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Summer Toons

15:38 / 25.04.02

Alright then, the weather is getting very better and I want to make a nice summer tunes album so I thought I would ask you wonderful people for recommendations. You know the kind of songs I mean, sitting on the grass - cold drink - sun shining.

Any types of music will do - pop - hip-hop - metal (are there any metal summer anthems?)

15:44 / 25.04.02

this kind of thing is very difficult - everyone's idea of a good summer tune is different. but i'd recommend 'i think i'm in love' by spiritualized, from 'ladies and gentlemen...'. a good one for lazily sipping a beer in the park to.

15:49 / 25.04.02

Shonen Knife - Daydream Believer

on repeat, forever.

16:43 / 25.04.02

This summer, I'll be mostly playing 'Fresh Feeling' by eels.

16:52 / 25.04.02

Hmm...

Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Shimmer Kids Underpop Assocciation - Society of Rockets
Flaming Lips - Be My Head

16:59 / 25.04.02

The All-Girl Summer Fun Band - Car Trouble

On repeat, nbot quite forever, but for rather a long time.

Guided By Voices - Choking Tara

kind of an archetypal 'indie kid's summer' number.

No star here laces

17:55 / 25.04.02

On permanent repeat for slow lazy sex with sunlight coming through the window - Kenny Dope - "Favourite Grooves" mixtape - 90 minutes of pure genius on a jazzy, soul-y tip, kind of like if "I am the black gold of the sun" (the original, not the NuYorican Soul version) lasted forever.

For trying to do do Kung-Fu on ketamine in the park with your trousers rolled up and no shirt on with music from a shitty battery-powered boom box - De La Soul - "Jennifer taught me", The Pharcyde - "Pack the pipe", Manu Chao - "King of Bongo"

For smooth but energetic grooving on a sunny mountainside with 20 like-minded souls and a PA that's just big enough to be loud when you're close up, and quiet when you want to appreciate the nature - War - "City country city", Nightcrawlers - "Push the feeling on" (MK mix) and, if you can get the context just right, (and I never thought I'd recommend this record to anyone, but feelin' nostalgic just now) Winc - "Thoughts of a tranced love"

Matthew Fluxington

18:41 / 25.04.02

Rizla, which version of "Choking Tara" - the low-fi album version, the slick full-band "creamy version", or the acoustic radio session version? I think the "creamy version" is the best for 'summer song' purposes.

It is my all-time favorite GBV song, and they play it at nearly every show that I don't attend. I am forever doomed to never seeing them play the song live, in spite of seeing them at least four times a year...

Maybe I should get all the Magik types here to do some kind of ritual that will make them play it at the May 14 Irving Plaza show that I'm seeing...

They will almost certainly play the new big GBV summer-song anthem, "Back To The Lake"... and last year's GBV summer anthem, "Glad Girls", and the year before that, "Pop Zeus", and before that "Teenage FBI", and before that....

19:19 / 25.04.02

'Standing outside a broken phone booth...' - Primitive Radio Gods
'I can see clearly now' - Jimmy Cliff
'Femme Fetal' - Digable Planets

wembley can change in 28 days

20:12 / 25.04.02

Legal Man - Belle & Sebastian
Girl from Ipanema - Pizzicato Five
Feel-Good Hit of the Summer - Queens of the Stone Age
Love Shack - B-52s (big-ass highway freedom song)
Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
The Pop-Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count - Divine Comedy
Soul Time - Shirley Ellis (always makes me think of jumping rope)

I'm feeling very harmless pop today, obviously. But that's okay.

21:13 / 25.04.02

Trawling my recently created summer cd:

Quincy Jones - Days Like These (you know, Italian Job theme)
aim with Stephen Jones - Good Disease (it's brilliant. Hip-hop meets the Temptations. Love it)
Beck - Jackass (probably my one summer track)

Oh, and Gemma Hayes' Evening Sun. Because she has the world's most gorgeous voice. Officially.

23:05 / 25.04.02

Chris Stamey--"The Summer Sun"
Pavement--"Summer Babe"
Wilco--"Candyfloss"
Old 97's--"King of All The World"

08:38 / 26.04.02

ah. i have to make a summer comp cd for the 'midsummernights burn' cd swap this weekend. i'm going for a kind of theme -- leaving school, holiday romance, and back to september again.

there were a few tracks that haven't made it onto that mix that i want to put on another one, though -- traffic's '40,000 headmen', the zero 7 remix of lambchop's 'up with people', 'serenade to a cuckoo' by roland kirk....

08:41 / 26.04.02

oh yeah, paleface, were aim the ones that did that track with the sample of evil kineval being interviewed? that's a really good downbeat lazy summer track. must track it down again.

good call on rotary connection, lyra. though i must admit i like the NYS version as well -- jocelyn brown's voice is perfect for that song.

The Natural Way

09:12 / 26.04.02

Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall' is making me feel all summery, despite the shit weather.

As is Mikabomb's 'Contact Tokyo', the Ramones's 'Down in the Basement', the Royksopp mix of 'How Does it Feel' by Miss Kitten and the Hacker and, I know I bang on about it all the time, but the Boards of Canada remix of 'The Midas Touch' absolutely rocks (you can find it on audiogalaxy. Honestly, it's so groovy - not noodling at all).

"Everything I touch turns to gold......."

Hooray.

09:38 / 26.04.02

Alright I've got most of these queued up now on audiogalaxy - of course its decided to rain today !

thanx everyone

16:30 / 26.04.02

Well here's a few more for when you run out - I was thinking about summer tunes all day because of this thread.

1: 'Summer In The City' - doesn't matter which version. The Loving Spoonful sixties pop original is kind of nice; the Quincy Jones cover is nicer, in a woozy jazz kind of way; and the covers of Quincy's covers by Nightmares on Wax (Night's Interlude, Les Nuits and summat else) are all lovely.

2: 'They Came In Peace' by Tranquility Bass; just a fucking classic instrumental tune which never fails to evoke the summer for me.

3: "I'm In The Mood For Love" by Lord Tanamo; a lovely ska rendition of the tune. Always makes me smile and think of being in love (which means it has to be good, I'm a grumpy bastard)

4: "Kinky Love" by the Pale Saints: a cover of, I think, Nancy Sinatra, this tune was made for punting down the Cam with a glass of Pimm's (not that I've ever punted, or drank Pimms, but that's what this sounds like. Trust Me...)

5: "Sondags Beste" by Rune Linbaek: An exclusive on the Sunday Best 2 compilation if you're getting it on CD, this is the best sunset tune I've heard for some time. P-funk-style ambient synths, lazy backbeats, and a sample from Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy - what more could you want?

11:05 / 27.04.02

some more:

The Chicks - This is Gonna Be..

the best record ever made by anyone ever.

Deathcab For Cutie - 405

for when it's all woozy, very hot and preferably California