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In keeping with the unpretentious nature of the music, common themes for surf songs were [[surfing]] (e.g. ''Bustin' Surfboards'' - The Tornadoes, ''Wipe-out!'' - the Surfaris) or [[Hot Rod|hot-rodding]] (e.g. ''Mr Eliminator'' - Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, ''Hot Rod USA'' - The Fantastic Baggys), or (generally chaste) teenage romance (e.g. ''Girls on the Beach'' - the Beach Boys, ''My baby digs slot car races'' - The Revells) . Surf music was on the whole only minimally subversive; the only forms of delinquency promoted by it being the unlicensed racing of customised automobiles (''Shut Down'' - The Beach Boys, ''The Little Old Lady from Pasadena'' - Jan and Dean), the occasional consumption of beer (e.g. ''Intoxica'' - The Revels) and the occasional avoidance of school when the waves were good for surfing (e.g. ''Tell 'em I'm surfing'' - the Fantastic Baggys).

In keeping with the unpretentious nature of the music, common themes for surf songs were [[surfing]] (e.g. ''Bustin' Surfboards'' - The Tornadoes, ''Wipe-out!'' - the Surfaris) or [[Hot Rod|hot-rodding]] (e.g. ''Mr Eliminator'' - Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, ''Hot Rod USA'' - The Fantastic Baggys), or (generally chaste) teenage romance (e.g. ''Girls on the Beach'' - the Beach Boys, ''My baby digs slot car races'' - The Revells) . Surf music was on the whole only minimally subversive; the only forms of delinquency promoted by it being the unlicensed racing of customised automobiles (''Shut Down'' - The Beach Boys, ''The Little Old Lady from Pasadena'' - Jan and Dean), the occasional consumption of beer (e.g. ''Intoxica'' - The Revels) and the occasional avoidance of school when the waves were good for surfing (e.g. ''Tell 'em I'm surfing'' - the Fantastic Baggys).

However a number of [[death disks]] were also recorded, such as Jan and Dean's ''Dead Man's Curve'', and their lyric ''"Two girls for every boy"'' in ''Surf City'' is an allusion to the dangers of the predominantly male pastime of surfing.

However a number of [[death disks]] were also recorded, such as Jan and Dean's ''Dead Man's Curve'', and their lyric ''"Two girls for every boy"'' in ''Surf City'' is an [[allusion]] to the dangers of the predominantly male pastime of surfing.

== Decline ==

== Decline ==