Surf City And Other Swinging Cities
by Jan & Dean
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Jan & Dean bestography
Surf City And Other Swinging Cities is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by Jan & Dean on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jan & Dean is Drag City which is ranked number 18230 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 60.
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Surf City And Other Swinging Cities track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Surf City And Other Swinging Cities rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 98 Music Albums of 1963 | 25/98 | 4 |
| 2025 |  djrodo | Top 20 Music Albums of 1963 | 10/20 | 3 |
| 2021 | Mappyjames | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 16/40 | 28 |
| 2020 | Rovers | Top 40 Music Albums of 1963 | 21/40 | 3 |
| 2019 | ReelBigToph | Top 100 Music Albums of 1963 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2019 | Madrocker | Top 100 Music Albums of 1963 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2016 | iancrockert141 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1963 | 31/50 | 2 |
| 2014 | hahol | Top 20 Music Albums of 1963 | 18/20 | 1 |
| 2014 | DigitalDreamDoor | Albums of the year 1963 | 65/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/04/2025 17:41 |  Tamthebam | 23,221 | 69/100 |
| ! | 02/21/2022 01:38 | Gendjar | 4,751 | 56/100 |
| ! | 01/26/2022 20:22 | TonySayers61 | 25,153 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2021 03:04 | Moondance | 20,758 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2020 04:26 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,675 | 74/100 |
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This Album is Squaresville, Daddy-O
Imagine if you took a pre-pube Frankie Avalon, gave him a head cold, multiplied him by two, and then sicked the less-than-dynamic duo on a bunch of songs about cities (as if no one had ever thought of that tired concept before). Berry and Torrence's singing style is so nasally and whitebread it makes Mike Love sound like Howlin' Wolf. And they manage to out PatBoonify Pat Boone on stiff-as-a-surfboard desecrations of Chuck Berry, Bobby Bare, and Wilbert Harrison tunes.
Not everything these guys did was bad. They had a handful of decent singles, and Save for a Rainy Day was a mildly interesting foray into Baroque Pop. But if you even know who Jan & Dean are, then you already know the Brian Wilson-penned #1 hit that leads off this album. So you can safely give the rest of this crap a wide berth.
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