Summer Tunes.
I’m a self-admitted music whore. And I love it. You know how some people only listen to the beat and not the lyrics? That’s not me. I dissect songs until I can make them fit a related mood I’m in at any given moment. Pick a song in my extensive iTunes library and I can most likely tell you the circumstances surrounding the very first time I heard it. In other words, music is a very memory-related sort of thing to me.
Summer Music (as I like to call it) is one of my favorites. The 23 songs below are just some that stick out in my mind. (Sorry, there aren’t any links…)
Crazy – Aerosmith
Good Vibrations – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
Shake It – Metro Station
Rock Lobster – B52’s
Why Can’t I – Liz Phair
1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
Round Here – Counting Crows
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Just the Way I’m Feeling – Feeder
My Baby’s Got Sauce – G. Love
Black Balloon – Goo Goo Dolls
Sugar Magnolia – Grateful Dead
Basket Case – Green Day
Happiness – Hagfish
Back to You – John Mayer
Lola – The Kinks
Killing Me Softly – The Fugees
Stay – Lisa Loeb
Perfect Day – Lou Reed
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Thinking About You – Radiohead
The Joker – Steve Miller Band
Summertime – Sublime
What are your favorite Summer Songs?
Fifi Flowers
June 20, 2008 at 3:10 pmI don’t need to write out a list… you have a great many of my favorites in your list!
I have to say that right now… I am having FUN listening to the soundtrack from Sex and the City the movie… good singalong music! I look like a crazy person, dancing in my car and belting out tunes!
I have a huge itunes library that I share with my 13 yr old… so we have an intereting variety! FUN! We LOVE music!
Tracy
June 20, 2008 at 4:40 pmMy favorite is “Fields of Gold” by Sting. That song was the theme song for a long hot crazy Summer back at home after my first year of college. I spent my days at the lake reading so many books. It was also the first time I realized I could be “sexy” when I caught the eye of a park ranger…
Megan
June 20, 2008 at 6:13 pmDreamgirl by Dave Matthews Band….it is even better with the sun out and the windows of the car rolled down.
Kozy-D
June 20, 2008 at 8:57 pmCruel Summer by BananaRama!
Joker
June 26, 2008 at 10:32 pmAwww you wike my song 😀
Here are random summer songs for your listening enjoyment.
1. Blind Melon – no Rain, lemonade
2. Pearl Jam – Smile, Wishlist, Given to fly
3. Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
4. Stone Temple Pilots – And so I know, Art School Girl
5. Cream – Sweet Wine, I’m so Glad, NSU
6. Tom petty – Free Fallin, American Girl
7. Filter – Take a picture
8. Jack Johnson – Times like these, Banana Pancakes, The horizon has been defeated, Constellations or pretty much any Jack Johnson song
9. The Who – Baba O’reilly, My Generation, Water, Silas Stingy, boris The Spider and Glittering girl
10. The Waterboys – This is the sea
11. Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun (Cover)
And of course, there’s always more 😀
Kristin
July 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm“Ditty” by Paperboy… this takes me right back to the summer after my freshman year of highschool. I still love that song!
Also – “Jack & Diane” by Mellencamp.