Norm, I don't know how often the Doc comes around to visit here, so I just want to let you know that you can download all of his songs as mp3 from a website he created:
https://sites.google.com/site/doclegume/

Two albums and one EP full of great stuff even without the videos!

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

Rick Volcano

USA

1. The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"

2. The Surfaris - "Point Panic"

3. The Astronauts - "Surf Party"

4. The Trashmen - "Malagueña

5. Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - "Midnight Surfer"

6. The Fender IV - "Everybody Up"

7. The Belairs - "Mr. Moto
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8. The Pyramids - "Penetration"

9. The Surfaris - "Wipe Out"

10. Eddie & the Showmen - "Squad Car"

Lots of great choices on all the lists. Tough to narrow it down, indeed.

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Arny Cheatos
Netherlands

1. Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
2. Dick Dale - The Wedge
3. The Trashmen - Malagueña
4. Eddie & the Showmen - Squad Car
5. Revels - Intoxica
6. Davie Allan & The Arrows - Blues Theme
7. The Fender IV - Everybody Up!
8. The Marketts - Out of limits
9. Sandy Nelson - Let there be drums
10. The Ventures - Cruel Sea (Live in Japan '65)

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Bundyguitar wrote:

10Black Sand Beach THE VENTURES

Is there a better version than this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JEpXA42Dm0

Cool! The Pacifics! I never heard them before. Here's what Peter Hood of the Atlantics said about the Pacifics in an interview:

"I think the funniest band of all was The Pacifics. I think Nat Kipner put them together In an attempt to match and swamp us. That's why he called them The Pacifics! He gave them as close as possible the same sound as us and put them on the bill against us. They weren't that bad either! Anyway, they disappeared soon after because like anything else, you can't really imitate someone for too long."

Good to finally hear them - Peter was right, they're pretty good!

Ivan
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Hardest part was not reading the rest of the lists first. Here goes (but not in any particular order):

1. The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
2. The Chantays Pipeline
3. The Belairs - Mr. Moto
4. Jack Nitzche - The Lonely Surfer
5. The Marketts - Out Of Limits
6. The Ventures - Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
7. The Pyramids - Penetration
8. Jim Messina And His Jesters - The Breeze And I
9. The Lively Ones - Surf Rider
10. The Shadows - Apache

There's going to be some overlap here with other lists, but after the first few were posted, I stopped reading them until I could come up with my own. No particular criteria for this list; some are here because they seem to capture the essence of surf music, some for being slightly off the beaten track, and some for their sheer exuberance -- all for being awesome!

1. Link Wray: Jack the Ripper
2. The Surf Teens: Moment of Truth
3. Bruce Johnston: Jersey Channel Islands - Part 7
4. The Chevells: Let There Be Surf
5. The Bobby Fuller Four: Misirlou
6. The Gamblers: Moon Dawg!
7. The Illusions: Jezebel
8. The Original Surfaris: Exotic
9. The New Dimensions: Cat on a Hot Foam Board
10. The Lively Ones: Surf Rider

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Interesting, Ivan. The fact that places are precious, and you give two each to two bands really shows your respect. Also, War of the Worlds is a nice "outside" choice...itself being an "outside" surf tune (i.e. pushes the envelope) which also shows the credit you give for a band trying to take the genre forward. It really creates "soundscapes" and imagery (in this case, apocalyptic)...much like your own music.

websurfer wrote:

Interesting, Ivan. The fact that places are precious, and you give two each to two bands really shows your respect. Also, War of the Worlds is a nice "outside" choice...itself being an "outside" surf tune (i.e. pushes the envelope) which also shows the credit you give for a band trying to take the genre forward. It really creates "soundscapes" and imagery (in this case, apocalyptic)...much like your own music.

Thanks, websurfer, I think you hit the nail right on the head when it comes to my thought process for this exercise. All of these tracks were extremely influential on me, and really set the template for what I wanted to do with my two surf bands. These are the tracks that really blew my mind upon first hearing them, and showed me that there are basically no limits to surf music. I love the more trad stuff, too, but the stuff that really got me excited when I first discovered surf music were all these really adventurous and unusual songs, as well as the really powerful and heavy ones. That's when it clicked that you really don't have to approach this as a nostalgia/retro thing (not that there's absolutely anything wrong with that), but as contemporary music that can hopefully resonate with people living in modern times and raised on all the '60s, '70s, and '80s rock.

Ivan
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Along those same lines, I really like "The 4th Dimension". I'd make that my #11.