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