"La Playa" by La Oreja de Van Gogh (Van Gogh's Ear), from their 2000 release "El Viaje de Copperpot". They were Goonies fans, apparently.
They were the most successful pop group from Spain for a few years. This is a beautiful song which always touched me as it's about someone who had their first love on a beach and they are now visiting the site 50 years later, trying to capture the feeling of nostalgia in a song.
But I think they could have done a much better job with the video. They aimed for a literal interpretation of the song which comes across as pretty lame. During the line "si pudiera volver a nacer" (If I could be born again) at 2:37 they animate a person regressing back to a toddler, that always struck me as dumb. And the old guy at the end shutting off the TV is ridiculous.
But the song itself is brilliant and worth sifting.
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