VA - Big Surf (1991)

Collecting original Surf music is a lot of fun. But, it also can be difficult and expensive. There were so many great songs between 1960 and '64, but not many strong instrumental surf albums. Well, with this single CD, you can pick up a lot of the very best Surf ever. "Big Surf" is a raging value with 32 stompin' reverb-drenched Surf instrumentals, and most all of them are great.
The Surf-music wave peaked for a brief four years in the early 60's and there were many great Surf instrumentals. But, there were also many uneven albums with just one or two quality Surf tunes. The rest of the numbers on most so-called Surf albums are many times pop or drag car songs. This leaves the collector with two choices: buy a lot of discs, most with only a couple great songs, or collect your Surf in compilations. The choice is yours.

On this CD you get the cream of five great Surf bands. Del-Fi artists the Sentinals, the Impacts, the Centurions, the Lively Ones and Dave Myers and the Surftones. These bands were some of the best and most faithful to the instrumental Surf music genre.
These guys played awesome Surf music, but were mostly not well-known! So this disc is a real find for the Surf fan who has lots of Ventures, Surfaris and Dick Dale and is looking for something a bit more pure and exotic.

Here's another thing that adds value to this collection...Del-Fi, the original record label of these bands, was recently bought out and it is not clear if or when their stuff will be reissued. They apparently can no longer sell their music and it's becoming tough to find. Well, once you have this disc you may not need to look for the individual CDs, because most all the killer songs are right here on "Big Surf".
Some of the most outstanding pure Surf on this disc comes from the Centurions. Their CD "Bullwinkle, part 2" is out of print and very hard to find. But you get eight of their best songs on this disc!