Surfer's Choice
by Dick Dale And His Del-Tones
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Dick Dale And His Del-Tones bestography
The best album by Dick Dale is Surfer's Choice which is ranked number 6416 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 207.
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Surfer's Choice track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Surfer's Choice rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
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Surfer's Choice ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/18/2026 01:53 | xhitmanx | 1,453 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/28/2026 17:37 | gmessian | 385 | 60/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 00:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,276 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 16:17 |  EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 15:33 |  Tamthebam | 23,129 | 69/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 70.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Surfer's Choice comments
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Jboy56 06/15/2022 11:07 | #286397 | TOP COMMENT
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A very different animal than BB, very original and thicker sounding band. Tight and groovy, Very cool
Boltzmann 01/11/2020 23:30 | #246735 | TOP COMMENT
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this is one of that albums that makes you go "aha" really hard. This is what a lot of the early Beach Boys got their sound from, and it's suddenly clear where Spongebob got its font from.
Favorites: Surf Beat; Miserlou Twist.
alelsupreme 12/20/2012 20:54 | #58383 | TOP COMMENT
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Dick Dale is a great player, but this albums disappointing.
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