What kind of music is one meant to listen to during the winter time? Is it the cold, dark folk of someone like thinguma*jigSaw to reflect and amplify the present world and chill your bones even more? Or maybe something like Sung Tongs where the guitars crunch like the leaves underfoot and the heartstopping melodies wrap themselves around you like a body sock; the breakaway yellows in a palette of autumnal browns. Then again, perhaps the most ideal music is the least befitting? Bouncy, fun, summertime pop which, when coupled with closed eyes, will help you slip away to the beach for five minutes? Fuck it, a combination of all three suits me down to the ground thank you very much! But I've been finding the latter style to be the most agreeable S.A.D. combattant as of late, largely in the form of the greatest hits of hunky Beach Boys seed-planters Jan and Dean.
To a postmodern child, these guys' music is essentially Eddie Rockets without the bloatedness and brain freezing. In fact - shit! - I just realised upon typing that sentence that the Empty Pockets 'theme tune' is a horrific appropriation of 'Surf City'! Weird. As American as a bullet-riddled apple pie (the collection even includes their song for a Coke ad), the young womanisers rarely have anything on their minds aside from surfing, girls and surfer girls. Indeed, the aforementioned song (their truly greatest hit) opens with the harmonised line "two girls for every boyyyyyy!"; a ratio which the slutty bastards continue to celebrate and taunt us with ("all you gotta do is just wink your eye!") for the next three minutes. I'm walking around the place listening to this stuff wearing a multitude of layers, the cold streaming tears down my face. I'm not "going to Surf City, gonna have some fun/going to Surf City cos it's two-to-one". There's nothing here for me to presently relate to but it's tremendous fun anyway. And there's definitely nothing relatable about 'Dead Man's Curve', their tragic car crash drama (complete with out-of-control-car-swerving-off-the-road sound effects), which is rendered totally bizarre because of them unafflictedly delivering the song in the same charming chirp they use to sing about boning beach babes.
Surf City
'Surf City' live video - Jan's (I think) reactions to Dean's (I think) lyrical blips are mildly amusing.
The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) live on The Dean Martin Show.
Old people are cool.
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