Hello surf cadets

I skipped a week of this because... well there wasn't much to write about. But now there is!

Yesterday I posted the Best Trad Surf Gremmy for 2025. I might have played a little fast and loose as to what "trad" means, but the modern surf category was looking pretty bloated so I shifted some things around.

The new surf label House of Tabu is releasing Archipelago: The Great Hits of the Madeira. Normally I wouldn't review a greatest hits album. There are certainly plenty of new releases that I'm not reviewing that are more worthy than talking about songs I already know. But I thought it would be a fun exercise to approach this differently: how about I make my own greatest hits and see how it matches up?