plushpig
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Destination Bangor, Maine Vol 2
CD | Theme - Road Trip
Destination Bangor, Maine Vol 1
CD | Theme - Road Trip
New frie_nds & old acquaintances
MP3 Playlist | Mixed Genre
Too Lovely To Leave Alone
CD | Single Artist
Heliophilia
CD | Pop
Submit Date: 3/31/2008
Format: CD
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Sand In The Sandwiches
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Reginald Dixon
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea Side
George Formby
With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock
Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs
Sea Side Shuffle
Chas & Dave
Margate
Vince Hill
A Day At The Sea Side
Human Instinct
Death at The Sea Side
Bonzo Dog Band
Postcard
Jethro Tull
Up The Pool
Finders Keepers
On The Beach
Nick Nicely
On The Beach (A Ladder Descends)
Morrissey
Every Day Is Like Sunday
The Membranes
Tatty Sea Side Town
Michael Chapman
Postcards Of Scarborough
Geno Washington
Beach Bash
Cliff Richard
On The Beach
First Class
Beach Baby
Pink Floyd
St Tropez
John Dowie
British Tourist
Cats UK
Luton Airport
Blur
Girls & Boys
Steve Bent
I'm Going To Spain
Led Zeppelin
Down By The Sea Side
John Renbourn
Day At The Sea Side
Eric Idle
Holiday Rant
Comment:
Americans take vacations; Brits have holidays. Instead of boardwalks, chilli dogs & surfing, we have to make do with rusting Victorian piers, jellied eels & donkey rides.
Vacations are glamourous, holidays are a mixture of cheerful vulgarity and melancholic seediness. Occasionally, envious glances were cast across the Atlantic. As the `70s progressed, we tentatively began venturing abroad, but the imperatives remained: cheap booze and plentiful sex (or should that be the other way round?) with a cordial mistrust of Johnny Foreigner & his strange culinary habits thrown in for good measure. A perennial theme for British pop: what other topic could bring together George Formby, Vince Hill ,J Tull, Morrissey, Geno Washington & Blur in the same mix?Grab your bucket & spade & navigate to:
http://rapidshare.com/files/103733807/sand.zip
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avocado rabbit
Date:
3/31/2008
Nothing you said makes this American want to take a vacation in Britain with the possible exception of plentiful sex. I do like the mix idea, however.
Mark Petruccelli
Date:
3/31/2008
A most interesting theme. Watch John Candy's "Summer Rental" to dispell any thoughts of jealosy about American beach vacations.
joey de vivre
Date:
3/31/2008
The power of the beach fantasy -- reinforced by all those beach party movies -- is so strong that every weekend thousands of people huddle in blankets on every windswept shore of northern California, picking sand out of the picnic.
Many thanks for this excellent survey of the scene; SOMEDAY I will get my own Beach mix together & will return the favor -
anthony lombardi
Date:
3/31/2008
i love this theme, super clever, & the execution is pretty spotless - love the notes as well!
KathrynandRupert
Date:
3/31/2008
Is it really fair to inflict Reginald Dixon on unsuspecting AOTMers? Great to see the magnificent Beach Baby and John Dowie on the same mix. I never found plentiful sex abroad but then I spent a lot of time sleeping on trains.
sammyg123
Date:
4/1/2008
Such a great mix, one of the best of the year - every track a fond favourite. And the Steve Bent track reminds me of your early mix 'These Fallish Things', if you ever get round to uploading that I'd be SO grateful...
Rob Conroy
Date:
4/1/2008
Loving it.
gobi
Date:
4/1/2008
excellent and funny in almost equal measure . . .
njr
Date:
4/2/2008
If ever there is an AOTM "chalet", this can be the BGM. Cheers!
Funky Ratchet
Date:
4/3/2008
Wonderful! Love the notes too.
Korky Castille
Date:
4/3/2008
I once bummed Vince Hill in the Pebble Mill car park
doowad
Date:
4/12/2008
I do like that Blur song and a few others here. Have a nice holiday.
Salman1
Date:
4/17/2008
Fantastic mix.
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