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.
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.
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.
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.
No Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat); No Summer.
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Virginia Ashley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
XTC - Skylarking
Steve Hillage - Green
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
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
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.
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