SUMMER POP PUNK POP E.P.

Summer Pop EP

Trax: Love; Kiss; Run; Sing; Shout; Jump!, Rollercoasting, Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You, Summer Pop Radio, So Hot, Golden Summer

Label: Damaged Goods, DAMGOOD 42

Released: 1994, 10" only, first 500 copies on fluorescent pink vinyl

Re-released: 1997

More info: The fifth Helen Love release, and it's a glorious celebration of summer. Some of it is fast and furious, some slow and whimsical, and all quite unashamedly POP! The opener is pure youthful energy, Rollercoasting is a guide to what's playing on Helen's stereo on the beach or in the car (open-topped, of course), and Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You is not only one of the greatest song titles ever conceived, it also contains one of the best put-downs of an ex-boyfriend in pop; in short, it is a fantastic song and if you don't find yourself singing along the first time you hear it, you have no soul.
By the way, Rollercoasting is not the same song as on the CD single of Ahead Of The Race. It's just one of a number of Helen Love songs to share a title (6 at the last count).

Trax:	Love; Kiss; Run; Sing; Shout; Jump!, Rollercoasting, Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You, Summer Pop Radio, So Hot, Golden Summer
Label:	Damaged Goods, DAMGOOD 42
Released:	1994, 10" only, first 500 copies on fluorescent pink vinyl
Re-released:	1997
More info:	The fifth Helen Love release, and it's a glorious celebration of summer. Some of it is fast and furious, some slow and whimsical, and all quite unashamedly POP! The opener is pure youthful energy, Rollercoasting is a guide to what's playing on Helen's stereo on the beach or in the car (open-topped, of course), and Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You is not only one of the greatest song titles ever conceived, it also contains one of the best put-downs of an ex-boyfriend in pop; in short, it is a fantastic song and if you don't find yourself singing along the first time you hear it, you have no soul. By the way, Rollercoasting is not the same song as on the CD single of Ahead Of The Race. It's just one of a number of Helen Love songs to share a title (6 at the last count).

LOVE; KISS; RUN; SING; SHOUT; JUMP!

Sheena let’s catch the sun,
I’ve got my giro and my tape collection,
Hot rod to the stars,
Drive across America,
Cos on sunny days I get an overwhelming sensation,
Sunny days I get an overwhelming sensation

To love, kiss and run, sing shout and jump,
Love, kiss and run, sing shout and jump

Sheena, let’s fall in love,
With a pale boy until the autumn comes,
Kissing him by the stream,
Under cover of shady trees,
Cos on sunny days I get an overwhelming sensation,
Sunny days I get an overwhelming sensation

To love, kiss and run, sing shout and jump,
Love, kiss and run, sing shout and jump

And late at night across the bay,
I can see the boats sailing far away,
What a perfect end to a Summer day

On a Summer day I get an overwhelming sensation,
On a Summer day I get an overwhelming sensation,
On a Summer day I get an overwhelming sensation,
On a Summer day I get an overwhelming sensation,
Love, kiss and run, sing shout and jump

ROLLERCOASTING

I got the MC5, Suicide, Nancy Sinatra and Neil Young live,
I got Heavenly, Peggy Lee, Captain Beefheart and the Vaselines

Driving down where the sun never sets,
I got my jeans hiked real high and my songs on the cassette,
Cos in the Summertime when the weather’s fine,
We go rollercoasting,
Cos in the Summertime when the weather’s fine,
We go rollercoasting

I got ‘Stephanie Says’ and ‘I’ll Be There’, Bikini Kill and the Marvelettes,
Undertones, Rolling Stones, Sandra Bernhardt and Joey Ramone

And I don’t want this feeling to ever die,
I wanna be with the shooting stars in the sky

Cos in the Summertime when the weather’s fine,
We go rollercoasting,
Cos in the Summertime when the weather’s fine,
We go rollercoasting

Rollercoasting, rollercoasting,
Rollercoasting, rollercoasting,
Rollercoasting, rollercoasting,
Rollercoasting, rollercoasting,
Rollercoasting

ROCKAWAY BEACH FOR ME, HEARTBREAK HOTEL FOR YOU

Takin’ a chance cos the weather’s hot,
Think you can touch me but you cannot,
Takin’ a ride down by the sea,
Kisses too hard for me

You’re just a sad boy,
You’re just a mad boy,
I think you need a teenage lobotomy,
You’re just a meathead,
I think you’re braindead,
You should get some psychotherapy

Rock, rock, rockaway beach for me,
Heartbreak, heartbreak hotel for you,
Rock, rock, rockaway beach for me

Out on the pavement you’re lookin’ around,
You got eyes in the back of your head again,
Don’t need a boyfriend to follow me round,
Just want to be on my own again

You’re just a sad boy,
You’re just a mad boy,
I think you need a teenage lobotomy,
You’re just a meathead,
I think you’re braindead,
You should get some psychotherapy

Rock, rock, rockaway beach for me,
Heartbreak, heartbreak hotel for you,
Rock, rock, rockaway beach for me

SUMMER POP RADIO

Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio,
No more school,
You’re tuned into
Summer pop radio

Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio,
You got to work till six,
But your day goes quick,
When you’re tuned to the radio

Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio

Summer pop radio,
Plays the hits we all know,
All your favourite happening bands
Are playing in radioland

Summer pop radio,
Plays the records we all know,
Hope my record’s being fixed,
On the radioland playlist

Oh Summer pop radio,
Oh Summer pop radio,
Oh Summer pop radio

Summer pop radio, Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio, Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio, Summer pop radio,
Summer pop radio

SO HOT

Wanna wanna wanna wanna take a ride,
Get your clothes off in the summertime,
Wanna wanna wanna wanna be surprised,
Put a big kiss on these lips of mine

So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
Hey ho, don’t be slow, ready to go yeah

Wanna wanna wanna wanna take a dive,
Head first into Summertime,
Wanna wanna wanna wanna take a ride,
Down to the beach with some friends of mine

So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
Hey ho, don’t be slow, ready to go yeah

See that boy,
Walking down the street,
He looks so pretty, yeah,
Pretty as a boy can be

Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!

Wanna wanna wanna wanna take a ride,
Get your clothes off in the summertime,
Wanna wanna wanna wanna be surprised,
Put a big kiss on these lips of mine

So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it,
So hot I can’t believe it

GOLDEN SUMMER

Do you remember that Summer,
We were always together,
Playing records every single day,
Now it’s a year come September,
Since we were together,
But I remember you in every way

I gave you a gold ring,
Told you not to lose it,
We hitched a ride to America,
And when we got there they’d moved it,
But it didn’t matter,
No we didn’t cry

Sun was shining in the sky,
Like diamonds in your eyes,
Meteors shot by,
As I lay down by your side,
And the rainclouds disappeared,
And the sea was crystal clear,
Six weeks out of time,
With nothing on my mind,
But you and me,
And a golden Summer beautiful and free

Do you remember that Summer,
Days went on forever,
Nothing could stop us, everything was easy,
Now I still remember,
All those times spent together,
Wrote you a letter but you never replied to me

Whenever I see the sunset in a pale sky,
I’m back there with you,
I hope this feeling never dies,
I hope it stays forever and ever and ever and ever