Now its summer, at least in dates anyway what are your favourite summer songs I'll start with
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Three Lions - Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds
Ignition Remix - R Kelly
Blue Monday - New Order (has to be the full 12" version)
We Are The Champions - Queen (more spring though, love it when its played at Preston North End when we win a championship, I've heard it twice now more than Blackpool fans have. Ha, ha. Ha, ha. Ha)
Perfect - Fairground Attraction
Paradise City - Guns n' Roses
So What - Anti Nowhere League (Personel reasons but there is something about slipping this song into a BBQ soundtrack, check the lyrics out)
Fool's Gold - The Stone Roses
There we are, fantastic for when the weather is 'scorchio'
Baby I Love Your Way - Big Mountain
Trash City - Joe Strummer
Laid - James
California - Phantom Planet
Instant Pleasure - Rufus Wainwright
and many many more I can't bother to type down now...
And this is for Flashman--
Human: What is your favorite song
Flashman: My favorite song is Rule Brittania. Do you know it?
Human: No+
Flashman: Rule Brittania is one of the best songs ever written.
Human: Sing Rule Brittania
Flashman: I'm a little rosebush, hear me shout, "Free perch for any bird who gets their tits out!"
For me:
Ace of Base - Cruel Summer
Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98
Shakira - Whenever
Shaggy - In The Summertime
Popeda - Pitkä Kuuma Kesä (don't even expect you to know it ;-))
+ many other songs that have been hits during previous summers.
Europe - Final Countdown
Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree
Oasis - Wonderwall
John The Whistler - I'm In Love
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman to me
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Sweet Box - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Mary Black - Song For Ireland
Loreena McKennit - All Souls Night
Queen - You and I (and most of A Day At The Races)
U2 - Beautiful Day
Trine Rein - Just Missed the Train
Nick Cave and whoever - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Weeping Willows - Touch Me
The Ark - Let Your Body Decide
Whichever song from Grease.
The Time of My Life - that song which ends Dirty Dancing.
Dan... wrote: Ooh! Billy Joel's "This Is The Time"!
That song almost makes me cry! Probably because I gave it on a CD to my boyfriend right before he left the country and I wouldn't see him again for a long, long time. You get a bit sobby from such memories together with "this is the time, but time is gonna change..."
*sniff*
Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
RHCP - Scar Tissue
Just about anything by Rooney
Saves The Day, "Through Being Cool," album
Blue October - Calling You
Mansun - Electric Man
Infact, the whole Little Kix album is a summer album!
I cannae wait for the release of their aborted fourth album "Kleptomania" this autumn!
Queen songs apart mines would include these:-
Dodgy - Good Enough
The Kinks - Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
Shanice - I Love Your Smile
Van Halen - Jump
Dave
UB40 - Kingston Town
U2 - Elevation
The Who - Summertime Blues
Beach Boys - Kokomo, Sufrin USA, Good Vibration
Mamas & Papas - California Dreaming
Pet Shop Boys - Se A Vida E
Eagles - Hotel California
The Clash - Junco Partner
The playlist on the summer tape in my car:-
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
This Summer - Squeeze
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
In the Summertime - Shaggy/Rayvon
Long Hot Summer - The Style Council
Walking On Sunshine - Rockers Revenge
Summer of Love - Steps
Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful
Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
Samba de Janeiro - Bellini
Sandstorm - Darude
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Chase the Sun - Planet Funk
Give It Up - KC & the Sunshine Band
Summer Son - Texas
Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle
Raincloud - Lighthouse Family
Outside - George Michael
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley vs Funkstar Deluxe
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and The Papas
I made up a cracking summer tune this afternoon as I pootled back to the Towers with the roof down on the Bentley, chasing rabbits and grannies into fields.
It went: Dum-do-dee-do-deedo-doo. Dum-do-dee-dum-dum-do. Doo-dood-um-dee-dod-um-doo-doo-doo-doo-dee-doo-dum.
I suppose you had to be there really.
Three Lions is great!
I think the Doors - Paint it Black is good, Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever, Who - Teenage Wasteland ... there are a lot of good summer songs, it just depends on what mood you're looking for!