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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite surfing song?
Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen
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What's your favorite surfing song? (Original Post)
red dog 1
Jan 2018
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lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)1. this one
FSogol
(45,484 posts)2. Surfin' Bird by the Ramones
MFM008
(19,808 posts)3. California Sun
Rivieras.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)4. Pipeline
The original version by the Chantays remains the best, but I have never heard a bad cover. Here's one by Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Eugene
(61,894 posts)5. Surf City - Jan and Dean
Does Hawaii Five-O by the Ventures count?
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)6. "Two girls for every boy"
I always liked those odds!
(A truly great Jan & Dean song)
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)7. A few years ago
Santa Cruz wanted to refer to itself as Surf City until someone pointed out that it's gender population didn't match the 2:1 ratio.
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)8. Misirlou
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)9. Surf music at Woodstock
Best version of Wipeout ever.
Leith
(7,809 posts)10. Yup - Surfin Bird
But I like this video better:
Does anybody remember the Reebok commercial with a sumo dancing to that tune? I loved that one.
Leith
(7,809 posts)11. Hey! I Found It!
Tikki
(14,557 posts)12. One of my favs..."Mr. Moto"...The Belairs (1961)
Tikki
HeartachesNhangovers
(814 posts)13. I've got over 500 tracks in the "Surf" folder
of my MP3 player, so I will choose Satan's Pilgrims' "Vampiro" because they are a local band and I saw them perform this last year.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)14. Charlie Dont Surf
DFW
(54,378 posts)15. Pretty much the whole "Surfing" album by the Ventures, but especially these
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)16. Surfer Joe - The Surfaris
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)17. Wipeout - The Beach Boys
kwassa
(23,340 posts)18. Walk Don't Run by the Ventures
denbot
(9,899 posts)19. Surf'in USA by The Beach Boys.
It even mentions my town.
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)20. Surfin' - The Beach Boys