RUMBLE ON THE DOCKS.

We hadn’t posted a lost rock ‘n’ roll classic in a while, and in choosing one, we wrestled with plenty subgenres—party, sleazy, bright, country-tinged, horror, celebrity-in-the-making, tenor sax honker, and so forth—but the climate these days is more than vaguely contentious so we went with pugilistica magnificat “Rumble on the Docks,” a rowdy surf-punk tune which originally appeared in 1964 on the Sandé label, no, we don’t think this song is directly related to the 1956 crime noir movie of the same title, nor do we think the band name—Aquanauts—is directly related to one or more television series of the same name, no, Dear Reader, this is just a hard-cranking tune which will make you propose amorous encounters to another lovely person immediately, make you reach for the whiskey, make you turn up the volume, make you jump for two minutes (plus residual lifelong jumping), and make you drive fast, although not in that order necessarily, no, the order is up to you, Dear Reader, although we recommend amour first, always.

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