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	Amazon.co.uk: Ballad of Easy Rider: Remastered: Music: The Byrds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Released at the end of the 60's, the album serves as an effective way of reflecting on the decade past.
		Along with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" this album is the most country-influenced album in the Byrds catalogue.
		1969's ballad of easy rider finds rogermcgiunn john york gene parsons and clearnce white doing a swinging album of counrty/roll rather than rock n roll however still very well...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024J6V/rock3radio-21?dev-t=1ZQT1KGQZ3BAHG3Z22R2 (984 words)

	Surf Music St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		While surfing as a form of recreation and sport developed in the nineteenth century as a Polynesian pastime, it was not until the early twentieth century that surfing caught on outside of Hawaii.
		This preference for surf over employment, reinforced by the traditional Hawaiian ideas of leisure, community, and nature, went against the grain of mainstream American postwar thinking, in which conformity and economic success were paramount.
		Surfing films portrayed spectacular rides from Hawaii and Australia to California and vice versa, but these documentaries, shot on 16mm film, received little attention outside of the surfing community.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101182 (1024 words)

	Ronny & the Daytonas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ronny and the Daytonas were a surf rock group of the early 1960s whose members included Paul Jensen (vocals, guitar), Don Henderson (Bass, Guitar), Lynn Williams (drums), Lee Craft (writing, guitar) and Buck "Ronny" Wilkins (writing, guitar, vocals) with contributions from many more.
		After an album and tour in 1964, Ronny and the Daytonas had another hit in 1965 with a ballad, "Sandy", and an album that reflected a similar country-inflected surfer sound.
		In 1968 Ronny and the Daytonas switched to RCA records and released a romantic ballad called "Diane, Diane" and the upbeat "All American Girl", both of which had some success on the charts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronny_&_the_Daytonas (306 words)

	features
		The waves are perfect, the beer is cold, and the lads who surfed there in late September ‘06 are now the most contented surfers to walk the planet.
		However it wasn’t a desire to emulate his dad that sparked Justin’s interest in surf photography, it was a merging of two passions.
		A large number of young Aussie surfers were there, a few knocking on the door of ‘CT qualification for 2007 and concentrating on the events at Haleiwa and Sunset, while the others are just there to get as many waves as they can, building a reputation while they are at it.
	www.surfingworld.com.au /features/features.html (819 words)

	HonoluluAdvertiser.com - Wireless
		Originally released on the surf film market in 2005, "A Broke Down Melody" is being re-released this month in theaters.
		But deciding to put together a soundtrack more than a year after the film was originally released meant "We had a chance to have some songs that were more inspired by the film and made for the soundtrack by Jack," said Malloy, also during the press conference.
		One of the disc's best tracks is Vedder's reflective and spare ballad "Goodbye." The Pearl Jam vocalist wrote the song, added some beautifully roughhewn vocals and low-key 'ukulele strumming to it and turned it in as is.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /palm/2006/Nov/12/il/FP611120312.html (433 words)

	Scott Greeson--Indiana Singer/Songwriter
		Ironically, the first tune was a country ballad that yielded Scott some teasing from his hard-rocking fellow musicians.
		Although his winnings from the contest were limited to some fried chicken, a dozen donuts and some albums that no one really wanted, Scott realized that someone might actually want to hear what he had to say through his music.
		Scott’s unending love for songwriting and performing music has brought him to the place he is today – with two CDs (Hoosier Surf, and The Proving Grounds), a growing list of fans, and a steadily increasing demand for stage appearances.
	www.hoosiersurf.com /bio.html (520 words)

	Surf Downloads - Download Surf Music - Download Surf MP3s
		The second wave of surf rock was led by the Beach Boys, who added Four Freshmen-style pop harmonies to the basic Chuck Berry rhythms of surf rock.
		Nevertheless, the sounds of the instrumental surf rock echoed throughout the sonic experimentations of '60s guitarists, and the genre remained popular into the '90s, thanks to the efforts of several generations of surf-rock revivalists.
		As a consequence, this disc is recommended to surf fans who are getting a bit tired of the same-old generic Southern California sound as the reissue vaults get more deeply plundered, and want to hear a refreshingly different take on the style.
	www.mp3.com /genre/443/subgenre.html (2792 words)

	Mind of Brian 4: Surfer Girl
		The quintessential surf ballad, built on the Phil Spector tradition but extended by Brian Wilson into new musical and harmonic territory.
		Most of this song is based on fairly standard ballad material, with its 6/8 waltz tempo (a Lennon favorite tempowise) and use of the I vi IV V progression, the basis for much of doowop and Girl Group music.
		As you've gathered by now, we're in the key of D and working in the standard ballad form of 6/8 tempo with the good old 1645 chord progression.
	www.surfermoon.com /essays/mob4.html (1459 words)

	SURF ME UP, SCOTTY Surf Now, Apocalypse Later ****
		Big surf twang chords, a dark whirling organ melody line, and a hazardous carnival atmosphere.
		The female narration lines add nothing to the song from a surf perspective, but with so much frat rock influence, it, along with the sampled intro and outro, work OK. An ultra murky recording awash in reverb and indiscreet sound.
		Once into the double picked surf rage, it moves from merely dark to ominous and forbidding.
	www.reverbcentral.com /reviews/s/surfme4937.html (499 words)

	Terry Melcher; helped create surf music sound - The Boston Globe
		A transforming part of the California surf, rock, and folk music scene in the 1960s, the multifaceted musician sang background, played piano, wrote lyrics, composed music, and produced records and shows, including the Monterey Pop Festival.
		During his famous mother's filmmaking heyday, he often composed songs for her projects, including the title ballad ''Move Over, Darling" for her 1963 movie with James Garner.
		He also was an executive producer of her CBS television series, ''The Doris Day Show" from 1968 to 1972 and engineered her return to television in the mid-1980s with the show ''Doris Day's Best Friends."
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/11/22/terry_melcher_helped_create_surf_music_sound (659 words)

	Pascal Records
		This is must for any fan of surf music, space age bachelor pad music, or just something to take away some of the pressure of stress.
		Unlike most surf bands that wail away at 1,000 m.p.h., these cats prefer to bring things to a slow boil with their ultra-swank intros and cool vocalizing that should have every pseudo-hipster lounge lizard green with envy.
		Surf fans who are tempted by a touch of Hawaiian will particularly appreciate the way this is incorporated without the whole thing sounding clichéd and corny.
	www.pascalrecords.com /b_bh_reviews.html (5827 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : The Beach Boys
		Brian was almost afraid of surfing, it was no good to him as a way of meeting girls.
		The tunes on the first half are all excellent and the wonderfully orchestrated ballads on the second half are nothing less than phenomenal.
		I especially love the ballads, which were far ahead of their time (and even some of the pop songs on side one, too, like "When I Grow Up") and shows Brian totally branching out in his arranging skills and arranging a bunch of different instruments besides just the normal rock instruments.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /beachboys.html (16552 words)

	The Beach Boys
		Worth picking up if you're into the early surf rock sound, though the band was improving rapidly, and this is still too early to really be one of their best efforts.
		The latter are very good ballads; "In My Room", one of the first ballads from Brian, being about how he thinks of his room as his own kingdom and dreaming place.
		My problem with the album grew not from the most common gripe that the majority of the tracks are minor key ballads, and the fact that there is a lack of diversity, it's simply that too many of the tracks are quite simply nowhere near good enough to be considered classic album material.
	www.geocities.com /mjareviews/bchboys.html (9318 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Nada Surf: biography, discography, reviews, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beniamini di Ric Ocasek, i Nada Surf suonano il piu` classico "guitar rock", quello che di questi tempi non potrebbe essere piu` anacronistico.
		Somehow, their melodic skills were emphasized by a humbler, more sincere context, and the variety of formats stretched from ballad to rock'n'roll in a way that they had never dreamed of before.
		This time the band's preference went clearly towards the bittersweet ballad, but the way they packaged it was so creative and poignant that the parade was never monotonous: Comes in Time, Do It Again, What Is Your Secret, Always Love employed an arsenal of little tricks to keep Matthew Caws' lyrics alive and kicking.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol5/nadasurf.html (318 words)

	Opus // Music Reviews // Los Straitjackets - The Utterly Fantastic And Totally Unbelievable Sound Of Los Straitjackets
		Hailing from the country music capital of Nashville, Los Straitjackets are a surf band who sport Mexican wrestling masks and introduce songs in rapid Spanish.
		Two and a half hours later, the surf tunes were over and I attempted to speak a little Spanish with the band members and purchase one of their albums.
		Due to their appearance, it probably wouldn't matter what they played, but even better is the fact that they play a brand of chilling, uncannily beautiful surf rock.
	www.opuszine.com /blog/entry.html?ID=1583 (644 words)

	ReviewsofSurfinRampage.html
		The details of surf production ñ including glorious harmony vocals ñ; are placed perhaps more perfectly than they could have been in '64, and Gary Usher's songbook never sounded so good.
		Amongst the vocals are some cool surf guitar instro like the Vistas' 'Moon Relay", The Vaquero's 'Echo' and The Surfaris 'Beat '65'-all fairly true to the 60s original versions.
		There's talent aplenty also in the twanger Double O Surf, slow and heavy much like a Ventures' In Space sound and Echo is a strutting 12 bar worth an earful.
	home.att.net /~c.kings/reviewsofsurfin.html (1934 words)

	SurfGuitar101 - The Wet-Tones: Mucho Reverbo
		Again, featuring an achingly beautiful and evocative mino-key melody, it's as good a ballad as it gets, especially as it shifts to a major key and adds a big dose of acoustic rhythm guitar at the end to bring the album to a close.
		I've been in contact with one of their guitarists, Bruno, for many years, and he is a really humble guy, always telling me that they're not that good.
		Thanks to all the surf bands past and present, and to all the fans who care about this music.
	www.surfguitar101.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=74 (681 words)

	saintizzy's SoundClick station - saintizzy's station
		This track is layered with orchastrial textures to bring out the emotion of a fallen soul.
		A piano ballad that searches the world of the work-aholic soul trapped.
		A swing jazzy soul ballad but with more a sombre tone.
	www.soundclick.com /stations/stations.cfm?id=373830 (692 words)

	SeacoastNH.com - Ballad of Louis Wagner and Other New England Stories in Verse
		Includes his ballad of the sunken Squalus submarine as well as the title cut on the1873 Smuttynose murder and many more.
		The Ballad of Louis Wagner is a riveting account of the notorious murders on the Isles of Shoals in 1873, the ballad's 'narrator' is Louis himself, the man convicted and hung for the crime.
		Each ballad is prefaced with explanatory text and accompanied by a Peter Randall photograph.
	www.seacoastnh.com /The_Arts/Book_of_the_Week/Ballad_of_Louis_Wagner_and_Other_New_England_Stories_in_Verse (754 words)

	The Czars - a Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Vocalist John Grant is given center stage, as he croons "I don't wait too long to tell you who I am/I don't want to be so far back that you can't see me/Don't you want to be there as we find out who we are?" within an inch of its life.
		"Anger" is another piano-driven ballad that almost devolves into radio-friendly sap (in a group intervention sort of way), with lyrics like "Honestly, noone seems to hurt you like you do/Tell me please, how does anyone take so much abuse?".
		This could very well be a near-perfect album, if it weren't for "This" and "What Used To Be a Human." But those tracks easily become afterthoughts (even that silly vocoder seems irrelevant in the light of something like "Lullaby 6000").
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/reviews/czars.html (695 words)

	THE SUPERTONES GGR 1023 Cinema Surf ***
		One of a bazillion surf version of the theme to the TV show.
		This is one of the gems of pop-psych, and it's well adapted to instrumental form by the Supertones.
		This is a very pretty surf version of Richard Podolor's tune he cut with the Super Stocks.
	www.reverbcentral.com /reviews/s/supertones4845.html (475 words)

	current issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Surf Rider is invigorated in part by being sped up, and Richie Podolor's spooky Dracula's Theme (The Ghouls) gets a superb arrangement which fully justifies its extended stay - this is a one brilliant track which still manages to stand out amongst so many others.
		The sounds they create together are unusual for a surf band, definitely not '60s surf but a fine modern variety which takes the style forward whilst remaining readily accessible.
		On Surf -99 Kurt brings a rich echo lead to a rockin' track from fellow Swedes The Langhorns, while Still On Earth is a terrific moody Hans Clerwall ballad from Kurt's days with The Spacemen.
	www.pipelinemag.freeserve.co.uk /current.htm (9160 words)

	Lyric Girl - Links
		Ballad Of The Absent Mare - Cohen Leonard
		Ballad of The Cuban Invasion - Phil Ochs
		Ballad of The Snow Leopard & The Tanqueray Cowboy - Lyle Lovett
	www.lyricgirl.com /titles-b-500.html (205 words)

	Beach Boys: Sunflower/Surf's Up: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some say out of strife and tension comes the best music, and while this doesn't apply to the band's follow-up, Surf's Up, at least it can be said that they got one last good record in there before they really started sucking.
		Surf's Up's cover art says all that needs to be said about the mood: painted in mournful blues and greens, a Don Quixote-like figure slouches heavily on an emaciated horse.
		"Surf's Up" was intended as the "A Day in the Life" of the classic album that wasn't, and here it shines through in all its glory, from Van Dyke Parks' skewed lyricism to the celestial "child is father to the man" coda.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15334/Beach_Boys_Sunflower_Surfs_Up (709 words)

	The Astroglides - Primal SurfCore Music
		A few hours in a decent studio under the hands of a decent producer, and this band would rule the punk side of the surf genre.
		Ultra heavy surf grind, with a solid double picked lead, reverbed and strong over an intense feedback howl, from what sounds like a wailing theremin.
		It's hard to imagine surf this dark, but here it is. Charge with power and drive.
	www.theastroglides.com /review2.html??? (418 words)

	Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There are also a surprisingly high quotient of instrumentals (five) that demonstrate that, before session musicians took over most of the parts, the Beach Boys could play respectably gutsy surf rock as a self-contained unit.
		Indeed, the album as a whole is the best they would make, prior to the late '60s, as a band that played most of their instruments, rather than as a vehicle for Brian Wilson's ideas.
		The LP was a huge hit, vital to launching surf music as a national craze, and one of the few truly strong records to be recorded by a self-contained American rock band prior to the British Invasion.
	www.mp3.com /albums/1171/summary.html (510 words)

	Amazon.com: War of The Surf Guitars: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The BEST surf instro CD of the year with 32 tracks of the coolest Surf music from Golly Gee Records and Double Crown Records.
		Back in the day there werent as many super guitarists, but lots of pretty competant guys....well this cd shows that these cuts seem to be emulating that level of playing and creativity.
		While not quite as authentic as real 60's surf music I find the collection of songs here to be some of the very best of whats offered today in the modern day surf guitar sound.
	www.amazon.com /War-Surf-Guitars-Various-Artists/dp/B000068D5W (934 words)

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