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Seaside Tales 2

by Social Skills

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1.
Here Comes the Emperor 02:58
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Retirees And old school Tories Are only part of the story, Of south coast voo dn doo skullduggery, A smugglers past, a little Anarchy A thespian, Tradition, of Wilde and Pinter, the curtain callin' man Here's to you the underground Worthing style, the emperor Haile Selassie, lived here a while recuperating, in a seaside haze, 1938..... On the run, from Mussolini, in Warnes hotel, Vodka Martini's, Was he looking for a rumour? A fountain , Here comes the Emperor
2.
Beach Hotel 03:38
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Beach Hotel they're not very mobile they've got their own style Friday Night Beach Hotel on toupee's and lip gloss shaking to Joe Loss They get tight They've got their own style friday night to do they drink from the fountain of youth they drink from the fountain of youth Gin and Whisky twisting in their best frocks as the lounge rocks to the sound of waiters in tuxedos singing Danny La Rue clutching trays full of blue curacao They've got their own style friday night to do they drink from the fountain of youth they drink from the fountain of youth Beach Hotel they're not very mobile they've got their own style............. Far below that hotel bar lies the source of the voodoo, the fountain of youth flows up from the depths of the old school, maintained by the leader of the house group Ilford Wristy, driven crazy by the big band beatnik hotel orgies, Like national service on a non stop James Last head trip, drink right from the source then into the channel for a dip...........ooh!
3.
Worthing Wowie 03:00
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4.
Knuckers 03:54
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Were Knuckers Up from our Knucker holes Out for the evening on a monster patrol off to Broadwater with the Skeleton Army To shatter the calm So raise the alarm We'll spend the night round the midsummer tree Indulging in the 3Bs We don't need the Salvo's here, We don't have a god to fear, What we want is very clear Beef, Bacca and Beer No Salvation wanted here We come from Deep Down in a bottomless pond Deep Down in a bottomless pond Salvation means nothing when your really gone Deep Down in a bottomless pond Gonna bring some voodoo and a dragon along from Deep Down in a bottomless pond We don't need the Salvo's here, We don't have a god to fear, What we want is very clear Beef, Bacca and Beer
5.
Amnesia Expresso Tours 04:29
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You need an adventure, Take a road trip into the sun, Forget your dementia, the party's almost begun, feel the vibrations, the rhythms wash you away, keep traveling in circles, were gonna re rewind your day Amnesia expresso tours It's a knees up if your on the wane, a journey down to Goring Hall via Findon and memory lane You need an adventure, Take a sun trip into the road, Ferment your dementia, the party's gonna explode, let the vibrations, and the rhythms wash you away, keep talking in circles, were gonna voodoo you today Amnesia expresso tours It's a winner if your fading fast, a journey down to Rustington, in a big chair behind tinted glass come and get your kicks on a bus load of old chicks, driver's ex Ghurka waiter's from the tropics, cruise control to keep you whole if you get in trouble when your knocking down a double gin rickey, it'll do the trick tighten up your coursette while we spin the hits, Cliff and the Shadows Perry Como the Squadron Leader digs a little bit of Manilow go cat go put the pedal to the metal gonna find me a pensioner to fiddle with my medals bro you need a vacation go cat go put the pedal to the metal gonna find me a pensioner to fiddle with my medals bro you need a vacation old cats go with amnesia expresso you need a vacation
6.
Beachcomber 03:17
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The hours confuse, In my line of work, I'm here and there like a sea change, the different gifts, the seasons all bring, make up the best part off my right brain I'm a beachcomber baby, day and the night, a rum runner shady, seasonal type, I don't need nobody, and noone knows me, I'm lost in the moonlight and as the downs rollover and as the downs rollover and into the sea, I ride on the crest of my right to be free I ride on the crest of my right to be free I cruise the coast roads shovel in hand pick up the secrets, lost in the sand, I wait for the rain, to empty the beach, I dig up the bounty, buried down deep I'm a rum runner floating on the riptide, you don't recognise me I'm a bird as I fly, round Shoreham marina but noone sees me, I'm lost in the moonlight, immediately, The hours confuse, In my line of work, I'm here and there like a sea change,
7.
Intermission 03:19
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Time traveling at a quiet screening Chauffeured by silent gods black and white to Panavision, Is what I'm dreaming of Red Buttons on a white wagon Blue tunes from mountain tops Wild horses in a lost canyon broken by keystone cops Rod Steiger James Coburn fight for a hopeless cause just as the guns smoking somebody presses pause Ice Cream! Naughty Boy sitting in the backseat, trying to use some style at the dome in the Intermission you better wait a while
8.
Decline & Fall 01:19
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Decline and fall, Drunk on the fountain one and all, drowning in the flavour, gorging on the fruits of their labour
9.
Toxic Dream 03:22
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I can't go to sea In this toxic fishery it's messing with me, I think I'm turning green I can't get myself to sleep Toxic Cowboys in a cod war riding roughshod over me trawl the deep until there's no more Infectious agents bloom toxic residue bioconcentrates dioxins for bait a floating factory froze and processed me tinned me up in brine gone for all of time I can't get myself to sleep Toxic Cowboys in a cod war riding roughshod over me trawl the deep until there's no more
10.
No More 04:03
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No More Fishing the Shallows No More skirting the narrows No More dover sole waiting No More lines that need baiting No More sailing at midnight No More long rods and flash lights No More nets full of flat fish Beaten by factory ships No More bass in the locker No More mackeral to offer No More markets in your square We Ate Everything out there out on the ocean my dinner in brine a bagful of uppers and the mariners rhyme searching for seafood in a bottle of rum dogfish or huss in a rusty old drum the world ain't round when you get to the end I can't feed my people with a fishermans friend bloodshot stinking going out of our minds gonna seajack a cross channel luxury line were going somali from now on it seems forced to make a living out of piracy driven to thieving with little to lose the jolly roger wrecks your pleasure cruise
11.
The Storm 03:08
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It's a huge money spinner for Mr FishFinger He's got a seaside landfill deep below Selsey Bill Only the Beachcomber tried to warn about the king tide way bigger than 53, the revenge of the sea, but the men from the council, no they didn't listen, they've got interests invested, 'and your just bad for business' So the folk got fat as the storm rolled in (feed me baby)
12.
Life Raft 02:52
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in a life raft, swaying to the german bight the gulf stream gone with the search lights a shipwreck on dry land when you throw it away aah but the good old days they were worth it anyhow lets do it one more time with feeling and all indulge in a tune on a platform riding on the radio waves vhf waiting on the long range a signal to shine out into the night aah but the good old days they were worth it anyhow lets do it one more time with feeling aah but the good old days they were worth it anyhow lets do it one more time with feeling and all indulge in a tune
13.
Drift Away 02:16
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we live as we do in our dreams all alone we think as we breath, we give and we take as we go coz your the only one that you really know every time I try to see what you're thinking I fall because I just ain't you, but please mamma come and get inside me we might lose but I won't cry if we do is the end just the same as the time we spent livin' it out on our own? we survive and we try to be one, but together we just struggle alone we survive and we try to be one, but together we just struggle alone every time I try to see what you're thinking I fall because I just ain't you, but please mamma come and get inside me we might lose but I won't cry if we do

about

This is the new Social Skills album, out on the 29th of January 2011............it goes something like this....Seaside Tales 2 has a drifting narrative of sorts....side 1 starts with the Emperor of Abyssinia Haile Selasie arriving in Worthing in the 1930s, on the run from Mussolini. He sings a lament for home/decent weather, whilst searching for a legendary fountain of youth his Sussex girlfriend had told him about.
Rather usefully for some, there is in fact a fountain of youth in the basement of the Beach Hotel, an establishment occupied by the Squadron Leader, who is ageless but by no means young....the potent mix of the various intoxicants provided by the Abyssinians and the Squadron Leader leave their mark on the underbelly of this seemingly quiet seaside town...
jump several decades to the Noughties, during which the spirit of Selasie remains in the form of Britain's only
Amsterdam style 'coffee shop', which runs for a few years selling Worthing Wowie (dedicated to Chris Baldwin) before it is raided by the Council and Pc Plod.......but the trip was good and evokes memories of Worthing's mythical dragons, 'Knuckers', who live in bottomless ponds around the town. They are naturally
allied to the Skeleton army, Worthing's finest rabble, who terrorised the Salvation army in the 19th century and demanded 'beef, bacca and beer', whilst throwing dead rats at do gooders. Meanwhile the ageless Squadron Leader is running 'Amnesia Expresso Tours' for the elderly and confused, and their trip is fueled by goodness knows what. Added to the mix of locals is the Beachcomber, who has a hangover from the first Seaside Tales LP, but is sober enough to warn of impending doom from his home in the groins of the beach.
Like any old fashioned film there is then an Intermission (at the Dome cinema, in the 1953, or is it 2003?).
After which we get down to Side 2, the Decline and Fall of everything, as the locals drown in the fruits of their labour, with the Beachcomber watching on...
.the fisherman lose their livelyhood as the Toxic Cowboys dump waste into sea, No More sea bass in the locker, until the fishers are forced to go Somali
and turn pirate (hijacking a cross channel luxury ferry).
Meanwhile the profits roll in for mr Fishfinger, who has an enormous seaside landfill courtesy of the local council, and we all continue to live it up, ignoring the ever brewing monster Storm, which arrives vengeful and lusty. What was once land is now water, and on a Liferaft the survivors are unrepentant, they'd do it all again with the same outcome, it was a great trip after all... And as they Drift Away, they sing a simple song of individuality, philosophical whimsy in the face of endless nothing............only joking folks!

credits

released January 29, 2011

Social Skills is nearly all Rupert Latimer. But there are several other wonderful people involved with the new album.
Brydon Stace - Lead Vocals (track 11), Backing Vocals (tracks 1,4,5,8,10,11,12) and Operatic Pavlovarotti (track 1), plus voices on the Express
Danni Nicholls - Lead vocals (tracks 1,2,7,9,12,13)
Teresina Morra - Lead vocals (track 3), Backing Vocals (track1) and Saxophone
Pando - Backing Vocals (tracks 3, 6, 13)
Miranda Stace - Backing Vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, 10)
Sarah Moss - Backing Vocals (tracks 3, 6, 5, 10)
Pete Jones - Backing Vocals & Pirates (track 10)
Legs Larry Smith - the Squadron Leader
The Glow Worm- Ice Cream Lady and Design
SF Said - Master Polaroid Photographer

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Social Skills from West Sussex, United KIngdom, playing Art Rock, New Wave, Psychedelic Pop and Rock, a bit of Prog, a Soundtrack or two. In action since the Noughties, more available from the Social Skiills website.

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