There isn’t a lot out there video-wise (though their name is pretty difficult for googling) but here is a live performance from 2011 of what I’m fairly certain is the track “Christopher Columbus Was Not a Hero” off of Vacation.

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Vacation, from Cincinnati, are self-described grit-pop. Their sound is punky, punchy garage rock and highly danceable especially if you’re into high speed pogo’ing. Southern Grass is their fourth full-length (I think, they have a ton of singles and EP’s as well), jam packed with a whopping 32 tracks of all-out fun (though they do slow down occasionally, like on the melancholy “Without You”). My top tracks are the fun ones, though. On Vol. 1 those include the opener “Sharptooth Tinsel Town,” “El Bako” and the high-end psychedelically fuzzed “Blueberry Patch.”  On Vol. 2 my top picks are “Sleepyhead,” the Pistol-esque “Lose Interest” with lots of snot and swagger, the darkly buzzed “Everyone Can Touch Me” and the post-punk dissonance of “The All.”

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They put on a super high-energy show: loud and tight with lots of rock and roll moves:

Vacation at Cactus Club: the bassist catching some serious air

I nabbed a shot of the setlist at the end of their set (another audience member was going to grab it but one of the Vacation guys was all like, “No we need that for the next show” — this Milwaukee performance was the second-to-last on their current tour).

Vacation played a couple of my top tracks from Existential Risks and Returns including my favorite, the hypnotic, tense and slinky “Controlled Burn” as well as the LP opener “Colored By Numbers” and “Ripe.” Other favorites from Existential Risks and Returns are “Liberty Tax Statue Man” which feels like a mix of The Who, Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Velvet Underground, “Quantum Cafe” and the killer all-out rocking album closer “Road Kill Cactus.”

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Vacation is the Go Go’s second album and it reached #8 in the US, the single “Vacation” also reaching #8 in the summer of ‘82 (and may have been the first single to ever be released on cassette). The LP’s other two singles, “Get Up and Go” and “He’s So Strange,” did not do as well: the former – a fun pop rocker with a classic Bo Diddley beat – reached #50 and the latter failed to chart at all. Overall Vacation is a fun pop record, perfect for spinning on a portable player at the beach, playing frisbee and watching the speedboats pull water skiers. Here’s a picture from our up-north trip last summer of the Min-Aqua Bats in Minocqua, WI and, for obvious reasons, “Vacation” was my ear worm for a few days.

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