This is some great surf music here. No throwaway tunes. The latter half starts to sound a little more rockabilly, but never loses it's surf sound. Don't expect fast, uppity tunes, the songs are mid paced to slower, but don't let that discourage you. It's all very catchy and great for kicking back to. A gambleless purchase.

First - the reviewer Ralf hit it dead on the head in his review, just by giving you guys some hints about who this band actually is. If you can't put 2 and 2 together, these guys are The Heartbreakers, i.e., Tom Petty's band. No real mystery here, and I had this fact disclosed years ago when this cd first came out. Sorry if that ruins any of the mystique for you.

Anyway, the other reviewers are right about this for the most part. It is flawless, excellent, fantastic surf music. Straight out of the Del-Fi school of surf music. Old-school, whatever you call it. It is beautiful, it is timeless, it is gorgeous, it is fantastic. Definitely pick this up.

Also, don't know if they are still doing it, but back when this cd first came out, it came with a blue "Blue Stingrays" guitar pick. Maybe it still does. If so, that's just another little added incentive for you to get this...or not. But I'm sure that if you pick this up, you won't regret it.

Sorry, but I actually hate that this record is so perfect. Perfect performances. Perfect sounds. Perfect engineering. Perfect everything. Over-produced makes it synthetic and stale. Surf needs a little character in my opinion. Bottom line is that it's perfectly boring.

No Surfing Wilburys here.
A refreshing splash of cool salt water, capturing the authentic excitement and romance of early 60s beach culture. The recording has a "live" feel and great acoustic soundstage and presence on all the tracks. Retro artwork playfully adds to the mystery of The Blue Stingrays. I have sworn an oath of secrecy under threat of breaking my surfboard, that I would never reveal their whereabouts or true identities (do a search if you must but I have given three clues ;)

As for their early "lost" albums such as "Valley Of The Rays" , perhaps a major rock star such as Tom Petty could fund the "reissueing".

People say a picture can express a thousand words. It is true but once you listen up all the songs from this CD it becomes clear that Blue Stingrays' music is stronger than most of the pictures you'll ever see. Magic sound by magic musicians. Whether you're surf music fan or not, at the end there is only one word - brilliant.