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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
(Instrumental)
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1963.
 nmcvaugh wrote:

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LOL!!!   
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 Alastair wrote:

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




Keep on struggling, you'll get there!   
I'm still playing this on my elementary school desk out there somewhere...
 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. 
 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! 
the feared request for any wedding band. 
 Alastair wrote:

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



Try striving to abide instead of struggling to hate, dude 
I struggle to think of a song I hate more than this.
 superfido wrote:
Hmm is this more iconic or more cheezy? {#Motor}
 

Iconic duh.
 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.
 superfido wrote:
Hmm is this more iconic or more cheezy? {#Motor}
 

Yes.  11 years later, even more so.
 Animals going crazy!
I mastered  this on  my school desktop in 2nd grade!
Vive les Jaguars!  
Ah, yes! An appropriate song to play after all the Blizzards this past week!
The transition from Violent Femmes to this was... special.
First part has been used by Dutch Radio around 1970: program 'Uitlaat' ('exhaust')  from famous Dutch comedians Koot & Bie.
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. 
How much more iconic can you get?
Who can't just love this one? 9
{#Dancingbanana_2}
Surfer Dude #1: "Hey did you see that? It was Hangdog."

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

paulera wrote:


 


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!

 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.
Still no 20 rating available.  Darn.
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!
Iconic!
{#Bananajam}{#Drummer}
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.
always a stop and shake it tune in my shop. lol
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 ! 


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 :)
 Jacksonstat wrote:
I carried a watermelon.
 


Instant beach and tanning butter - Yeah!
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.

 


Surf's up! 

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


{#Bananasplit}
Played it on garbage cans on the streets of Brooklyn.
I carried a watermelon.
Great segue!
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.
 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?


Yeah Babe! Music for the BBQ!
 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!

Every band played this in high school.
wooohooo :D 
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.....
 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!
 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.
This song always throws me back to the 6th grade.  My memory is surely enhanced by a lovely dance accompaniment on that occasion.  Excellent!
Surf's up!  Woo hoo! {#Drummer}
Where are my madras shorts?
The de rigeur drum solo for garage band drummers in the 60s.  Brings back fond memories.
Just what we need on a Monday morning!
{#Drummer}
{#Dancingbanana_2}
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
 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. 
 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."
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!
 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.
 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.
{#Motor}
Brings me back to being 10 years old and in camp, livin life large.
so is the music from supergran a version of this song? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 
great song!!
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).
klassik!!!!!!!
 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}

 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}

boy, we've come a long way!
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}

Just saw that Billboard has them on the list of Top 30 Greatest Summer Songs of all time...as NUMBER TWO!  cool guys!
This song is tired... I guess the fact live and grew up in LA doesn't help
finger drumming...
 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}
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
1st "big kids" album of my life - oh yeah!
 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.


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}
I don't know whether its godlike or just acceptable... I think I'm leaning towards acceptable
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.
 ortallcowgirl wrote:
Classic!
 
surf

Oh, brother.
Blue and white seersucker shirt and white white Levis, oh yeah baby, 1963!!
What reason would anyone have to rate this a 1?!?! Hello...are you few people just crazy?! {#Drummer}
Classic!
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. 
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....
 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, ...


Amateeeeuuuurs {#Tongue}
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...).
Total awesomeness!
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.
...and to think Jimi said...."never hear surf music again....."   hahahaha   {#Drummer}

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!
 


 PembrokeRoad wrote:
Please give us a break Bill!
 
Yeah, more surf music - Dick Dale, Davie Allan & the Arrows, the Rivieras, etc.


If you never, not even once, pounded this out on your classroom desktop, you've led a sad life.
 ZedLeppelin wrote:
Did that drummer slow down or is it just me...
 
Probably got tired! {#Drummer}
 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.
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 still love it after all these decades...{#Music}

Wow, I never heard this...it's crazy!
Did that drummer slow down or is it just me...
Now for something completely different!

Please give us a break Bill!
Surfs You Right!

Reminds me of that great scene in The Wanderers!

"Leave the kid alone"


 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
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. :)
 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

Wonder why this doesn't get more 9 and 10's, its like the authority summer song duuuude {#Daisy}
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 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!
 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.
 splooge wrote:
No more surf music! {#Frustrated}
 
You mean, like, "Never to hear surf music....a-gain...."?

Yes, this hit the Detroit charts: WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW (Windsor, ONT)....
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"