Other Mixes By plushpig
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Theme - Road Trip
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Pop
Sand In The Sandwiches
| Artist | Song | |
| 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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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.
A most interesting theme. Watch John Candy's "Summer Rental" to dispell any thoughts of jealosy about American beach vacations.
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 -
Many thanks for this excellent survey of the scene; SOMEDAY I will get my own Beach mix together & will return the favor -
i love this theme, super clever, & the execution is pretty spotless - love the notes as well!
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.
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...
Loving it.
excellent and funny in almost equal measure . . .
If ever there is an AOTM "chalet", this can be the BGM. Cheers!
Wonderful! Love the notes too.
I once bummed Vince Hill in the Pebble Mill car park
I do like that Blur song and a few others here. Have a nice holiday.
Fantastic mix.