This week saw the start of British Summertime so I'd thought I'd find out the best albums to be listening to when it's hot.

My top ten Summer albums are:

1.The Beatles - Abbey Road
2.Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
3.Pink Floyd - Animals
4.Pixies - Bossanova
5.Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
6.Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
7.The Beatles - Help!
8.Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
9.Judee Sill - Judee Sill
10.The Mama's and Papas's - If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears

It's a good concept-list but Captain, I don't really understand your choices..."Abbey road" or "Spirit of eden"...hummm. "Spirit of eden" is a wonderful record but it's more a perfect winter album to me.
So here is my definitive and perfect soundtrack for an endless summer :

1. The Beach Boys / All summer long (the best of all in this style)

Followers (in alphabetical order) :

The Avalanches / Since I left you
The Beach Boys / Surfer girl
Beck / Odelay
Dodgy / Homegrown (maybe my 2d favourite after "All summer long"
Dodgy / Free peace sweet
The Go! Team / Thunder,Lightning,strike
Hal / Hal
The High Llamas / Hawai
The Millennium / Begin
Mr.Bungle / California
Jim Noir / Tower of love
The Olivia Tremor Control / Dusk at cubist castle
The Pipettes / We are the Pipettes
Phoenix / United
Super Furry Animals / Phantom power
The Yellow Balloon / The Yellow Balloon

Add to this some classic great tracks like "California dreamin'", "Hotel California", "Something in the air" and "Happy together" and you sure won't forget this wonderful summer !

(1) Depeche Mode: Exciter
(2) R.E.M.: Reveal
(3) The Pixies: Bossanova
(4) The Cure: Wish
(5) Neutral Milk Hotel: In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
(6) John Coltrane: My Favorite Things
(7) Social Distortion: Social Distortion
(8) AC/DC: Back in Black
(9) Ozric Tentacles: Strangitude
(10) Man or Astro-Man?: Project Infinity