What about the Summer Hits!?!

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i got a single from josh recently. i was really surprised at how groovy and electronic it is. those guys are usually old-fashioned and mellow (i'm not a huge fan of some of their other stuff). but that was amazing. it doesn't seem like you'd find those guys in the same room though nowadays.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Monday, 4 August 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

the guy from further is like 50 now isn't he? the pre-further band was godawful then he jumped on the pavement bandwagon. sometimes chimes and griptape are way overhyped, pretty mediocre but they released that cool double seven inch once upon a time. the tyde should be drowned.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

wow congrats doom-e. is this UK only?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, uk only, but it should be easily available on www.revola.co.uk, word!

― doom-e, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

you used to know
about the difference in the sand
but the California bummer, baby
is getting outta hand

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

nine months pass...

O_o

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Did the reissue mentioned above ever come out? Any idea where to find (or even hear) some of this stuff?

I completely missed them at the time, only heard their name when Sic Alps pasted over a Summer Hits cover (which was pasted over a Walker Brothers cover) for their recent single. The descriptions in this thread sound awesome...

― city worker, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link

This was not as good as I had hoped.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link

A very profilic band, apparently. These are just a few of the Summer Hits albums I came across on the Net:

http://www.oldies.com/i/boxart/large/85/090431854822.jpg http://www.7digital.com/shops/assets/sleeveart/%5C829410453677_350.JPEG http://www.forzashop.sk/ganet/forza/music/shop.nsf/1E29F4D11C8658E9C125703F002CA15D/AbstImgA/0.84

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Beaches and Canyons is on Spotify (artist mistagged as "summerhits"). Fourteen plus years later and it's still the best.

― fffv, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link

eleven months pass...

RIP Josh Schwartz
http://i.imgur.com/3dqBkdW.jpg

Great drum track (except for the mic smack at 0m44s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pxKdvxeak

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

Recent interview with the sole surviving member (!), Daddy D(arren):

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/06/the-summer-hits-interview.html

I did not know that Rex had passed away.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 31 August 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link

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