Friday, 10 August 2012
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Playlist Friday: VACATION
Greetings, Internet!
Welcome to Friday, the start of your weekend and the end of your work week, unless you work crazy hours that make you work on weekends in which case I'm sorry. But anyway, it's now time for:
This is a (usually) weekly feature in which I post a (play) list of songs on a particular theme. Since I am on vacation next week (in Middle of Nowhere, Maine), this week's theme is therefore VACATION. Yes, songs about getting away from it all and enjoying oneself.
Let us begin, shall we?
1. Vacation - The Go-Gos
I've been in an 80s music mood lately. There are a couple of catchy girl bands from that time period, and the Go-Gos are probably one of the most famous. I like this song but really the only part I ever remember is the chorus: "Vacation, all I ever wanted."
I suppose therefore that the narrator must not go on many vacations.
2. Vacation - Connie Francis
I think I've heard this song approximately a thousand and six times but I had no idea who sang it until just now when I looked it up. Despite sharing the title with the Go-Go's song, this is totally different. This is also one of those songs that gets stuck in my head at random, mostly the part where she sings, "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N, in the summertime."
3. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
This song is not really about a vacation, but about a place where someone might like to go on vacation. The narrator goes down to a place called Margaritaville, which I suppose is a place where you drink all day and do nothing much else. There are tourists, covered in oil, so it is a place where people go on vacation, but it doesn't seem as though the narrator is on vacation. It seems instead that he has gone down there to get over a terrible breakup, though it takes a few verses to admit that it's really his fault.
4. Kokomo - Kermit the Frog The Beach Boys
I have never been to a Caribbean island or any place tropical. It is on my list of things to do before I die, alone and sad, with 45 cats. Anyway, I like the plan the narrator of this song has to "get there fast, and then we'll take it slow." Last thing you want ruining your vacation is plane delays, traffic, lost luggage, and anything that shortens the relaxing getaway part of your vacation.
5. Sand in My Shoes - Dido
This song is about the thoughts a woman has after returning from an awesome vacation. While on vacation she met an amazing lover, and though they promised to forget one another after the vacation had ended and she has to get back to her normal life, she can't stop thinking about him. She talks also about how she thought she was happy living "on a road where the cars never stop" and didn't realize how simple and wonderful it is to get on a plane and escape to a place where she can look at the sunset and take her time.
Also, she wants to see that lover again.
The music in this has just the right mix of Caribbean sort of percussion with a dance-y sort of beat that somehow (to me) manages to evoke both a hectic city life (I imagine in London because she's British) as well as a vacation on an island.
So, that's all for this week. Next week I shall probably not have a playlist (sadness) because I will still be away on my vacation. Which means I have two weeks to think of another theme. Feel free to post suggestions if there's some theme you think might be interesting. Or share your own, because why not?
What's the BEST vacation you ever had?
What songs about vacations do you like?
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Comments (14)
i was just sure you'd have this in your playlist. it's what i thought of immediately. vacation great playlist here. i have to listen to the dido yet.
beach vacation. always the best for me.
The best vacation I had was when I was in Germany while in The Army. I had 30 days leave (vacation) and spent three weeks just bumming around some of the towns near by where I was stationed. After seeing my sister graduate from HS. Cheapest vacation I was ever on. I KNEW you would have The Go Go's Vacation before visiting. Try and keep you're sanity and hurry back.
The best vacation I ever had? I don't know. Panama? France? Michigan? Anyway. I heard "California Dreamin'" on the radio today at work and I like that song. It kinda fits...
best vacation? 2 weeks that i spent in new zealand
I can't really think of vacations because my family never really did them. My mom always freaked out about taking days off because she always thought that once she took one she'd not be able to take off when and if she really needed to. She loses all her vacation days every year. It really sucked when I was a kid. Also my dad ran the family shoe store so he couldn't really get away from that since he was the only one in the store besides my grandparents and he didn't like leaving it all to them.
My favorite vacation song...Holiday Road. I think it's in every National Lampoon's vacation movie.
can't think of any right now but all my vacations have been wonderful when I worked cause you really need a break. The boys and I would get snack and leave early in the morning and it would be so fun to get on the ROAD.
@promisesunshine - Nope, never saw that movie. I shall pause now so you can interject with, "What?! No! You MUST see it, it's SO funny." ;)
I actually haven't been on too many beach vacations. Maybe because Jersey beaches are crowded and expensive, my mom was never in to them when I was a kid.
@Zoz36 - That's pretty cool, just kind of exploring some place you've never been before. Yeah, the Go-Gos song was the first one that came into my head with the theme. :)
@randaness - LOL I find it funny that you include Michigan in with these exotic locales. Although, I have never been to Michigan, France, or Panama, so they're all exotic to me. :)
I think almost any song with the word "California" implies that there may be a vacation involved, but maybe that's because I don't live there. I suppose Californians don't think of it that way. I feel funny listening to California Dreamin' when it's warm out. Last summer I went to San Francisco and it was actually cooler there than Jersey, though I suppose LA might have been about the same. Hmm, there's a lot of California title songs, maybe that will be a future playlist.
@buddy71 - ooh, that does sound pretty awesome. I haven't been out of the country yet. Thought about London this year, but figured it'd be insane with the Olympics, and anyway I haven't gotten my passport yet.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Aw, that's sad. We didn't go on many exciting vacations when I was a kid either, because my Mom felt it was too much money. The farthest we went was to Ohio, and that was to stay with my relatives. Most of our vacations were spent staying with relatives. I decided last year that since I'm an adult now I'm going to do my own vacations and go where I want to, which was why I went to California. This year since we're actually going some place new, I figured I'd go with them. You should take your own exotic vacations now without your parents. For instance, you could go to exotic places like Panama, France, Michigan, and New Jersey. ;)
Also, you are the second person to suggest that song, and I have not seen that movie. You may now proceed to tell me how hilarious and amazing it is.
@jillcarmel - Yup, I love road trips. We used to drive often to Ohio, which meant roughly 300 miles across PA. We liked to write down the names of all the distant license plates. :)
@leaflesstree - vacations are never about mothers. i can assure you of that. however, i'm greedy and demanding. which is why i don't hate vacation. (actually desperately want vacation thank you very much. not happening. sigh)
After I graduated high school, I took my first car and drove cross-country. That was by far the best "vacation" I ever had. We did go out for like weekends but that was usually to Madison, Milwaukee, and Green Bay and basically all we did was go to stores and chain restaurants that weren't in our area.