What songs make you feel like it's summer? They might talk about how you need to laugh when the sun is out, or how you are well qualified to represent the LBC. They might discuss the finer points of riding in the drop top with the top down or how if everybody had an ocean across the USA, then everybody'd be surfin' like Californ-I-A. Perhaps it feels like summer when songs point out how we frolicked in our summer skin, or implore us to protect, embrace, engulf—remember the summer in Abaddon. The lyrics could mention something summerish, or even just the sounds might feel like warm sunshine to you for some reason.
In summary, tell us the songs that make you feel summery.
PLAYLISTS
Summer Better Than Others
1. Aphex Twin – Fingerbib
2. MGMT – Kids
3. Janelle Monae – Tightrope
4. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
5. The Radio Dept. – Heaven's on Fire
6. Broken Social Scene – Swimmers
7. Phoenix – Rome
8. Jamie Lidell – Enough's Enough
9. Blackstreet – No Diggity
10. Jurassic 5 – Concrete and Clay
11. Beck – Que Onda Guero
12. Four Tet – Angel Echoes
Summer is the Champion
1. Beirut – Postcards from Italy
2. Typhoon – Summer Home
3. Kings of Leon – Ragoo
4. Amos Lee – Ease Back
5. The Decemberists – July, July!
6. The Morning Benders – Promises
7. Weezer – El Scorcho
8. Local Natives – Sun Hands
9. Sonny & the Sunsets – Too Young to Burn
10. The Beatles – Good Day Sunshine
11. Laura Veirs – Summer is the Champion
12. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
Summer Is Only Winter With You
1. The Shins – Kissing the Lipless
2. Yeasayer – Wait For The Summer
3. The English Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
4. Reel Big Fish – Sell Out
5. Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
6. Islands – Vapours
7. Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty
8. Pinback – Fortress
9. My Morning Jacket – Wordless Chorus
10. 311 – Prisoner
11. Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes
12. The Black Keys – Tighten Up
PLAYLISTS
Summer Better Than Others
1. Aphex Twin – Fingerbib
2. MGMT – Kids
3. Janelle Monae – Tightrope
4. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
5. The Radio Dept. – Heaven's on Fire
6. Broken Social Scene – Swimmers
7. Phoenix – Rome
8. Jamie Lidell – Enough's Enough
9. Blackstreet – No Diggity
10. Jurassic 5 – Concrete and Clay
11. Beck – Que Onda Guero
12. Four Tet – Angel Echoes
Summer is the Champion
1. Beirut – Postcards from Italy
2. Typhoon – Summer Home
3. Kings of Leon – Ragoo
4. Amos Lee – Ease Back
5. The Decemberists – July, July!
6. The Morning Benders – Promises
7. Weezer – El Scorcho
8. Local Natives – Sun Hands
9. Sonny & the Sunsets – Too Young to Burn
10. The Beatles – Good Day Sunshine
11. Laura Veirs – Summer is the Champion
12. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
Summer Is Only Winter With You
1. The Shins – Kissing the Lipless
2. Yeasayer – Wait For The Summer
3. The English Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
4. Reel Big Fish – Sell Out
5. Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
6. Islands – Vapours
7. Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty
8. Pinback – Fortress
9. My Morning Jacket – Wordless Chorus
10. 311 – Prisoner
11. Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes
12. The Black Keys – Tighten Up
The song Vapours by Islands is a song that always feels like summer to me, with it's warm organ tones and sunny horn section.
ReplyDeleteEase Back by Amos Lee: this says kickin' it on the front porch (wraparound style) with a tall glass of lemonade. The slow, easy ways of the south.
ReplyDeleteFingerbib by Aphex Twin: this says long drives in the sun, windows down, feet on the dash, enjoying youth.
Infinite Arms by Band of Horses: this is the feeling of the last few nights of last week—everything's alive, but not in a hurry, kind of majestic and mysterious in it's warmth and endless sun.
Postcards from Italy by Beirut: summer travels. Tell me this doesn't make you want to spend the summer in europe. You can't. It does.
Swimmers by Broken Social Scene: if you melted summer into a liquid and it hardened as a record, this is what you'd hear when you put it in your player.
Sentimental X's by Broken Social Scene: summer loves.
Heaven's on Fire and also This Past Week by The Radio Dept.: pure summer candy-coated-coma dreams
Beck, Que Onda Guero: It has melting popsicles.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm. popsicles.
ReplyDeleteA few by My Morning Jacket:
ReplyDeletePhone Went West
Dancefloors
Wordless Chorus
The Day is Coming
I second Wordless Chorus
ReplyDeleteRill Rill by Sleigh Bells. Whether you like it or not, a few bars in you will suddenly find yourself sweating in a pair of Ray-Bans. It can't be stopped.
ReplyDeleteNo Diggity by Blackstreet. This song was the star of Summer '96 and has played at least a supporting role in every summer since. It's still capable of stealing the show any year it pleases.
American Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. A girl hung up on the promise of something bigger and better? Wanting to make the good last all night? Way to capture the simultaneous melancholy and magic of summer, Mr. Petty.
The Great Salt Lake by Band of Horses. It was summer 2006, we were driving to Tennessee in the hottest of heats and a salty-voiced man was singing a salty salty song about our salty salty lake. It's weird to hear this song in any other season.
More later.
Wet Cement by Morning Benders. The main guitar has a really hot tone to it and there is a air-shimmering-above-the-hot-pavement-feel to it.
ReplyDeleteI meant Promises by the Morning Benders. Wet Cement works too though.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me happy to think that it in the early heat of next year, at the first stirrings of summer, when I want to put on something that gets me in the mood to brave the beatings of the sun, I'll reach for some Typhoon. They've done me right this summer.
ReplyDeleteMore suggestions:
ReplyDeletePinback – Fortress
Laura Veirs – Summer is the Champion
Local Natives – Sun Hands
Shins – Kissing the Lipless (the guitar has a really hot tone to it that feels summery to me)
Fout Tet – Angel Echoes
Jurassic Five – Quality Control (song or album—the whole thing feels like a hot summer jam)
Phoenix – Rome
Enough's Enough – Jamie Lidell (makes me feel like I am on my way to a barbecue)
Kings of Leon – Ragoo
Sonny and the Sunsets - Too Young to Burn
ReplyDeleteOk here are a few more that came up in discussion with some friends:
ReplyDeleteLove Language – Summer Dust
Oingo Boingo – On the Outside
Janelle Monae – Tightrope
English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty
Rentals – Friends of P.
Floating Vibes – Surfer Blood
Cream – White Room
Reel Big Fish – Sell Out
Weezer – El Scorcho
311 – Prisoner
Beatles – Good Day Sunshine
Band of Bees – Angryman
Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
Blitzen Trapper – Summer Town
Decemberists – July, July!
MGMT – Kids
Black Keys – Tighten Up
ReplyDeleteDeath Cab For Cutie – Cath…
ReplyDeleteShe & Him – In the Sun
ReplyDeleteSoul Coughing – Circles
ReplyDeleteSpoon – Don't You Evah
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