Post #92411 by Scrimshaw on Fri, May 21, 2004 7:30 PM

I'm making a compilation of island songs from people not normally island-style. Polynesian/oceana as opposed to carribean/jamaican. There are a lot of good one-off's out there that need to be put together.

Joe Frank has a great little tune from his Hawai'i episode. And Warren Zevon's Hula Hula Boys is funny & groovy:

Yesterday she went to see
The Polynesian band
But she came home with her hair all wet
And her clothes all filled with sand
I didn't have to come to Maui
To be treated like a jerk
How do you think I feel
When I see the bellboys smirk?
They're signing,

Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana
Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana
Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana
Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana
Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana ...

(I hear Hunter S, THompson particularly digs this song)

Taj Mahal has relatively recently made some good (and also some middling) island stuff; he lives on Maui now, I think.

The Kinks's Ape Man and Holiday in Waikiki are island in theme more than sound, but ya can't leave them out... (Magnetic Fields's "Desert Island" ; Cat Power's "Sea of Love" - good too.)

Anyone have any more tropical suggestions, from artists in different genres?

~Scrimshaw Lui, le Glik

[ Edited by: scrimshaw on 2004-05-22 12:26 ]

[ Edited by: Scrimshaw on 2004-05-22 12:46 ]