05/05/03 : ILM gets its first dedicated SURF GEETAR thread!

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surf guitar - greater than the sum of "surf" & "guitar"!

Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird" (the ILM consensus pick!)
Dick Dale - "Miserlou" (deservedly overexposed!)
The Clean - "At The Bottom (Live)" (gothic surf rock!)
Pixies - "Wave Of Mutilation" (okay this probably isn't the surfiest Pixies track but m4rc3l still has all my pixies albums, etc)
Man . . . Or Astroman? - "Invasion Of The Dragonmen" (saw them live!)
Girls Aloud - "Sound Of The Underground" (out of the blue!)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Surfaris - "Wipeout" (best hysterical laugh evah!)

I haven't heard much by the Beach Boys, but I suspect they don't count.

Has any hip-hop/r'n'b/nu-pop sampled surf guitars (other than "Sound Of The Underground")? & it seemed like it would fit in with early ardkore but I haven't heard any examples.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Devo, "Secret Agent Man"
Big Black, "Pavement Saw"
Midnight Oil, "Wedding Cake Island"

― dave q, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Surf guitar is probably the reason I like the Clean & the Pixies much much more than their non-surf contemporaries.

This thread makes me feel guilty for not having heard anything by King Loser. I'm indifferent to, uh, the guy that does that klemzer-surf whatever (y'know, the one with that Peter Plumley-Walker based album).

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Travis Wammack - Firefly

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cecilia Ann" is maybe the most traditional surf song by the Pixies, although the first letter in each line of "Ana" spells out "SURFER." So there's that.

― Hammy (hammy), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

ana really has that sort of surf-y ballad feel to it. i'd group havalina in this camp, too.

― jq higgins, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Rockefeller Skank" used a surf guitar sample didn't it?

Surf guitars do indeed rool.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Dick Dale - "LET'S GO TRIPPIN'" is unreal -- the gurgly tone he gets, had to be an influence on Jerry Garcia.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

If it's a MOAM? song it has to be "A Mouthful of Exhaust"

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ventures! Surf rock + 70's space program fandom = FANTASTICO!

― cprek (cprek), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Ventures -- "Apache"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

the Sadies, psychedelic-country-surf

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

if your going to talk sadies, you prolly have to throw calexico in to the mix, though their not really surf-y, burns' guitar style is pretty surf/twangy.

― higgins, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

yes.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Man Group "Cat Video"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I am pleased to state that The Lonely Surfer, by Jack Nitzsche, is sooooo beautiful, it transcends the surf guitar format altogether.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Huevos Rancheros

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet!!

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxy Trio!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

WORST MUSIC EVER

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Red Elvises? I love the shit on the Six String Samurai soundtrack.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that was the first movie i ever fell asleep during! just this last saturday in fact!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Los Straitjackets!

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

what exactly is the definition of surf guitar?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Aqua Vista!!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The Mermen ... The Amazing California Health & Happiness Show.

The Mermen ... Joe Goldmark on pedal steel.

The Mermen ... "A Drowning Man Knows His God"

― bflaska, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

what exactly is the definition of surf guitar?

http://www.house.gov/jerrylewis/images/krla.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Saw Riding Giants a couple days ago and it totally stoked my fire for surf rock. So like, what happenin' for surf guitar in the year plus that this threads gone silent.

PS: the more psycho-instrumental the better.

― harshaw (jube), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

FUCK YOU [ADMIN: stence is referring here to a spam post that has been deleted, thx.]

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

this thread was started on my birthday!

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

oh happy birthday chaki, i hope you got something nice.

taurus.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

Good new surf guitar record:

http://yniwl.com/album/5

― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:47 (eight years ago)

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