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The Surfaris — Wipeout
Album: Wipe Out! The Best of The Surfaris
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Released: 1963
Length: 2:36
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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a, wipeout
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Posted 1 year ago by linden    [ Reply ]
1963.
Posted 1 year ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
 nmcvaugh wrote:

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LOL!!!   
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
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Posted 2 years ago by nmcvaugh    [ Reply ]
 Alastair wrote:

I struggle to think of a song I hate more than this.




Keep on struggling, you'll get there!   
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
I'm still playing this on my elementary school desk out there somewhere...
Posted 2 years ago by oldviolin    [ Reply ]
 jsd52756 wrote:

Any 10 year old kid that said they played the drums in the 60's was asked, " Can you play Wipeout?"  And that included me.  We practiced this daily.  Still dig it. 




And any 10 year old kid that said they played guitar in the 60s was asked the same. That also included me. 
Posted 2 years ago by kevrey    [ Reply ]
 jsd52756 wrote:

Any 10 year old kid that said they played the drums in the 60's was asked, " Can you play Wipeout?"  And that included me.  We practiced this daily.  Still dig it. 



Everyone in my school tried to do the solo on their desk with two fingers. Remember that?
Bill just did after I wrote this! 
Posted 2 years ago by nomnol    [ Reply ]
the feared request for any wedding band. 
Posted 3 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
 Alastair wrote:

I struggle to think of a song I hate more than this.



Try striving to abide instead of struggling to hate, dude 
Posted 3 years ago by sjccroquet    [ Reply ]
I struggle to think of a song I hate more than this.
Posted 4 years ago by Alastair    [ Reply ]
 superfido wrote:
Hmm is this more iconic or more cheezy? {#Motor}
 

Iconic duh.
Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 Lyle8888 wrote:
Oh Yes = Robert A. Heinline wrote Stranger In a Strange Land, among many other Great works.  Although the first printed version was not the much longer original. It was thought to be too sensational by the editors, it still won awards.  I spent many hours in the world of fantasy and science fiction, as well as music of all kinds.  Say hello to Valentine if yiu see him!{#Wave}
 
In 1962-63, as a seventh and eighth greater, I read every Heinlein book in the local library.  Started my lifelong love of science fiction.

Watched Star Trek TOS so many times that I knew the entire story at the intro when the narrator/Kirk announced the name of the planet.

Am watching the Picard series now.

Oh yeah.  Love this song.
Posted 4 years ago by bruceandjenna    [ Reply ]
 superfido wrote:
Hmm is this more iconic or more cheezy? {#Motor}
 

Yes.  11 years later, even more so.
Posted 4 years ago by bruceandjenna    [ Reply ]
 Animals going crazy!
Posted 4 years ago by wolverine    [ Reply ]
I mastered  this on  my school desktop in 2nd grade!
Posted 4 years ago by meatmike    [ Reply ]
Vive les Jaguars!  
Posted 4 years ago by macadavy    [ Reply ]
Ah, yes! An appropriate song to play after all the Blizzards this past week!
Posted 4 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
The transition from Violent Femmes to this was... special.
Posted 5 years ago by ednazarko    [ Reply ]
First part has been used by Dutch Radio around 1970: program 'Uitlaat' ('exhaust')  from famous Dutch comedians Koot & Bie.
Posted 5 years ago by Wendel11    [ Reply ]
Any 10 year old kid that said they played the drums in the 60's was asked, " Can you play Wipeout?"  And that included me.  We practiced this daily.  Still dig it. 
Posted 6 years ago by jsd52756    [ Reply ]
How much more iconic can you get?
Posted 6 years ago by meatmike    [ Reply ]
Who can't just love this one? 9
Posted 6 years ago by BCarn    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 6 years ago by Aikau    [ Reply ]
Surfer Dude #1: "Hey did you see that? It was Hangdog."

Surfer Dude #2: "Bitchin' radical wave, dude..."

paulera wrote:


 


Posted 7 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Thanks for the lyrics. Unaware of the song title, I always thought he said: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a, white power!

Posted 7 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:

In NorCal it was baby blue Levis, madras shirt, and black low-top Converse All-Stars. In SoCal you substituted two-tone wingtips for the Converse.

 
{#Snooty}  You got NorCal right, but SoCal was 501 Levis (and some baby blue) with button fly, Hangten single banded horizontal broad white stripe shirts and blue tennie deck shoes, before Mr. Rogers wore them.
Posted 7 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Still no 20 rating available.  Darn.
Posted 7 years ago by JeriF    [ Reply ]
I have a vague memory of kids dancing to this at a talent show in elementary school.  Strange to think the song was only around 10 years old at the time!
Posted 8 years ago by GTT    [ Reply ]
Iconic!
{#Bananajam}{#Drummer}
Posted 8 years ago by big_gare    [ Reply ]
One day in West London, I went to a Battle of the Bands, this was many, many years ago. (OK about 50)
 A dozen bands and my recollection is that at least 8 played this song as their piece.
The winner was not one of them. 
Which is a pity, because the track was so influential.
Posted 9 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
always a stop and shake it tune in my shop. lol
Posted 9 years ago by strikke    [ Reply ]
Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Jun 24, 2015 - 18:07
 
 Jacksonstat wrote:
I carried a watermelon.
  



—-> ahahaha, we wrote at the same time ! 


Posted 9 years ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
I can't help but connect this song with Dirty Dancing :p it might be blasphemy for some of you but to me it's positive :)
Posted 9 years ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
 Jacksonstat wrote:
I carried a watermelon.
 

Posted 9 years ago by Antigone    [ Reply ]

Posted 9 years ago by paulera    [ Reply ]
Instant beach and tanning butter - Yeah!
Posted 9 years ago by Bobert_ParkCity    [ Reply ]
Every time I hear this on RP, I crack up thinking maybe this is the time Bill cracks out the Fat Boys version of this from the 80's. Hilarious.

 


Posted 9 years ago by hagz21    [ Reply ]
Surf's up! 

Check out the live version from Japan.  That drum is like a machine gun.


Posted 10 years ago by zepher    [ Reply ]
{#Bananasplit}
Posted 10 years ago by TheBorgBuilder    [ Reply ]
Played it on garbage cans on the streets of Brooklyn.
Posted 10 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
I carried a watermelon.
Posted 10 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
Great segue!
Posted 10 years ago by rdviola    [ Reply ]
eating a bowl of borscht and listening to wipeout. it works. used to play this with thumb and forefinger on an open wooden door. cheap hollow ones were best. accoustically. school desks were good too but needed extra attack.
Posted 10 years ago by bmo    [ Reply ]
 daniel_rusk wrote:
Yeah Babe! Music for the BBQ!

 

You still have money for BBQ? And time?

Are Americans not working 3-4 jobs?

And the environment?


Posted 10 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Yeah Babe! Music for the BBQ!
Posted 11 years ago by daniel_rusk    [ Reply ]
 mikemalter wrote:
Every band played this in high school.

 
Exactly!  And the drums - one had to master this solo - in every high school in America if not the world!

Posted 11 years ago by helenofjoy    [ Reply ]
Every band played this in high school.
Posted 11 years ago by mikemalter    [ Reply ]
wooohooo :D 
Posted 11 years ago by Sally_Sturmzeit    [ Reply ]
Well, Bill, as a drummer who graduated HS in 1971, I want to thank your for this little trip down memory lane.  This of course was the "got rocks" drummer solo.  No one else plays this song but you. I'm going over in the corner to practice my paradidles now.....
Posted 11 years ago by tkelley    [ Reply ]
 stub30 wrote:
Just what we need on a Monday morning!
 

05:55 and the sun will shine today with highs in the low 40's to melt the snow. I wonder if there will be any surfers up on Lake Superior today!
Posted 11 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
 LizK wrote:

In Orlando, it was navy shirts (Gant for the men), khaki bermudas and Weejuns. 
 
In NorCal it was baby blue Levis, madras shirt, and black low-top Converse All-Stars. In SoCal you substituted two-tone wingtips for the Converse.
Posted 11 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
This song always throws me back to the 6th grade.  My memory is surely enhanced by a lovely dance accompaniment on that occasion.  Excellent!
Posted 11 years ago by ota    [ Reply ]
Surf's up!  Woo hoo! {#Drummer}
Posted 11 years ago by nicolewe    [ Reply ]
Where are my madras shorts?
Posted 11 years ago by mrgus    [ Reply ]
The de rigeur drum solo for garage band drummers in the 60s.  Brings back fond memories.
Posted 12 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
Just what we need on a Monday morning!
Posted 12 years ago by stub30    [ Reply ]
{#Drummer}
{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 12 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
Man!  What memories.  Thanks RP!

 
Roger Spaulding

        Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on
        forever in a finite world is either a madman or an
        economist.
                  - Kenneth Boulding, Economics professor
Posted 12 years ago by rspauldi    [ Reply ]
 alankirke wrote:
Blue and white seersucker shirt and white white Levis, oh yeah baby, 1963!!
 
In Orlando, it was navy shirts (Gant for the men), khaki bermudas and Weejuns. 
Posted 12 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
 KalleB wrote:

What's wrong with drunks? {#Bounce}

 
Absolutely nothing!!  Unless they're really obnoxious or in a fighting mood. " Fightin's out of style, fun's where the fair is."
Posted 12 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
Fun to hear this every once in a while.  If you're from that era, you know it.  Every garage band drummer "had" to know how to play this!
Posted 12 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
 blackdogsailing wrote:
That's too funny Bill. As I was listening to this I was thinking back to my guitar lessons at the YMCA at about 12 years of age. I rode my bike there, no case for my instrument. All the kids in the class (most a few years older than I) wanted to play House of the Rising Sun and or Wipeout, just as you described. 
The inevitable happened; I wiped out on my way to lessons and totaled my guitar which broke my fall. I switched to piano. 
 
I'll bet it was tougher lugging that piano on your bike than that guitar.
Posted 12 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
 adrianblack wrote:
This song is tired... I guess the fact live and grew up in LA doesn't help
 
Geez... and you can't go back and fix that.
Posted 12 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
{#Motor}
Posted 12 years ago by Teoripa    [ Reply ]
Brings me back to being 10 years old and in camp, livin life large.
Posted 12 years ago by mgoldman    [ Reply ]
so is the music from supergran a version of this song? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 
Posted 12 years ago by zitherica    [ Reply ]
great song!!
Posted 12 years ago by mdnzs    [ Reply ]
I'll always remember when I first heard this on the juke box of a neighborhood soda shop. It was brand new and blew our little kid minds. We danced in the aisles and played it over and over all afternoon (for a nickel each).
Posted 12 years ago by buddy    [ Reply ]
klassik!!!!!!!
Posted 12 years ago by Snoopy2    [ Reply ]
 MiracleDrug wrote:
EVERY bar I've EVER played in for more than two nights in a row...eventually has some drunk DEMANDING that you play this... {#Beat}

 
What's wrong with drunks? {#Bounce}

Posted 12 years ago by KalleB    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:

I agree - some really GOOD sets coming from Paradise today.  Makes it pretty hard to get anything done, but hey.  It's Saturday, and in some religions, it's a day of rest, so.... {#Sunny}
 

And working good again on another Saturday.  And in some religions today is the ultilmate day of rest.

{#Cool}

Posted 13 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
boy, we've come a long way!
Posted 13 years ago by tbaloney619    [ Reply ]
EVERY bar I've EVER played in for more than two nights in a row...eventually has some drunk DEMANDING that you play this... {#Beat}

Posted 13 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
Just saw that Billboard has them on the list of Top 30 Greatest Summer Songs of all time...as NUMBER TWO!  cool guys!
Posted 13 years ago by Randomax    [ Reply ]
This song is tired... I guess the fact live and grew up in LA doesn't help
Posted 13 years ago by adrianblack    [ Reply ]
finger drumming...
Posted 13 years ago by shutter    [ Reply ]
 AndyJ wrote:
I am blown away... Violent Femmes, Nick Lowe now this... GREAT combination's. I'm continually amazed, pleased and happy at the selections and combination's... Keep it up-!! Thanks
 
I agree - some really GOOD sets coming from Paradise today.  Makes it pretty hard to get anything done, but hey.  It's Saturday, and in some religions, it's a day of rest, so.... {#Sunny}
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
I am blown away... Violent Femmes, Nick Lowe now this... GREAT combination's. I'm continually amazed, pleased and happy at the selections and combination's... Keep it up-!! Thanks
Posted 13 years ago by AndyJ    [ Reply ]
1st "big kids" album of my life - oh yeah!
Posted 13 years ago by k_trout    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:
I don't know whether its godlike or just acceptable... I think I'm leaning towards acceptable
 

 

I hope your musical taste recreates in 2011.


Posted 13 years ago by prickelpit96    [ Reply ]
Oh Yes = Robert A. Heinline wrote Stranger In a Strange Land, among many other Great works.  Although the first printed version was not the much longer original. It was thought to be too sensational by the editors, it still won awards.  I spent many hours in the world of fantasy and science fiction, as well as music of all kinds.  Say hello to Valentine if yiu see him!{#Wave}
Posted 13 years ago by Lyle8888    [ Reply ]
I don't know whether its godlike or just acceptable... I think I'm leaning towards acceptable
Posted 13 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
ALL the boys played this on their desktops.  One time our Social Studies teacher took a seat in a student desk to hear someone's presentation, and started playing this on the desktop to mock us.
Posted 13 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
 ortallcowgirl wrote:
Classic!
 
surf

Posted 13 years ago by a_genuine_find    [ Reply ]
Oh, brother.
Posted 13 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
Blue and white seersucker shirt and white white Levis, oh yeah baby, 1963!!
Posted 14 years ago by alankirke    [ Reply ]
What reason would anyone have to rate this a 1?!?! Hello...are you few people just crazy?! {#Drummer}
Posted 14 years ago by Ntropy    [ Reply ]
Classic!
Posted 14 years ago by ortallcowgirl    [ Reply ]
That's too funny Bill. As I was listening to this I was thinking back to my guitar lessons at the YMCA at about 12 years of age. I rode my bike there, no case for my instrument. All the kids in the class (most a few years older than I) wanted to play House of the Rising Sun and or Wipeout, just as you described. 
The inevitable happened; I wiped out on my way to lessons and totaled my guitar which broke my fall. I switched to piano. 
Posted 14 years ago by blackdogsailing    [ Reply ]
If this doesn't remind you of being a kid, then you're not old enough dammit!

...and check out that rocking picture of the band on the cover....
Posted 14 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
 RedGuitar wrote:
Yeah, more surf music - Dick Dale, Davie Allan & the Arrows, the Rivieras, etc.
  Also The Mermen, The Aqua Velvets, Los Straitjackets, Man Or AstroMan?, Laika And The Cosmonauts, The Sandblasters, Three Balls of Fire, Wheely McSidewalk And The Ball Bearings, ...


Posted 14 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Amateeeeuuuurs {#Tongue}
Posted 14 years ago by CoYoT51    [ Reply ]
This song really makes me want to drum on my keyboard, which would probably drive my co-workers insane (although they'd never complain since they're way too nice...).
Posted 14 years ago by gratefulgator    [ Reply ]
Total awesomeness!
Posted 14 years ago by Rafter101    [ Reply ]
There's some old story about how Alex Van Halen was the guitar player in the family, but Eddie couldn't do Wipeout on the drums so Alex took over and made Eddie play guitar.
Posted 14 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
...and to think Jimi said...."never hear surf music again....."   hahahaha   {#Drummer}

Posted 14 years ago by George_Tirebiter    [ Reply ]
Raised on Mars by martians, were you? Okay, quick everyone, how many of you read Stranger in a Strange Land? Anybody out there grok what I'm getting at?

 posworld wrote:
Wow, I never heard this...it's crazy!
 


Posted 14 years ago by FrankMc    [ Reply ]
 PembrokeRoad wrote:
Please give us a break Bill!
 
Yeah, more surf music - Dick Dale, Davie Allan & the Arrows, the Rivieras, etc.


Posted 14 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
If you never, not even once, pounded this out on your classroom desktop, you've led a sad life.
Posted 14 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
 ZedLeppelin wrote:
Did that drummer slow down or is it just me...
 
Probably got tired! {#Drummer}
Posted 14 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
 genepicard wrote:
It's a love/hate thing with this song for me. Loved to listen to it when someone else played it, hated it when I had to play it (drums) myself.  {#Drunk}
 
I hated hearing my brother play it who was not a drummer, but thought he was.
Posted 14 years ago by gatorade    [ Reply ]
It's a love/hate thing with this song for me. Loved to listen to it when someone else played it, hated it when I had to play it (drums) myself.  {#Drunk}
Posted 14 years ago by GeneP59    [ Reply ]
I still love it after all these decades...{#Music}

Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
Wow, I never heard this...it's crazy!
Posted 14 years ago by posworld    [ Reply ]
Did that drummer slow down or is it just me...
Posted 14 years ago by ZedLeppelin    [ Reply ]
Now for something completely different!

Posted 14 years ago by paraclete    [ Reply ]
Please give us a break Bill!
Posted 15 years ago by PembrokeRoad    [ Reply ]
Surfs You Right!
Posted 15 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]

Reminds me of that great scene in The Wanderers!

"Leave the kid alone"


Posted 15 years ago by spudboy    [ Reply ]
 Radio_Dweeb wrote:
Wonder why this doesn't get more 9 and 10's, its like the authority summer song duuuude {#Daisy}
 

Tack on Schools Out by Alice Cooper
Posted 15 years ago by 25demayo    [ Reply ]
Bill, yes indeed this song got airplay outside of California. When I was growing up in Memphis, I was always trying to duplicate the drum solo on the cafeteria tables at lunch time in 2nd grade. :)
Posted 15 years ago by Mojo_LA    [ Reply ]
 bergjr wrote:
For a while in sixth grade, you were only cool if you could play Wipeout on your desk. I tried to be cool and ended up selling weed to all the cool kids in high school... was that cool?
 

Wipeout the gateway to higher education ?  News at 11 ....


             splooge wrote:
             Now it just sounds like 13 year old boys in the garage after 5 guitar and drum lessons.

...
Not hardly - this is very tight and original

Posted 15 years ago by pope183    [ Reply ]
Wonder why this doesn't get more 9 and 10's, its like the authority summer song duuuude {#Daisy}
Posted 15 years ago by Radio_Dweeb    [ Reply ]
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Posted 15 years ago by HarrO    [ Reply ]
 freddyfender wrote:


I couldn't agree more.  I'm sure in its day it was very cutting edge.  Now it just sounds like 13 year old boys in the garage after 5 guitar and drum lessons.
 
Oh come on. that is for the time being, great drumming!
Posted 15 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
 splooge wrote:
No more surf music! {#Frustrated}
 

I couldn't agree more.  I'm sure in its day it was very cutting edge.  Now it just sounds like 13 year old boys in the garage after 5 guitar and drum lessons.
Posted 15 years ago by freddyfender    [ Reply ]
 splooge wrote:
No more surf music! {#Frustrated}
 
You mean, like, "Never to hear surf music....a-gain...."?

Posted 16 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Yes, this hit the Detroit charts: WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW (Windsor, ONT)....
Posted 16 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
great to hear this version again...I'm in a 40 year time warp.  Now if we could just get Surfer Joe up and running on RP, I'd really be smilin'.  That song somehow eerily predated the "GI's love to hang ten no matter what" surfing scene in Apocalypse Now...

"When He went on maneuvers, Joe caught cold"
Posted 16 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]