For the first time in recorded history the question arises.
In approximately four hours I will appear on the Sirius XM radio program The All Out Show hosted by “Rude” Jude Angelini. The program can be found on Eminem’s channel Shade 45, if you are in a rental car with Sirius XM, and I am much looking forward to it though must say my rap knowledge is entirely lacking. Thankfully, I will be chatting about cocaine and surfing so hope my near encyclopedic understanding of those matters covers my embarrassing rap void but thinking about it this morning has left me with a profound question.
What is surfing’s soundtrack in 2018?
As far as I’m aware there has never been a question. The Peruvian pan flute started us off in 3000 BC which gave way to the ukulele around 1000 AD which gave way to Dick Dale’s steely “surf guitar” in 1959 which gave way to Pennywise in 1991 which has given way to… what?
Is there one sound that unites us all or does surfing mirror popular culture writ large with its ghettoization?
Oh I don’t mean “ghettoization” in an urban context, merely in its proper usage. There is so much for us to choose from in 2018 that folk are able to craft complete worlds around the most subtle nuance and never leave.
But what are surfers listening to more than anything else? Samba? The sweet sounds of Merle Haggard? Drake?
Help me before I get asked on air!
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viva la Teahupoo!
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TSOL or nothing
At XFest back in the day was somehow able to sneak in backstage then was pushed up on stage for Pennywise and can tell you that stage shook like no other…. those guys were absolutely going off… intense energy🎶⚡️🤘
Was Showcase Theater in Riverside or Corona? Same thing I guess.
Anything John Reis has done might qualify… Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, etc.
You know I agree with this, baby!
Suicide Invoice for life, bud.
pennywise? 1991 was Janes Addiction
That and Pennywise sucked (then and now)…Taylor was duped.
wrong. liked them then, like them now…
The Watermans top 10
10 – Another Waterman bites the dust
9 – Unchain my Waterman
8 – The greatest Waterman of them all
7 – Blame it on the Waterman
6 – Wake the Waterman up before you go go
5 – Waterman on parade
4 – Everbodys got a Waterman to hide
3 – The long and winding Waterman
2 – Whoomp there is the Waterman
1 – Girls just wanna fuck watermen
Sonic Titan by Sleep… 47 times in a row
Tyge Landa has recently been dropping edits with my stoner drone music to it, even a JJF one so apparently it’s me suckers! I win!
I appreciate your honesty. The cloths volume obviously inspired you to start the massive empire you currently oversee.
Or what about those massive shorts / pants with the obligatory chain? Sooooooper edgy look on anyone.
loved those baggy massive shorts really easy to scratch the gonads after a surf!
If the average surfer (by statistical reasoning via not core adherence) basically equals Venice Adjacent Beige, then it will be whatever pablum is regurgitated by the top 40 software.
“Kelly’s Friend Jack” is what Ziff calls him.
There is no modern sound track, it died with the surf movie
Leonard Cohen’s “First we take Manhattan”, because I love it and it always reminds of poor old Kelly’s board breaking in two in the New York Pro (a moment of pure unadulterated joy) depriving him of the only record in surfing he doesn’t hold , so comes ahead of Peter and the Test Tube Babies ( banned from the pubs ) and the Butthole Surfers ( the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey Oswald’s Grave ) and RadioBirdman ( aloha Steve and Danno ) .
banned from the pubs or oral Annie. cracking tunes.
+1 for the Butties.
I have been listening to Hip Hop nation a bunch on SiriusXM because it is anti depressive and I can’t take any more news about Trump on NPR. Drake, J Cole and the City Girls are the shit.
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Had to come back to this article just to watch this again. Love it.
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Another one bites the dust – Queen.
Every grom under 25 listens to trap music.
Trappers are always rhyming about beaver, guns and their club game skills.
except they don’t really bother to rhyme, someone just comes up with a catchphrase and repeats it as if its another percussion track.
but honestly i don’t mind it – the beats is all that matters anyway
Ghostface said “trap music”. You might be thinking of ” rap music”. Which is a different genre all together from “hip hop”.
I do enjoy trapper catchphrases, like
” A beaver in the hand is worth two in the lodge.” or,
“Been in the sticks with my 30-06, left the woods with a deer and dinner to fix.”
Interesting to note, you can’t spell ‘crap’ without ‘rap’.
What are you, a dad from 1992?