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

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

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

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 years ago) link

Travis Wammack - Firefly

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

"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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

"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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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

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

Ventures -- "Apache"

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

the Sadies, psychedelic-country-surf

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

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 years ago) link

yes.

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

Blue Man Group "Cat Video"

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

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 years ago) link

Huevos Rancheros

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

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet!!

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

Galaxy Trio!

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

WORST MUSIC EVER

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

Los Straitjackets!

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

what exactly is the definition of surf guitar?

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

Aqua Vista!!!

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread was started on my birthday!

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

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

taurus.

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

twelve years pass...

Good new surf guitar record:

http://yniwl.com/album/5

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

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