The Jukebox in Heaven: Non-Surf Surf Songs
Maybe it’s that I just watched Point Break over the weekend for the first time since the mid-1990s that has surfing on my mind. I’ve never surfed in my life, but if I did these three would provice the soundtrack.
Devo - Gut Feeling: It always conjured up images of being a theme song for a sport’s network’s coverage of a surfing competition, with the slow-building opening providing the perfect lull for an announcer to set the scene.
Bow Wow Wow - Orang-Outang: It’s right up there with Jack Nitzsche’s The Lonely Surfer for capturing the relaxing end of someone calmly riding the waves like Endless Summer. And as comfortable around the fire
Dire Straits - Walk of Life: The keyboard riff captures the excitement of a day at the beach, the street-performers on the boardwalk, people watching, and everything. Be-bop-a-lula Baby!
My favourite real surf song has to be The Ventures’ Walk Don’t Run (but the original version, not the 1964 re-recording). That guitar line could go on forever.
Don’t know what it is, but I really feel like watching Back to the Beach when I get home.
3 years ago