Surf's Up - Sea Blue Transparent Vinyl
The 1971 Socially Aware Album That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again!

Surf's Up - Sea Blue Transparent Vinyl

The Beach Boys

€ 30,95
  • LP
Label
Brother Records, Capitol Records
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Description

Surf's Up is the 17th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released in 1971. It was met with a warm critical reception and reached number 29 on the US record charts, becoming their best-performing album in their home country since 1967. In the UK, the album peaked at number 15, continuing a string of chart successes that had not abated since 1965.

Both the album's title and cover artwork are an ironic, self-aware nod to the departure from the band's surf rock roots. Its name was taken from the song of the same title written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks five years earlier for the abandoned studio album Smile. The creative direction of Surf's Up was largely influenced by newly employed band manager Jack Rieley, who strove to reinvent the group's image and reintroduce them to the era's counterculture. Two singles were issued in the US: "Long Promised Road" and "Surf's Up." Only the former charted, peaking at number 89.

In 2004, the album was voted 154 in a German edition of Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and ranked 61 on Pitchfork Media's "The Top 100 Albums Of The 1970s." It is listed in the music reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Don't Go Near The Water02:37
  • 2. Long Promised Road
  • 3.Take A Load Off Your Feet
  • 4.Disney Girls (1957)
  • 5.Student Demonstration Time

B

  • 1.Feel Flows
  • 2.Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
  • 3.A Day In The Life Of A Tree
  • 4.'Til I Die
  • 5.Surf's Up

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