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John Martyn - Solid Air
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"Down by the Seaside" (I think that's the title) --the mighty Led Zeppelin. Would be good for that even if it didn't have "seaside" in the title.
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Well if we're gonna have Led Zep I'd suggest the, "Rain Song" from "Houses of the Holy", a really beautiful song.
Also there's a rather good chance of rain at anytime of year at the great British seaside.
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What about," Northern Sky "
by Nick Drake.
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.
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How about that Morrisey one?
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Think that'll have to be there somewhere.
In the top five.
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The Delays album, "Faded seaside glamour" would seem to have the perfect title.
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and a great bunch of songs as well.
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The inimitable:
I do like to be beside the seaside!
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom,
While the brass band plays tiddleyompompom!
Oh, just let me be beside the seaside!
I'll be beside myself with glee.
There are lots of girls, besides,
That I'd like to be beside,
Beside the seaside, beside the sea.
I've given you an earworm now, haven't I?
Heh.
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Ship called Dignity, think it was by Deacon Blue. That will always remind me of trips to the coast.
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What's an earworm then, don't think we have them in Yorkshire.
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Yes you do. You can't get an earworm out of your head. Goes on, and on, and on, and on all day, all night. Like this:
I dooo like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom,
While the brass band plays tiddleyompompom!
Works fabulously for Kylie hits too. Which in, and of themselves are a fundamental feature of forgotten seaside towns.
I should be so lucky
lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in lo-o-ove
Get it now? ;)
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Ok I'll accept it, the wife get's them all the time.
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These songs, they don't have to have the word sea in them, just nice favourites that set the right mood for you, by the sea!
Earworms-great word!
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Kylie Minogue always makes me think of the Wurlitzer at Spanish City. Which they did close down.
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Every day is like Sunday
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Not such a bad thing, I'm rather fond of Sundays myself.
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How about The Sunday's 'Here's Where The Story Ends?' - "it's that little souvenier of a terrible year..."
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Now that's what I call music!
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Bit late to this thread (and this group - love it) but it's gotta be "Faded glamour" by Animals That Swim, whence the aforementioned Delays may or may not have taken their "inspiration"...
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Have to admit did'nt know the band or the song.
So...... just nabbed it off the internet, & it is really, really good.
In fact when the soundtrack cd is made of t.S.t.t.f.t.c.d. That should be the opening track, nice one.
I'll send it to lloyd (mrdog) he'll love it.
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glad to be of service! i don't think i know any other songs by them, but that one is a corker. for my next trick i might actually try posting a pic or two...
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"Did'nt we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangour?"
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Yes feel free Mr. Bee to put some pictures in.
As it says, "Come on in the waters lovely."
Never really been sure where Bangor/Bangour, is mafleen, is it Wales or Ireland.
I remember the song by FIDDLER'S DRAM 1979. There be a lot of people on flickr who were'nt even born then.
Chorus:
Didn't we have a lovely time
The day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way
And all for under a pound, you know
That on the way back I cuddled with Jack
And we opened a bottle of cider
Singing a few of our favourite songs
As the wheels went around.
Ah happy days eh.
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Under the Boardwalk
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I think I would like to add
New Order's "Dreams Never End",
I always find it happy and uplifting, for those really bright sunny days at the coast!
Played it at your wedding do too Ed, remember?!
I think you may, ermm, even, have
what I would call 'ed-danced'.
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When I think of a tiny seaside town, I always think of Belle & Sebastian
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Dock of the bay? heh heh
Actually, on my frequent trips to Astoria and the Oregon Coast I listen to old crooner tunes like Bing, Frank and Louie.
Although putting in the soundtrack to Goonies from time to time .,
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New Order, Belle & Sabastian, & big Frank, shaping up to be quite a soundtrack. Not too sure about the Goonies, though.
Have to say Lloyd, if I was on the Dance floor, it would be rather late in the drift.
Alas don't really recall the moment, however i'm sure I moved with all my usual grace & elegance.
A fine tune, for a wedding, & a coastal trip.
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I would like to add one of the greatest summer songs of all time, ladies and gentlemen:
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves. I know they went on to to do eurovision, but they were desperate in those penniless days - and this song is still a great delight!
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Also, maybe to American for the British seaside, but the Beach Boys epitomise summer, sun and sand - I'd add 'Girls on the Beach' and 'Do It Again' at the very least.
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Ok I'll let somebody else have a go in a moment, but I have to mention Mungo Jerry and 'In The Summertime'. When I was a kid, this was a No 1 for what seemed like the whole summer of 1970. This and Smokey Robinson's 'Tears of a Clown' are two of the great records I remember from my summer holidays back then.
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Dave and Ansell Collins, "Double Barrel". It was always playing at seaside funfairs in the early 70s. The sound of it tastes of candy floss and emerging hormones.
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A lot of things from Quadrophenia.
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If we're starting again on this one...
'Black and White Town' by the Doves, purely because it sounded great driving up the front at Blackpool in the p*ssing rain earlier this summer.
[And did the rain stop the Scots wearing too little and eating chips in the open air ? Did it buggery !]
I'd hesitate to suggest any of the tosh that goes with the 'scream if you wanna go faster brigage', but I remember sleeping in an old volvo at scarborough with just two drunks and a Shamen tape for company - 'Move move move any mountain.......'
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SJ, tell us more about wild nights in Scarborough! a fine town by the way, to take photos!
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I would like to add one of Ed's faves,
since he likes to have it on his compilation lists, and he played it for us the other week in R' Bay
The Go Betweens 'Bachelor Kisses'
a dream of a song.
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Getting to be quite a list people & some fine stuff being thrown in the mix. Looking like it's gonna have to be a double album.
I'll chuck another of my favoutites in the hat whilst i'm here though most of you young groovers won't know it.
Dancing Barefoot, by Patti Smith.
A mighty tune, & of course the most perfect thing to do on the beach,
though maybe not this time of the year.
Always remember some lady friend of mine a long time ago, doing handstands on the sand at Scarborough after a little drink or six, ah... dear me, was quite a day as I recall.
Every tune/picture tells a story.....
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I have just heard Seu Jorge's version of Rebel Rebel, top song, very laid back and summery, just right for the head phones on a warm beach somewhere.......
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Eddie - I just have to mention the great version of Patti Smith's Dancing Barefoot by The NY band The Feelies. Although Patti's original is great, to me, this Velvetesque cover is the definative version.
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Ghost town by the specials, i know its about cov. and all but it always reminds me of my hometown (cleethorpes) in nov-feb time
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Just have to say thanks to A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop the aforementioned Feelies song is great.
Just nabbed it from the most wonderful internet.
Have to say re: Cleethorpes I really quite like the place, much, much, better than Coventry, which is Horrible.
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I'd like to add The Shamens, Move Any Mountain, and Sunshine on a Rainy Day by Zoe. Mainly because I saw both of them perform those songs at the Radio 1 Road Show at Morcambe in 1991.
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I think Driving with Bert by Neil Halstead could be an asset to the soundtrack. Anyone know it?
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Don't know it yet but I'll look into it.
I believe Mr Halstead is in a band called Mojave 3, purveyers of fine & rather mellow seaside strolling tunes.
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I think Chris Rea 'On The Beach'.
It's mellow and blue.
'Saint-Tropez Blues' by Marie Laforêt,French actoress is also good.
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Yes, that's the very same Mr Halstead. And while on the subject of French actresses, Arielle Dombasle of Eric Rohmer film fame, does a particularly fine version of Perfidia - perhaps more suitable for French seaside towns
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I'm sure there're great little french seaside towns too.
Noticed the old Echo & the Bunnymen song the Killing Moon, getting played quite a bit recently on the TV.
Forgotten what a fine tune that is.
Also just like to say thanks, while I'm here for all the interesting suggestions.
& please feel free to start up any new thread ideas, the Admin of this group,
( me & LLoyd ) are very laid back, about such things.
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I've been listening alot recently to M Ward's
'End of Amnesia', and there is a very simple, melancholic tune on there, called 'psalm', the bit where he sings the lines about a bareback rider, and his voice sings up a tone, ahh, life is sweet, made of songs like this, the coast, the sea, driving home in a car with street lights shining on its windowscreen, smudging in the rain,the evening sunset turning it's nightly blue,,, yes... a bluesy country album that should be in your seaside packup bag!
ps yes up Mr Eds comment above, feel free to start up a thread!
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Johnny Ray's 'Walking In The Rain'
or Mitch Murray's incomporable "Down Came The Rain" ?
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There was a great girlie band song in the mid 70's - the tag line was "Remember, walking in the sa-a-and, Remember, walking hand in ha-a-and...."
Was it the Shangri-Las?
I dunno, it always reminded me of Brighton in November, for some reason.
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I can remember Nik Kershaw's "won't Let the Sun go down on me"
playing endlessly in South Shields fun fair.
Or Much more appropriate Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits
And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
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And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To rockaway rockaway from Cullercoats and Whitley Bay out to rockaway
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Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
"How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, Come, Come - nuclear bomb
Which is odd as Nik Kershaw talks about Nuclear Bombs in I won't let the Sun go down on me.
forty winks in the lobby
make mine a G&T
then to my favourite hobby
searching for an enemy
here in your paper houses
stretching for miles and miles
old men in stripey trousers
rule the world with plastic smiles
good or bad, like it or not
it's the only one we've got
i won't let the sun go down on me
i won't let the sun go down
mother nature isn't in it
three hundred million years
goodbye in just a minute
gone forever, no more tears
pinball man, power glutton
vacuum inside his head
forefinger on the button
is he blue or is he red?
break your silence if you would
before the sun goes down for good
i won't let the sun go down on me
i won't let the sun go down
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Two more tracks that always make me think of the seaside
Obviously, The Seaside Shuffle from Terry Dactyl and The Dinosaurs
t's a warm day, the sun is shining
Someone says 'let's go to Brighton'
So we all get up on our friends car
Hold on tight 'cos we're doing ninety miles per hour
We left a London a-where it's hot
We're heading for our favourite spot
Down on the coast way past the town of Crawley
Where the breeze blows and the air tastes of the sea
We a-walk along the promenade pier
Spend a pound or two on fun and beer
Then look around, see what we can see
Bikini girls and everybody smiling happily
And ... Peaches by The Stranglers
Strolling along minding my own business
There goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches
Well I got the notion girl that
You got some sun tan lotion in that bottle of yours
Spread it all over my peeling skin baby
That feels real good
All this skirt
Lapping up the sun
Lap me up
(Why don't you come on and)
Lap me up
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches
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Interesting stuff gentlemen, it's very evocative that there seaside thing.
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chris rea
on the beach
Between the eyes of love I call your name
Behind the guarded walls I used to go
Upon a summer wind theres a certain melody
Takes me back to the place that I know
Down on the beach
The secrets of the summer I will keep
The sands of time will blow a mystery
No-one but you and i
Underneath that moonlit sky
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach
Forever in my dreams my heart will be
Hanging on to this sweet memory
A day of strange desire
And a night that burned like fire
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach
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Just thought of a few more:
The Nits - Rising Sun (in fact, almost everything from the CD, Les Nuits)
Squeeze - Goodbye Girl
Kings of Convenience - Misread
Paolo Conte - Sparring Partner, cos it has that funny seaside wurlitzer sound in the middle
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Or Howie B's version of 'Under The Boardwalk' – played on a wurlitzer (?) organ
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I have a new one, this is St Augustine, by Band of Horses, amazing sort of harmonies type voices going on
Seems to me maybe we've got maybe two different cd collections here, one mellow and evocative, a little wistful and another of dogem type favourites, a bit louder, more brash, and more fairground ride.
I like the post by the way, earlier on, about a song 'tasting like candyfloss', maybe that's the title for this disc
Personally, I prefer the earlier stuff, but it's a great mine of memoires and dreams were mining here, maybe we need to get these burned and sell em Ed?
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Waves by Blamanche ? ;-) pun intended, but nice song, moody atmospheric.
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On Some Faraway Beach by Eno. I always think that the song could equally refer to both an exotic location with the sun shining or just a place like Skegness in the drizzle.
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Can't believe no-ones mentioned Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins
From 9 to 5 I have to spend my time at work,
My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk,
The only thing that helps me make it through the day,
Is knowing I'll be back at Echo Beach someday
Gets sung by the Moomins on the way there - just swop out Echo for todays destination and its almost perfect everytime.
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the siddeleys produced fantastically apt tunes - you can find some on
www.myspace.com/sombrerorecordings
"the smell of chips on a summer evening in southend..."
actually southend was particularly popular -
"the sight of the facade of the palace hotel southend..."
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Crocketts Theme
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toad the wet sprocket - walk on the ocean
sarah brightman - ocean between us
lifehouse - take me away
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Like the sound of that Mr Dog
& many thanks to all contributors
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The Kooks - Fell in Love at the Seaside
The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine (we had a fight on the promenade out in the rain..)
Both fantastic songs, and I first heard the second one driving through Southport. Lovely lovely lovely.
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Sounds good, sounds good, I wonder though what Mr Ed will think,
aka Fasteddie42, he is my music guru......
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Love the Killers
Alas not too keen on the Kooks.
I fear they may not make it onto the compilation cd
However there's so much other good stuff on there I'm sure there'll be something to please.
Flattered to be called the Music Guru Mr Dog
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Great topic!
Well just off the top of my head, here's some suggestions:
'Charlie dont surf' - the Clash
'Every grain of sand' - Bob Dylan
'Can't hardly wait' - The Replacements
'Wait till the summer comes along' - Kinks
'Happy when it rains' - Jesus & Mary Chain'
'Dancing with the women at the bar'- Ryan Adams
'Summer teeth' - Wilco
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I would like to add 'wild horses', by the Rolling Stones,for those mellow holiday nights, maybe in that sad happy way, when its time to go home....
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'At The River' by Groove Armada just has to be the DADDY!
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I take it you're a Morrissey fan. Suedehead in particular - hence your title?
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Not a massive fan these days, though he's rarely dull.
Lloyd - mrdog, the other group Admin, came up with the idea & the name.
We are old friends & have a similar fondness for the, slightly past their best elements, of the seaside town experience.
Combine that with a love of photography & there you are.
The old Mozzer tune is just the perfect name for the pool.
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at the river - by groove armada is very nice, too...yup
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The theme from 'Paris, Texas' by Ry Cooder is just perfect for Morecambe.
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Must have 'Every Day is Like Sunday' by Moz.
How about Maximo Park 'The Coast Is Always Changing'?
We look out upon the sea,
The coast is always changing,
I'll bring my camera out to sea,
The coast is always changing
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Ah, more fine selections seasiders.
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Don't know if anyone has mentioned them but A Distant Shore by Tracey Thorn and North Marine Drive by Ben Watt always remind me of dilapidated empty shelters on the rain and windswept prom.
In fact I remember bunking off school to buy them and taking them down to the seafront to peruse the covers (they were vinyl)
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Seven Seas of Rye by Queen. It even includes "oh I do like to be beside the seaside"...
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For me... it just has to be "Bring me sunshine".
Every time I here it I can't help but think of my beloved (if a little decrepit) home town of Morecambe.
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I have indeed created a CD with some of your recommendations - they make for a wonderful road-trip compilation! thanks, guys!
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Nice one, djune.
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I'm not a Queen fan but Seaside Rendevous would sound OK in a run down seaside town, preferably playing on an 8 track in a purple Anglia.
I think for that sort of nostalgia for a time before you were born type of feel you could have some Kenny Ball and his jazzmen or even the shadows or some Joe Meek compliations.
Dress in an old mac, make some cheap sarnies, get some deckhairs in the boot and take some of those.
I would be happy with any Nick Drake, maybe Bryter Later and the perfect one that really is in keeping with this thread is "Say You don't mind" by Colin Bluntstone, yes, forget all my other suggestions, just get that one.
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Cheers big Al.
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The Roy Harper version of Jethro Tull's "Up the Pool" is a cracker.
"There'll be bucket, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days,
seaweed and sand castles, icy waves.
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down,
sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze."
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Several people suggested Groove Armada's "At The River", but I'd prefer the original song that they sampled .... Patti Paige's "Old Cape Cod".
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The Seven Seas of Rye
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I love that Jethro Tull one, a good choice, and the Patti Page is on my ipod for the playlist here.
Not that well known and a bit before my time (honest), but Pinball by Brian Protheroe would fit nicely here.
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Yellow - Coldplay; that's the most suicide inducing song I can think of.
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Have to agree with blurredimage and put up my hand for "ghost town" by the specials. I often find myself humming that when walking around these places.
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"4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by Bruce Springsteen
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Its got to be Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Only really works when its Winter and pouring with Rain.
The new Goldfrapp album works well in Filey....again when its raining.
But Jim Noir a lancashire based musician has some amazingly haunting songs about the seaside, has that weird eerie tinny sound to it. He has some wonderful songs including lyrics on Blackpool, Morecombe and North Wales. I highly recommend him.
1940s wartime classics work well on the East Yorkshire coast.
I tend to go the the Seaside when its out of season and raining. Hence why all my recommendations invole it to be raining.
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Best time to go vicklesby, in fact as I sit typing this the rains lashing down my window. I live in Eastbourne & I'm just about to get out with my camera.
Thanks for your excellent suggestions & thanks to everyone else for making this such a thoroughly wonderful thread.
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Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
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the jimi tenor version of "down in the park"
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dunno if anyone remembers, but there was a rip off ska/dub band, the Dead 60's, vaguely popular a few years ago, and they did a song called The Last Resort'.
I think the video is probably more fitting than the song...
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How about 'Roundabout' -- Yes
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The Shangri-Las "Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
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Forgive me for interloping and apologees if these have been said before but how about
'Stranger on a shore' by Acker Bilk
but also anything by
Sandie Shaw
Ok --- I'll go away now!
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