Beyond the Beach

Fantastic price,product, & delivery.

I bought this cd years ago on a whim and was heartbroken when it was lost during a move. When I finally found it again on Amazon, I grabbed it immediately. It is probably the best collection of modern surfbilly music you will ever hear. Buy it, have a party...you won't regret it.

After the past couple years of listening to several classic surf compilations, The Ventures, Dick Dale, The Challengers, The Astronauts and Laika & the Cosmonauts, I found this contemporary compilation a real breath of fresh air! It has a good variety of styles and sounds, ranging a from the classic Ventures type sound to psycho-billy, and garage punk a la Ramones. I don't normally like punk and other bizarre stuff due to the unwanted side-effects, (headaches and/or gagging due to repulsive lyrics, headbanging, etc.) but somehow this album captures the positive essences and it works. I appreciated each piece. There wasn't a track on it that I didn't like. Some of it was unexpected and surprising, but there's power, lots of energy, and excitement. I thought it all worked pretty well together. It's turned me on to a bunch of bands that I now want to explore further, for it now seems I've led an isolated surf life so far....and now I can never go back. This is definitely not bedtime lullaby music. If Quentin Tarantino was to use this music for the basis of a future "Pulp Fiction" sequel, we'd all in for one bizarre, wild ride. May need to be institutionalized in an instru-mental ward.....All kidding aside, I'd say this is a must-have for anyone that enjoys surf music, as long as your not an elitest, surf-purist, protector-of-surf snob type. If so, steer clear of this one. However, you may not like the future.....I think it sounds like this!

The very best surf music, of this times. The sound is incredible, it is a Hi-Fi CD. So if you like The Aqua Velvets, The Mermen, surf, garage, and lounge music, you'll love this one.