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red dog 1

(27,820 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:18 PM Feb 2015

Do you have a favorite surf song?

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Do you have a favorite surf song? (Original Post) red dog 1 Feb 2015 OP

Surfing Drums onehandle Feb 2015 #1

"Lake of Fire" - Hurray for the Riff Raff greendog Feb 2015 #3

Picked this before I saw onehandle's antiquie Feb 2015 #2

...darn... posted this before I realized you said 'SURF' handmade34 Feb 2015 #4

d'oh! I should have read the replies before posting fishwax Feb 2015 #10

New's York's A Lonely Town Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #5

Wipeout / Surfaris Special Prosciuto Feb 2015 #6

Outstanding surf song! red dog 1 Feb 2015 #17

Gotta go with the Beach Boys, though Dick Dale and the Ventures were the best. denbot Feb 2015 #7

Don't know if this qualifies aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #8

Great song... Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #24

I keep reading this subject line as "Do you have a favorite smurf song?" fishwax Feb 2015 #9

Well, there goes my song reply pinboy3niner Feb 2015 #28

Have to go with Junoir Brown. Surf Medley. amerikat Feb 2015 #11

anything by the Ventures olddots Feb 2015 #12

Absofuckinlutely! DFW Feb 2015 #15

Agent Orange has a lot of cool surf-ish songs n/t Populist_Prole Feb 2015 #13

Pipeline Optical.Catalyst Feb 2015 #14

Kill Surf City by Jesus and Mary Chain Coventina Feb 2015 #16

I love the original Surf City by Jan & Dean red dog 1 Feb 2015 #18

Good choice! Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #25

Walk - Don't Run struggle4progress Feb 2015 #19

I'll just throw this in and duck: malthaussen Feb 2015 #20

Man or Astro-Man? Surf Terror dilby Feb 2015 #21

Not my absolute favorites, but pipi_k Feb 2015 #22

Misirlou REPUguy Feb 2015 #23

Surfin' Bird for its absurd magnificence Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #26

Good choice! red dog 1 Feb 2015 #29

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2015 #27

incongrous, maybe - Punk icon Jhonny Thunders plays Pipeline Mopar151 Feb 2015 #30

Carolina Girls. cwydro Feb 2015 #31

Carolina Girls by General Johnson & The Chairman of the Board red dog 1 Feb 2015 #32

Hey thank you! cwydro Feb 2015 #33

Skeet Surfin'... lame54 Feb 2015 #34

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

1. Surfing Drums

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:31 PM

Feb 2015

greendog

(3,127 posts)

3. "Lake of Fire" - Hurray for the Riff Raff

Reply to onehandle (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:18 PM

Feb 2015

Surf Music from the Lower 9th Ward.

antiquie

(4,299 posts)

2. Picked this before I saw onehandle's

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:04 PM

Feb 2015

I give up. None of my videos post.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)

4. ...darn... posted this before I realized you said 'SURF'

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:35 PM

Feb 2015

fishwax

(29,149 posts)

10. d'oh! I should have read the replies before posting

Reply to handmade34 (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 01:02 AM

Feb 2015

I kept reading the subject line wrong too

Kingofalldems

(38,459 posts)

5. New's York's A Lonely Town

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:48 PM

Feb 2015

Special Prosciuto

(731 posts)

6. Wipeout / Surfaris

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2015, 11:17 PM

Feb 2015

Any other choice is blasphemy.

red dog 1

(27,820 posts)

17. Outstanding surf song!

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 04:06 PM

Feb 2015

Who needs lyrics anyway?

denbot

(9,900 posts)

7. Gotta go with the Beach Boys, though Dick Dale and the Ventures were the best.

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 12:24 AM

Feb 2015

There are a number of good surf songs but this one mentions Manhattan Beach, my home town, and surfbreak.

During the 70's I took a marine mechanics class taught by Bob Berryhill a guitarist from the Safari's.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

8. Don't know if this qualifies

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 12:43 AM

Feb 2015

but a lot of surf bands played this tune in the 60s. The Ventures did a cover version in 1962 as well as The Surfaris. The original instrumental was by the English group The Shadows recorded in 1960. The video has a cool look.

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)

24. Great song...

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #8)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 11:18 PM

Feb 2015

and according to Klaus Dinger it is the source of "the motorik beat"

fishwax

(29,149 posts)

9. I keep reading this subject line as "Do you have a favorite smurf song?"

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 01:01 AM

Feb 2015

The answer to both is no, not really. (I like some surf music, but can't think offhand of a favorite .)

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

28. Well, there goes my song reply

Reply to fishwax (Reply #9)

Tue Feb 24, 2015, 07:32 AM

Feb 2015

amerikat

(4,909 posts)

11. Have to go with Junoir Brown. Surf Medley.

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 01:50 AM

Feb 2015

olddots

(10,237 posts)

12. anything by the Ventures

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 02:19 AM

Feb 2015

DFW

(54,410 posts)

15. Absofuckinlutely!

Reply to olddots (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 06:49 AM

Feb 2015

Their "Surfing" album contained just a string of perfect "mood" pieces that captured the spirit more perfectly than any other album I ever heard, and I heard all the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean records that were out at the time.