Skateboarding Music, what comes to mind, Punk, Hardcore Metal, Dub and Ska? That my be what ultimately came to be known as "skate music", but there was a time when skateboarding was a popular new fad and the skaters themselves had yet to identify themselves with one type of music.
Just like today when a fad burst on the scene that's as big as skateboarding there are industry people ready to make a buck off of it. As an interesting footnote in the story of modern skateboarding there was a time when skateboarding didn't have a defined sound, and the music industry tried (and failed) to make it's own brand of skateboard music.
Released by the German label Diggler "This is Skateboard Music" collects all the sad failed attempts to cash in on the new craze of skateboarding.
With most the music sounding like bad renditions of Beach Boys songs it was obvious that the record companies thought that surf style music would translate over good to the skateboard scene. Other examples are typical pop tunes of the 70's with skateboarding as a central theme.
This is a really cool collection, and something of an oddity. It would be fun to let a modern day "skate punk" sit down and listen to this all the way through and ask their opinion on the very first examples of skateboarding music.
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