Weekend Playlist: Beaches

Weekend Playlist: Beaches

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Alun looking at X/twitter selections (29/08/2025) with Songs that reference beaches.
This was to commemorate National Beach Day on August 30.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist! Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list

[Side 1] On the Beach
All Saints - Pure shores
Chris Rea - On the beach
Beabadoobee - Beaches
Stranglers - Peaches
First Class - Beach baby
Martha & Muffins - Echo beah
Beach boys - Surfin’ USA

[Side 2] Beautiful Beaches
Nicki Minaj - Starships
George Formby - With my little stick of Blackpool rock
Squeeze - Pulling mussells (from the shell)
James - Beautiful Beaches
DJ Sammy - Boys of Summer
Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the sands

[Bonus]
Kooks - Seaside
Keane - Soverign light cafe
Dido - Sand in my shoes

Long list

• All Saints - Pure shores
• Chris Rea - On the beach
• Beabadoobee - Beaches
• Stranglers - Peaches
• First Class - Beach baby
• Martha & Muffins - Echo beah
• Beach boys - Surfin’ USA
• Nicki Minaj - Starships
• George Formby - With my little stick of Blackpool rock
• Squeeze - Pulling mussells (from the shell)
• James - Beautiful Beaches
• DJ Sammy - Boys of Summer
• Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the sands
• Kooks - Seaside
• Keane - Soverign light cafe
• Dido - Sand in my shoes
• B52s - Rock Lobster
• Florrie Forde - I do like to be beside the seaside
• Beach boys - Girls on the beach
• Fisherman’s Friends - Cornwall my home
• Susie Lewis - Cornish beach
• Brian Eno - On some faraway beach
• David Sylvian - Waterfront
• Wolf Alice - Beach II
• Blur - Girls & Boys
• Peaches - F*** the pain away
• Vanessa Paradis - La Plage
• Bruce Springsteen - 4th July Asbury Park (Sandy)
• Leftfield Phat Planet - Surfer
• Taylor Swift - Last grea American dynasty
• Cardiacs - Hope day
• Liran Donin - Noam sea & sand
• Neil Young - On a beach
• Phantom Band - Island
• Drifters - Down on the beach tonight
• Blake Shelton - Some beach
• T-Spoon - Sex on the beach
• John Travolta (Grease) - Sandy
• Ash - Walking barefoot
• Joe Satriani - Days at the beach (new rays from an ancient sun)
• New Edition (The) - Get a little sand between your toes
• Aerosmith - Remember (walking in the sand)
• Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville
• Stan Getz/Astrud Giberto - Girl from Ipanema
• Flock of seagulls - I rain (so far away)
• Zoe - Sunshine on a rainy day
• Drifters - Under the boardwalk
• U2 - Every breaking wave
• Cure - Killing an arab
• Kenny Loggins - Playing with boys
• York - OTB (On the beach)
• Groove Armada - At the river
• Miley Cyrus - Malibu
• Weezer - Island in the sun
• Imagine Dragons - Take me to the beach
• Acker Bilk - Stranger on the shore
• Drifters - I’ve got sand in my shoes
• Morcheeba - The sea
• Sinead O’Connor - Jackie
• Fat Boys & Beach boys - Wipeout
• Men they couldn’t hang - Island in the rain
• Mata - Lloret de mar
• Athlete - Dungerness
• Hamish Hawk - Grey seals
• Sparks - Let’s go surfing
• Bette Midler - Under the boardwalk
• Who - Sea & Sand
• Bon Jovi - 99 in the shade
• Thunder - Englishman on holiday
• Wire train - I will not fail
• Tom McRae - Walking to Hawaii
• Kirsty MacColl - Hes on the beach
• New Order - The Beach
• Beastie Boys - Shake your rump
• Bombalurina - Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini
• POTUSA - Dune buggy
• Moby - Porcelain (The Beach)
• Bobby Darin - Beyond the sea
• Chas & Dave - Marate
• Lana Del Rey - 1949
• Nalin & Kane - Beachball
• George Ezra - Shotgun