Search - Various Artists :: Jenny Mccarthy's Surfin Safari

Best Single-Disc Surf Music Compilation Ever.

Brent A. Anthonisen | Alpharetta, GA, USA | 02/21/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I loved surf music even before "Pulp Fiction" brought it (and John Travolta) back in a big way. I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to leave "Rumble" (the all-time coolest instrumental tune in the history of pop music) by Link Wray & his Wray Men off the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack (it was played during Vincent & Mia's "uncomfortable silence" bit in Jackrabbit Slim's, as all true movie geeks know).
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Fortunately it and ever other surf tune you've ever heard to the point of cliche' nausea is on this collection. Every guitar player from the age of 33-45 was probably taught half the tunes on this CD when they were first starting out (especially "Wipeout" and the infinitely cool "Pipeline").
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The standard Dick Dale tunes are also included, as are a couple of Beach Boys/Jan & Dean tunes for good measure...but the strength of this CD are the instrumentals. If you're a fan of the genre at all, or even mildly interested in it, this is easily the best CD you can get in terms of all-inclusive, deadly cool tunes."

Has most of the Essentials, worth a buy

Just Me | USA | 12/29/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was looking for a bunch of instumentals and when I would type in a name of a surf instrumental, this would always pop up with other albums, I kept skipping over it because Jenny McCarthy was on the front so I thought it's probably rehashed crap, that MTV spit out. Well I was wrong, although this is not a definitive surf compilation disc, it does have alot of the essentials on one disc and they are the ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, just don't expect linear notes or a correct timeline (order they were released on the disc). Defintely worth the purchase price, and a great disc to throw in your Stereo when you go to the beach. 4 1/2 stars"

Best 50-60' surf or beach party compilation, + jenny pics!

Jose A. Loayza | Lima, Peru | 02/09/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you're on your 30's and you don't enjoy this cd, you're dead or you've never heard radio in your life.There are great songs in this cd I heard as a kid, but didn't know their names or who played them, like 'Walk dont run' and the Tarantino-movie-famous 'Misirlou'(Pulp Fiction), others by Beach Boys and Ventures.I played this cd for the 1st time at the computer center of my university (I am studying a MBA in Peru) and my mates made me play the whole album for three times in a row. Enuff said"