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Originally Posted by Queen Boo
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.
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You make a good point, Queen Bee. Would you believe Jan and Dean were actually considered surf rock circa 1963/1964? They had a lower threshold in those days.