I Have Never Had An Opinion About The Surf Punks

"My Beach!"
My wife had a Surf Punks album when she was in college, which was a constant source of ridicule. One of the lamest, most candy-ass bands ever. I guess they're good for a laugh, though.

Yeah, they turn out to be incredibly shitty, at least on this album. Jan & Dean cover is even worse than the Sweet cover, and the originals seem to be even less bearable than those. Also, I think the Dead Milkmen could kick their butts (or kick sand in their face, or whatever happens to beach bums.)

Still curious if they still have any fans, though.

file with Anti-Nowhere League and The C*nts.

you certainly aren't going to get me to defend them! I remember the record when it came out and am scouring my memory for more info, but alas none is forthcoming.

They perfected the Sammy Hagar persona before he did.

Didn't they do a version of the "Gigantor" theme? That was kind of ammusing once upon a time.

were they "shark attack"? and "locals only"? good for lols back in the SoCal day

Gigantor was the Dickies I think

haha, amusing, even...

xxp

Oh, yer right! I had forgotten all about them. We're they really that much better than the Surf Punks, though?

i just remember them being not very funny. or at least the stuff that my college radio station would play from the first album. nowhere in the same league as dickies or dead milkmen or awesome surf punks like agent orange. they were plenty goofy though. and they had a lifeguard stand on stage at their shows.

ugh! *were...

"We're they really that much better than the Surf Punks, though?"

jesus, yes. dickies are fucking gods!

The Dead Milkmen were kinda awesome! Especially Big Lizard in My Back Yard (or whatever the hell that thing was called).

Hmm, I only knew them from their "Gigantor" cover, so I can't really say.

xp

first two dickies albums are essential. for rock fans. or punk fans. or music fans.

Wot Skot said re: the Dickies.

"Gonna GIVE YOU A CURB JOB!"

My Beach is hilariously excellent, if entirely stupid and flawed.

"Shark Attack" was a great single.

Never heard anything they did after that.

Actually "Spoilt Brats from Malibu" (the b-side to "Shark Attack") is probably the best thing they've ever done.

I do remember hearing that Dennis Dragon was a rough bit of business. Hard to imagine, but there ya go.

Oh, and the Dickies are so far above the Surf Punks their ears are popping.

yeah everybody knows that the Dickies were awesome, not just clever but fucking hilarious.

Dickies - one of the best bands ever. Dawn of the Dickies - one of the most enjoyable albums of all time. That there is no proper thread on ILM about the Dickies is rather weird.

I only know the Surf Punks from the "My Beach" album which a friend of mine owned. It's mostly disappointing rubbish. The clip of them on Urgh-A Music War had promised so much more. A while ago I watched some Youtube clips of them which again displayed lots of wacky live antics but shitty music.

No proper thread but there's this at least.

My Beach was a play once or twice and shove it in the box type of album. Every now and then I'd look at the cover and go, "Nah."

This is my beach, bay-bee, I'll break your face. Yeah.

If you saw Break Point with Keanu Reaves and Patrick Swayze, you'll notice the Surf Punks did not predict the utility of bank-robbing in furthering the lifestyle.

If you saw Whatsisname from Cleveland before it was cancelled, you still won't want to listen to your old Surf Punks record.

If you just came back from Santa Barbara where the young surf punks were hanging out just off the breakwater at 6 in the evening taking pictures of themselves with the brown pelicans, you still won't dig out your old Surf Punks record.

VALS GO HOME

"no fat chicks", wasn't that them? Ooh boy is that funny. yea

Surf music. Punk rock. Together. It should have been so great.

Still, it's reminded us that the Dickies are CLASSIC.

"Surf music. Punk rock. Together. It should have been so great."

it was when it was agent orange and jfa!

i loved jfa more than my mom when i was 13. pipetruck!

TS: Surf Punks Vs. Surf MCs

How about Great Surf Punk (not by The Surf Punks) as an album/mix concept?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Dickies_-_The_Incredible_Shrinking_Dickies_album_cover.jpg

>>and jfa!

How can you have surf punk in Phoenix? Is concrete and wasteland its metaphor for the beach?

file with Anti-Nowhere League and The C*nts.

These are both great bands, though!

How can you have surf punk in Phoenix? Is concrete and wasteland its metaphor for the beach?

-- Gorge, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:31

the trashmen were from minneapolis!

Minneapolis at least has a waterfront on the Mississippi, so they could sort of fake it in the summertime for Surfin' Bird. Breakin' In a Brand New Pair of Shoes -- now that was more in line with their roots.

"There's No Surf In Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band to thread.

"Aloha Steve & Danno" - Radio Birdman

Australia is surrounded by surf. Nice try but no cigar.

Dick Dale is shaking over all these great "surf punk" groups.

Actually, imagine my surprise upon finding that upon arrival in California there actually was a Tricia Toyota of "Stuck in a Pagoda with Tricia Toyota" (Dickies). It wasn't much of a surf song, though.

This thread is reminding me that someday I'd like to hear THIS:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f232/f2329571pvt.jpg

Can that really be Bo Diddley on a board, with his guitar, at bottom left of the sleeve? I must have this.

Didn't realize Lake Michigan could produce such huge waves!

I must hear this!

Ouch....$200 on eBay!

First of all the Surf Punks were and are one of the greatest punk bands of all time and one of the best bands goin in the 80s. Yeah they were a satirical joke but that was the beauty of it, punk was/is all about humor and comical presentation. They took the 2 greatest bands of all time, the Beach Boys and Ramones and used their influence to break into a new decade and a new era of rockNroll re-birth. But it has to be known to any and every music collector which albums of there's to hear and which are a waste- My Beach (aka the self-titled debut from '79) is the essential as well as its followup Locals Only from '82.
Oh No Not them Again is a WASTE, buy the other 2 , NOT this one, it was their final album and it was a intended as a joke, more-so than the previous records. The selt-titled/My Beach and Locals Only are awesome all the way thru, classics!
And as far as the Dickies go, they are by far one of the greatest and most crucial punk rock bands of all time, and their best album is definitely 'stukas over disneyland'. Incredible Shrinking and Dawn of are great, but Stukas had a way more polished rockin sound overall. If anyone would like to brief on this more please drop me a line at joshthekook at gmail dot com.

Stukas had a way more polished rockin sound overall.

and god knows that's what I always look for when I listen to punk rock

that album is actually pretty good though.

Anybody know anything about Surfin' M.O.D.?

stukas over disneyland sounded pretty great on my sports walkman all those years ago, esp the title track, which i'd play over and over while trudging through the snow in a leg cast. "most crucial of all time" seems a stretch, but i suppose it takes all kinds.

relatively few fond memories of surf punks. iirc, some prep kids once won mead high school's talent contest (go panthers) with an elaborately choreographed lip-synch rip through "my beach". not sure whether this is a point for or against. the set design was p impressive.

Blotto were better.

kookadams is Dennis Dragon's kid and I claim my five bucks.

Agent Orange were the best of all the "surf punk" bands.

otm (re: pt 2)

i like to say i'm an agent orange fan, but i'm really only in it for "bloodstains". its been that way since that song came out. i feel spiritually closer to JFA.

I've only ever heard one Agent Orange song - whichever one was on the River's Edge soundtrack.

First of all the Surf Punks were and are one of the greatest punk bands of all time and one of the best bands goin in the 80s.

No, they weren't. They were fine for what they were, but lets do get ahold of ourselves, shall we?

Yeah they were a satirical joke but that was the beauty of it, punk was/is all about humor and comical presentation.

Punk was about a great many different things.