Thank you! I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve seen it in a couple of places that Katrina from Katrina & the Waves gets something like $1M a year in royalties. I should probably Google it, but I kinda want it to be true.
Several whacks with a pool noodle for excluding The Beach Boys from a sun and summer Playlist! May Mike Love write all your summer songs (and not Brian Wilson!) for that glaring omission! But, Sirius/XM satellite radio just started their summer-long Beach Boys-dedicated channel (Ch. 104, for those connected), so you're saved from the dreaded noodle!
Plus, L.A.'s fabulous The Last went very mid-'60s/BBs-evocative with their 1979 "Every Summer Day," and while not available (any longer) on Spotify, it is on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYwZ2Kxmm0E
Well done, Kevin, and a cool playlist, despite my coffee-deprived rant (my Panera, for some reason, is sans java this morning)!😱
Well, the good news is, I got'cher back, as the kids would say (I guess the kids say that....what do I know?)! Conversely, when I hear the clarion call for "summer" or "sun," I knee-jerk right to those musical lads from Hawthorne!🌞🏖
“Walkin’ On The Sun” by Smash Mouth was the first to come to my mind, followed by A-Ha’s “The Sun Aways Shine On TV”. One from my youth years and another from my childhood.
Here in Denver, we worship the sun 300 days a year, but it has been rainy and overcast more than usual. Which is actually ok, we need the water and a break from all of the sunshine warping our minds.
Thanks, I realized I duplicated the Sly track from your playlist after the fact, but couldn't take it off, too good. WHAT, how did that Miter track get on there!?! Someone at MiterCorp will be fired for this... Thanks, the cover art is actually a Dall-E AI image. It took some serious coaxing but I really like this image. I thought I would be using AI for most of the album covers for this project, mainly for productivity, but that hasn't turned out to be the case.
I nominate Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero) by The Boomtown Rats. I like mixtapes, I have boxes of them collecting dust in the attic. I had moved on to mix CDs, they are collecting dust in my work tool room. Then we moved on to the age of streaming and mixes are stored in the cloud. I have one question to pose, do you create the mix from memory or from searching on Genius. My son and I are putting together a mix and it is from our memory banks and nothing else. That is the way I did it in the age of mixtapes, so I still do some old school. Some, the memory banks aren't as keen as they used to be. So, from your mind Kevin, or from a search engine? Community, memory or search engine?
Of course I have a favorite song about the sun, and of course it’s by DADA!! Enjoy Feet To The Sun...https://youtu.be/SH0a8atX88Q
Of course it is! 😀
Did you expect anything else?🤣
Lol. Nope! Not unless Mammoth WVH has a summer song. :)
Dude, you made my day!!!🤣🤣🤣
Also, our air was only 131 last night, nowhere near as bad as yours...so sorry.
i’m in SE michigan and suffering just the same! summer sun by ruen brothers is concentrated summer sunshine to me (who could have guessed from the name??) https://open.spotify.com/track/2YMIYzyip7FRqV1pasIGc9?si=eVEoZER_Sbim8ZckVStLRA
Thanks for this! Hopefully, the air there is better now?
significantly! hope it's better for you too!
It is!
A bit of self promo, hope that's ok. Our first album, We Wish You Health is very much linked to the seasons. We have a couple of songs about the sun and summer. https://horsesofthegods.bandcamp.com/track/deiseil and https://horsesofthegods.bandcamp.com/track/midsummerset we also have a Substack newsletter.
Right on! Sharing your work is just fine. :)
Walking On Sunshine for sure. Sunshine On Leith always gets me wailing along despite my awful voice.
Nice playlist!
Thank you! I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve seen it in a couple of places that Katrina from Katrina & the Waves gets something like $1M a year in royalties. I should probably Google it, but I kinda want it to be true.
Several whacks with a pool noodle for excluding The Beach Boys from a sun and summer Playlist! May Mike Love write all your summer songs (and not Brian Wilson!) for that glaring omission! But, Sirius/XM satellite radio just started their summer-long Beach Boys-dedicated channel (Ch. 104, for those connected), so you're saved from the dreaded noodle!
Plus, L.A.'s fabulous The Last went very mid-'60s/BBs-evocative with their 1979 "Every Summer Day," and while not available (any longer) on Spotify, it is on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYwZ2Kxmm0E
Well done, Kevin, and a cool playlist, despite my coffee-deprived rant (my Panera, for some reason, is sans java this morning)!😱
Lol. There should probably be some Beach Boys. My problem is that the songs I like aren’t exactly “summery.”
Well, the good news is, I got'cher back, as the kids would say (I guess the kids say that....what do I know?)! Conversely, when I hear the clarion call for "summer" or "sun," I knee-jerk right to those musical lads from Hawthorne!🌞🏖
Nice playlist! Only addition I would make is "Heat Wave" by Snail Mail.
Oh, good pick! That whole record is fantastic.
Contra: "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot
I love it!
I posted this about the song On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) before we were overtaken by the smoke. Should've seen it coming. https://open.substack.com/pub/jodiemeynwrites/p/the-pianolist-on-a-clear-day?r=lzbdm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I saw that! And honestly, the idea that your sister once just happened to have all the makings for a Bloody Mary on hand is just awesome. 😂
Do you remember The Innocence Mission? This is a late nineties boss from summers past: https://open.spotify.com/track/6rbGpy1s1TniuQXsIBaQym?si=zp6UBFqRQ7OxSY_Prq5A_A
I remember the name, but not their music. I’m on it!
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“Walkin’ On The Sun” by Smash Mouth was the first to come to my mind, followed by A-Ha’s “The Sun Aways Shine On TV”. One from my youth years and another from my childhood.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TQeNHx85xcP9YRkvJC6K1?si=nEUcEwFYQrSngHfKWjh9ZA
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TQeNHx85xcP9YRkvJC6K1?si=BXqVqK9lTleyNTDCDxiF1g
Unpopular take: The Sun Always Shines on TV is way better than Take on Me.
Absolutely!
We're sorry about those damned fires, eh?
C’mon David! We’re wheezing down here. 😂
Skies are much better here in Ohio today, so I hope yours are too!
Here are a few songs that have a strong tie to summer for me:
Multimagic - Sunshine
Catherine Wheel - Judy Staring at the Sun
Buffalo Tom - Summer
The Primitives - Summer Rain
The album I most strongly associate with summer is Bon Iver’s S/T from 2011.
Much better today, thanks! How could I have forgotten Judy Staring at the Sun?!
Love this! 100% awesome playlist. I especially like the LEN and Roy Ayers inclusions. Got all excited and created a SUN WORSHIP playlist of my own.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/616X1R3jjJN980qzu5noWl?si=4f9dbee29f084ab0
Here in Denver, we worship the sun 300 days a year, but it has been rainy and overcast more than usual. Which is actually ok, we need the water and a break from all of the sunshine warping our minds.
Song killer tracks on there! “Warm Sunrise” feels like, well, like it. The cover art is awesome as well. Did you take that?
Thanks, I realized I duplicated the Sly track from your playlist after the fact, but couldn't take it off, too good. WHAT, how did that Miter track get on there!?! Someone at MiterCorp will be fired for this... Thanks, the cover art is actually a Dall-E AI image. It took some serious coaxing but I really like this image. I thought I would be using AI for most of the album covers for this project, mainly for productivity, but that hasn't turned out to be the case.
Fishbone! 🙌
The lyrics to Sunset Grill still exist in some dark corner of my brain, even though I probably haven’t heard that song in 20+ years 🧠
Those and the words to “Dirty Laundry” both.
I nominate Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero) by The Boomtown Rats. I like mixtapes, I have boxes of them collecting dust in the attic. I had moved on to mix CDs, they are collecting dust in my work tool room. Then we moved on to the age of streaming and mixes are stored in the cloud. I have one question to pose, do you create the mix from memory or from searching on Genius. My son and I are putting together a mix and it is from our memory banks and nothing else. That is the way I did it in the age of mixtapes, so I still do some old school. Some, the memory banks aren't as keen as they used to be. So, from your mind Kevin, or from a search engine? Community, memory or search engine?
In a case like this, memory.
For ones like our weekly discussions it’s a combo of memory, reader suggestions, and new music discovery.
When you guys are done, will you be posting the mix(es) on your blog?
Yes, I will post them. Thanks for sharing how you gather songs for your mix tapes.