Mark2Bra
Joined: Sep 01, 2013
Posts: 248
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 02:02 PM
"It all sounds the same" - this is the response I get from a girl I know as well as from her sister and mother when I let them listen to Surf music or play it myself.
Even her boyfriend, who is a good friend of mine as well and is a rock bass player. Yesterday I send him three videos to listen:
Shockwave, Bitch boys
Surfin' St. Helens, Volcanos
Badge Of Honor,Satan's Pilgrims
and asked him to pick the one he liked best.
He said it all sounds the same to him and that he didn't even realize these were songs by different bands. . .
Does anyone get the same response from his friends/mates who are not involved in Surf music?
Cheers,
Mark.
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evL
Joined: Oct 13, 2015
Posts: 85
Crab Key
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 02:14 PM
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 02:35 PM
Or more importantly, have any of you ever said that about a genre you don't listen to regularly?
People get different things out of different types of music. A regular person listening to surf music, likely, isn't listening to the same things we listen to.
It is very easy for surf music to sound the same, especially as so many people try to emulate a specific sound.
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websurfer
Joined: May 14, 2007
Posts: 1753
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 02:59 PM
A while back, I had my nephew with me in the car, and I had some Bambi Molesters on. I said, oh yeah, um, I like surf music. He listened, sort of smiled, and started imitating a twangy guitar: der der der der...
I felt self-conscious and subtly transitioned the music to something else. It sort of surprised me that someone could hear that, and that was what they took away from it.
But I have to admit that many other genres leave me with a similar reaction--even some that I am more than casually familiar with...i.e. old-timey and Hawaiian slack key.
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stratdancer
Joined: Dec 11, 2013
Posts: 2537
Akron, Ohio
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 04:32 PM
Luckily the people that don't immediately identify with surf music are a very small minority. HAW!!!!!!!
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SpaceTimC
Joined: Apr 18, 2015
Posts: 189
Bay Area, CA
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Posted on Dec 10 2015 04:36 PM
JakeDobner wrote:
Or more importantly, have any of you ever said that about a genre you don't listen to regularly?
Yep. Which is why, as the years have gone by, I try not to be judgmental in that way. As a friend once said, "It's all just vibrations in the air, kids."
— The Reverbivores - we're local favorites!
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arny
Joined: Aug 22, 2010
Posts: 614
Netherlands, Europe
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 01:22 AM
The reaction I get the most is: 'What is surf music?" followed by 'Cool, I like the Beach Boys!'
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 01:25 AM
Which is why I always say "instrumental surf music".
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Ariel
Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 1556
Israel
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 02:38 AM
It grows on you. I mean them.
I know classical musicians that all Rock'n'Roll sounds to them like angry bees in a jar. I get it, it does.
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4538
Wisconsin
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 06:27 AM
JakeDobner wrote:
Which is why I always say "instrumental surf music".
lol. I still get the "... like the Beach Boys" reaction sometimes; apparently "instrumental" is a very big word for some people. (and I really like the Beach Boys)
But I get what you're saying. Several genres sound the same to me, probably because if it doesn't grab me immediately I switch off critical thinking and go back to pumping gas into the car. (Which is too bad 'cause I'm probably missing some interesting melodies.) Mainstream media output is generationally targeted; alway$ ha$ been.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.
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imafunkyman
Joined: Sep 16, 2007
Posts: 548
Utah
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 08:52 AM
I make no apologies anymore. If someone doesn't like surf, stiff shit. I blare it in my car and I love it! If a passenger makes a negative comments, I tell them to use the door. "But the car is still moving!" I reply, "And your point being?"
— Either you surf, or you fight.
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kruelkats
Joined: Mar 26, 2012
Posts: 206
Bogor, West Java
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 09:05 AM
arny wrote:
The reaction I get the most is: 'What is surf music?" followed by 'Cool, I like the Beach Boys!'
hahaha we have the same thing here, but luckily in Indonesia we have channel tv program called 'mancing mania (fishing mania)" which every episode they play pipeline, missirlou etc as a backsound. so everyone who ask what is surf music as a small talk we can easily say like 'mancing mania' backsound.
— Umar
The Mentawais
The Rentones
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eddiekatcher
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2779
Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 09:26 AM
Stix Stechkin once profoundly noted that some people, just don't "get it."
I think that sex a lot.
ed
— Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?
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eddiekatcher
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2779
Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 09:26 AM
SEZ**** damn spell check..................
ed
— Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?
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Surf_Skater
Joined: Sep 06, 2012
Posts: 1300
Lawrenceville , GA
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 10:35 AM
Sure Ed, blame the spell check. 
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eddiekatcher
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2779
Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 11:20 AM
Well, Mr Smart Guy, if your yard gets rolled this Christmas, I know nothing about it. Nothing...............
ed
— Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?
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ArtS
Joined: May 09, 2008
Posts: 1417
Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 12:27 PM
I get the "Beach Boys" thing, or "Dick Dale". I say yeah that's part of it, but there is so much more. Personally, I think surf was intelligently designed to appeal to the over 50 year old male with thinning hairlines (see my most recent photos) and a love for twangy, echo-ey and crashy noises 
The only place we get a great cross section of listeners (including, get this, 20-30 year olds of the other gender) is in New York City, or at Pool Parties.
— Surf.The most dangerous of genres...
Surfcat
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4538
Wisconsin
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 12:32 PM
ArtS wrote:
Personally, I think surf was intelligently designed to appeal to the over 50 year old male with thinning hairlines (see my most recent photos) and a love for twangy, echo-ey and crashy noises
Well, snap! - If only someone had told me I'd live to be fifty (and well over) with thinning hair in 1960...
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
Posts: 2762
Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Dec 11 2015 12:39 PM
I think it's the same mental process that gives us great lines like, "all Chinese look the same," and, in China, "all gwailos look the same."
— Squink Out!
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