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Your Favorite Summer Song

I'm doing a list of great summer songs, and I'd like some suggestions.
What I'm thinking is to compile songs that are fun to listen to while in the sun and drinking beer.

Bring on your favorites...

Jammo's picture

ok dont laugh at all of them, ive got dodgy taste aparently ;)

Eagles - Hotel California
Otis Reading - sitting on the dock of the bay
Bobby Mcferrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
Roger Miller - King Of The Road
Faure - pavane
Nizlopi - JCB Song
Nizlopi - Call it up

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Check out Ice Cream Head by National Ghost

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man.. the only one...

Summer Song - By Joe Satriani.......

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MJ's picture
104 pencils

it's winter on this side of the world :(

Man's picture
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Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful

larusson's picture
713 pencils

some good ideas so far ... but I need more!! Come on people!!

Jammo: like your list ... that's excactly the kind of songs I'm talking about.

Jammo's picture

Ok i dont know if these ones are to your taste too but here goes :)

Lynard Skynard - Sweet home Alabama
Barenaked ladies - One Week
Gorillaz - 19-2000
Gorillaz - 5/4
Incubus - Drive
Sum 41 - In to deep
Red hot chili peppers - Scartissue
Trik Turner - Friends and Family (in fact, the whole of the Mr Deeds Soundtrack is pretty good)
Isreal Kamamawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the rainbow
Joe Satriani - Satch boogie
Squeeze - Tempted
Megashira - At last
The Zutons - Moons and Horror Shows
The Zutons - Remember Me

*your gonna laugh at these but ....

The commodores - Easy
TOTO - Africa

summer evening chill out ..

James McMillian - In the wee small hours (trio)
Tycho - Sunrise Projector (www.tychomusic.com)
Radiohead - Creep (acoustic)
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island
James Blunt - Your beautiful

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Mitch's picture
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Any song from Morcheebas Big Calm, especially Part of the Process & The Sea.

Also Primal Scream - Loaded.

And something a little different...
Beuna Vista Social Club, Ry Cooder. ;)

Tigerstorm's picture
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Aren't those you remember..
They usually comes out from their cages around summer and suddenly disapear at autumn, record labels seems to have new ones every summer.. (Wonder where they come from?)

They usually is being played over and over at radio stations and create annoyance as you'll get bored with the song after you hear it two times, but then all people starts to hum it and you'll be hearing for the rest of your summer wherever you go..

Isn't that summer tunes *laughing*

Brad's picture
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Donavon Frankenreiter (feat. Jack Johnson) - Free
Donavon Frankenreiter - It Don't Matter
Donavon Frankenreiter - Swing On Down
Actually anything by Frankenreiter has a very "Summer-ish" feel to it, you can't go wrong.

Jack Johnson - Breakdown
Jack Johnson - Tommorow Morning
Jack Johnson - Times Like These

Sublime - Doin' Time
Ben Taylor Band - Just Like Everyone Else
Beulah - My Side of the City
The 88 - How Good It Can Be

pokie's picture
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"Brown Eyed Girl"

It's only natural... considering. ;P

Jammo's picture

i missed that one. great summer song

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Stefan Freimark's picture
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Kid Loco, "Tracy" (album: "Jesus Life for Children under 12 inches")
Lighthouse Family, "Ocean Drive"
Caia, "Remembrance" (The Magic Dragon)
Lamb, "Heaven" (What Sound)
Mandalay, "Insensible" (Empathy)
Chicane, "No ordinary morning" (Behind the Sun)
Chicane, "Offshore" (Far from the maddening crowds)

And two German songs:
Grooveminister, "Verdient" (means: "deserved")
Meinrad Jungblut, "Sonnendeck"
Lyrics: "Wenn ich nicht hier bin, bin ich auf'm Sonnendeck"
Translation: "If I'm not here, I'm on the sun deck" :-)

garbaniele's picture
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Skamp - Summer is in the air
Great summer song, it fits to yours searching

mara06's picture
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Hey -- remember "Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"? They're using it in some dumb diet commercial now. I remember when it was fresh. Everybody at the pool sang along and danced to it. *sigh*

Then The Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreamin'" comes to mind, from a few years later. And anything by the Beach Boys, of course. Simon & Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy" and almost everything else they ever did. And I have a soft spot in my heart for John Denver's "Almost Heaven," about West Virginia, because I live one state over and it's fun to drive there with that song playing much too loud on the radio, the windows open, no air conditioning, barefoot, nursing a lukewarm can of Coke...oh, and Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" was big one summer in the early 70s, wasn't it?

Wow. I sure would rather be at the beach right now than locked up in my studio pulling the second all-nighter this week for a client who doesn't really deserve all this dedication ;-)

Thanks for the memories!

Mara

pc-f's picture
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I'm one of the few who do remember all those, but have been greatly influenced by my two college age kids with the new. It's all good. Art & Music.

pc-f's picture
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done with design, good post for weeks end

with tequila - Earthquakes & Sharks - Brandtson
for the girls - Cuz I can - Pink
random favs - She Is - The Fray (anything by The Fray)
The Adventure - Angels & Airwaves
The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
End of the World - REM
Yeah & Caught Up - Usher
at the end of the night -
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Konstantine - Something Corporate
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
Imogene Heap
Sade

Flub-Dub's picture
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a bit too late... but still... mabe it counts

the brief says
"compile songs that are fun to listen to while in the sun and drinking beer."

keywords: fun and beer.

the_fratellis-everybody_knows_you_cried_last_night
the_fratellis-ole_black_n_blue_eyes
the_fratellis-got_na_nuts_from_a_hippy
the strokes - last nite
(Collective_Soul)-Blender-03-Why
muse - starlight
Chris Rea-Julia
goo_goo_dolls-here_is_gone

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hyperviolet's picture
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so much for having one favorite "song".. should change the title to "post your favorite summer playlist"

i will do 5 off the top of my head:

1. fennesz - endless summer
2. boards of canada - kid for today
3. ween - the mollusk
4. joanna newsom - the fray
5. mr. bungle - sweet charity

chumsie's picture
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DJ Marky - LK

not sure if everyone will like that but if you like dance kinda music you'll like it.

3dogmama's picture
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Molly Johnson's "Summertime"...and the livin's so easy.

Plus an eclectic playlist for the upcoming months--

Cold War Kids - Hang me out to dry
Danko Jones - Baby Hates Me (good song when you're doing 40mph on a flat OPEN stretch of water...and sans passengers of course); Invisible; She's Drugs
Nirvana - Heart-shaped Box
Coldplay - Green Eyes
Alice Cooper - Is it my Body (that one got the neighbours wagging their hips last season; was mentally scarring....)
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box; Rooster (love my Alices)
Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the Moon; The Lady is a Tramp
Stompin' Tom Connors - Bud the Spud
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Guns 'n Roses - Live and Let Die
Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (can relate)
Big Sugar - Sleep in Late
The Stones' - Wild Horses

ciao
3dogmama

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JobMatchNow's picture
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You should put some Jack Johnson and Tim McGraw on you summer cd

Alec-Eldifrawi's picture
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Im really liking Lolipop by Lil Wayne,always makes me want to dance!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqCyTM1bF6Q

Hilltop Hoods. Nose bleed section.

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Anonymous's picture

Shooting Star by Air Traffic is definatley another winner!!

JimD's picture
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Jude Cole's "A View From 3rd Street" album
Any Sammy Hagar song... that's right, ANY one!

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gardavian's picture
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National Ghost's 'Ice Cream Head'. Great reggae rock! Killer melody

pleasebekind's picture
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What A Day for a Daydream - Lovin' Spoonful
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn and John
Sitting On the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

:)

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