NME's "50 Best summer songs ever"

[Shaun]

I'm aware I almost try to be annoyed by them :laugh: it's quite restrained I promise.

"Jump In The Pool" - Friendly Fires
"Always Like This" - Bombay Bicycle Club
"Sunny Afternoon" - The Kinks
"All Summer Long" - Kid Rock. no really.
"The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" - Arctic Monkeys
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" - Sly and the Family Stone
"Endless Sunset" - Delorean
"Surfing USA" - Beach Boys
"Summertime" - Will Smith
"Going Up to the Country" - Canned Heat
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" - Queens of the Stone Age
"In the Summer" - Crystal Fighters
"Time To Pretend" - MGMT
"Regulate" - Warren G
"Bermuda" - Kisses
"Club Tropicana" - Wham!
"Chaka Demus" - Jamie T
"Summer in the City" - Lovin' Spoonful
"Let's Go Surfing" - The Drums
"Sunrise" - Yeasayer
"Sweet Disposition" - The Temper Trap
"Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
"Margarataville" - Jimmy Buffett
"Summertime" - Janis Joplin
"Rebel Music" - Bob Marley
"Who Loves the Sun" - The Velvet Underground
"Paper Planes" - M.I.A.
"Island in the Sun" - Weezer
"California Girls" - Beach Boys
"A-Punk" - Vampire Weekend
"Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard" - Paul Simon
"Sun Hits the Sky" - Supergrass
"What I Got" - Sublime
"Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg
"Where I Wanna Be" - Shade Sheist
"Lisztomania" - Phoenix
"Hot In Herre" - Nelly
"In The Summertime" - Mungo Jerry
"Bicycle" - Memory Tapes
"Don't Look Back Into the Sun" - The Libertines
"Summer Wind" - Frank Sinatra
"Boys of Summer" - Don Henley
"Bohemian Like You" - The Dandy Warhols
"After Dark" - Count and Sinden
"Dreaming Of You" - The Coral
"Summer of 69" - Bryan Adams
"Wake Up Boo" - Boo Radleys
"Cruel Summer" - Bananarama
"School's Out" - Alice Cooper
"Summer Breeze" - The Isley Brothers

so basically, 30 songs got by typing "sun" or "summer" into itunes, 15 got by asking Francis what that song was he heard at Reading in 2005 and 5 cheesy oddities.

FASCINATING.

But yeah, feel free to reply with your own (not 50, that would be silly and/or admirable)

[Locke.]

Terrible list

[KG.]

Never Too Much - Luther Vandross always gives me a summery feeling, but yeah there are some pretty shocking choices on that list.

[Beastie]

M.I.A :love:

All I wana do is.... " " " and..... "...... and take ya monayyyyyyy!

[Shaun]

I coincidentally have a summer playlist I made last year... and I was thinking of making a new one for this year :laugh: but I rarely listened to the other one :/

-finds it and posts some of it-

"Digsy's Dinner" - Oasis
"For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield
"Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones
"Come Together" - Primal Scream
"September" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Let's Go Crazy" - Prince
"Steal My Sunshine" - Len (OKAY I DID THE ITUNES SEARCH THING TOO :( but it genuinely does remind me of summer LOL)
"The Bucket" - Kings of Leon
"Reelin' in the Years" - Steely Dan
"5 Years Time" - Noah and the Whale
"Shark in the Water" - VV Brown
"Living For the City" - Stevie Wonder
"In My Life" - The Beatles
"(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" - Martha and the Vandellas
"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie

there's others but they're either generic, appear on that list LOL, or are a bit embarrassing / not very summery at all to others I guess

[Jords]

5 Years Time :love:

[ILoveTRW]

clearly missing this
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[Iceman]

How the hell is the Hellcat Spangled Shalalala in their LOL its like 2 weeks old.

[Benjamin]

NME have gone down in their opinions since about 6 years ago, they need to stop now. :bored:

[InOne]

How the hell is the Hellcat Spangled Shalalala in their LOL its like 2 weeks old.

Was thinking that :joker:

[InOne]

-XZklKaQhi8

:amazed:

[Patrick]

What a bollocks list, honestly.

Only two good ones on there, Sweet Disposition and the one you put in Bold.
Wankers.

[Z]

Dunno about best but these songs remind me of summer...

Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya
Javine - Surrender (Your Love)
VV Brown - Shark In The Water
Bob Sinclar - La La Song
Agent X - Fallin'
Armand Van Helden - My My My


I'll try think of more.

[InOne]

RVoYWHlxEzE

[Shaun]

all of Bob Sinclar's songs remind me of summer :love: my favourites are Together and Love Generation