Mark Prindle's Video Review #33: The Surfsiders Sing The Beach Boys Songbook

[GP1138]

i said this on the main record YT video, but "409" is almost superior to the off-key Beach Boys version.

Hilarious, Mark.

[CenaTv2]

Worst album of all time!

great review :)

[AlphaAstraAqua]

This is funny!  My parents got this for me in the early 70s & (as a 7 year old kid) I didn't realize how different/inferior that this was from the actual Beach Boys. I wore this record out playing it along with my Funny Bone Favorites & Goofy Gold records!

[JohnnyGNV]

These were just Studio musicians employed through Pickwick Records, for their

budget LP label, DESIGN.  There was of course no such group as "The Surfsiders" they were simply paid as Session players with no future royalities planned ~ I had this LP as a kid, guess I paid about 79 cents for it - some sound-a-like LP's were better than others but I know the efforts displayed here were very lame - I think the people at Design Records could have put more effort into this release ~ A Lot more!

[westcoastpaeb]

2 songs from that LP .. Surfin' and Little Deuce Coupe are rumored to have Lou Reed singing the lead since at that time he was one of the staff song writers at Pickwick records. But, it doesn't sound like Lou Reed to me.

A couple minor corrections:

1. The Ventures weren't a surf band but an instrumental RnR band who did one LP (among the 100's they released) titled Surfing.

2. The Beach Boys did have a saxophone, Mike Love played it ( if you want to call that playing).

[kohoutek7]

There must be a bagillion of these for the Beatles as well. Maybe if Brian had a southern accent it would be closer...the question is, did they really not give a shit, or did they actually try to learn the songs and fail? Cause I've seen many a cover band fuck up those harmonies by singing the 3rd when they should be on the 5th note in the harmonies and so forth. It's not as easy as it sounds sometimes.

[CerebrateHyatt]

I'm sure it was worth every cent.

[PussmasterX]

I like how Pickwick are the quality version of rip off recordings and how there are second hand versions

[amorpaz1]

"Yes I know Brian Wilson is alive, fuck you!"

Hilarious.

[makshead]

nice to see you smile, m'friend.

[mrjwpotter]

ha luvvly jubbly!!!

[quiverbuzz]

Definite 'laugh out loud moment' at the Yo La Tengo reference!

[johanneswiberg]

Awesome ending!

[drbpony]

LMAO!!! That's even worse than that cheap imitation of the Sgt Pepper movie soundtrack I picked up. Honestly, I didn't think anything could be worse than some guy trying to sound like George Burns trying to sing "Fixin' A Hole"

[DerekMcA]

Henry's so cute.

[mkqp]

As an aside, Al Jardine played session lead guitar on this album.

[mkqp]

My god, you have some awful albums Mark - keep it up!

[revjemima]

yep, that album seriously sucked. I would have loved to hear them do some SMiLE material...