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I would really like to download some damn good surf guitar tracks to make a compilation for myself. However, whilst liking the sound of it, I know bugger all about the genre.

Can I have some recommendations on the basics please? A sort of Rough Guide in a way. Thanks!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

"Sound of the Underground," Girls Aloud - Surf taken to the final point of evolution.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

TROLLLLLLLLL

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh brother.

Anyway, Dick Dale (in part by his own words on the subject but I'm not going to argue) is considered by many to be the starting point for the whole shebang. That's him doing "Miserlou" playing over the opening credits of Pulp Fiction. Here's some info about the song and its provenance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, this short thread should also help:

Surf music : help me find my way

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Link Wray does some good surf-ish stuff. Unfortunately, I couldn't name a particular track.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Are you going to start surfing, Anna?

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Customers who bought this album also bought

* King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones ~ Dick Dale & the Del-Tones
* The Ventures Play the Greatest Surfin' Hits of All Time ~ The Ventures
* Surf-N-Burn ~ Blue Stingrays
* Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists
* Nomad ~ Aqua Velvets
* Walk -- Don't Run: The Best of the Ventures ~ The Ventures
* World of Surf Music ~ Various Artists
* Dick Dale & His Deltones - Greatest Hits 1961-1976 ~ Dick Dale & the Del-Tones

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

NO ONE ON THIS THREAD KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT SURF MUSIC (YES I KNOW IM ON THIS THREAD)

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

SOMEONE BE DUM AND DO TH HENDRIX QUOTE

― .- \(O_o)/-' (mookie wilson), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

The Challengers are also great, and the original s.t. to "Endless Summer" by the Sandals is cool.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

[crap]

― .-\(0_o)/-', Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

GA was annoying, but not incorrect. I was going to be helpful and suggest Dick Dale, too, until I thought to myself, what if typed "surf music" into Google or Wikipedia or Allmusic?

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd surf with Anna.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Chantays - Pipeline

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

TEH AWEOSOME

http://www.cdvideo.info/cdvs/fatboys_wo1.jpg

― .- \(O_o)/-' (mookie wilson), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

I just left Los Straitjackets. They were alright but it's difficult to listen to an hour and a half of surf music.
I need to be reading or something.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

not surf, but i will bring my hapa haole hawaii mix to the foundry next week.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm not back in London until the 28th Gareth.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Man Or Astro-Man?

― a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Man or Astro-Man? - A Mouthful of Exhaust
Man or Astro-Man? - Alpha Surfari

Damn! I think I will listen to every single MOAM? album over the next couple of days.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Galaxy Trio!
Phantom Surfers!
Huevo Rancheros!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Satan's Pilgrims

― will(iam), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

My favorite update on the genre is The Raybeats' "Guitar Beat" LP.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Here it is 5+ years later, and Raybeats/Los Straitjackets guitarist Daddy-O Grande (Danny Amis) has been recovering from bone marrow cancer, and a heap of related medical bills. A series of benefit gigs across the country started Tuesday night in L.A.

http://www.daddyogrande.com/news.html

(I'll be in one of the bands 6/25 at Lee's Liquor Lounge. MN surf and rockabilly fans should come out!)

― Duke Manfist: Action Hero (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry to hear that about Danny Amis but glad to see he's in remission. The Raybeats were fun.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

Raybeats were kinda life-changing for me; between them and The B-52's I definitely starting digging surf records out of thrift store bins. The Hoboken show features a Raybeats reunion. I'm not clear if Danny's well enough to play or if someone else will be filling in. (Individuals reuniting for that night, too; love that band.)

― Duke Manfist: Action Hero (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

Surf fans might dig this comp of what my cronies and I did staring at the stars out of the soybean fields plugging into a Tascam portastudio in the late Reagan/Bush years:

https://soundcloud.com/michigan-j/sets/tweed-penguin-presents-the-lake-huron-surf-scene-1987-1993

― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Friday, 29 July 2016 22:03 (nine years ago)

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