Post #348784 by Scottes on Mon, Dec 10, 2007 5:56 PM

OK, I need some serious help with suggestions for some "tiki" music. Sad to say, I own 2 "tiki" albums, both by Waitiki. I'd like to get some more.

I have to say that I do not care for the slow, quiet stuff. I like upbeat stuff. Drums are very cool. My favorites from these albums are Bwana, Bwana A, Cave of Uldo (my favorite), and Dew Drop Inn.

I'm on Amazon, sampling Drasnin's Voodoo II. Puente Doble is the only song I could tolerate for long. The rest would have me asleep before they ended.
Sampling Les Baxter's Greatest Hits, they wouldn't last long on my player.
Tikiyaki Orchestra was more to my liking, so that CD got ordered.
Amazon didn't have sample of Les Baxter's Ritual Of the Savage.
Sampling Denny's Quiet Village... Hawaiian War Chant and Firecracker and My Little Grass Shack and Quiet Village and Flotsam and Jetsam were all decent, though some of the others were sleepy-time. I'd probably buy that album in order to get some music, though I wouldn't mind hearing about a better album.

I it helps any, I grew up on rock from the 60s and 70s. You know, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and such, though I will listen to almost anything good, from classical to 80s punk to 90s grunge. I have well over 800 CDs covering many genres. My heart, though, lives with Led Zeppelin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, The Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, and Reggae. I do love classical-inspired stuff - but it's got to rock. (Beethoven's 5th & 9th, Tchaikovsky's 1812, Wagner Ride Of The Valkyries, Holst's The Planets, Saber Dance by Khachaturian, etc).

So if anyone has any suggestions for some upbeat "tiki" music, I'd love to hear about it.

[ Edited by: Scottes 2007-12-11 11:46 ]

[ Edited by: Scottes 2007-12-11 11:47 ]