Summer Songs
 

What tracks make you want to get the cold beers and barbeques out? Not necessarily about summer as such, just tracks that have that certain feel to them

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Beck - Tropicalia
The Zombies - The Time of the Season
The Beatles - Here comes the Sun
Jamie Liddell - Multiply
The Band - The Weight
Gerald Pino & The Heartbeats - Heavy Heavy Heavy
Cornelius - Seashore & Horizon

it's too hard to pick, i love summery music

brazilian music in general
jamaican music in general
african music in general
almost all hiphop from 1979 to 1990

sun ra

psychedelic rock in general (unless it's keiji haino)

Stereolab's Mars Audiac Quintet LP

Hear hear!

Some others:

Big Star, September Gurls
The Runaways version of the Velvets' Rock and Roll
Cheap Trick, Surrender

Anything by Steve Miller Band!!!

wasnt there a post like this a few weeks ago? i remember posting a list of good ol rock n roll tunes because they make me wana bbq.

o well.

I've already had 4 cookouts this year......oh yes.

Pretty much any Pavement.

*Summer Babe*

the whole of these albums

Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything

Pavement - Gold Soundz
It reminds me their video clip, with the palm-trees, the convertible, the sun, California...
It's also my favourite Pavement song.

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince "Summertime"
The entire soundtrack to the film "City Of God"
Anything on the genius Salsoul label, including "Doctor Love" and "You're Just The Right Size"
Inner City's "Big Fun" and "Good Life"
Many things by the (inevitable) Beach Boys

Sickos- Harlem Shakes.

Good pick, great songs. I Love old Detroit Techno.

I tend to listen to more punk in the summer. So, likely to listen to more At The Drive-In, Ramones, and Buzzcocks.

My Own Summer (shove it)

"the shade is a tool, a device, a savior, see I try, to look up, to the sky, but my eyes burn, cloud..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGrdIUyoNAo

The Strokes - Someday
Mogwai - Summer (clever!)
Explosions in the sky - First breath after coma
Pavement - Cut your hair
Sonic Youth - Teenage riot

Don't know why but these songs kinda give me a summer-ish feeling.

Message to You Rudy-the Specials
Do the Dog-the Specials
any Operation Ivy song
pretty much any song on Green Day's Dookie

pavement
a lot of punk

dr dre-the chronic
exile on main street
kick out the jams
acdc-high voltage
appetite for destruction
john lennon-plastic ono band
geto boys-s/t
any scarface
nwa-straight outta compton
public enemy-fear of a black planet
wu tang clan-36 chambers
odb-return to the 36 chambers
mobb deep-the infamous
ultramagnetic mc's-critical beatdown
gza-liquid swords
stones-let it bleed
beach boys-pet sounds
the beatles-the white album, revolver
gan

gangstar-the best of
pink floyd-meddle, the piper...
syd barret-the madcap laughs
love-forever changes
metallica-ride the lightning, master of puppets, and justice, garage inc.
pantera-vulgar display of power, the great southern trendkill
led zeppelin-I-IV, physical grafitti, houses of the holy
queen-a night at the opera
rush-live in rio
bad brains-banned in dc
boogie down productions-criminal minded
nas-illmatic
jay z-reasonable doubt, the blueprint, american gangster
biggie-ready to die
ghostface-the pretty toney ablum, supreeme clientele
clipse-lord willin, we got it for cheap mixtape series
lil wayne-dedication mixtape, da drought 2 mixtape, like father like son, the carter 2
eminem-the slim shady lp


im just listing music i think would be good for a party, stuff everyone can enjoy, not neccesarily my favorite summer tunes

Artists:
Jefferson Airplane
The Pixies
The Seeds
Neil Young (countryish stuff)

Lots of West Coast hiphop:
Cypress Hill's first album
Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in Tha Mist
Ice Cube - The Predator

Polaris - Songs From The Adventures of Pete & Pete

Albums:

Tim Buckley - Happy sad
Serge Gainsbourg - Jane et Serge
Beth Orton - Central reservation
Françoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieu
The Beach Boys - Pet sounds (more obvious one...)
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
Van Morrison - Astral weeks

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman
Bernard Estardy - Vertigo Leitymotif
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
Broadcast - The Book Lovers
Antonello Venditti - Sara
Bruce Mackay - Feet Of Clay
ESG - Moody
Damon - Don't You Feel Me
Boss Hog - Some Sara
Salamander - Black Heart
John Barry- King Kong Hits The Town
J.D. The Rock- Super Bad
King Reggie- Funny Man
Nitzer Ebb - Join The Chant
Scanner - Pink City
Public Nuisance -Holy Man
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
MF Doom - Frendz
Claudja Barry - Love For The Sake OF Love
Wire- Outdoor Miner
Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue
Hirut Beqele - Essu New Messelegn
Kelis - In Public
Sun Ra - Mu
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun/ Sleep Inside This House
Urge Overkill- Positive Bleeding
Nirvana- School
Ultra Vivid Scene- Special One
Dinosaur Jr - Puke & Cry
Madonna - Burning Up
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Public Enemy - Party For Your Right To Fight
Racco-oo-oon - Diamonds In The Dunes
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
The Velvet Underground- Ocean
Outkast - Hey Ya
Julian Cope- Head
Eve- Got What You Need
Papa M - Northwest Passage
The Smiths - Ask
Savage Republic - Trudge
The Godz - Na Na Naa
Jestofunk - Stellar Funk Lazzaro Shoes
Birchville Cat Motel - Drawn Towards Chanting Hordes
Righeira - Vamos A La Playa
La De Das - How Is The Air Up There
The Slits - I Know What Boys Like
Shonen Knife - I Wanna Eat Choco Bars
Daniela - Danas Je Divan Dan
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Chantal Kelly- Je N'ai Quinze Ans
The Poppy Family - Free From The City
Pluxus - Caraville
Blur - Girls & Boys/ Low
Tears For Fears - Change
Dave Pike Set - Mathar
The Chicks - Daria
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Fatboy Slim- Bird Of Prey



The endless summer.......

Today is the Day -- Yo La Tengo

Most of their stuff though...

Tears for Fears
Roxy Music
B-52's
Duran Duran

For me, a mixture of songs and albums...
Atom Bomb
Lucky 13
Soul Power
Let Me Give the World to You
Thirty-Three - The Smashing Pumpkins
Saints
No Aloha
... all of Last Splash - The Breeders
I Luv the Valley OH! - Xiu Xiu
Beach Party Tonight
Little Eyes
Today Is the Day
Blue Line Swinger
Detouring America With Horns
Moby Octopad
Sugarcube
Point and Shoot
... so much Yo La Tengo
Sonic Nurse
The Whitey Album
Bull in the Heather
Fauxhemians
PCH
Cotton Crown - SY
It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Song Islands -The Microphones
Where the Ocean Meets the Eye
12 Months - The Stratford 4
Realistic - Ivy

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

Remember it's Winter here!

The Nuggets compilation.