Albums that feel like summer to you

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from your life...lyrics...mood...memories of summertime

Mine (for different reasons)

REM: Reveal
XTC: Skylarking
Cheap Trick: At Budokan
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Supertramp: Breakfast in America

― Dave Bush (davebush), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

New Order "Technique"

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

The first Undertones record.

― James, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Astral Weeks

― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Ozma - Rock and Roll Part 3

― Two Scoops (Magic Duster), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Avalanches - Since I Left You
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Al Green - The Belle Album
Joy Zipper - s/t
Ashby - Power Ballads

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Massive Attack - Protection
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
Nectarine Number Nine - A Sea With Three Stars
Congos - Heart Of The Congos
John Martyn - One World

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oddly, Tool's "Lateralus."

Also, soundtrack to Top Gun.

― vartman (novaheat), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation,
Rachid Taha's Tékitoi,
The Ex's Scrabbling at the Lock.

― zach mercer (suizen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Avalanches-Since I Left You (bought it on the last day of school in 2001)

Daft Punk-Discovery (Also played alot that summer)

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"
Black grape - "It's Great When you're Straoght (Yeah)"
Weezer - "Weezer (The Blue Album)"

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Amps for Christ Circuits

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Great thread. here are some of mine, with memories:

R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant: driving through Sweden, dad hitting a small bird with the car (looking through the window, seeing it rolling on the road)
David Bowie - Stage: singing along while driving through the Swiss Alps with a friend and his parents
The Feelies - Only Life: Hamburg train station, a homeless guy shouting at random travellers
a Lou Reed compilation: sharing headphones, staring up to the sky, smoking my first cigarette

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

oddly the greatest hits of the Fields of the Nephilim (ie 'Revelations')

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Electronic - Raise The Pressure

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Fear of a Black Planet.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

not really my thing anymore but I almost can't believe everyone's not saying Beastie Boys - Check Your Head & Paul's Boutique... used to be when you heard those outside it was the official beginning of the good weather.

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Band -- Live At Watkins Glen

Ween -- The Mollusk

― tronisdflksjdflk, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

lateralus came out in the summer, right? i can't stand tool but my roommate lyd1a loved it, bought it the day it came out and was thrashing around in the living room to it, sunlight streaming in through the windows, dust motes whirling and i came in the house and kind of nodded along for a second and then i switched it off so i could listen to outkast - she loved outkast but she almost knocked my block off.

i can't think of a whole album that feels like summer but "tosh" by fluke is the first thing that came to mind

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

R.E.M. - Reveal. Oh yeah.

B-52's - Cosmic Thing. "Deadbeat Club" particularly.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

baaderonixx stole my answer. "technique" all the way. and the first electronic album too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Koop - Waltz For Koop
The English Beat - Special Beat Service

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Pig Lib
Ween (Paintin' the Town Brown, White Pepper, Mollusk, assorted Live)
Of Montreal - Gay Parade
all the soul music I can handle: Otis Redding, James Brown - Live at the Apollo, The Ebony's - "You're the Reason Why," The Meters, The Delfonics, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, Harold Melvin, Jerry Butler and Betty Everett - "Let It Be Me," but especially Tower of Power
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Modest Mouse - The Fruit that Ate Itself
The Doobie Brothers
The Magnetic Fields - 69

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

the avalanches - since I left you
fennesz - endless summer
tropicalia compils
MIA - arular
michael jackson - off the wall
60s motown
serge gainsbourg

― maarten maes (dice collective), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I know more typical autumn albums than summer albums. Summer is kind of the time for singles.

However, "Free Peace Sweet" by Dodgy is a great summer album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

maybe a bit obvious but:
St Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Slowdive - Souvlaki

oddly enough I have been listening to the Mutiny/Bad Seed CD by the Birthday Party a lot this week even though the weather is beautiful.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

i second earinfections modest mouse "the fruit that ate itself", the part in the song summer where you hear the beeping and isaac saying, " damn, who's paging me now" never ceases to cause me to double over in laughter. two others i'll throw out there. rocketship - a certain smile, a certain sadness and slanted and enchanted or crooked rain. s&e for the obvious "summer babe" but c.r. for steve's classic lyric, "so drunk in the august sun, and you're.. " just perfect.

― eric womeldorff, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Big Lebowski soundtrack - if only because the movie is a "summer movie" for me

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Lee Perry's "Blackboard Jungle Dub" = bleak, humid, sweaty summer night. A summer night with killers.

Also: Breeders' "Last Splash" for summer nostalgia.

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Grateful Dead "American Beauty"
Jefferson Airplane "After Bathing at Baxters"
It's a Beautiful Day "It's a Beautiful Day"

― andyjack (andyjack), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Summer Hymns - Voice, Brother Sister, etc.
Cornelius - Point

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Mamas & the Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
Jan & Dean Greatest Hits

― Je4nn3 Æ’urÂ¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Royal Trux Pound For Pound (but you've got to include "Water Park" from Veterans of Disorder)
Beach Boys SUMMER IN THE CITY OF SINGLE GIRLS WEARING BIKINIS WHOO

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos

just about anything by Jimmy Reed

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Stereolab - Dots and Loops
High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth & Dead Bees on a Cake

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

how could i forget -- Firestarter Vol. 1 by Kardinal Offishall!!!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Voodoo by D'Angelo (released the summer I started posting on ILX, i believe)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Waxwings— Shadows of the Waxwings
An album so poppy that even Geir would love it...

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Beaches and Canyons by Black Dice. Listening to this last summer in Cyprus driving up 7000 feet to Troodos through these incredible, pale mountains, on terrible roads in our ill-fated hire car, was pretty much perfect.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

yo la tengo - i can feel the heart...
the sea and cake - the fawn
sonic youth - a thousand leaves
all - tonyall
pole - 3

― mono tony, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Lenny Kravity - Are You Gonna Go My Way?

― Len For Pres, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

g love and special sauce - s/t

― mono tony, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

of those already mentioned:
rem - reveal (i associate a warm bath in the pool in the late afternoon with this)
weezer - blue album (summer holidays when you are still at school)

others:
primal scream - screamadelica (a summer rave, no?)
swell - 41 (there is some summer haziness about it, esp. that telephone ringing in the void)
joni mitchell - hejira (i know most associate winter with this winter, i don't. i listened to it first on a very hot day and when thinking about hitchhiking and travelling summer comes to mind immediately. there is a calm and soothing siesta feel about the tunes as well)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

len for pres OTM - i remember the summer that came out

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

the feelies - the good earth (a summer morning with a little breeze in the countryside)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hear much summer in alot of these...my pick's Roxy Music's Avalon

― douglas eklund (skolle), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Stone Roses debut: Sounds great in the car with the windows rolled down, mixing with the sounds of traffic and other city noise.

Any Teenage Fanclub really, so we'll just go with the best of they released.

― Viz (Viz), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

second the sonic youth. mine is mostly Sister at full blast.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've frothed about the pooh sticks before but surely they rule this thread?

― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ash - "1977", a soundtrack to teenage carefreeness made by carefree teenagers.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

midnight marauders
astral weeks
since i left you
streetdad
neon golden
soup
phantom power (hip)

― pffft, Friday, 5 May 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

Latino and reggae in general.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 5 May 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Parsley Sound - Parsley Sounds
Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman is a star
Jim O' Rourke - Eureka
Sam Prekop - Sam Prekop
Ulrich Scnhnauss - Faraway Trains Passing By
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Harold Budd - The White Arcades

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh some more...

Vladislav Delay - Anima
New Order - The Peter Saville Show Soundtrack

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

There are actually three albums I can only listen to during summer, and to which I try and listen to at least once per summer:

Dead Milkmen, Big Lizard in My Backyard
XTC, Skylarking
The Primitives, Pure

All three remind me of the time and place I first listened to them -- spring/summer 1989, between freshman and sophomore year at UCLA. It's a lovely instant nostalgia fix.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamit, I wanted to say Midnight Marauders.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jim O' Rourke - Eureka
Sam Prekop - Sam Prekop

these are spring albums.

― mono tony, Friday, 5 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Went down on hun, she's in the red zone
Stressed out more than one could ever be
Forever trying to clear the sample for my new LP
With all these trials and tribulations yo I've been affected
And to top it off, Starks got ejected

---a tribe called quest

classic.

― pffft, Friday, 5 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

War- War Live !

"I'll whoop your black ass
I'll whoop your gray ass
I'll whoop your uncle's ass, and your sister's ass
I might even whoop my own ass
Anybody's ass- Ass kicker, booty whooper"

― lurk, Friday, 5 May 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Weezer - "Weezer (The Blue Album)"

I was going to say that.

Also: The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin. Maybe Yoshimi as well.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

i don't particularly like sung tongs, but it does feel "summery." which brings up a possible distinction: "feel" as distinct from "sound."
ie. songs that have the same feel, or more accurately impart a similar feeling/vibe, even if they don't sound anything alike. IE. It has recently ocurred to me that dy'er maker, sound and vision (bowie), and walk on (neil young) all have the same feel, though they don't sound alike. This may be a far less remarkable insight than i would like to believe, however.

― jisper, Friday, 5 May 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oddly, Tool's "Lateralus."
-- vartman (bl...), May 2nd, 2006.

same here!

Also:

Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
Everytime I Die - Hot Damn!
Isolee - We Are Monster
Underworld - 2nd Toughest of the Infants

the last one because it's great on road trips and i take a lot of road trips in the summer.

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Vernon Green and The Medallions
The Beach Boys
N.W.A.
DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince
Mr. Fingers
ESP
Gary Wilson

― djmattiepoo (djmattiepoo), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Johnson - Foot Hill Stomp
Springsteen - Nebraska
Madvillainy (and to a lesser extent Vaudeville Villain)
Pulp - We Love Life
Hayden - Everything I Long For

― jisper, Friday, 5 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh. and "global a go-go" feels like sipping mojitos under a baking sun. somewhat counter to strummer's intent, no doubt.

― jisper, Friday, 5 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

surfer rosa
ask the ages

― xave (xave), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

HANDCREAM FOR A GENERATION!!!

― jisper, Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

"Wildwood Flower"

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Justin Timberlake - Justified

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

"flaming lips - hit to death in the future head"
and for some odd reason, "ministry - with sympathy" always feels like summer

― andrew b (klik99), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Global Communication - Fabric 26 was out in Jan and felt like summer back then and even more so now.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

beach boys - 'endless summer' (duh)
pavement - slanted & enchanted'
beck - 'mellow gold'
deerhoof - 'apple o'

― 6335, Friday, 19 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Vision Creation Newsun

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

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