- pop
- 34 min
- 10 tracks
- Brother Records
Surf's Up is the seventeenth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on August 30, 1971, on Brother/Reprise/Warner Bros. It received largely favorable reviews and reached number 29 on the U.S. record charts, becoming their highest-charting LP of new music in the country since 1967. In the UK, Surf's Up peaked at number 15, continuing a string of top-40 records that began in 1965.
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Character-led, spare, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB−
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock4/5
- Pitchfork8.9/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Don't Go Near the Water2:42
- 2Long Promised Road3:32
- 3Take a Load Off Your Feet2:31
- 4Disney Girls (1957)4:11
- 5Student Demonstration Time3:56
- 6Feel Flows4:49
- 7Looking at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)1:59
- 8A Day in the Life of a Tree3:09
- 9'Til I Die2:37
- 10Surf's Up4:11
10 tracks, 34 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Beach Boys
- Label
- Brother Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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