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The Globe and mail today had a feature on the 40 best summer songs and their selections were crap.
Tried to hard to be hip and included some really bizarre stuff.
And then their was the Pet Sounds thread.
So what do you listen to when its hot .

Me its Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Early Beatles, KD Langs Immaculate Summer, Madonna , Fela Kuti, Donnas, Alice Cooper, Tom Ze ,

What ahve i missed ?

― anthony, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Summer gets me in a jam-band mood. Hanging out on my front porch and drinking beer a few weeks ago I enjoyed The Dead and The Allman Bros. Zep. It has to be stuff everyone knows -- Summer is not a time for experimentation. Some late 70s K-tel comps of my girlfriend's also did the trick.

― Mark, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big Sugar - "Ride Like Hell"
Tribe Called Quest - Anthology LP
DJ Shadow - Entroducing LP
Supergrass - I Should Coco LP

― Dave M., Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Summer for me is when I like dance music most. Hot weather selections of 2001 so far: Basement Jaxx - Rooty and the 'Afrique Dynamique' compilation. Both these are dead certainties on my holiday packing list.

― Tom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Endless Summer' by Fennesz or 'Tides' by Arovane - glitchy guitars and dreamy bliss-outs with just the right amount of "this will end soon" regret.

― Andrew L, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

andrew, can you elaborate a bit further on the fennesz album. read a brilliant review by david toop in the wire. i didn't understand one word of it, of course, but thats why i liked the review

― gareth, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gotta agree with some full volume Zep whacking out into the garden. Love - 'Forever Changes' is a great summer record, especially the first track.

― Add, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Old: I think I'm going to play out a lot of 'Future Days' with a helping of 'Neu!'.

New: just got 'Hypercity Forcetracks' - V/A and on the spot declared it my soundtrack for Summer 2001, brilliant collection of minimal, sun-kissed technotracks from the surprisingly friendly Force Inc. off- shoot label. All mixed by good ol' Weatherall. I love techno! :)

― Omar, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth- 'Endless Summer' is, in part, an attempt to re-imagine Beach Boys/Surf music for the laptop era - the music Brian Wilson would've made if he'd grown up on digital technology rather than Phil Spector and the Kingston Trio blah blah. Unlike a dismal High Llamas sound-a-like pastiche, the Fennesz alb only tangentially refers to the BBs - the alb title of course, the packaging, the odd discrete sample buried under the clicks and cuts. And, as with the BBs, there are hints that the Californian dream may be more complicated and disturbing than a 'surface' reading wld suggest - the broken, roughed-up surface of the music, the sudden eruptions of noise/static, again mirroring Brian's darker moods and schizophrenic collapse. Fennesz is a dangerous artist for listeners/critics because his recs almost come 'pre-signified' - i.e. he's hip to theory and musical history - but it's sort of beside the point. The alb is his most tuneful to date, and the most fun fun fun.

― Andrew L, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thanks andrew. i shall buy this album in the week. my only fear is it sounds like the sort of album that feels like it's going to be great and then...isn't. becuase it does everything right and sounds almost too good.

― gareth, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots of disco and dance music, the Small Faces, Blur, Blondie and Madonna...these are just a few of the things that feel summery to me. There's a certain feel, a lightness of touch, that all seem to have in common. Basement Jaxx, as Tom has already noted, is also a very good choice.

But the thing that sux0r is that my local disco station just switched over to "soft rock favorites" like Celine and Lionel Richie! Now what am I supposed to listen to this summer? My car only has a radio...

― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

60s Garage. Especially Nuggets Compilations. I can't really get in the mood to listen to 60s Garage or psychedelic music much during the winter, but the moment the summer comes, out come the paisley shirts and I want to bounce around to the Electric Prunes and the Nazz.

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Primtives "Outside" is great way to start the summer.

XTC's "Summer's Cauldron" for mid-summer heat blues

Door's "Summer's Almost Gone" and Beach Boys' "All Summer Long" as melancholy reminders in Septemeber

― Blake, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being an unreformed pop lame-o, I always wind up spending summer with copies of XTC's Skylarking and the Ladybug Transistor's Albemarne Sound following me from place to place. Also Material Issue (International Pop Overthrow), Ween (Chocolate and Cheese), the Trash Can Sinatras (I've Seen Everything), Wolfie (Awful Mess Mystery) and stuff from the 60s: France Gall, Gainsbourg, Temptations, Sam Cooke, Jobim, Sergio Mendes Trio.

Now that I think about it, it seems I become a boring pop traditionalist as soon as it gets warm.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Skylarking, absolutely.

The first Beta Band album sounds good on humid nights at 11pm, I find.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just about anything by Sly And The Family Stone, including, of course, "Hot Fun In The Summertime."

― X. Y. Zedd, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sister, Euphoria by Insides, Avalanches, first side of Movietone's second album, And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out and Skitz all suite the long hot humid days we've been having recently. So it's a shame I've been too transfixed by Neu 75 to listen to anything else.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Forever Changes" is the Sound of Summer... And the Flying Burrito Bros.' "Gilded Palace of Sin"... Driving down Highway 101 with the wind in your curls, mirrored shades on... I'll throw in Creedence and Steve Miller while I'm at it...

― Andy, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok, so obviously from my point of view every season is suitable for the Go-Betweens, there's something about listening to them in the summertime that takes the experience to a whole new level.

― alex thomson, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pavement, Ramones, Yo La Tengo, NOFX, Sleater Kinney are all good for driving.

― JM, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lloyd Cole.

Off the top of my head, the LP Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe strikes me as summery (esp the easy jangle of 'Weeping Wine', but the rest too), at least when it's not being wintry. (And it came out in October!) But I daresay that all Lloyd's music is great summer music.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm quite fond of His Name is Alive's album 'Stars on ESP'.... I don't know why, but there's a really light and shimmery atmosphere about that album that really reminds me of summer. Also Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island is a silly, tropical, beach bum kind of summery record. Blake Babies - Sunburn is wonderful too.

― Jamie Morrison, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmm...to me movietone means winter. i like to blast the bristols and stereo total in the car, maybe some belle and sebastian and sex clark five mixed with aislers set. oh and omd too.

the new fantastic oldies station here as well, they have a catlog of like 5000 songs woo hoo! including 'the crusher' by the novas which is the greatest song ever.

― keith, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Creedence Clearwater Revival !! Also whatever loud music is coming out of someone else's car radio - hearing music from a car for the first time after Montreal's 6-month winter is always a great feeling.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So far my summer album is BRMC. Hard to say if that's going to last.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Boy With The Arab Strap, especially the first five tracks, if it's going to be a summer fling
Bandwagonesque
Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers only for evenings
The Pooh Sticks

― youn, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

forever changes, as mentioned can't be beat, pavement - summer babe (obvious, I guess but, well, yes.), ramones - rockaway beach, public enemy - fight the power ("1989 - a number, another summer..." I remember standing on a hot summer sidewalk where a crowd gathered outside an electronics store where the just-released fight the power video was playing on all the tv sets in the window and feeling like this might really mean something), the cars - best friend's girl or just what you needed, dead or alive - you spin me right round, iggy pop - sweet sixteen, standells - dirty water.

― fritz, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

BUMP BUMP BUMP

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

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