Summer albums
 

Got any?

My music listening can get seasonal. That is, there's certain stuff that really sounds great in a particular season.

Okay, I'll go first. This summer:

Their Satanic Majesties Request (trippy, just sounds so right on a nice sunny day!)

Slanted & Enchanted

Byrds stuff

Battles - Mirrored

The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

The Electric Prunes

Bob Dylan - Freewheelin', Bringing It All Back Home, Hwy 61 Rvstd

The Who - My Generation

The Sonics - Introducing..., Busy Body!!!

Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk

Pretty cool stuff you got there. One thing i noticed, as the summer approaches, I begin to love later SY. Its always like that.

i can hear the heart beating as one

sung tongs

rubber soul

weezer's blue album

bluegrass

godWEENsatan

CCR

Johnny Cash at San Quentin

Yeah Cash seems to be great for summer, also Dylan and Calexico are great. Not to mention Neil Young

Dead Meadow - self-titled
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Mars Volta - De-loused in The Comatorium
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies

Hell yes to each and every one of these
I can't forget Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped
and Greatful Dead- Live/Dead is great for repeated late night listens

EVOL - Sonic Youth
Made In USA - Sonic Youth
White Album - The Beatles
Platnum Collection - The Beach Boys
Spiderland - Slint
Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
Nevermind - Nirvana
Nueva Vida - Sergio Dalma
You've Come Along Way Baby - Fatboy Slim
(Anything) - Santana
Bore Da - Euros Childs
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Exodus - Bob Marley
Be Your Own Pet - BeYourOwnPET

Just picked what I thought was essencially summer, It goes without saying its not summer without a few tracks from Vengaboys, Whigfield, Spice Girls and Ricky Martin.

Ice baby,
I saw your girlfriend and she was
eating her fingers like they're just another meal
but she waits there
in the levee washes
mixin' cocktails with a plastic-tipped cigar

My eyes stick to all the shiny roses
you wear on the protein delta strip
in an abandoned house but i will wait there
i'll be waiting forever...
i'll wait and wait and wait...

Minerals, ice deposits daily, dropped off
the first shiny robe
i've got a lot of things i want to sell, but
not here, babe-- tortuuurreeee...

every time i sit around i find i'm shot
every time i sit around i find i'm shot
every time i turn around i find i'm shot
every time i sit around i find i'm shot
every time every time...
you're my... summer babe
summer babe summer babe summer babe

Animal Collective - Feels
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Boards Of Canada - Campfire Headphase
Six Organs Of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

Animal Collective!...how could I forget? Cant get more summer than that.

Also, John Fahey's 'Blind Joe Death'

Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
( I want a range Life !...)

My favourite summer album:



Although any CCR would do almost as well.

I'm thinking some sort of Denny Martin mix.

Or a Parliament/Funkadelic record.

Maybe, War's The World is a Ghetto, for those in that part of town.

You're fresh air.

Yeah, that too.

And:

Bauhaus sounds great on a beach in the dark.

Bask in the reverb...

Sonic Youth - Sister
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas (best album to drive fast in my car)
lots more I can't think of

Wir Sind Helden
Les Rita Mitsouko - the No Comprendo album
Janis Joplin

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Odelay / Mellow Gold - Beck
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Add It Up - Violent Femmes
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Summer Sensation - Be Your Own PET
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
Washing Machine / Murray Street - Sonic Youth
Anything by The Muffs
Free Bird
That song by Rod Stewart that goes "young turrrrrrks be freeeee tonight" and then has the cool organ bit after it

Surf rock, motherfuckers.

I got Slanted and Enchanted a week ago, (used I might add for about half off perfect condition too) and I can't stop listening to it. Fuckin great album. I never listened to Pavement before but damn it's great.

yes. motherfuckers indeed.

Tim Buckley - Happy sad, Blue afternoon, Live at the Troubadour
Van Morrison - Astral weeks
Beach Boys - Pet sounds
Jean-Louis Murat - Mustango
Laura Veirs - Year of meteors
Mogwai - Ten rapid
Beth Orton - Central reservation
Neil Young - On the beach, Zuma, Rust never sleeps
Fred Neil - S/T
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Terry Callier - The new folk sound of Terry Callier
REM - Automatic for the people

perfect teeth by unrest,
loveless by my bloody valentine,
the sound of mcalmont and butler by mcalmont and butler
axis: bold as love by the jimi hendrix experience
apple o by deerhoof

The Trashmen, Surfin' Bird

Well everybody knows the bird is a word...

Agreed. Especially Washing Machine.


This just reminded me of the Ramones cover. Anything by the ramones is brilliant for summer.

Yeah surf rock!!!

someone say surf rock?????

People keep telling me I need to have the album. I can't bring myself to do it.

Do It Do It!!!!

I passed on the double LP reissue--one LP stereo, the other mono. The record store manager was pushing it at me, insisting I'd like it. But it was going for more than 25 bucks. I start to feel queasy when I dish out that much cash for one LP.

Besides I expect to see the Daydream Nation 4LP thing any day now, and I'm afraid I'll be suckered into paying for that expensive pile of shite.

hell yeah, my dad sent me a copy of it ages ago so it was free. Get some Rundgren instead then!!!!!

MSTRKRFT - The Looks
OutKast - Stankonia
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Annie - Anniemal
Ramones - End of the Century
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Blur - Park Life
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperenza

Amongst quite a few playing right now..

Surf Rock? Nothing beats The 5.6.7.8's...

Japanise surfer babes....*drolls*

Green Day-Dookie
some ska punk stuff
Smashing Pumpkins-Pisces Iscariot
Black Flag-First Four Years
Sonic Youth -Rather Ripped

perfect at night:

rodrigo y gabriela-self titled album in the desert the summer seems like a bad peyote trip so flamenco music helps