Surfin’ Bird

The Trashmen’s 1963 novelty surf-rock anthem gets the deluxe reissue treatment via Sundazed Music, restoring this garage rock curio to its proper place in the pre-British Invasion canon. Built on a looped parrot squawk and propulsive surf guitar, “Surfin' Bird” became an unlikely chart hit that bridged the gap between instrumental surf and the rawer garage rock aesthetic emerging from American basements. Sundazed’s vinyl pressing captures the track’s gleeful chaos—a three-minute snapshot of early-60s teenage excess that still sounds refreshingly unhinged.