Your Summer CD

[CK]

If you had the choice, what 10 songs would comprise a CD that best sums up summer, driving along the beachfront and enjoying the day? The songs that automatically put you in the mood to turn it up and enjoy the day.

Mine:

Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
All The Small Things - Blink 182
Things Don't Seem - Australian Crawl
Don't Change - INXS
Just Like Paradise - David Lee Roth
California Girls - Beach Boys
One Summer - Daryl Braithwaite (I know, but it does sum it up well)
Happy Together - The Turtles
Saturday Nights (All Right For Fighting) - Elton John
Young Years - Dragon

[LMA]

Here's a few I have that reminds me of summer in sound or in lyrics

Summer - Buffalo Tom
Everyday Should Be A Holiday - Dandy Warhols
Take A Run At The Sun - Dinosaur Jr
Race For The Prize - The Flaming Lips
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Holidays - Miami Horror
Surf's Up Tonight - Midnight Oil
This Day Last Year - The Panics
How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
The Festival Song - Pez
Chase The Sun - Planet Funk
Up To Our Necks In It - Skunkhour
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Your Party - Ween
Karma - 1200 Techiques
Sunshine - 78 Saab

[The Dark Knight]

Thirsty Merc- In the Summer Time
Powderfinger- Sunsets
Bliss N Eso- Party at My Place
Jack Johnson- To The Sea
Donavon Frankenreiter- Life, Love and Laughter
Blink 182- The Rock Show
Calvin Harris- Ready For the Weekend
Jet- Holiday
Nickelback- This Afternoon
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Hump De Bump

[MatteeG]

Powderfinger- Sunsets

Gees I HATE that song.

Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

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Check out this one:
Thursday- "Standing on the edge of summer"

And Billy Idol "Hot in the City" used to be a staple on summer radio in the day...

[Pidge]

Pez - The Festival Song
The Rifles - Out In The Past
Karnivool - Roquefort
The Salvadors - Atacama Disco
Birds of Tokyo - White Witch
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure

To name a few...

[Magpiespower]

Pretty much the only good song Wil Smith AKA 'The Fresh Prince' ever recorded...

[Baron Greenback]

Can't Stop - RHCP
Oceans - Pearl Jam
Middle of the Hill – Josh Pyke
Sunburn – Muse
Aurora – Foo Fighters
Waiting for the Sun – Powderfinger
Up and Down and Back Again – Powderfinger
Doesn’t Remind Me – Chris Cornell
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Knights of Cydonia - Muse

[MatteeG]

Everlong – Foo Fighters

Nice!

[brod]

Everlong – Foo Fighters

Nice!

Ill take it for all four seasons thanks

[Q.]

No surpise that Aussie music reminds me of an Aussie summer, so I went with a few 'classics':

Ammonia - Drugs
Frenzal Rhomb - Let's Drink A Beer
Grinspoon - Just Ace
Spiderbait - Calypso
Regurgitator - ! (The Song Formerly Known As)
TISM - Greg! The Stop Sign!
The Avalanches - Radio
PNAU - Wild Strawberries
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Sonic Animation - Love Lies Bleeding


Could have fit a whole lot more, but I like how this flows

[whufc]

Only one for me

Weezer- Island in the Sun.

[MatteeG]

Only one for me

Weezer- Island in the Sun.

Well played whufc- another top selection

[The Dark Knight]

Oceans - Pearl Jam
Waiting for the Sun – Powderfinger

Nice BG, I like it.

[Strawb]

Foo Fighters - Band On The Run
Midnight Oil - Power & The Passion
Midnight Oil - Surfs up tonight
Cold Chisel - Once Around the Sun
The Party Boys - Hold Your Head Up
The Angels - Am I ever going to see your face again
Stevie Wright - Evie Parts 1,2 & 3
Gang Gajang - Sounds Of Then
Guns And Roses - Paradise City
Ian Moss - Out Of The Fire
INXS - Burn For You
Alabama 3 - Keep You Shades on.

[LMA]

Streets Of Your Town - The Go-Betweens

[LMA]

Foo Fighters - Band On The Run
Midnight Oil - Power & The Passion
Midnight Oil - Surfs up tonight
Cold Chisel - Once Around the Sun
The Party Boys - Hold Your Head Up
The Angels - Am I ever going to see your face again No Way Get ****ed **** Off
Stevie Wright - Evie Parts 1,2 & 3
Gang Gajang - Sounds Of Then
Guns And Roses - Paradise City
Ian Moss - Out Of The Fire
INXS - Burn For You
Alabama 3 - Keep You Shades on.