Surf Guitar Greats

Various Artists - Rock - Vintage Rock & Roll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B000003OBR
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,821 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mission Impossible - Laika & The Cosmonauts

2. Tailspin - Los Straitjackets

3. Suicide Bay - The Halibuts

4. Fadeaway - Laika & The Cosmonauts

5. Pier Pressure - Teisco Del Rey

6. Itchy Chicken - Los Straitjackets

7. Miserlou - Laika & The Cosmonauts

8. Hammerhead - The Halibuts

9. Surf The Wild Gowanus - Simon Chardiet

10. Seville - Teisco Del Rey

11. Tico Tico - Tailgators

12. Pacifica - Los Straitjackets

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surf Rock you alive and rockin', October 16, 2003

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I. Guzman "[e-mail]" (PITTSBURGH, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surf Guitar Greats (Audio CD)

With this CD you get a little sampler of a few artisits, tackling covers with some nice originals, very cool, and very chill music, the kind that ends up in sountracks... yeah there's no dick dale, but if you like his stuff, you probrably already have a few of his CDs already, besides where else can one hear 2 Los Straightjackets songs plus a bunch of other amazing bands...

ONE great plus, even on first liten none of the songs sound the same... great job of arranging covers especially "Tico Tico." Ends w/Los Straitjackets "Pacifica" yup Drivin' music at its finest, definatly makes the long drives -into- short drives.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surf's up... way up!, February 2, 2005

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M. Oatway "surf lover" (Riverview, NB, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surf Guitar Greats (Audio CD)

I'm not much for anthologies, but this is probably the best (and cheapest!) little surf anthology on the market. With three tunes by both Los Straitjackets and Laika and the Cosmonauts along with a couple from each of The Halibuts and Teisco Del Ray, the listener is in really good hands.

Everything that you think surf music should be is represented... a few Latin rhythms in Teisco Del Ray's "Seville" and the Tailgators' "Tico Tico", a bit of the Middle Eastern/Russian thing in The Halibuts' "Suicide Bay" and some hard-charging, tribal beat in Los Straitjackets' Tailspin" and Laika and the Cosmonauts' "Miserlou".

The cover does look a bit cheap, but the liner notes are actually useful with brief descriptions of each bands involved. Like surf? You can't afford not to have this one.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars surf instrumental, April 10, 2004

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mahogany09 "mahogany09" (Morongo Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surf Guitar Greats (Audio CD)

This seems more like a guitar instrumental alblum to me and less of a surf guitar alblum. None of the songs stand out at all even though they are all nicely arranged. There is quite a bit of difference between authentic 60's surf music and the nice sounding guitar music this CD presents. All in all the CD is worth buying. The 33 minutes of music are fun to listen to and there are no clunkers on the alblum.