November 27, 2004

• "Walkin' On Sunshine" baby, "Walkin' On Sunshine." Never fails to perk me up. Pure cheeeeeeeeeese. Unbridled happiness.
• Stayin' Out for the Summer - Dodgy
• Jane Says by Jane's Addiction is summer to me. The first day of summer, well okay the first day it hits 50, my windows are down, I'm drinking ice coffee and listening to Nothing Shocking. Damn, hate to think that day is months from now.
• Just about anything by Maddness. Old school but booty-friendly. Or some Bob Marley. Ah, that Len song brings some great memories... *sigh*
• Weezer - Island in the Sun Pure cheese.
• mct beat me to it.
• Here Comes the Summer by the Undertones. these are the guys that john peel (may he rest in peace, or at least in pop) thought made the best pop single ever (teenage kicks). lyrics to here comes the summer. oh and "walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches..." and "i know that i'll be back at echo beach some day..." okay, i have an unfortunate confabulation of summer and beaches. mail me if you want to hear "here comes the summer".
• Hmmm... Beach Boys? Any surfer-dude music, I guess. And if you're going to go there, you may as well go down "Margaritaville" way.
• Roy Ayers "everybody loves the sunshine" - nice and mellow. "listen to the title track"
• "she's got the jack" ac/dc I only hear that song coming out of cars on hot days.
• "Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison "I Can See Clearly Now" - Holly Cole "She Wore An Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" - ?
• Dudes...just realising what a cool and bizarre summer song War's "Spill the Wine" is...also Shangri-la's "Remember (walking in the sand)"...waiting on a shitload of downloads right now, YARRRR!!! Ozomatli's "Chango"; ass-shaking cumbia con muchos gatos y changos ruidosos y much leaping about - I dedicate it to Monkeyfilter!
• "Up on the Roof" - Laura Nyro "Summer in the City" - Lovin' Spoonful jeez i'm old
• Sunshine in a bucket: The Undertones - "Here Comes The Summer" Belle & Sebastian - "Legal Man" Polyphonic Spree - "Light & Day", and... well, basically every Polyphonic Spree song. Queens of the Stone Age - "Quick And To The Pointless" Ash - "Kung Fu" and "Girl From Mars" Supergrass - "Alright" Beck - "Sexx Laws" Duran Duran - "Rio" The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds" SL2 - "On A Ragga Tip" Happy Mondays - "Lazyitis" DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - "Summertime" (obviously) The Primitives - "Crash" Ooberman - "Blossoms Falling" Pavement - "Carrot Rope" Olivia Newton John - "Xanadu"
• Air - La Femme d'Argent Flaming Lips - Pilot CAN At The Queer Of God Les Negresses Vertes - Voila l'Ete Harry Belafonte - Jump In The Line The Thrills - Santa Cruz
• I'm wondering what sort of songs make it... well, "winter", besides X-mas songs. Guess I'll save that for another thread.
• Walking on the Sun by SmashMouth will more than likely think of more as time go on but that one popped into my head immediately
• Even hearing it in the 137th commercial, I'm still lovin' the Mungo Jerry. In the summertime when the weather is hot You can stretch right up and touch the sky When the weather's fine You got women, you got women on your mind Have a drink, have a drive* Go out and see what you can find *not an endorsement
• Diesel Boy - Happy Street G. Love & special sauce - Take you there
• these ones are kind of on the nose: The Sea & Cake - Shoulder Length Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Summer Wine Koop - Summer Sun Smokey & Miho - Summer Rain here's some that do it for me: Rosemary Clooney - Mangos Tortoise - I Set My Face To The Hillside Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way Minutemen - Corona
• Alice Cooper - "School's Out" Jay Ferguson - "Thunder Island" Tears for Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" The Cyrkle - "Red Rubber Ball" Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait" Lovin' Spoonful - "Summer in the City Madonna - "La Isla Bonita" Yes, I have an 80's fixation - (I'll second Duran squared's "Rio") ObDerail: and RPM: the two "winter songs" that came to my mind even charted within days of each other, in the (northern hemisphere, ahem) winter of early '86: Dream Acadamy's "Life in a Northern Town" and Mike + the Mechanics' "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" - driving across snowy country, watching for Halley's Comet with those songs, good times.
• Not really for booty-shaking... but rather, evoking the warm, summery summerness of summer: * Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness * Gershwin, from Porgy & Bess - Summertime * (Similarly...) Sublime/Pharcyde - Doin' Time * Some other shit worth sharing that i can't think of right now.
• how could I forget the beasties - any and all beastie boys = summer
• I can see this is going to be about three cds, not one...great, great ideas.
• Janey, Janey, Janey...I can't believe after 24 comments nobody's mentioned this...and it's Canadian content, too: "Sunny Days" by Lighthouse
• XTC - River of Orchids. Never fails to pick me up.
• I've posted my working line-up on my site off my profile if anybody wants to check the in-progress state of affairs.
• Hooked on a Feeling
• My summer: Daft Punk's "Da Funk" (Chemical Bros. remix is superior) 1000 Homo DJs' "Supernaut" A Hippie A Homeboy & A Funki Dread's "Total Confusion" Kyuss' entire _Blues For The Red Sun_ and of course, "Kyle's Mom Is A Bitch"
• It's looking like a nice list of music over there I know what I want from moneyjane for Christmas
• Ma-me-o Beach - Joan Armatrading. Ooooh! oldie! Temma Harbour - him name Mary Hopkin?
• Anything 311 I always say, seeing as how driving on the beaches of the outer banks with my jeep's ragtop down looking for a surf break seems to be my summer, all whilst listening to 311. But one song in particular: "Down south". I love it!
• I agree with a22lamia. BEASTIE BOYS!!!!!!!!!! ILL COMMUNICATION -GET IT TOGETHER. Reminds me of skinnydipping in a municipal pool at night.. Then again, there's always Hank Williams' "Jambalaya". Works for me.. feel the sweat!
• Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
• If you want a song to cross that summer/winter divide, can I suggest "July, July!" by The Decemberists...?
• Summergirls by Dino, Summertime, Summertime by Nocera Naughty Girls by Samantha Fox I Can't Wait, by Nu Shooz Sidewalk Talk, by Jellybean When I Hear Music, Debbie Deb Funky Little Beat, Debbie Deb Weekends Were Made For Fun, Debbie Deb A Little Bit of Ecstasy, Jocelyn Enriquez Mercedes Boy by Pebbles (oh, and another vote for Rio) Just a small collection of jams... I'm on a freestyle / 80's tip tonight. :)
• oh! And... Girls Dem Sugar by Beannie Man (feat. Mya) Jam On It, by Newcleus Funk Phenomena, Armand Van Helden She's a Bad Mama Jamma, by Carl Carlton Full Moon (feat Common) by Armand Van Helden A Mover La Colita, by Artie the One Man Party House Some More, by Lock 'n Load Groovejet, DJ Spiller Do It To Me, Soul Searcher I Feel For You, by Chaka Kahn Rock Steady, by Midnight Star This Is The Sound of The Underground, by Jackal
• *knows none of the songs on the FPP, feels old, sighs*
• Ooh! Ooh! Getcha some Violent Femmes! Doesn't matter what, so long as it rocks hard.
• If you want a song to cross that summer/winter divide, can I suggest "July, July!" by The Decemberists...? I love that song. Also, let me second "Summertime" by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. It is perhaps the only good and decent thing that has kept me from personally putting Will Smith out of our misery.
• Bust. A. MOVE.
• Big Star always feels like summer somehow.
• Anything on Lou Reed's "Transformer" "One Nation Under a Groove"-Parliment Funkadelic Anything by the Police Anything on Elvis Costello's Armed Forces "B.O.B" -Outkast (though maybe people are sick of them by now) "I'm waiting for my man"-Velvet Underground (since no one listens to lyrics anymore) "In a warm place"-NIN Bust a move is heartly seconded
• Dick Dale is the King of the Surf Guitar
• I love Dick Dale, esp. "Nitro". Fedora you rock my socks off.
• "The Other Side of Summer" - Elvis Costello "I'm That Type of Guy" - LL Cool J "Walk This Way" - Run-DMC "On the Dark Side" - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band "Alphabet St." - Prince "Good Vibrations" - Beach Boys (try the Brian Wilson version on "Smile") "Master Blaster" - Stevie Wonder "Back in the USSR" - Beatles "Shy" - Ani DiFranco "Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
• "We Like The Moon" - Joel & Alex Veitch
• A worthy selection, Flashboy!
• Why are we whispering?
• So we can hear the screaming whatchmacallits better
• Because I was worried that people might lynch me.
• Well, these work for me... k.d. lang - Summer Fling Glenn Gould - Bach - English Suite No. 4 in F - prelude Morcheeba - The Sea Aphex Twin - Xtal Groove Armada - Inside My Mind (Blue Skies) Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride Bobby Humphrey - Harlem River Drive Jimi Hendrix - Message to Love, Earth Blues, etc. Holiday Road (theme from Vacation) R.E.M. - Nightswimming Flaming Lips - Buggin' John Coltrane - Giant Steps Howlin' Wolf - Sittin' on Top of the World Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns Badly Drawn Boy - River, Sea, Ocean Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway Neil Young - Harvest Moon This post meets Canadian content regulations.
• sorry moneyjane - I missed the bar/butt-shaking part of your request... mine are most suitable for either cruising or patio-sitting.
• I always listen to the Rat Pack on summer evenings. Lena Horne if I'm feeling particularly sedate.
• Carl Thomas - Summer Rain
• The final lineup/order, barring any last-minute weirdness; Toots and the Maytals - "Broadway Jungle" The Undertones - "My Perfect Cousin" Shangri-Las - "Remember" April Wine - "High Roller" Ozomatli - "Saturday Night" Jane's Addiction - "Jane Says" Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" Andre 3000 - "Valentine's Day" Shawnna Ft. Ludacris - "Shake Dat Shit" Skee-Lo - "The Burger Song" Pittbull Ft. Lil Jon - "Culo" Wheezer - "Island In The Sun" Me First and the Gimme Gimmies - "Summertime" Elephantman - "Get On Up" The Queers - "Ursula Finally Has Tits" The Thrills - "Santa Cruz" War - "Spill the Wine" Wayne Wonder, Elephantman, Ft. Bounty Killah - "Got Somebody" Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - "One Note Samba" ACDC - Give The Dog a Bone" Len - "Steal My Sunshine" Groove Armada - "Hands of Time" Making CDs makes me hap-hap-happy :)
• I cheated the summer content in favour of ass-shaking, then had to get in a few I hadn't been able to sneak flow-wise onto the last few CDs I've made for them. If'n you ever want to hear it, it's going to the Doghouse. Thanks again for the wicked suggestions. Yay!
• thanks for the encouragement! I'm having to deal with a foot of snow and dark weather tomorrow. I will get out of bed, but I won't drive!