'66 Sunset Strip: "Volcanic Action" Tiki Oasis, Vol. IV
02.24.25
Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.
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An unusual episode of ’66 Sunset Strip, as it’s all late ’70s/early ’80s Punk and New Wave stuff influenced by Surf music, Ska and the Girl Group sound of the early ’60s. It’s another “Tiki Oasis” DJ set episode, from Domenic’s days doing a DJ night in San Francisco. They did one themed for that Punk era, through the Tiki theme, which was a stretch for everyone who all had to dig into their childhoods and find how we got from Punk to Tiki.
Tracklist:
The Tikis – Surfadelic
Jon & the Niteriders – Rumble at Waikiki (from debut EP)
The B-52s – Rock Lobster (original 45)
The Bangles – Bitchen Summer/Speedway
The Go Go’s – Beatnik Beach
The Trashwomen – Aphrodesia
The Halibuts – Don’t Back Down/The Wet Spot (live at Toe’s Tavern)
The Go Go’s – We Got the Beat (Stiff Records version)
The Specials featuring Rico – Nite Club (w/ The Go Go’s)
The Go Go’s – Surfin’ & Spyin’
The Halibuts – Mr. Mysterioso (live at Toe’s Tavern)
The Pandoras – Hot Generation
Nikki & the Corvettes – Summertime Fun (w/ The Honeys)
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy (group was an offshoot of Adam & the Ants)
The New York Blondes – Little GTO (Blondie w/ The Honeys and Rodney Bingenheimer)
Blondie (1975 demo) – Out in the Streets (Shangri-Las cover)
Kirsty MacColl – Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Kirsty MacColl – They Don’t Know
The Pretenders – Stop Your Sobbing (produced by Nick Lowe)
The Pretenders – The Wait (produced by Nick Lowe)
Agent Orange – Pipeline
Rachel Sweet – Baby Let’s Play House
X – Breathless
The Go-Nuts – Transfusion
Nikki & the Corvettes Honey Bop
The B-Girls – Fun at the Beach
The Royal Knightmares – The Hipster
The Phantom V – Quiet Village
The Specials – Too Much Too Young
The Selecter – Carry Go Bring Come
The English Beat – Twist & Crawl
The Jam – The Modern World
The Clash w/ Ellen Foley – Hitsville U.K.
The Bodysnatchers – Let’s Do the Rock Steady
The English Beat – Psychedelic Rockers
The Special AKA – Racist Friend
The Fun Boy Three w/ Bananarama – T’aint What You Do
Bananarama w/ The Fun Boy Three – Really Saying Something
The Pandoras – It’s About Time
The Insect Surfers – Sting Ray
Jackie & the Cedrics – Scalping Party
The Vice Barons – Thunderpussy
The Patti Smith Group – My Generation
The B-52s – Song for a Future Generation
The Selecter – James Bond
The Specials – International Jet Set
The Fun Boy Three w/ Bananarama – The Farmyard Connection
The Boss Martians – XKE
Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon w/ The Ventures – The Night Before Christmas
The Normal – T.V.O.D.
The Clash – The Prisoner
The Clash – Complete Control
The Sex Pistols – Holiday in the Sun
First EP by Jon & the Niteriders
First record by The B-52s + back of 45 sleeve
The Bangles at Tiny Naylors “on the Sunset Strip”
The Go Go’s live at Whisky a Go Go, Sunset Strip
The Go Go’s, Stiff Records lineup
The Trashwomen (San Francisco, ’90s)
The Halibuts (L.A.’s South Bay, ’80s)
The Specials (London)
The Pandoras (Los Angeles)
Nikki & the Corvettes
Blondie (1975)
Kirsty MacColl
The Pretenders
Rachel Sweet
The band X
X live at Whisky a Go Go with The Doors’ Ray Manzarek
The Go-Nuts (’90s)
The Royal Knightmares (Italy, 1990s)
The Phantom V (U.S., 1990s) play “Quiet Village” on this Italian EP
The Selecter (w/ lead vocalist Pauline Black)
The English Beat, w/ 50 + saxophone genius “Saxa” (Lionel Augustus Martin), left.
The Jam
Ellen Foley w/ Mick Jones from The Clash. They duet on “Hitsville UK”
The Bodysnatchers
The Bodysnatchers live at the 100 Club, London
The Special AKA
The Fun Boy Three w/ Bananarama
Bananarama
The Insect Surfers (Washington, D.C., ’80s)
Jackie & the Cedrics (’90s)
The Vice Barons (’90s)
The Patti Smith Group (’75-’76ish)
The Boss Martians (’90s)
Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello’s incongruent Punk-era single with The Ventures (that somehow works)
Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello back when they starred in six “Beach Party” movies together for American International Pictures (see: The B-52s)
The Normal “T.V.O.D.” and “Warm Leatherette” picture sleeve, back
The Clash “The Prisoner” 45
The Clash “Complete Control,” produced by Jamaican legend Lee Perry
The Sex Pistols “Holiday in the Sun” 45 sleeve
Yeah, not The Go Go’s actually played here: this ’60s RCA vocal group also made records as The Kustom Kings (Smash) and The Munsters (Decca).
This episode of ’66 SUNSET STRIP on dublab.com is dedicated to the amazing re-launch years (1976-1981) of KROQ f.m. — plus, for a brief moment, a.m. — and the influential DJs who were there at the time, especially Mike Raphone, Jed the Fish, Dusty Street, Shadoe Stevens, Frazer Smith and Rodney Bingenheimer. This was the first American radio station to take up Punk Rock and New Wave as the primary at a time when the American record industry wanted to do nothing more than stand on its neck. Over time, the station would have the last laugh in the ratings game; KROQ’s best years musically, however, were those times recognized now as the dawn of Punk.
