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[Beast]

what are the best albums for summer?

I think...
Apples In Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
Wilco - Summer Teeth
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
Flying Canyon - Flying Canyon
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
Loose Fur - Loose Fur
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Sublime - Second Hand Smoke

[Johnny C]

The self-titled BSS album is way better for summer.

EDIT: Oh, also, every Caribou/Manitoba release, and also The Acorn's Glory Hope Mountain.

[imapiratearg]

Eh, I think I'd have to agree with Beast, here.  "Pacific Theme?"  I don't know why, but their self-titled is not my favorite.  I sort of feel like You Forgot It In People is more engaging and dynamic.

I'm going to suggest:

Pinback - Summer In Abbadon
The Clash - London Calling
Braid - Frame & Canvas
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetopolothology
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
and Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

[karl gambolputty...]

Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You

Two perfect summer albums right there.

[Dimmukane]

Mountains In The Sky - Accipio

[PECOAE]

Weezer - Weezer (blue album)
Television - Marquee Moon
Velvet Underground - Loaded OR Velvet Underground w/ Nico

(maybe the latter two only if you live in New York)

[onewheelwizzard]

Fu Manchu.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

totally agree on the 'Dandelion Gum'

when the entirety of the lyrics for the opening track of an album are "children playing in a field" repeated over and over; you know it's summer time.

oh holy shit and the song "Sun Lips"

[jill the ripper]

Asobi Seksu's Citrus is very summery.
Like, japanophilic Beach Boys with accordions speaking in moon-man language.

But maybe it's just for Southern California residents.

[Joseph]

There's a huge difference between summer albums for the day and for the night though.

[sean]

Mountains In The Sky - Accipio

The thread may as well of ended right here. This album is perfect.

[Inlander]

There's a huge difference between summer albums for the day and for the night though.

Because when it comes to summer albums for the night you only need one album:



Two if you like your jazz sung by old guys who sound slightly drunk and play beautiful, wistfully melancholic trombone solos:

[Christophe]

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet- Savvy Show Stoppers
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet- Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet- Sport Fishin'

See a trend?

Also, over the past summer I listened to a bunch of DeSoto records stuff, namely-

Jawbox- For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Shiner- The Egg
The Dismemberment Plan- Emergency and I

I also blasted Vitreous Humor's Posthumous, some of the songs on that album can hold their own with other summerish pop-punk, without actually being summerish pop-punk.

[De_El]

Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear

When Your Heartstrings Break was basically the first album that came to mind.
I kind of associate these albums with summer:
Source Tags and Codes - Trail of Dead
Painful - Yo La Tengo
CYHSY - s/t
Hearts of Oak - Ted Leo/Rx
Mclusky Do Dallas - Mclusky
Power, Corruption, Lies - New Order
Kick out the Jams - MC5

[Beastmouth]

@dl:  I'll see yr Painful and Kick Out the Jams and raise you an Electr-O-Pura and Back in the U.S.A.. 



God, Back in the USA.  I remember putting it on right after I got back in the USA, man

Also, I gotta say John Barleycorn Must Die and Revolver.  Traffic were funky, and who were those other guys?  I think they were pretty good!

[Beastmouth]

How could I forget Evil Empire? 








By being a fucking idiot, of course. 

I mean, there's only so many times you can hear an album on the way to summer camp before it *becomes* summer.  Ditto Collective Soul's Nervous Breakdown, for better or worse.  :/

[Uber Ritter]

The 13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere.  I mean goddamn.  It's just so, I dunno, free.

The Seldom Scene-Act 1.  For the open road and a trip the mountains.  Doesn't have their cover of "Baby Blue," but it does have "City of New Orleans."  Also in this category: At Folsom Prison-Johnny Cash.


Not sure about Neil Young.  Maybe Everyone Knows this is Nowhere.  Probably not Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust.

Hard to tease out what's just mental association sometimes--for instance, I associate the Pop Group and the Electric Prunes with summer because I first heard them on a road trip to Chicago between freshman and sophomore years.  I'm not sure they are particularly 'summery'.

And how the hell could I forget Big Star: No 1 Record?  I mean, sure, the album mostly occurs to me because I love the "Ballad of El Goodo" and find it a very summery song, but oh well, maybe I'm just a big star poseur since I don't even own the album yet.  I don't care.  Summer essentials.

[Spluff]

Fu Manchu.

There's nothing better than driving around during summer blasting King of the Road out of the stereo. Nothing.

[The Viz]

Any Smash Mouth album.  Also, Traveling Wilburys Volume 1.

[Beastmouth]

Fu Manchu.

There's nothing better than driving around during summer blasting King of the Road out of the stereo. Nothing.

But y're not talking about Roger Miller 

[Tom]

Vampire Weekend - s/t

[a pack of wolves]

I hugely agree with the B52s, Beat Happening, Big Star, Fu Manchu and MC5. And for the MC5 I'd take Back In The USA for the days and Kick Our The Jams for the hottest nights. But my ultimate summer album and the one which makes me know it's summer since I get a huge urge to play it immediately is:

[morca007]

Maybe it's just me, but nothing says summer like driving with the windows down through open country while listening to Surfer Rosa.

[a pack of wolves]

I'd say Surfer Rosa is most definitely a summer album. In fact, I rarely listen to the Pixies outside of that month.

[PECOAE]

Vampire Weekend - s/t

hell yes.

Also, see Graceland, Abbey Road, Is This It?

[Lexington, 125]

totally agree on the 'Dandelion Gum'

when the entirety of the lyrics for the opening track of an album are "children playing in a field" repeated over and over; you know it's summer time.

oh holy shit and the song "Sun Lips"

Most definitely.... just received the LP in the mail a couple days ago.  The same can be said for their album with The Octopus Project   "The House of Apples & Eyeballs"... great record.

other summer albums


MIA- Arular

Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory

Four Tet- Everythings Ecstatic

RJD2- Deadringer

Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West

[morca007]

Lexington- RJD2 says late fall to me, it's kind of heavy, if not always in beat, then in tone.

Also, when is it going to be hot enough here for me to listen to Raising Hell in the car?
- Seriously, weather, WHAT THE HELL?

[Beastmouth]

I'd say Surfer Rosa is most definitely a summer album. In fact, I rarely listen to the Pixies outside of that month.

"that month"? 

[imapiratearg]

Maybe it's just me, but nothing says summer like driving with the windows down through open country while listening to Surfer Rosa.

I was thinking that, too.

[Melodic]

[a pack of wolves]

"that month"? 

Hey, I'd been up for about two days at that point. Cut me some slack. Also, I live in the north of England, if you get one month of summery weather you count yourself lucky around here.

[Thrillho]

Yeah, because that's only the north that that weather applies to.  I prefer cold weather anyway.

Albums for summer days:
Blur - Parklife
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pink Floyd - PULSE
Weezer - Weezer (blue)
Tupac - Greatest Hits
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Albums for summer nights:
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The Verve - Urban Hymns

[a pack of wolves]

On average the south is warmer actually, just like Scotland's colder again. I used to agree with you about preferring the colder weather but I've found myself longing for the summer this winter.

But I didn't come in here just to debate the British weather. The other thing that summer always makes me want to listen to is large amounts of catchy punk. So when summer comes I will be dusting off:

[Misereatur]

[Mazeraski]

Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk

I just associate Bear vs. Shark with extreme anger.  At least, that's mostly when I listen to them for some reason.

Day:
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Beck - Sea Change
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
Ratatat - Classics
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak or Shake The Sheets
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor

Night:
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Yppah - You Are Beautiful At All Times

Some artists I listen to during summer disregarding albums:
Trail of Dead
Blur
Elliott Smith
Metric
Minus The Bear
Muse
Queens of the Stone Age
The Streets
The Strokes
!!!

[strangeparallel9]

carousel waltz - the robot ate me

figure 8 - elliott

feels - animal collective

and strictly night: it's a wonderful life - sparkleyhorse

[SoCalian]

I find myself listening to a lot of ska during the summer. This past one, it was mostly:

Dance Hall Crashers - The Old Record
the Ska Sucks compilation
along with any Five Iron Frenzy

Alright Still by Lily Allen was also played a lot

Then there was the tandem of Architecture in Helsinki and Yacht after I saw them.

[Nodaisho]

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

It helps for it to be raining, but I associate the mountains with summer, as that is when I go up there most frequently, and the music seems very mountainy, I think at least some of the music was written on Mount Hood.

[E. Spaceman]

[squawk]

DEFINITELY Beulah's When Your Heartstrings Break

and also Return to the Sea by Islands.

The Unicorns work too I guess!

[KharBevNor]

[Patrick]

The self-titled BSS album is way better for summer.

I came into this thread only to say that, but I was sadly beaten down in the very first reply. Damn you, Johnny.

Also, o/ Johnny.

(am I the only one who thinks that the end of "Hotel" [start at 3:41] sounds like they could do some amazing funk?)

[imapiratearg]

I'll agree with you guys, BSS's self-titled is a perfect summer album, but so is You Forgot It In People.

[Tom]

Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West

Can you explain this to me, I find Modest Mouse more of a winter/autumn band.

More Albums:
Miracle Fortress - 5 Roses
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
all most all Pinback

[amok]

when the sun comes out it is queens of the stone age time 

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West

Can you explain this to me, I find Modest Mouse more of a winter/autumn band.

i'd like to take a stab at this, if i may. naturally, using anecdotal evidence from my own life which may not apply to Lexington.

i'll listen to Modest Mouse pretty much any time of year...but i tend to associate them the most with the summer because the summer is when i usually fry on mushrooms because it's so much nicer to be outside since it's not raining or cold. And, naturally, i listen to Modest Mouse alot when i'm on mushrooms because it makes alot more sense that way. 

so when i think of Modest Mouse, i inevitabley think of the summer time.

[Lummer]

Anyone suggesting warm fuzzy stoner RAWK is SO DOING IT RIGHT!!!


In that vein, I think Torche and The Sword really deserve mention in that respect.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

BIGELF

[Patrick]

Anyone suggesting warm fuzzy stoner RAWK is SO DOING IT RIGHT!!!

Fucking BORIS.

I don't care who rags me for this, but Californication is an excellent album for any occasion but it really shines as a summer album.

The Allman Brothers pretty much didn't do anything BUT summer music, and I URGE you people to listen to Gringo Lingo by the Texas Tornados. You can't go wrong with Doug Sahm and Flaco Jimenez. HEY BABY QUE PASO? I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR ONLY VATO!

[RedLion]

THIS.



Or:



You can say what you want about Bruce, but you'd be hard pressed to find another pair of albums that so completely and succinctly encapsulates summer, youth, freedom, yearning for escape, the open road, and pure, raw joy.