Name: Surfin' USA
Brand: The Beach Boys

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DOS645H

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-09-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0889397556457

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Beach Boys

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

The real breakthrough, as <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-wilson-mn0000625736">Brian Wilson</a> asserts himself in the studio as both songwriter and arranger on a set of material that was much stronger than <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/surfin-safari-mw0000625284">Surfin' Safari</a>. Besides the hit title track and its popular drag-racing flip side ("Shut Down"), this has a lovely, heartbreaking ballad ("Lonely Sea") and a couple of strong <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-wilson-mn0000625736">Brian Wilson</a> originals ("The Noble Surfer" and "Farmer's Daughter"). There are also a surprisingly high quotient of instrumentals (five) that demonstrate that, before session musicians took over most of the parts, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beach-boys-mn0000041874">the Beach Boys</a> 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 <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-wilson-mn0000625736">Brian Wilson</a>'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. 

Surfin' USA

Music GB