Beach Boys ceased to be surf rock as soon as Brian learned how to write really good songs without ripping off Chuck Berry (so around 63/64), you could call it "vocal surf" or "surf pop" or whatever but I wouldn't call it surf rock which I've always thought of as a mostly instrumental guitar driven genre.
Their first single Surfin' is so dull and dated even for 1962, they never would have gone anywhere if they kept sounding like that.
Last edited by Queen Boo; 08-08-2022 at 12:15 AM.
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