Dick Dale's first album was Surfer's Choice, with the Del-Tones. It was released in 1962 and sold over 88,000 albums locally. Exponentially, this figure would equal more than four million today. Since then Dick Dale has released over a dozen albums, and in 1997 released a compilation titled Better Shred Than Dead on Rhino Records. These albums include the following:

• Surfers' Choice (Deltone 1962)
  
• King of the Surf Guitar (Capitol 1963)
  
• Checkered Flag (Capitol 1963)
  
• Mr. Eliminator (Capitol 1964)
  
• Summer Surf (Capitol 1964)
  
• Rock out with Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Live at Ciro's (Capitol 1965)
  
• The Tigers Loose (Balboa 1983)
  
• Tribal Thunder (HighTone 1993)
  
• Unknown Territory (1994)
  
• Calling Up Spirits (Beggars Banquet 1996)
  
• Spacial Disorientation
  

• Let's Go Trippin'/Del-Tone Rock (Deltone 1961)
  
• Jungle Fever/Shake-N-Stomp (Deltone 1961)
  
• Miserlou/Eight 'Til Midnight (Deltone 1962)
  
• Secret Surfin Spot/Surfin' and Swingin' (Capitol 1963)
  
• Let's Go Trippin' '65/Watusi Jo (Capitol 1965)
  
• "Pipeline" With Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nominated for a Grammy
  

• Hot Rod Music on Capitol (Capitol 1963)
  
• The Big Surfin' Sounds on Capitol (Capitol 1964)
  
• King of the Surf Guitar: The Best of Dick Dale & The Del-Tones (Rhino 1986)
  
• Pulp Fiction Soundtrack (MCA 1994)
  
• Cowabunga Surf Box Set (Rhino 1996)
  
• Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology (Rhino 1997)
  
• MOM II Music for our Mother Ocean: (Surf Dog Records 1997)