Surf Beat 5

I was starting to think this concept had fully run its course, but this batch proves there is still some gas left in the tank. Forcing classic, reverb-drenched twang to sit right alongside abrasive, snotty punk rock should result in total structural failure, but instead, it creates a weirdly infectious friction. This particular pick functions like a high-speed collision where the aggressive energy of the underground perfectly mirrors the frantic velocity of the tides. It is a loud, messy collision of subcultures that somehow feels completely intentional by the time the final note cuts out. If you want to dive deeper into this chaotic surf dynamic, the full archive is waiting, though this might just be the absolute final ride unless you guys have some suggestions to keep it going.

Surf Beat 5

120 Los Straitjackets - Nocturnal Twist

121 The Surfaris - Scatter Shield

122 Slacktone - Bells Of St. Kahuna

123 Agent Orange - Miserlou

124 Moms I'd Like to Surf - Major Surf

125 The Adolescents - Amoeba

126 Aqualads - Surf! Surf! Surf!

127 Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets

128 The Weirdos - Solitary Confinement

129 Ribsy - Collapse

130 The Razorblades - Grease Your Hair and Get Tattooed

131 The Atlantics - Flight Of The Surf Guitar

132 Big Boys - Which Way To Go

133 The Electric Firebirds - Let's Make It

134 Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake - Brown Room

135 King Curtis & the Noble Men - Beach Party

136 The Waikikis - Hawaii Tattoo

137 The Bitch Boys - The Final Ride

138 Bob Collins & Fabulous Five - If I Didn't Have A Dime

139 The Archies - Sugar, Sugar

140 Bert Weedon - 40 Miles of Bad Road

141 The Faction - California Dreamin'

142 Mister Neutron - Comanchero

143 Wounds - China Doll

144 Dick Dale - Nitro

145 Mailbooz - My Baby Came Back On the Last Wave Today

146 The Tarantulas - A Fistful Of Dollars (Overture)

147 The Surfrajettes - Word Salad

148 Frankie and the Pool Boys - Cat Fight

149 Insect Surfers - Mojave

Whitewash Wipeout

I have been a big fan of surf music for decades, especially surf instrumentals and love bands like Agent Orange and The Ventures. This pick does not have either band, but it does have that feel of both throughout. A couple are on the border of surf, but still make it for me. Let me know if you like any of them more than any others or what you would like to surf to? Did I miss any other good ones? There are so many.

Whitewash Wipeout

01 Amped Dynamite - Explosive Curls

02 Glenn Miller's Woody - In The Woody

03 OP Rollers - Fire

04 The Tarantulas - A Fistful Of Dollars (Overture)

05 Big Daddy - Star Wars Theme

06 The Alolan Rays - Gotta Catch 'em All

07 Little Buddy & The Three Hour Tour - Shipwrecked

08 Beverly Surfbillies - Texas Tea

09 Vandals - Hocus Pocus

10 Stoneage Surfers - Leilani

11 The Rubble Rousers - Meet The Flintstones (Yabba Dabba Do)

12 Supertones - Paranoid

13 3rd Board In The Surf - Fire

14 Sweet Shredders - Board Blitzing

15 Grommet Kahunas - Gnarly Froth

16 Hippy Ho-Dad - Hauling

17 JFA - Charlie Brown (Schroeder Version)

18 Frankenfurter - Warped Time

19 Cloudchord - Thunderstruck

20 The Stoked Shakas - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

21 Neoprene Dudes - Swiss Swells

22 Beachios - Shake Your Napkin

23 Pegleg - Yo Ho Ho (A Pirates Life)

24 Surfmotherfuckers - Killing An Arab

25 Lynn's Leash - Stone Surf

26 Elemental Swell - September

27 Svelte Sumo Surfers - Mele Kalikimaka

Xmas Board

Merry Christmas — here’s your Xmas surf soundtrack pick. I know it's Christmas Eve day, but now you'll be ready. Growing up in sunny California, not being in snow (except for that one city block where they dumped the man-made stuff) until I was 18, surf music at Christmas was never an exception — it was just normal. This is guitar-led holiday surf music. My only regret was not finding Mele Kalikimaka in a proper surf version, but at the last minute I found a hidden track with a good bonus version. Ride your board, put on some Sex Wax, and enjoy the holiday.

Xmas Board

01 Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick

02 The Ventures - Sleigh Ride

03 Davie Allan & The Arrows - Here Comes Santa Claus

04 Slacktone - Bells Of St. Kahuna

05 The Trashmen - Dancin' With Santa

06 The Surfrajettes - Jingle Bells

07 Man Or Astro-Man - Frosty The Snowman

08 Blue Hawaiians - We Four Kings (Little Drummer Boy)

09 King Of Hawaii - Mele Kalikimaka

10 Tarraco Surfers - Feliz Navidad

11 The Surfaris - A Surfer's Christmas List

12 Los Straitjackets - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

13 Gary Ferguson - White Christmas

14 The Spotnicks - Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

15 The Mermen - Variations On Carol Of The Bells

16 The Tourmaliners - We Three Kings of Orient Are

17 The Surfrajettes - Snowball

18 The Aqua Velvets - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

19 Cheepskates - Last Minute Rush (Christmas Surf Instrumental)

20 The Ventures - Blue Christmas

21 The Wave Benders - Joy To The World (Surfin' Rock Version)

22 The Mustangs - Ice Flowers

23 Vel Mares - Jingle Bells

24 The Mermen - O Come, O Come Emmanuel

25 TheNewDope - Deck The Halls (Surfin' Christmas Version)

26 Gary Ferguson - Let It Snow

27 The Avalanches - Winter Wonderland

28 The Surf Guitar Sonitastics - O Christmas Tree

29 Meshugga Beach Party - Oh Hanukkah

The Ventures Our Own Assets

I really think this could pick have been one of the 250 or so albums that the Ventures actually put out. It's got the look. It's got the songs. It's got the right 60's surf vibe. Even the title is just right. These are all songs played by the Ventures, but also written by the Ventures. I love that the band name sounds businesslike and the title sounds businesslike, but tongue is firmly in cheek. So several of their hits are not here, because they were covers, but all these originals sound amazing. They really are assets. Take a trip through a portion of their history, from their classic logo to the hot model on the cover and their groundbreaking music.

The Ventures Our Own Assets

01 The Ventures - Driving Guitars

02 The Ventures - The Switch

03 The Ventures - The Twomp

04 The Ventures - Scratch

05 The Ventures - No Trespassing

06 The Ventures - The McCoy

07 The Ventures - Party In Laguna

08 The Ventures - Cruncher

09 The Ventures - Journey To The Stars

10 The Ventures - Spudnik

11 The Ventures - He Never Came Back

12 The Ventures - Exploration in Terror

13 The Ventures - Solar Race

14 The Ventures - The Intruder

15 The Ventures - Changing Tides

16 The Ventures - The 2000 Pound Bee Pts 1&2

17 The Ventures - Fuzzy And Wild

18 The Ventures - Wild Trip

19 The Ventures - The Heavies

20 The Ventures - Psychedelic Venture

21 The Ventures - Pedal Pusher

22 The Ventures - The Creeper

23 The Ventures - Go Go Slow

24 The Ventures - Ginza Lights

25 The Ventures - Love Goddess of Venus

26 The Ventures - Bombay Duck

27 The Ventures - Hokkaido skies

28 The Ventures - Reflections In A Palace Lake

29 The Ventures - Tokyo Nights

30 The Ventures - The Ninth Wave

31 The Ventures - Kyoto doll

V-Like (Ventures-like)

I was listening to some surf music and got a recommendation to watch a documentary on The Ventures. I like most surf music anyway and the Ventures were always cool, so I did. They were the first Surf record I ever had, then came the Surfaris. The documentary was good, so I started listening to them and wondered. How many bands have been influenced by them? A Lot. And then started thinking of songs that sounded like the Ventures, but were not covers of songs they did. That's what this pick is. It's all songs that sound like The Ventures, but aren't. I limited it to one song per artist and limited it to the Ventures sound of mostly the Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Nokie Edwards period, but I was loose on that. They changed over the years, but that core sound is still there today.

V-Like (Ventures-like)

01 Aqua Velvets - Surf Nouveau

02 Blue Stingrays - Monsoon

03 The Belairs - Mr. Moto

04 The Gamblers - Moon Dawg!

05 Eddie And The Showmen - Squad Car

06 Jim Messina & His Jesters - The Jester

07 The Challengers - K39

08 The Lively Ones - High Tide

09 The Surfites - Thou Shalt Drag

10 Panasonics - Mr. Pan Ventures Out

11 Surf Kings - Morpheus

12 Jon & The Nightriders - Thunder Over Rincon

13 Volcanos - Bikini Sunset

14 The Tornadoes - Charge Of The Tornadoes

15 The Original Surfaris - Bombora

16 The Sentinals - Latin'ia

17 The Atlantics - The Crusher

18 The Eliminators - Dawn Patrol

19 Los Straitjackets - Surf Rider

20 Laika & The Cosmonauts - Global Village

21 The Tomorrowmen - Requiem For A Tomorrowman

22 The Barbwires - Coffin Ride

23 The Bambi Molesters - Chaotica

24 The Space Cossacks - Planet of the Apes

25 The Surf Coasters - Misirlou '94

26 The Treble Spankers - Red Hot Navigator

27 The Madeira - Ricochet

Surf-A-Billy 1

There is no real genre called Surf-A-Billy, but this comes close. Some surf, some rockabilly, some crossovers on this pick. Shorter songs, so 28 fit in this compilation. I was listening to the psychobilly of the Billy Goat Gruff mixtape of three days ago and realized how much overlap there was especially on the tracks I didn't use on that one. Similar to the old Surf Beat show I used to air years ago filled with Surf Punk - there is a lot of overlap between the genres. I love the cover with the surfing goat with a  pompadour and leather jacket. AI can be our friend. I hope I can do another one of these sometime in the future. I like it, it's fun.

Surf-A-Billy 1

01 The Sundowners - Snake Eyed Woman

02 Surf Cinema - Strait Up Chuck

03 Impala - Wild Night At The Bloody Bucket

04 The Ghastly Ones - Surfin' Spooks

05 Jon & The Nightriders - Thunder Over Rincon

06 Martin Cilia - Surfabilly

07 Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Bottom Road

08 The Bomboras - War Of The Satellites

09 Reverend Horton Heat - Bullet

10 The Dead Cats - Secret Agent Man

11 Hillbilly Hellcats - Lazy Surfer

12 Nine Pound Hammer - Surfabilly

13 Los Straitjackets - Swampfire

14 The Belmont Playboys - Caravan

15 Vampire Beach Babes - Gothic Surf-A-Rama

16 The Phantom Surfers - The Cat Came Back

17 The Hillbilly Soul Surfers - Cha Wow Wow

18 The Surfonauts - Surfabilly from Outer Space

19 The Sentinals - Latin'ia

20 The Treble Spankers - Vahim

21 The Tarantulas - Black Diamond

22 Link Wray & The Raymen - Please Please Me

23 The Bradipos IV - Work Song

24 Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Tidal Wave

25 The Ripkatz - Surfabilly XXX

26 UnderGround 3000 - Surfabilly Slam

27 Justin Johnson - Surf-A-Billy

28 Southern Culture On The Skids - New Cooter Boogie

Surf Beat 4

I am not going to explain this again. Go to the Surf Beat 3 pick  for links to it all. Some of these punk bands I saw in the Bay Area in various clubs and halls. Los Olvidados played everywhere as did the Dead Kennedys. One of the bands I was not expecting one night out was the Wounds who I happened to catch at the Fab Mab one night as an opening band. They had a flute player! So punk. At the time mixing punk and surf was not that crazy. It just seemed to go well. Remember these are all songs I actually played during my show over the time I had it.

Surf Beat 4

93 Los Straitjackets - Calhoun Surf

94 The Slickee Boys - Gotta Tell Me Why

95 The Vandals - My Girlfriend's Dead

96 The Germs - Lexicon Devil

97 Agent Orange - Bloodstains (Orignal Version)

98 The Bambi Molesters - Intensity!

99 Man Or Astro-Man - Antimatter Man

100 The Surfaris - Punkline

101 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

102 Architects of Sound - Government Salami

103 Aqua Velvets - Time Trapped

104 No Means No - Dad

105 Teen Idles - I Drink Milk

106 Los Olvidados - Listen To You

107 The Supertones - I Surf In Black

108 The Wipeouters - Ravin' Surf

109 The Invisible Surfers - It Won't Last Forever

110 D.I. - Richard Hung Himself

111 Angry Samoans - Lights Out

112 Wounds - Running To Hide

113 The Malibooz - Goin' To Malibu

114 T.S.O.L. - Code Blue

115 Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill

116 The Who - Batman

117 The Weirdos - Helium Bar

118 Big Daddy - Star Wars Theme

119 The Eliminators - Boneyard

Surf Beat 3

You can see that this is the third volume of this compilation. The first Surf Beat was based on a mixtape I made based on a surf punk radio show I hosted. Which is a lot of base-ing. The second Surf Beat was a continuation of that. And this pick goes even farther. I haven't done the show in over a decade, but still love all the music. The hardest part of the actual show was playing so many songs in a row that were short and still keep the albums and singles in order and not mess them up as I was putting them away and still be able to talk and keep track of everything. Lots of prep work. This volume only has one song under sixty seconds, so it would have been less of a problem, but some of those shows were short song after short song. Hard to keep up. Imagine playing a bunch of Descendents and Angry Samoans all in a row. I stayed away from that as much as possible. Learn about carts in volume one.

Surf Beat 3

63 Link Wray - Rumble

64 Sidewalk Surfers - Skateboard

65 The Kilaueas - Giant

66 The Corvets - Buckeye

67 The Slickee Boys - When I Go To The Beach

68 The Fathoms - Fathomized

69 Agent Orange - Pipeline

70 Apach-O-Matic - Tiki Island Girl

71 X - Los Angeles

72 Minor Threat - Straight Edge

73 Aqualads - Surf! Surf! Surf!

74 Fear - I Love Livin' In The City

75 Fidlar - No Waves

76 The Razorblades - Grease Your Hair and Get Tattooed

77 The Atlantics - Flight Of The Surf Guitar

78 Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

79 Clifford Curry - We're Gonna Hate Ourselves In The Morning

80 Wavves - King Of The Beach

81 Aqua Velvets - Guitar Noir

82 Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow

83 JFA - Beach Blanket Bongout

84 The Invisible Surfers - Godzilla Attacks

85 Sea Shells - Hit The Surf

86 D.O.A. - That's Progress (WJello Biafra)

87 Tornadoes - Bustin' Surfboards

88 Revelairs - San-Ho-Zay

89 Red Elvises - Spacecowboy

90 The Malibooz - Surf Beat '81

91 The Sleazy Surfers - Movin'

92 The Ventures - Batman Theme

Surfing & Spying 2

Volume two of the cassette I made so long ago. This is the Spying side of the cassette. Although I said yesterday. the content is not quite so much divided. This pick has surf songs on both sides and frankly the most spying stuff is on the surfing side. I can't explain it. It's just the way it turned out. Either way this pick is from my collection back then, recreated as a playlist for you. I took the original cassette cover that I had hand drawn, scanned it and used parts of it for this cover.

Surfing & Spying 2

20 The Surfaris - Surfer Joe

21 Bananarama - No Feelings

22 Go-Go's - Beatnik Beach

23 The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O

24 The Ventures - Perfidia

25 The Ventures - Telstar

26 The Ventures - Rebel Rouser

27 The Jam - Batman

28 Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789

29 Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo - Girls Like Me

30 Josie Cotton - Tell Him

31 Question Mark and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

32 Surf Punks with Wolfman Jack - My Wave

33 Booker T & The Mg's - Time Is Tight

34 Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids - At The Hop

35 Surf Punks - Spoiled Brats From Malibu I

36 The Diamonds - Little Darlin'

37 Joey Dee & The Starlighters - Peppermint Twist

38 Chubby Checker - Dancin' Party

39 Mailbooz - My Baby Came Back On the Last Wave Today

Surfing & Spying 1

This is from a cassette I made a long time ago. One side I called Surfing and the other I called Spying. This is the first side. This pick includes a bunch of Surfing songs or beach songs, much of it instrumental. A few words here and there (tequila!). Each side is NOT really separated by Surf and Spy. But that was the premise of the whole cassette. The cover I recreated from the cassette as a CD and now it's the playlist cover. All songs that are and were in my collection.

Surfing & Spying 1

01 Surfaris - Wipeout

02 The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

03 The Ventures - Out Of Limits

04 The Ventures - Tequila

05 The Ventures - Apache

06 The Ventures - Ram Bunk Shush

07 The Surfaris - Punkline

08 The Chantays - Pipeline

09 The Wedge - Night Of The Living Wedge

10 Dan & Dale - Goldfinger

11 Go-Go's - Surfing and Spying

12 Blues Brothers - Green Onions

13 The Electric Firebirds - Electric Fireworks

14 Booker T & The Mg's - Hang 'em High

15 The Electric Firebirds - Let's Make It

16 The Ventures - Sugar, Sugar

17 Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme

18 The Capitols - Cool Jerk

19 The Surfaris - Scatter Shield

Surf Beat 2

If you saw yesterday's post you will know the origin story. If you didn't see it, go back and read it. Either way. I listened to volume one for years. Always loved it, but knew I had skipped a bunch of songs that I used to play. That and I had since discovered a couple of bands that I would have played if they were around at the time (for sure the Surfrajettes - how cool are they!?). So it was time to make volume 2. So I made volume 2 and I really liked it too. My pick of Surf and Punk songs that make up this playlist are just the ticket for you to skate and thrash to this summer, so I am bringing it out again. I never made volume three, but listening to this again might inspire me.

Surf Beat 2

32 Man Or Astro-Man - F=(Gmm(Moon))(R^2)

33 The Wedge - Night Of The Living Wedge

34 The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O

35 Insect Surfers - Dorsal Fin

36 The Invisible Surfers - Malaguena

37 Susan and the Surftones - Chinese Rock

38 JFA - Walk Don't Run

39 Clint - Bankrupt

40 The Electric Firebirds - Electric Fireworks

41 Agent Orange - Everything Turns Grey

42 Architects of Sound - Surf Beat

43 The Jam - Batman

44 Fidlar - Cheap Beer

45 The Faction - Skate & Destroy

46 Ribzy - All Cut Up

47 Surf Punks - My Beach

48 The Phantom Surfers - Final Lap

49 Los Olvidados - Pay Salvation

50 The Slickee Boys - Surf Medley

51 Minutemen - Corona

52 The Malibooz - Faceoff At Point Dume

53 Wounds - Workaholic

54 Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Having An Average Weekend

55 The Supertones - Pugsakuk

56 The Weirdos - Life Of Crime

57 The Lively Ones - Surf Rider

58 Barracudas - His Last Summer

59 Link Wray - Ace of Spades

60 The Surfrajettes - Toxic

61 The Surfites - Surfville

62 The Eliminators - Surfin' Spies

Surf Beat 1

I love surf music and I love punk music. I used to do a radio show with both of those elements called Surf Beat. Back in the 80's you played mostly records (LP's and 45's) and on the radio you had carts. These looked like 8-tracks, but played stereo. So to do a show that included some really short songs, you had to have some on cart and be quick changing records (all while keeping track of what you played, breaks etc.) Very difficult. But that's where the Surf Beat playlist came from. This is my pick from that. Playing good Surf songs, good Punk songs and having it mix well. Classic Surf. Classic Punk.

Surf Beat 1

01 Surfaris - Wipeout

02 Dick Dale with Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pipeline

03 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Delayrium

04 Astronauts - Baja

05 The Pyramids - Penetration

06 Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou

07 Agent Orange - Bite The Hand That Feeds (Pt. 2)

08 The Marketts - Out Of Limits

09 Go-Go's - Surfing and Spying

10 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Mission Impossible

11 Comateens - Munsters Theme

12 Marketts - Batman Theme

13 Agent Orange - Get Smart

14 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Skater Dater

15 The Ventures - Walk Don't Run 64

16 Sandals - Theme From Endless Summer

17 Insect Surfers - Insect Stomp

18 Fu - Hawaii Five-O

19 Agent Orange - Somebody To Love

20 Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

21 Dead Kennedys - Rawhide

22 Surf Punks - My Wave

23 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

24 Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw

25 Vandals - Hocus Pocus

26 The Dickies - Secret Agent Man

27 Jan and Dean - Surf City

28 The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA

29 Surfaris - Surfer Joe

30 Junior Brown - Surf Medley

31 Toy Dolls - Wipeout

Agent Orange Pick

I have always been a fan of surf music. And I always have loved punk music. Try my Surf Beat comps. So when I heard Agent Orange, I was in love. This is my pick of the best of Agent Orange. I remember going to a concert to see them later in their career. I was all excited. In San Jose civic auditorium, but it ended up in some smaller hall there. I was the oldest guy there by about 20 years. I was the old guy who kept the pit clean. So many young kids. But it didn't matter. I had loved them when I was younger (not that young) and now they were old and I was old and yet you could still skate and thrash to their music. Still makes me want to thrash, but now I'm grandpa skater boy. BTW, I made the cover and I'm proud of it.

Agent Orange Pick

01 Agent Orange - Tiki Ti

02 Agent Orange - Somebody To Love

03 Agent Orange - Secret Agent Man

04 Agent Orange - Mr. Moto

05 Agent Orange - Bloodstains (Original Version)

06 Agent Orange - Bite The Hand That Feeds (Pt. 2)

07 Agent Orange - Everything Turns Grey

08 Agent Orange - It's All A Blur

09 Agent Orange - Wouldn't Last A Day

10 Agent Orange - Pipeline

11 Agent Orange - Too Young To Die

12 Agent Orange - Bloodstains (Darkness version)

13 Agent Orange - The Last Goodbye

14 Agent Orange - Say It Isn't True

15 Agent Orange - Miserlou

16 Agent Orange - What's The Combination

17 Agent Orange - Seek And Destroy

18 Agent Orange - This Is All I Need

19 Agent Orange - No Such Thing

20 Agent Orange - Tearing Me Apart

21 Agent Orange - Get Smart

22 Agent Orange - Out Of Limits

23 Agent Orange - Just Can't Seem To Get Enough

24 Agent Orange - I Kill Spies

25 Agent Orange - Breakdown

26 Agent Orange - El Dorado