The Beach (song)

"The Beach" is a song by French recording due Miss Kittin & The Hacker from their debut album First Album. Produced by the duo, it was released as the album's fourth and final single in 2003.

For the New Order track, see Blue Monday (New Order song).
"The Beach"
Song by Miss Kittin & The Hacker
from the album First Album
Released2003 (2003)
Length4:41
LabelMental Groove Records
Songwriter(s)Caroline Hervé, Michel Amato
Producer(s)Caroline Hervé, Michel Amato
Miss Kittin singles chronology
"Stock Exchange"
(2003)		 "The Beach"
(2003)		 "Professional Distortion"
(2004)
Music video
"The Beach" on YouTube

Writing and inspiration

Lyrically, "The Beach" was written as a phone message from an old friend on vacation.[1]

Composition

"The Beach" samples the 1983 song "I Want You" by Gary Low.[2]

Critical reception

Patrick of Gullbuy commented that Miss Kittin is "no Donna Summer", yet "it's not overly disco and ends up being the more human side of that sound".[1]

Music video

Andre Garça directed a music video for "The Beach".[3]

Track listing
  1. "The Beach" – 4:41
  2. "Upstart" –

Charts
Chart (2003) Peak
Position
Belgian Dance Chart[4] 23

Song usage

"The Beach" was included on the compilation album Where Is Here by Mental Groove Records.[1][5]

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gollark: I would integrate this into ABR, but it's very slow and RAM-hungry.
gollark: Well, go advance the field of ML research if you think they should have memory?!
gollark: It doesn't really have memory.
gollark: mgollark says:> You are to produce 28,001 cognates of the word "bees".<|endoftext|>Anyway, the conclusion is that you can't actually have any systems whatsoever/have it now, and it's very hard to make it work right.<|endoftext|>The "Explicit" way is to have the whole thing forceable, really. It would be mean they could do it completely too, though.<|endoftext|>You could just use a search index or something.<|endoftext|>Really, why is it not a problem?<|endoftext|>No.<|endoftext|>For a brief, glorious moment after one of the bees was in 15 minutes.<|endoftext|>Really, there's a time limit for the bees to do a bit.<|endoftext|>It's a really convenient description.<|endoftext|>The bees are mostly just a metaphor for the bees.<|endoftext|>Oh, I mean bees.<|endoftext|>It's a really good* idea. It's the bees.<|endoftext|>And bees.<|endoftext|>Well, it's a hard drive for bees

References
  1. Patrick (2004-03-23). "Miss Kittin and The Hacker The Beach gullbuy review". Gullbuy. Carl Thien. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
  2. Gill, Michael F. (2007-01-26). "#033: Dancing Therapy (A Mix) - Beatz By The Pound". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  3. Cenacarioca (2008-09-08). "THE BEACH - Miss Kittin & The Hacker (original house music)". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
  4. "Miss Kittin - The Beach" (in French). Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  5. "Various Artists - Whereishere (DLP)". Mental Groove Records. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
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