The Astronauts - Competition Coupe - 1964
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For their second long-player, the Astronauts got distinctly more ambitious, and with good results. The harmony singing, while no match for the Beach Boys or Jan & Dean, is a lot better this time out, especially on the title-track and "Our Car Club"(which are a lot of fun to begin with). And their playing is bolder as well. As with its predecessor, this record is never boring, and it never settles down -- for this album, they rely on Duane Eddy alumnus Steve Douglas for a lot of the material, and it mostly all works, with only a few moments that are less than bracing; and one Roger Christian/Steve Douglas composition, "Chevy Scarfer", was already a lovingly nostalgic do-wop homage in 1964 that holds up even better in that vein in the twenty-first century. The playing is still better than the singing, but it's all amazingly worthwhile, and deeply evocative of its era.

01 Little Ford Ragtop.mp3
02 Competition Coupe.mp3
03 The Hearse.mp3
04 '55 Bird.mp3
05 Devil Driver's Theme.mp3
06 Happy Ho-Daddy.mp3
07 Our Car Club.mp3
08 Deveil Driver.mp3
09 Chevy Scarfer.mp3
10 4_56 Stingray.mp3
11 El Aguila (The Eagle).mp3
12 650 Scambler.mp3

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