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Surf rock comes in two flavours, instrumental and vocal. Both versions are centered around some common traits, such as electric guitars using "wet"-sounding spring reverb (''the'' central defining characteristic of surf music, arguably), vibrato and tremolo, driving rhythms, and in the case of vocal surf rock, doo-wop inspired vocal harmonies. While surf rock generally stuck to the guitar-bass-drums lineup and used some very specific guitar models (they loved the Fender, Mosrite, Teisco and Danelectro brands), there was occasional use of other instruments such as keyboards or saxophone. Notably, surf rock was one of the first genres to universally adopt the electric bass.
Surf rock was incredibly popular between 1961-1965, the period from which originated its iconic songs such as "[[Older Than They Think|Misirlou]]", "Let's Go Trippin'", "Pipeline", "Wipe Out", "Surfin' USA", "Fun, Fun, Fun" and others. Another label applied to some of these bands, who played songs about fast cars rather than surfing, was "hot rod rock". The genre's popularity was effectively killed by [[The British Invasion]] starting in 1964, with the only group that survived being [[The Beach Boys]], who despite their association weren't really a
However, the genre proved very influential on several other rock bands, such as [[The Who]], [[Dead Kennedys]] and [[The Pixies]]. It underwent a revival thanks to the use of several of its songs in [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (most famously, "Misirlou" and "Bullwinkle Part II"), and new surf bands have appeared lately such as Man or Astro-man?, The Mermen and Los Straitjackets.
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* The Ziggens
* [[Sublime]] has a few surf rock songs, notably "Paddle Out"
* Meshuggah Beach Party, who have dedicated themselves to proving that traditional Jewish melodies work alarmingly well as
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