Summer Music

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:33 pm

What music do you like to listen to on a lovely summer day?

john m · Post by **john m** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:37 pm

Scoobie Do - Beautiful Days

Perfect music for driving down a country road with the windows open.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:50 pm

ocean man by ween is the best summer-ish song ever. it doesn't matter what mood i'm in, i'm always happy by the end of that song.

and i know i keep plugging the new boards of canada (i know i've mentioned it a time or two, at least) but it is great summer evening music... i'm guessing. it hasn't actually been around long enough for me to listen to it during the summer, but it makes me think of warm evenings.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:59 pm

I like driving around with the windows down listening to Lush's Gala album, and Ben Folds Five's first album is a good one too.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:02 pm

the flaming lips, weezer's first two albums are great for driving in the summer.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:42 pm

Yeah, "Everything Has Changed" with the windows down and the night sort of hot and cool... amazing. Also Howe Gelb/Calexico/Giant Sand/Band of Blacky Ranchette.

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:56 pm

Great Summer driving music

Jamiroquai
Any Robbie Williams
The Corries" Scot's Wha Hae (Scottish War songs)

Middlemarch · Post by **Middlemarch** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:29 pm

Waterboys...

"Fisherman's Blues"
"Room to Roam"
"This is the Sea"

"with light in my head, you in my arms, whoo-hoo-hoo!"

Celtic-folky-rock-"big music" music. Works best while driving in the country. 8)

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:54 pm

http://www.songfight.org/coverfight.php?key=cover_ten

furrypedro · Post by **furrypedro** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:59 am

anything by Metronomes

and Gomez - Bring it On

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:06 pm

Sigur RÃ²s - Takk...
Manitoba - Up In Flames

Both of these are great for sunny afternoons.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:37 pm

avalanches
grandaddy
quad city djs
summer hymns

stuff like that.

-craig

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:08 pm

Oh my god yes, Manitoba and Caribou are divine.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:17 pm

and to go along with the candian band names...of montreal is a great summer band.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:19 pm

Tonamel wrote:Sigur RÃ²s - Takk...

buh? i was just thinking before i read this post how sigur ros is something i would not want to listen to as summer music. they're way more wintery to me. i mean, they're from friggin' iceland!

but i haven't heard takk

feldspar · Post by **feldspar** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:28 pm

<b>Cake</b> is a really good band to listen to in the summer.

But then again, Cake's just a really good band to listen to in general.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:02 am

fodroy wrote:
Tonamel wrote:Sigur RÃ²s - Takk...
buh? i was just thinking before i read this post how sigur ros is something i would not want to listen to as summer music.

Yeah, Ã

Tex Beaumont · Post by **Tex Beaumont** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:44 am

Sunnyboys
The Riptides
Hoodoo Gurus
Radio Birdman

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:54 pm

In my opinion, the perfect summer song is "Jane Says".

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:28 pm

why'd you open this in April, fer cryin' out loud?

now that we're on this side of the equinox and the offishul start of summer, let me posit Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang, that track DJ Jazzy Jeff lifted for "Summertime" by himself and the Fresh Prince. it is a nice, smooth groove. discuss!

also, insofar as songs with the season in their title, "a summer song" by chad & jeremy, "summer in the city" by the lovin' spoonful, theme from "a summer place," mungo jerry's "in the summertime," and that classic "summertime blues" are all good.

i think maybe for my radio show next week ... wait, i won't be there for it. all right, sometime in july on my radio show i'll do summer songs, with suggestions from this thread.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:36 pm

Summer in the title:
"Boys of Summer" - Don Henley
"Summer '68" - Pink Floyd
There's a whole charity album called "Songs for Summer" which includes something by the Jazz Butcher, Soul Coughing, Ben Folds etc. as well as a bunch of other people, although here "Summer" is a girl, not a season. edit : link Many songs have "Summer" in the title.
-bill

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:55 pm

there's summer of `69 by bryan adams, too, but I was just listing the GOOD ones. psh.