Beach Day Playlist
15 Songs for Sun, Sand, and Swimming
China Beach: San Francisco, CA - Photo Credit: Bryan Donoghue
The sun peeks out through clouds and warms your skin. It’s 90 degrees but it feels much hotter. Maybe it’s a swelling humidity that engulfs your skin like a soup or a dry, unmoving air that sticks to your skin, suffocating. Either way. It’s time to hit the beach.
Time to pile your half-clothed friends into your car with backpacks and coolers jammed into the back, and drive down the highway, hands hanging out the window, until you hear seagulls squealing and fussing over scraps of food and smell the salt through the air. Feel the temperature drop a little. Time to hide the beers clinking together in your cooler and walk through the lull of the boardwalk, hear people laughing, talking. The wood creaks under your feet, and greasy food is warm in the distance. Keep walking and feel the sand hot, sinking under your weight. The ocean crashes and recedes, cyclical. Your friend smears sunscreen over your back. When you lay down, you feel your weight pressed to the earth, occasionally moving sand around with your body. The water crashes in front of you, and you softly hear people around you talking to each other. It is a crowded beach, after all. But for now it feels like it is only you.
Race Point Beach: Provincetown, MA - Photo Credit: Bryan Donoghue
At some point throughout all this, someone will likely pull out a speaker or ask for music in the car, and you’re going to need something to capture the feeling you have - of the light hitting your face and warming your entire body, of relaxation and excitement, of simple joy. That's why we put together a list of our 15 favorite songs for the beach. These songs are upbeat and fun, light and pleasant, and sure to get you into the vibe of Summer fun. So relax! Forget about your job! Summer is here.
You can check out our Youtube playlist or add the entire playlist right to your Spotify, here.
As with our camping playlist and our road tripping playlist - for those of you with Spotify, there’s a link here and a player at the bottom to add these as a playlist to your own library. For our readers who prefer YouTube, we've put together a playlist over on the Pathloom YouTube channel of all the linked videos below.
Also as with our other playlists - play it on shuffle, there’s still no method to this madness.
Slide - Calvin Harris feat. Migos & Frank Ocean
Pick up the Phone - Travis Scott and Young Thug
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
Simba, King of Stinson Beach, CA - Photo Credit: Bryan Donoghue
Got a song that would fit well on this playlist? Share it! Have a playlist of your own you like for the beach? Let's hear it! Send in your playlists to blog@pathloom.com and your musical taste could be put on display in an upcoming blog post!
Check out these other articles by Pathloom which you may enjoy:
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