Surf music

But still got to get him edumacated.

He's got a problem with surf guitar.

We'll find the root of it.

We can do this.

And for the life of me, I could not get him to buy into it.

He was...

He likes his surf guitar very... mild.

Very 50s.

Okay, Rich's number eight.

We're going into Surfer Rock now.

This is another lead-up track.

It is California Sun by the Rivierans.

They shimmy.

Again, just like most of these songs, it takes you back to a certain place.

My dad loved a lot of surfer rock.

It won't be the last one on this list.

yeah

as a friend of the couple frankie and annette's like he plays some songs with them uh he's a listeners if you don't know the name he plays the song at the the surf rock song at the very beginning of pulp fiction that everybody loves it's miserly that's dick dale's song

yeah yeah one of the things there

sorry who stevie ray vaughn he was the guy in the cowboy hat that was fucking rocking out on the guitar

No, no.

What I was getting at is I like the Ska scene because I like Ska.

No, but I appreciate them because the reason Ska and Punks are in this is they wanted to point out very correctly that the same way Glam Rock... did surf rock you can draw a line from surf rock to ska and punk and they were almost pointing out specifically west coast stuff right they were almost raising their hands and going like hey don't forget us without us you wouldn't have this like and that's why it felt like they were like bringing that in to be like yeah us too and ska and punk were all part of the same subculture um sort of or we're all evolved or you evolved from us and so by being like this thing that was like hey everybody check out ska it was almost like the old people being like recognizing the young people hilariously ska which is now the old people

it was the it's the anti-establishment stuff too

GlockDem ago say me wrong, but a just so me tan.

Surf Rock don't mix with no-

Babylon.

Nuh the politician tell me where the money gone.

But then you'll have to explain the gag to her.

But I'm going to do like a Beach Boys, Surf Rock, Talk to Pusses Can't Talk.

I'm on it.

I don't know.

Well, one of the most distinctive features of a Tarantino soundtrack is its refusal to stay in one sonic lane.

Surf rock can sit next to spaghetti western scores, soul tracks can collide with Italian orchestral cues, and 70s funk can coexist with operatic tension.

These collisions shouldn't work on paper, but in practice, they create a cohesive emotional language unique to his films.

The effect isn't randomness, it's curatorial tension.

That music, that style and the music that I don't listen to on my own.

Of course, I listen to 60s, 70s rock, garage punk rock.

Surf rock is just that one part of Pulp Fiction for sure.

I didn't know that necessarily,

Surfing.

Yeah, there's a whole sub-genre of surf rock, isn't

there? There is a whole sub-genre of surf rock.

So, Dick Dale.

Basically, one of the early ways of making reverb, which is sort of sustain echo after a note being played on guitar, was literally there'd be a tank, a sort of metal tank full of springs, and they would have transducers in them.

And you went into it first.

The sonic character of that amp is being applied to the reverb as well.

Interestingly enough, actually, the surf rock thing kind of later became a stick to beat them with.