South Bay’s “Beach Trash” Anthem

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Good morning. In addition to travertine and 100% financing, the Housing Bubble has given us some good music in L.A. Seriously. We really like the Manhattan Beach anti-gentrification folk-rock anthem ‘Beach Trash,’ by the South Bay band Thin Ice. Listen to it here on the band’s MySpace page.

‘Beach Trash’ is about the tension between the McMansion-buying newcomers and the surfing old-timers. It goes a little bit like this:

‘Now the housing prices
Have gone out of reach
Only rich folks can
Buy a house today
And it’s changing our little town
In many ways

They don’t have much use
For us old beach folk
They call us beach trash
And that ain’t no joke.’

You can catch ‘Thin Ice’ at Pollywog Park in Manhattan Beach on Aug. 19. Or buy ‘Beach Trash’ on this CD, ‘100 Years of Surfing.’

Thanks for the tip: Manhattan Beach Confidential
Photo Credit: Thin Ice
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