Looking for songs good for a hot summer day!

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Its 101 degrees outside and I'm needing good "hot summer's day" songs for my radio program tonight. Genres I cover are mostly are "punk, post-punk, new wave, modern rock, and indie rock," but will consider most anything to hit the 120 minute mark for my show.

Here's my (very ) short list so far to give you an idea of what I'm seeking. Songs don't necessarily have to be about "hot" but the general idea is that I'd like to provide a "soundtrack" for these hot "dog days" of early august :

The Fall – British People in Hot Weather
The Cure- Hot Hot Hot
Red Hot Chili Peppers – They’re Red Hot
Style Council - Long Hot Summer
The Alarm – Rain in the Summertime

Thanks!

― Eric the Red (Eric the), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Dirty Back Road-The B-52's

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

up on the sun MEAT PUPPETS
EVERYDAY SUNSHINE swell
summer sun KOOP
PRIVATE SUNSHINE ashley slater
you nought me FLIPPER

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

B-52's - "Summer Of Love"
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Cities In Dust", "92 Degrees"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Sly "Hot Fun in the Summertime"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Play the Robert Johnson version of "They're Red Hot" instead. Just sayin'.

"Body Heat," James Brown
"Hot Stuff," Donna Summer
"Island Letter," Shuggie Otis
"Summer Babe," Pavement
"Simmer Down," Bob Marley and the Wailers

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

burn, don't freeze - sleater kinney (get it?!?!?!?)

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Sugarhill Gang - "Hot Hot Summer Day"

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

"Too Hot" - Specials (Prince Buster did it first, I know, but I'm partial to the Specials' version)

― Adam J. (In Place of Something Clever), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Aerosmith "Girls of the Summer"
Islands "Jogging Gorgeous Summer"
Regina Spektor "Summer in the City"
Joni Mitchell "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
Bob Dylan "Summer Days"

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

And, of course, Meat Loaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)"

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

um, "(love is like a) heat wave"?

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman "I Love Hot Nights"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers "Moving to Florida"
Southern Culture on the Skids "Plastic Seat Sweat"

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

WNUR just played "Summer Madness" - never more appropriate

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

any version of 'summertime' is good but i'm really really feeling Nathaniel mayer's version -- i had no idea the song could ROCK

― people explosion (Sonny A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Alice Cooper, "It's Hot Tonight"

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Cheap Trick--Hot Love

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Wilco, "Summer Teeth"
Flaming Lips, "It's Summertime"
Rolling Stones, "Summer Romance"
Pogues, "Summer in Siam"
Billie Holiday, "Summertime"

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City."

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

which, in acuality, was a winter release

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Roy Ayers "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" right?

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

HELLOOOO Kool and the Gang-Summer Fever

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

sorry summer madness, already mentioned, my bad

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

does it really have to have f'in SUMMER in the title to be a good summer song?

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

There are fun summer songs, like Spiritualized's Lay Back In The Sun, but the best kind of summer song IMO is the langorous, chilled, psychedelic one.

Examples of this with 'summer' in the title include 'David's Last Summer' by Pulp (a masterpiece, btw and I won't hear a word said against it), 'Summer's Cauldron' by XTC, and 'Summer' by Mogwai.

Examples of this without 'summer' in the title coming up shortly...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

In alphabetical order:

Bark Psychosis - Rose
Beck - Blackhole
Almost ANYTHING by The Beta Band but probably The Cow's Wrong
Crash Test Dummies - Swatting Flies
Flaming Lips - Slow Nerve Action
Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Toward The Sky
Julian Cope - Land Of Fear
Love - You Set The Scene
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun
Mercury Rev - Hercules
Mogwai - Fear Satan
Orbital - Out There Somewhere?
Primal Scream - Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Ride - OX4 OR Today
The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Talk Talk - Runeii
Yes - To Be Over

And if you've spotted the point I'm trying to make about what kind of songs often constitute this 'summery' feel, well done :-)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

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