I just got out of the water about an hour ago. The water temperature is 69°, the air temperature 74°. With the exception of a lack of quality surf, the conditions were about as good as June gets, and summer doesn't officially begin for a few hours. Tonight, it's a no brainer. Like it or not, surf music it is. All of the cuts below have been posted before on different posts, but never all together, and it's a real mish mash. The first one, "Penetration" by the Pyramids, is a personal favorite as is "Baja" by the Astronauts. The second and third songs (Dick Dale's "Miserlou" and the Lively Ones "Surf Rider") were both in the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction so they may be overly famliar to some of you. Still, they're excellent. There's a couple other Dick Dale songs too because, well, he's the damn King of the Surf Guitar. The rest, with the exception of "Pipeline" are lesser known tracks. I couldn't find an mp3 of Eddie and the Showmen's "Squad Car" but had to include it because they are so underrated. Eddie Bertrand is one of very few surf guitarists mentioned with the same sort of reverence as Dick Dale, and I think I remember reading somewhere that Bertrand was the only guitarist that Dick Dale himself regarded as a peer.
The Pyramids - Penetration mp3 at Snuthing Anything
Dick Dale and His Deltones - Miserlou mp3 at Snuthing Anything
The Lively Ones - Surf Rider mp3 at Snuthing Anything
Dick Dale and His Deltones - Night Rider mp3 at Rocky 52
Dick Dale and His Deltones - Ghost Riders in the Sky mp3 at Rocky 52
The Chantays - Pipeline mp3 at Rocky 52
Aki Aleong and the Nobels - Panic mp3 at Probe is Turning-On the People
The Torquays - Escondido mp3 at Office Naps
The Astronauts - Baja mp3 at California Girls
Johnny Fortune - Soul Surfer mp3 at Rocky 52
Charles Write and the Malibus - Runky mp3 at Office Naps
Calvin Cool - El Tecolote mp3 at Office Naps
Eddie and the Showmen - Squad Car (streaming) at YouTube
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