I was listening to some surf music and got a recommendation to watch a documentary on The Ventures. I like most surf music anyway and the Ventures were always cool, so I did. They were the first Surf record I ever had, then came the Surfaris. The documentary was good, so I started listening to them and wondered. How many bands have been influenced by them? A Lot. And then started thinking of songs that sounded like the Ventures, but were not covers of songs they did. That's what this pick is. It's all songs that sound like The Ventures, but aren't. I limited it to one song per artist and limited it to the Ventures sound of mostly the Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Nokie Edwards period, but I was loose on that. They changed over the years, but that core sound is still there today.
V-Like (Ventures-like)
V-Like (Ventures-like)
01 Aqua Velvets - Surf Nouveau
02 Blue Stingrays - Monsoon
03 The Belairs - Mr. Moto
04 The Gamblers - Moon Dawg!
05 Eddie And The Showmen - Squad Car
06 Jim Messina & His Jesters - The Jester
07 The Challengers - K39
08 The Lively Ones - High Tide
09 The Surfites - Thou Shalt Drag
10 Panasonics - Mr. Pan Ventures Out
11 Surf Kings - Morpheus
12 Jon & The Nightriders - Thunder Over Rincon
13 Volcanos - Bikini Sunset
14 The Tornadoes - Charge Of The Tornadoes
15 The Original Surfaris - Bombora
16 The Sentinals - Latin'ia
17 The Atlantics - The Crusher
18 The Eliminators - Dawn Patrol
19 Los Straitjackets - Surf Rider
20 Laika & The Cosmonauts - Global Village
21 The Tomorrowmen - Requiem For A Tomorrowman
22 The Barbwires - Coffin Ride
23 The Bambi Molesters - Chaotica
24 The Space Cossacks - Planet of the Apes
25 The Surf Coasters - Misirlou '94
26 The Treble Spankers - Red Hot Navigator
27 The Madeira - Ricochet
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