You ready to catch a monster grave? Surf on this 1964 classic from the venerable Vee-Jay label! While this album has been reissued before, this is the first time it’s been cut all-analog straight from the original tapes. And there are some real treats to savor in all their pure sonic glory, like “There’s a Creature in the Surfer’s Lagoon,” which The Cramps must have heard a time or three. As always with these anonymous Halloween concept albums (see our Frankie Stein and the Ghouls releases), speculation has run rampant as to who’s playing on Monster Surfing Time; suspicion this time falls on legendary “Games People Play” guitarist Joe South, who penned five of the numbers here and whose first hit was, after all, 1958’s “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor.” So we’re gonna go with him as a likely suspect. We’re pressing this one in bloody pumpkin vinyl limited to 900 copies!

SIDE ONE
01. It’s Monster Surfing Time
02. Outer Limits Surf
03. There’s a Creature in the Surfer’s Lagoon
04. Surfin’ Dock Side
05. The Mad Drummer Part I
06. The Mad Drummer Part II

SIDE TWO
01. Raunchy
02. Rebel Rouser
03. The Moonlight Surfer
04. Help
05. Igor Goes Surfing
06. The Lone Surfer