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This week, instead of doing a specific artist, I decided to do a specific theme that has to do with an upcoming event (where I live, anyway)


This Week's theme is Summer Songs. Voting Will Close Next Sunday (June 13) at 12:00.

Interesting...I'll have a go at this...

In no particular order...

In the Summertime - Shaggy feat. Rayvon
Steal My Sunshine - LEN
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Lead Me On - Amy Grant
Big House - Audio Adrenaline
The Tide is High - Blondie
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & the Wailers
It's Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Good to Be Alive - Geoff Moore & the Distance
Life Together - Geoff Moore & the Distance
Heartache Tonight - The Eagles
'Ama'ama - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Shine - Newsboys
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root
Kissing Tree - Sarah Masen
Waiting For Your Love to Come Down - Susan Ashton
Love Shack - The B-52s
Rhythm of the Night - DeBarge
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Hot Hot Hot- Buster Poindexter
All Night Long - Lionel Ritchie
Vacation - The Go-Gos

Not all of these tracks pertain to summer itself but the summery vibe is overwhelming with most of them.

Pavement - Summer Babe [Winter Version]
Pavement - Gold Soundz (I know Summer Babe's the obvious choice but the video for GS so perfectly encapsulates the feel of summer fun and that image is locked in my head now)
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for Ducks
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
OutKast - Ghettomusick
The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket (well, all of Thunder Lightning Strike really but this is a prime cut)
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
Dario G - Sunchyme
The Strokes - Someday
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Les Rythmes Digitales - (Hey You) What's That Sound?
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Sean Paul - Like Glue
The Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff - Summertime
M.I.A. - Jimmy
Lonyo - Summer Of Love
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Funny you should ask! Just made Summer 2010 Happy Mix CDs for a couple of girls I like. Here's what was on them:

Troubled Times - Fountains of Wayne (FOW are always good for a summery pick me up)
These are the Days (of the endless summer) Van Morrison
Lived In Bars - Cat Power
Up the Road - Ron Sexsmith
Smile - Weezer (Whole Green album is summery)
Buggin' - Flaming Lips
And The Healing Has Begun - Van Morrison "I want you to put on that pretty summer dress; you can wear your easter bonnet and all the res'; and I wanna make love to you yes, yes yes." Always reminds me of a cleaned up, awesome, rap lyric.
Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
Come Together - Primal Scream
Big Time Sensuality - Bjork
Karmacoma - Massive Attack
Sunshowers - MIA
Ladyflash - The Go! Team

Interesting lists so far...
School's Out, Alice Coopes
Summer in the City, Lovin Spoonful
Good Vibrations, Beach Boys (What by the Beach Boys isn't about summer?
Surfin USA, Beach Boys
California Girls, Beach Boys
Saturday in the Park, Chicago
All Night Long, Lionel Richie
Boys of Summer, Don Henley
Dance the Night away, Van Halen

AFI, Summer Shutter
Animal Collective, Summertime Clothes
The Beach Boys, Surfin' U.S.A., and every other Beach Boys song
Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita
Coheed & Cambria, Blood Red Summer
Daft Punk, One More Time
Dr. Dre, Nuthin' But a "G" Thang
The Format, The First Single (You Know Me)
Frank Sinatra, All or Nothing At All
Jimmy Buffett, Cheeseburger in Paradise
Katy Perry, California Gurls
LEN, Steal My Sunshine
Meat Loaf, All Revved Up With No Place To Go
MGMT, Kids
OutKast, The Whole World
Ramones, Rockaway Beach
Sublime, What I Got
Taking Back Sunday, You're So Last Summer, haha emo summer
Vampire Weekend, Walcott
Van Morrison, Wild Nights

Surprised no ones picked Since I Left You. Just sounds like pure summer to me.

@ Chris and Listyguy

Have you guys even listened to Pet Sounds? Definitely not about summer. The Beach Boys were also responsible for devastatingly sad songs like "Til I Die" and "Surf's Up." Between about 1965 and 1973, most of the group's output strayed far from the topic of summer.

A few more that come to mind:
Go all the Way - Raspberries
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Lover's Concerto - the toys
Endless Summer Nights - Richard Marx
Big Star - September Gurls (most things off first two albums)
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me.
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Pixies - Debaser - (all of Doolittle)
Jens Lekman - I saw her at the anti-war demonstration
They Might be Giants - another first kiss
U2 - Wild Honey
The Zombies - Most of Odessey and Oracle
Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
Travis U16 Girls
Supergrass - Alright

Summer In the City - Lovin' Spoonful
Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Hot Fun In the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
Suddenly Last Summer - Motels
Summer Soft - Stevie Wonder
Summer Babe - Pavement
Long Hot Summer - Style Council
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Summertime Girls - Y&T
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
The Summer of Discontent - Cowboy Junkies
Summer, Highland Falls - Billy Joel
Summer Nights - Grover Washington, Jr.
All Summer Long - Beach Boys
Girls in the Summer Clothes - Bruce Springsteen
Surfer Girl - Beach Boys
Surfin' USA - Beach Boys
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Surf's Up - Beach Boys
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
Don't Wanna Be Like That - Joe Jackson
Only a Fool Would Say That - Steely Dan
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Arc of a Diver - Steve Winwood
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Heat Wave - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
1000 Julys - Third Eye Blind
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow

I'm tacking on to my list also:
Hot fun in the summertime, Sly and the Family Stone
Summertime Blues, Eddie Cochran
The Boys are Back in town, Thin Lizzy

This week's poll is now over.