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Fuerteventura
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Where it's summer all year long. Oh yeah.
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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative Brit Pop
Charts
Peak #18
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
Steve Smith
Rights
Steve Smith
Uploaded
June 25, 2014
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.2 MB 128 kbps 4:32
Story behind the song
There's something about this island that keeps drawing us back. Oh I know it's a package holiday destination with all the tackiness that goes with it, but away from the bustling strip there's the blue ocean and surely one of the best beaches in the world. I've not found anywhere else where you can sit in glorious sun next to thundering surf and gaze out on endless sand dunes stretching to the horizon and beyond. Ahhh. Not sure what time signature this is in, it sort of keeps changing in an unruly way - I just let it go where it wanted.
Lyrics
Hey Mr O'Leary, let me on your plane I only have one piece of hand luggage But I have to get back there again I know I only just got back And it must have slipped my mind See I had something important And I left it behind I have to get back to Fuerteventura Where the hot sun shines And the strong breezes blow I left something behind Something I'm not sure of I just have to get it back, I know Every day we'd take a taxi Down to the Dunas beach For lunch we'd just take some sliced cheese And a bread roll each We loved the loud Atlantic waves And the soft Saharan sand Sangria in the sunset Until we'd do it all again Do it all again Nights in Corralejo When the sun has burned down In the Ace of Spades When the surfers come to town So take my ticket, check me in Let's board and make a start Back to Fuerteventura Where I left my heart I have to get back to Fuerteventura Where the hot sun shines And the strong breezes blow I left something behind Something I'm not sure of I just have to get it back, I know
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Major Snagg
Aug 01, 2014
Time for me to say it this time . . . a Smivets signature sound, nice jangly guitars, great lyrics and great songwriting . . . a very british sound. Hey, but this is a bit of a generalisation; your songs always hold surprises for me. I always come away thinking, why didn't I do that. Great production Steve. I like it.
Gone4
Jul 14, 2014
I knew you wouldn't fail to come up with a great song..I enjoy listening to you coz you take me back to the 80's..you nail everything! :-D
Another GREAT SONG from The Smivets! Your intro of dramatic Guitars and Percussion lead to more pure bliss of music for Summertime. And the song's title is most clever...wow what a tan one could get in Summer all of the time! Seriously, your vocal and lyrics are First Rate and set the mood for perpetual Summertime...This was a HIGHLIGHT of the First Clickers Club Song Challenge! Thanks for the pleasure of this tune, and the dl to our JBBQ Best of Best Songs Music Player. Have a Great LOOOOOONG SUMMER Seth and Smivets, Bob (and the JBBQ "Guys")
Morten Gjermundsen
Jul 05, 2014
Great sounding tune. Really nice vocals and guitar playing. Excellent work!
Musan Dera
Jun 30, 2014
The Summer is in the lyrics here. In the sun, on the beach of Fuerteventura. Very good written in a pop-rock style, perfectly done. Couldn't this become a summer hit (next year)? Very good job!
Ken Sacco
Jun 29, 2014
Top notch as always! Great song
Pinecats
Jun 29, 2014
You are a master songwriter my friend. This is another fine example of your talent. You lyrics are great, the arrangements always original, and your musical performances always compliment the song to the utmost. Love the keys with the guitar and the cool steel drum tones on the break. Well sung and always well produced. If you don't use a live drummer, you are about the best drum programmer i know. Excellent post!
spinaceto
Jun 29, 2014
Hi Steve!! Masterwork of songwriting my friend!! Exquisite performance, throughout all ranges from composition, lyrics, mixing, production....I had to read the lyrics, because I wanted understand every word ( I am still not so experienced with spoken english) and I was impressed of those lines : "I left something behind Something I'm not sure of I just have to get it back, I know" Pure Poetry.....very good, I could feel the sentiment in your music Steve, the Lyrics were really well fitted into the song: my respect to you, great Job for sure!! :)
Bob Forbes
Jun 28, 2014
Excellent arrangement Seth - top production that shines - great summertime presentation! ;)
Carlo D'Anna
Jun 28, 2014
First rate entertainment in a tune! So well produced!!
Michael Duran
Jun 28, 2014
Fuerteventura COOKS!!!!! This paints so many cool pictures/scenes in the minds eye.. You sure know how to write them mate! Cheers!
Sounds by Ramolly
Jun 28, 2014
Seth, this is a wonderful arrangement,over the top!!!
Rodrica Rudge
Jun 28, 2014
Very nice peep into a scene in someone's life...a scene that belongs to any one of us. Great writing and visuals, excellent production and performance, as always. I think Thomas Cook should hire you! ;)