Top Five Summer Albums

[happytheman]

Frampton Comes Alive was all your heard on the raido the summer I graduated.. I think it hit the top of the charts that spring but the wave it created carried it thru the summer months. Beach Boys and Beatles are other obvious choices.

[bill g]

No, Ian. No. Search your inner self for light. There's agreement to be had. Definite agreement.

Yes Ian, surely you're confused. I've adjusted my 5 accordingly. Except of course for the amazingness that Mr. Scissor graced us with earlier. Nothing like an accordion to short-live our rare and unneeded bouts of unnecessary joy.

Frampton Comes Alive was all your heard on the raido the summer I graduated.. I think it hit the top of the charts that spring but the wave it created carried it thru the summer months. Beach Boys and Beatles are other obvious choices.

I wouldn't know. I was mad at the radio in 1975 because they wouldn't play Wobbler. Probably why I was unaware of Polka.

[nosebone]

It's A Beautiful Day (White Bird)-s/t

Love - Forever Changes
H.P. Lovecraft - both LPs
PFM - Per Un Amico
Jobim - Stone Flower
Magma K.A.

[bill g]

Love - Forever Changes
H.P. Lovecraft - both LPs
PFM - Per Un Amico
Jobim - Stone Flower
Magma K.A.

I like that list!

I completely forgot about: The Aqua Velvets - Nomad. Best surf guitar album ever for me, maybe because of the slight proggy overtones

[Paulie]

No Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat); No Summer.

[Sunlight Caller]

The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Virginia Ashley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
XTC - Skylarking
Steve Hillage - Green

[The Dark Elf]

1) Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
2) The Doors - L.A. Woman
3) Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East
4) Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
5) Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

[Hobo Chang Ba]

I'll be a dick (slightly) and not really answer the question...

For me summer albums generally fall into one of two categories: 1) uptempo/energetic modern prog (Echolyn [especially early], Deus Ex Machina, Spock's Beard, etc) or 2) something that gives me the feeling of 'hot and sweaty' music. Not music for lovemaking, but something that makes me envision a large band stuffed into a small, poorly ventilated room, preferably underground. Stuff that usually fits this criteria are the more energetic krautrock bands (Can, Amon Duul II, Gila's debut, etc) and (probably more) modern space rock/psych bands, like Causa Sui, Papir...basically a large chunk of the El PAradiso record. Some of the more intense jazz/fusion/etc would also fit here.


All that said, one of my favorite musical happenchances occurred one day several summers ago. I was driving down a highway during sunset. It was pretty clear so the sky fell into a picturesque sunset look. I had the windows down and John Zorn's 'In The Vision Of Blakelight' playing on the car's stereo. It fit the mood perfectly, and I also try to have that album (or some other mystic series album) around for those types of occasions during the summer months.