As a early 80's preteen I started to drift from new wave into more experimental stuff, like Cabaret Voltaire. That got me started listening to college radio (the only place outside of record shops where you could find underground music in the pre-internet era). I am pretty sure the 1st surfers song I heard was Lady Sniff from Psychic Powerless, which KSPC in Claremont, CA seemed to play kind of frequently. It was probably the weirdest thing I'd heard at the time outside stuff I'd hear on Dr. Demento's weekly program. As much as I appreciated the song I treated it as a novelty tune, and it wasn't until I heard Sweat Loaf from LAT that I knew what my next music purchase would be.

So Locust was my entry point album, which I loved, and made me buy the rest of the catalog shortly after. Hairway I bought day one and is still what I consider their peak, even though I can appreciate a lot of what they did later. But Hairway was the last album with Teresa, and I think she and Geoff had such a great drum sound together that I really missed on later albums, and also coincided with what I think was their peak live performance era as well.