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Next to the Beach Boys and Ramones the Surf Punks were the band that Ive been stuck on since I first heard em/ those 2 albums Self-titled/My Beach from 79/80, and Locals Only from 82 are phenomenal all the way thru! Dennis Dragon was in the BBs backing group in the late 60s/early 70s and is all over Sunflower... the Surf Punks fuckin rocked!

I 'twas.  I even was able to convince Nelson Bragg to join my band at a gig to perform "My Beach."

Great memories of a show at the old Starwood, with The Honeys opening for The Surf Punks; (might have been American Spring, but I'm sure Ginger was with them).  We all sat upstairs for The Surf Punks, as it was straight out of The Blues Brothers movie, with punks in the audience flinging beers and stuff at the stage, and The Punks flinging things right back!

I'm a Surf Punks fan. I still have their Oh No Not Them Again record. I love 'Wave Spy' and 'Too Many Guys Out'. Those guys were funny. Wish I could've seen them live, but I don't think they ever came to Rhode Island or New England. They did an ultra fast cover of Ride The Wild Surf that used to crack me up! I wonder if the Surf Punks ever come out for the occasional gig like every other old punk band does.

Film noir and punk rock (70s division) both have the "low is high" subversive thing going for them...and the Surf Punks took all that to lower depths than anyone. With a lead singer who sang like Mike Love without the benefit of meditation, this was the true "flip side" of a SoCal scene that, by 1979, was literally drenched with excess.

Seems to me that Margot Kidder was a fan...I recall her recommending the LP to Johnny Carson (or maybe it was a guest host) on the strength of "Big Top." Of course, she might have thought that the song had been written about her...today, of course, there are so many ladies who've "achieved" that status through artificial means that the song's "novelty value" has long since been wiped out.

oh no not them again was their comical swan song bookend.... NOT an integral album, the s/t (my beach) and locals only were/are a couple of the best albums of the last 35 years and very underrated punkrock masterpieces .

I only know the My Beach album. It's pretty funny from time to time, but nothing I can listen to very often. THE BEACH IS NOTHING BUT A BIRD BATHROOM!

Yeah I hear ya but the Oh No Not Them Again album brings back a time and place for me, so comical-swan-song-bookend or not it's more enjoyable for me than the original LPs they made. Funny how that happens huh?