What a lovely day it is to be sitting inside cramming for a three hour exam tomorrow morning!
I was just considering what to listen to and decided to stick on Out Of Time by REM - what a great summer album.
Here are some others i will probably get through in the next few hours :
So Much For The Afterglow - Everclear
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
The Blue Album - Weezer
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Anyone got any great summer albums to add?
Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
there is NOTHING
more perfect and summery than Grand Prix. I am listening to this on a loop.
guided by voices
bee thousand. perfect songs, perfect length for bus journeys (20 songs in 32 minutes!). been listening to it every day for 3 weeks now.
beach boys
pet sounds
shit how did i forget Bee Thousand!?!
Thats going on next!
Sunny
Anything by Fat Freddys Drop, actually anything dubby!
Homegrown - Dodgy
I Should Coco - Supergrass
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces
Good call on B000,
Jamie Summers - great album
all girl summer fun band!
Anything by
Belle & Sebastian
Pulp
The Pipettes
Nouvelle Vague
The Beach Boys
I reckon.
Been listening to
The Sundays' "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" over and over again this week, it's a fantastic album for summer walks.
First and third Supergrass albums are good for summer, too. And the first Spearhead and Jurassic 5 albums, too.
!
the starlight mints - the dream that stuff was made of
the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone?
the boy least likely to - the best party ever
&i'm assuming the new retro spankees album will be a summer slice of awesome too.
..
The Barracudas - Drop Out
I add
Dios: Dios
Incubus: Morning View
The Ataris: So Long Astoria (It reminds me of summer)
The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile
Desaparecidos: Read Music/ Speak Spanish
Weezer: Pinkerton
Nirvana: Nevermind
Neil Young: Zuma
The Ramones: Rocket To Russia
Smashing Punpkins - Siamese Dream
I know I always say this but it is THE summer album bitches.
Yeah,
'Siamese Dream' is a summer classic. And 'Morning View', I went and bought a copy the moment it turned summery.
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excellent, I was trying to think what Beach Boys album would be most apt, and it is deffo Smiley Smile...
that weird lethargic stoned feeling you get in the summer when it's just too hot to move
I'm not really sure what a summer record is
as all of my favourite albums sound brilliant whatever the season. BUT, I don't want to be left out, so I'm going to try and name some anyway...
Ride - Nowhere
Galaxie 500 - Today
Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
ooh, that's a good one.
Well done.
last
summer it was all about jamie liddel!
um....
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
The Ataris - End Is Forever
Incubus - Morning View
Foo Fighters - Colour And Shape
Islands - Return To The Sea
Pixies - Bossanova
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Wheat - Hope And Adams
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Seafood?
hello!
Zero For Conduct
Jetplane Landing
Always: Your Way
It just came on and made me feel very summery. Grounded's quite summery too, though probably not the rest of the album.
why hasn't anyone mentioned
Forever Changes?
Hunky Dory too
and Malcolm Maclaren's 'Paris' LP - OH YES!
i don't
find forever changes summery enough.
it's a tad too melancholy as a whole.
well in that case
you'll be wanting a copy of 'Feral Pop Frenzy' by Even as We Speak
OK!
i'll endeavour to look it up! thanks.
here's one i forgot that im just about to put on
Grandpaw Would - Ben Lee
Brilliant lazy summer record. Now where's my iced tea?
Teenage Fanclub
Songs From Northern Britain is pretty summery too. Also, I'd say the new Camera Obscura album is pretty damn summery.
OOH! And "It's A Shame About Ray". That's got to be up there somewhere.
Love
Forever Changes
yeah
totally agree on Teenage Fanclub
The Cure _ Faith
was my record of a whole summer.
No my mood wasn't very good...
Playing With Fire- Spacemen 3
And at the risk of sounding unfashionable, Morrison Hotel by the Doors? Peace Frog and Roadhouse Blues more than qualify.
Oh and liek
Waiting for the Sun.
anything by dressy bessy
also
ash - 1977 reminds me of when I did my GCSEs and I was outside revising in the farmland behind my house. special days.
the shins - chutes too narrow
and belle and sebastian, elf power, the chalets, of montreal and the olivia tremor control (in fact just stick half the elephant 6 collective in here), mates of state...
lovely.
ash - intergalactic sonic 7"s
yes yes
no one has mentioned
Super Furry Animals.
This needs to be rectified
New Pornographers - Electric Version
the title track in particular, but it's just a big, corny Summer album throughout.
.
any of the super furries albums normally... tho this year so far Hot Chip the Warning
....
anything by nihil fist, its always a good time for noise.
Whatever and ever Amen
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The new Bendan Benson album
FUZZ VALENTINE!
www.myspace.com/fuzzvalentine
Lambchop
Nixon
lambchop are playing
next month, i think...
They are!!
Right.....
ooooo
i wanna go
Fountains Of Wayne
No one's mentioned them yet. It must be summerrrrrr...
Not an obvious one
but You're Living All Over Me sounds so so much better when the sun's out.
...
These are the records that accompanied my drive all the way down the US west coast a couple of summers ago:
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Modest Mouse - Good News...
Thee More Shallows - A History of Sport Fishing
T Rex - Electric Warrior
The Shins - oh, inverted world
Dismemberment Plan - !
Jane's Addiction!!
Ritual de lo Habitual and Nothing's Shocking always come out with the sun.
Totally agree with Moker....
on Siamese Dream...perfect...."Today and "Mayonaise" just makes ya feel great.
On another tangent, Summer Breeze by The Isley Brothers is another summer classic for me.
These records remind me of summer, as well as sitting next to sweaty people on the bus and wasps in public bins.
Vetiver-s/t
Of Montreal-Satanic Panic
The Unicorns-WWCOHWWG
Mew-Frengers
Nick Drake
5 leaves left. You can't get more wistful and summerish, indeed you can't get much better
Arms...good call....
not sure which album it's on but The Riverman is also perfect for a long summer day, laying out in the grass somewhere taking it easy....lush.
I forgot to mention:
every Ash album, ever!
KLF
The Avalanches- since i left you
and
thats all you need!
Ariel Pink!
mmm fuzzy city heat
Ash could suck a golf ball through a hosepipe
they suck so hard.
In answer to the original question
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Belle & Sebastian - If You're feeling Sinister
Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Animal Collective - Feels
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs
Stephen Malkmus - s/t
Brighten The Corners
is the real Pavement summer classic.
And
Wowee Zowee. But I went for CR,CR as it has that 'So drunk in the August sun' line in Goldsoundz, which encompasses the summery vibe completely.
nah, CRCR is
I've been listening ot it all week
BTC has a lot of personal importance
to me, so its status in the back catalogue is always a little over-played by me. I still think, regardless, it's an absolutely astonishing record.
That was possibly the least appropriate use of the passive voice of all time
Sorry
The Pipettes
We Are The Pipettes is the summer album of 2006.
Seconded re BTC
I lobe that record so much. It has malkmus's best lyrics on. And Blue Hawaian. And Infinite Spark. And Type Slowly. Classic.
Pigfoot - have you heard the bluegrass version of Type Slowly called Slowly Typed? It's brilliant!
No I haven't,
but I'd love to. Do you have a link?
Fiery Furnaces
Ep = Summer.
I can't help with a link
Sorry. It's on the b-side of Shady Lane I think. It'll be on the expanded version i bet but that won't be for a couple of years.
In other news, the expanded version of Wowee Zowee is due this autumn according to Matador - Ace!
how about
charlotte hatherley - grey will fade - entire album really
anything by : the cosmic rough riders, the polyphonic spree, and the last three flaming lips albums.
ooh and
DODGY
and
minuteman - the album ive forgotten the name of
the dandy warhols - welcome to the monkey house
the house of love - self titled
this is my last post til someone else replies
but jeff beck - you had it coming
The
ultimate summer album is Less Than Jake's - Hello Rockview. That is a fact.
the
boo radleys - wake up boo
although its not a very good boo radleys album i'd reckon its pretty summerey