Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. [Remaster]

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Album: Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Surfin Safari - (mono)
2)	County Fair - (mono)
3)	Ten Little Indians - (mono)
4)	Chug-a-Lug - (mono)
5)	Little Miss America - (mono)
6)	409 - (mono)
7)	Surfin' - (mono)
8)	Heads You Win-Tails I Lose - (mono)
9)	Summertime Blues - (mono)
10)	Cuckoo Clock - (mono)
11)	Moon Dawg - (mono)
12)	Shift, The - (mono)
13)	Surfin' U.S.A. - (stereo)
14)	Farmer's Daughter - (stereo)
15)	Misirlou - (stereo)
16)	Stoked - (stereo)
17)	Lonely Sea - (stereo)
18)	Shut Down - (stereo)
19)	Noble Surfer - (stereo)
20)	Honky Tonk - (stereo)
21)	Lana - (stereo)
22)	Surf Jam - (stereo)
23)	Let's Go Trippin' - (stereo)
24)	Finders Keepers - (stereo)
25)	Cindy, Oh Cindy - (mono, bonus track)
26)	Baker Man, The - (mono, bonus track)
27)	Land Ahoy - (stereo, bonus track)

Album: Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Surfin Safari - (mono)
2)	County Fair - (mono)
3)	Ten Little Indians - (mono)
4)	Chug-a-Lug - (mono)
5)	Little Miss America - (mono)
6)	409 - (mono)
7)	Surfin' - (mono)
8)	Heads You Win-Tails I Lose - (mono)
9)	Summertime Blues - (mono)
10)	Cuckoo Clock - (mono)
11)	Moon Dawg - (mono)
12)	Shift, The - (mono)
13)	Surfin' U.S.A. - (stereo)
14)	Farmer's Daughter - (stereo)
15)	Misirlou - (stereo)
16)	Stoked - (stereo)
17)	Lonely Sea - (stereo)
18)	Shut Down - (stereo)
19)	Noble Surfer - (stereo)
20)	Honky Tonk - (stereo)
21)	Lana - (stereo)
22)	Surf Jam - (stereo)
23)	Let's Go Trippin' - (stereo)
24)	Finders Keepers - (stereo)
25)	Cindy, Oh Cindy - (mono, bonus track)
26)	Baker Man, The - (mono, bonus track)
27)	Land Ahoy - (stereo, bonus track)

Tracks

1. Surfin' Safari

2. Country Fair

3. Ten Little Indians

4. Chug-A Chug

5. Little Miss America

6. 409

409.

7. Surfin'

8. Heads You Win - Tails I Lose

9. Summertime Blues

10. Cuckoo Clock

11. Moon Dawg

12. The Shift

13. Surfin' USA

14. Farmer's Daughter

15. Misirlou

16. Stoked

17. Lonely Sea

18. Shut Down

19. Noble Surfer

20. Honky Tonk

21. Lana

22. Surf Jam

23. Let's Go Trippin'

24. Finders Keepers

Performer Notes

2 LPs on 1 CD: SURFIN' SAFARI (1962)/SURFIN' USA (1963).
The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dave Marks, Mike Love, Al Jardine.
Recorded at Capitol, Western, Conway Studios, Hollywood, California.
Includes liner notes by David Leaf.
Heard in retrospect after PET SOUNDS or TODAY!, the Beach Boys' first album may sound somewhat embryonic. In the context of its time, however, SURFIN' SAFARI is a solid and entertaining listen filled with songs based on everyday middle-class teen life in early-1960s California. Foremost among these is the group's first hot-rod tune, "409." In some ways an even better song than "Surfin' Safari" (the bigger hit on the other side of their first Capitol single), "409" isn't as full of car-spotter lingo as the group's later hot-rod singles (most of them co-written by L.A. disc jockey and car nut Roger Christian), but it has a stripped-down, almost punky garage-rock sound that thunders along mightily behind the chanting background singers and one of Mike Love's better lead vocals.

Professional Reviews

Q (5/01, p.129) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...These records are as unvaried as brilliance can be, but not one song here will make anyone unhappy..."