitty Gritty is a good cover; they do some other very cool ones like House Of Bamboo and Come As You Are.
Their instrumentals tend toward surf rock, often sounding like (or even covering) Dick Dale and Link Wray. Here's Deja Varoom, with a video including drag racing scenes.
And Theme From "The Cheaters." Very surfy.
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