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Friday Music Day: Summer’s Coming? Summer’s Here 2014

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By this time of year, I'm typically sweating what to put on the summer mix. My constraints are tighter than Philo's: all new music, hopefully with a clean version available or with the cussing not too prominent (I slipped in some $#!+ via Mikal Cronin's "Shout It Out" last year).

But this year, I'm not gonna stress it. If I don't get a summer mix made, I'm fine with it. I'll just listen to these two songs and the related album over and over if I want to.* I'll play the kids some instrumental dub or something.

*Does this mean I should check out Ke$ha?

I'll still listen to summer mix rec's though. What you got?

69 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: Summer’s Coming? Summer’s Here 2014”

  1. It might be kind of cool to put together a WGOM summer list. Have everybody pitch in a track or two.

    1. Oasis - "Magic Pie" - Be Here Now
    2. Belle and Sebastian - "The Stars of Track and Field" - If You're Feeling Sinister
    3. R.E.M. - "Find the River" - Automatic For the People
    4. The Fratellis - "Vince the Lovable Stoner" - Costello Music
    5. Wilco - "Walken" - Sky Blue Sky
    6. Del Amitri - "Surface of the Moon" - Change Everything
    7. The Baseball Project - "Larry Yount" - 3rd
    8. Johnny Cash - "Mary of the Wild Moor" - American III: Solitary Man
    9. The White Stripes - "The Same Boy You've Always Known" - White Blood Cells
    10. The New Pornographers - "Stacked Crooked" - Twin Cinema

    B. The Kinks - "A Well Respected Man" - Juno - Music from the Motion Picture

  2. "Love Will Find a Way" - Yes Big Generator
    "Desire" - U2 Rattle and Hum
    "Cowboy Song" - Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
    "Walk of Life" - Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
    "Counting Stars" - OneRepublic *

    "Lies" Peter Bjorn & John Gimmie Some
    "Bargain" - The Who Who's Next
    "Tony's Theme" - Pixies Surfer Rosa
    "Better Man" - Pearl Jam Vitology
    "I Cant Stand Up for Falling Down" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions Get Happy!

    *Congrats. Ive finally heard this song enough times to have it embedded in my head and not hate it. Yay?

  3. 1. The Black Keys - "Hell of a Season" - El Camino*
    2. The Hold Steady - "Sweet Payne" - Almost Killed Me
    3. Beck - "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hot" - War Child Presents Heroes
    4. The Beatles - "With a Little Help From My Friends" - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    5. Mark Knopfler - "Once Upon a Time . . . Storybook Love" - The Princess Bride Soundtrack
    6. Bruce Springsteen - "Jacob's Ladder" - We Shall Overcome
    7. The Joy Formidable - "Cradle" - The Big Roar
    8. Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce" - Bad As Me
    9. Dr. John - "The Time Had Come" - Zu Zu Soiree
    T. Better Than Ezra - "Cry in the Sun" - Deluxe
    B. Death Cab for Cutie - "Lowell, MA" - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

    *Fitting first song considering the intro today

  4. 1. "Sunday"--Pee Wee Russell--Jazz Original
    2. "Dream a Little Dream of Me"--Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong--For Lovers
    3. "Chere Beth"--Feufollet--Cow Island Hop
    4. "Handyman--James Taylor--JT
    5. "Wagon Wheel"--Darius Rucker--True Believers
    6. "Ohio"--Neil Young--Live at Massey Hall 1971
    7. "Peaceful Easy Feeling"--Eagles--Eagles (Remastered)
    8. "Sundown"--Gordon Lightfoot--Sundown
    9. "Oh Bye Bye"--Boozoo Chavis--Boozoo That's Who
    10. "My Dress Is Hung"--Kim Taylor--I Feel Like a Fading Light

  5. 01. Finntroll - "Trollhammaren", Nattfodd
    02. Nevermore - "We Disintegrate", Dead Heart, in a Dead World
    03. Carcass - "Manifestation of Verrucose Urethra", Reek of Putrefaction
    04. Candlemass - "The End of Pain", Chapter VI
    05. eXodus - "A Lesson in Violence", Bonded by Blood
    06. Arch Enemy - "The Ides of March", Black Earth
    07. Decapitated - "Spheres of Madness", Nihility
    08. Agent Steel - "Earth Under Lucifer", Order of the Illuminati
    09. Epica - "Deter the Tyrant", Requiem for the Indifferent
    10. Carcass - "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation", Symphonies of Sickenss

  6. 1. Police & Thieves -- The Clash -- The Clash
    2. Spiderfighter -- Guided By Voices -- Let's Go Eat The Factory
    3. I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down -- Elvis Costello -- Get Happy!!
    4. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) -- Hank Williams -- 40 Greatest Hits
    5. Just A Memory -- Elvis Costello -- Get Happy!!
    6. Choking Tara (Creamy) -- Guided By Voices -- Demons & Painkillers
    7. A More Perfect Union -- Titus Andronicus -- The Monitor
    8. How Many Women -- Lydia Loveless -- Indestructible Machine
    9. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) -- Radiohead -- Hail To The Thief
    10. Modern Farmer -- Yung Wu -- Shore Leave*

    B1. Those Three Days -- Lucinda Williams -- World Without Tears
    B2. Ballad of a Thin Man -- Bob Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisited

    *10 -- Yung Wu is a one-off band from The Feelies. It's actually a cool album and still holds together after nearly 30 years.

    Hey AMR, you have to have LL's Really Wanna See You on your summer mix dontcha?

    1. Oh jeez, I just went down a rabbit hole and now am seriously thinking about flying to NYC on July 4th to see The Feelies play Maxwell's in Hoboken for the very last time.

      2. Unless you can hook me up with a time machine (reasonably priced) and send me back to 2013... disregard that whole seeing the Feelies at Maxwell's on July 4th idea.

    2. Well I need one of those LL songs. (Maybe "Mile High" or "Blind" too, see my link.)

        1. It's up there. With others on that album.
          Has anyone else released anything? I've got Emot, but that's just a local thing.

    3. 3. I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down -- Elvis Costello -- Get Happy!!

      same song on two different lists!

  7. List coming later, but HEADS-UP all you Pearl Jam fans:
    Tickets on sale today at 10:00 AM.
    $84 ($67 + fees/taxes)
    It's long been my desire to see this band live. I said a few weeks back that if I could go back and see any band live at the height of their career, it'd be Zeppelin. That holds true, but PJ comes in near the top of that list too. I know there's not universal acclaim for these guys around here and I'd certainly entertain arguments that they're past the height of their career. That's fine, I'm still going.

    1. I saw them live touring Yield. I only bought the album the day before because I felt I should.
      It was at the Target Center and we were so far back that I sensed a difference between when I saw Cameron hit the drum and when I heard it.
      I don't know that they're past the height of their career, but I was (and remain) definitely past the height of my fandom.

  8. *Does this mean I should check out Ke$ha?

    Dammit. Fate. This was the first ten from I'm feeling lucky on gmusic. If this is luck, I don't want any part of it.

    music

    1. Well, if you were 17 and made this playlist for that 16 year old girl who'd been giving you the eye at the bus stop all spring long you'd probably get lucky.

      1. Ha, perhaps. I didn't even know that I had some of these songs. I mean Jason Mraz? Yuck. 🙂

  9.     a. Common Yellowthroat “Song (Type A3)” (The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion)
    1. Cypress Hill “Hand on the Pump”* Cypress Hill
    2. Arvo Pärt* “Tunc ergo tradidit eis illum ut crucifigeretur...”* Passio*
    3. Tim Hecker “Radiance” Virgins
        b. White-eyed Vireo “Song” (Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Essential Set)
    4. Eric B. & Rakim “I Know You Got Soul (The Richie Rich Mega Mix)” Paid in Full: The Platinum Edition
        c. Piping Plover “Calls” (Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Essential Set)
    5. Coil “A Warning from the Sun (For Fritz)” Summer Solstice: Bee Stings
        d. White-throated Sparrow “Song”* (Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Essential Set)

    6. Aaliyah “We Need a Resolution” Aaliyah
    7. The Orb “Oxbow Lakes” Orbvs Terrarvm
    8. Oval “II (Japan Exclusive)” Ovalcommers
    9. Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive” Branded Man
    T. DJ Food “The Riff” Kaleidoscope

    *Notes:
    1. Samples “Duke of Earl”
    2.1. (Composer, performed by Tonus Peregrinus directed by Antony Pitts)
    2.2. (Part 4 of 4) “Jesus is Crucified at Golgotha” John 16: 16-30 and Conclusion
    2.3. The album is titled Passio, but the full piece is entitled “ Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem ” (“The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John”).
    d. "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody" or "Oh Sweet Canada, Canada, Canada" depending upon which side of the border you owe allegiance to.

  10. As AMR mentioned, my summer mixes are much broader than his. I'm looking for stuff that's fun or relaxing in that summery way. No/minimal swears, and sing-alongability can be critical. Also, variety.

    Philosofer's Summer mix, 2014:

    1. "Bad Girl In Harlem" - New Politics
    2. "Here Comes Your Man" - Pixies
    3. "And She Was" - Talking Heads
    4. "Take It As It Comes" - J. Roddy Walston & The Business
    5. "What I Like About You" - The Kinks
    6. "Mama's On A Roll" - Leann Womack
    7. "Mississippi Isabel" - King Charles
    8. "See Ferndando" - Jenny Lewis
    9. "I'm Going Down" - Bruce Springsteen
    10. "Milwaukee" - The Both
    11. "Hindsight" - Built To Spill
    12. "Time Is On My Side" - Rolling Stones
    13. "Take Your Momma Out" - Scissor Sisters
    14. "The Underdog" - Spoon
    15. "Not The Kid" - Communist Daughter
    16. "Chelsea Dagger" - The Fratellis
    17. "Hurt So Good" - John Cougar Mellencamp
    18. "The Real World" - Matchbox 20
    19. "Ho Hey" - The Lumineers
    20. "All These Things That I've Done" - The Killers
    21. "Wagon Wheel" - Darius Rucker

    1. It is a pretty decent song for what you want out of your playlist, but I never really liked BTS' Hindsight.. In fact that whole There is No Enemy album is a bit disappointing for me. But its definitely cool you included Built to Spill in your list.

      Not familiar with that Kinks song. That's not the same song made famous by The Romantics is it?

      1. Heh. Whoops. Definitely Romantics, not Kinks. I'm gonna blame that one on having a newborn and being to tired to check my work; that's one of those ones that I always have in my head wrong, and I know I've been called out on it before (probably by you).

    2. You and I have one of the same songs today, although it took you twenty-one to get there. This is probably the first time a song appeared both on my list and anyone else's list.

  11. 1. I'm a Boy - the Who - BBC Sessions
    2. Just Squeeze Me - Ella Fitzgerald - Twelve Nights in Hollywood
    3. And Through the Wire - Peter Gabriel- Peter Gabriel [3]
    4. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
    5. Honky Tonkin' - Hank Williams - The Absolutely Essential Collection
    6. Way Down Now - World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
    7. Ghosts - The Jam - The Gift
    8. Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee - Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens
    9. B Movie - Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! *
    10. Senses Working Overtime - XTC - English Settlement
    B. Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

    * 4th Get Happy!! sighting of the day !!!!!!

  12. * The Last Foundry - Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
    * Loomer - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    * Another Morning Stoner - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
    * Comeback Kid - Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
    * Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
    * Rough Steez - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
    * I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally - Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    * Bottom - Tool - Undertow
    * Even the Saints Knew Their Hour of Failure and Loss - The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
    * Hunter - Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

    1. Half of this list I like very much.
      Half of this list I need to check out.

      In terms of checking stuff out, I'm only one band in on the Post-Rock Road Trip. I liked it, and want to listen to more, but free "sit with my headphones on and listen to music" time has been sort of nonexistent lately. Hopefully I'll remedy that this weekend.

        1. Lawn mowing isn't the ideal time to put on slow-moving post-rock, but the Bose noise-cancelling headphones I got for Christmas seem to be mostly up to the challenge, so I'll have at least an uninterrupted hour tonight to make some progress.

          What have your favorites been thus far? (Or are you exactly as far as I am?)

  13. Argh, I just realized that the title of this post should have been:
    Friday Music Day: Summer's Ready When You Are
    How did I sleep on that?

  14. Scot, Pepper, Can of Corn, others: put your nominations for wgom-curated Summer mix as replies to this. You decide what your rules are.
    Give me three songs, ranked. I'll use everyone's #1s and I'll select among the #2s and #3s will be based on how well it works and need for variety and multiple occurrences and how many songs we get together.
    I'll sequence and someone can probably make it a Spotify playlist or youtube playlist or whatevs.

    Heck, spoiler them so there's no discouragement for going later, hoping someone else will pick something so you can get in more of your faves.

    AMR's 3 SelectShow
    1. 'Philosofer's 3' SelectShow

        1. I reacted similarly.
          That was song of the moment in the platoon whilst I was a fresh Army 2LT in training in the infantry course. Holy crap, that was 10 years ago.

    3. HJ's List With No iPod Of 3 Songs Off The Top Of His Head That He Would Conceivably Consider Putting On A Summer Mix SelectShow
    4. 'Freealonzo's Rockin' Summer 3-spot' SelectShow

    5. Thanks for running with this, AMR. I'll be happy to put the final list on spotify.

      'Scot's 3' SelectShow
    7. 'Spoiler' SelectShow

      Just heard this and thought it pretty swell for a summer mix too. My "R's":
      httpv://youtu.be/l4CqzNfnlZs

    8. Better late than never, right? SelectShow

  15. Here's a vote for the Metamodern Sounds of Country Music to make an appearance on somebody's Summer Mixer. Sturgill Simpson's outlaw country music is perfect for knocking back a cold beverage. (Or some pharmaceuticals.)
    httpv://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBV-Nzq7Pg

        1. I am too late. Sturgill was going to be my contribution to the list.

          I think he will be performing at the state fair.

                  1. Ditto.
                    Massive downgrade.
                    Free Sturgill Simpson makes me wanna go to the fair.
                    Free 4otF, even if I ever understood the appeal, would not be worth the hassle because they'll play another venue somewhere else soonish. Plus, I think Sturgill Simpson's sound would translate better. 4otF is just so stompy.

  16. Not surprisingly, the new Sharon Van Etten record is really solid. Probably nothing for the summer mix, though...

    Early favorite because of the downbeat horns
    httpv://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwsQSXivmI

  17. Anyone interested in The Detroit Cobras at the 7th Street Entry Saturday night? No promise of a complimentary Jaeger shot, but you never know.

    1. I've never heard of them, free, but generally if it wasn't a weekend I had my kids I'd take any excuse to see another show at the 7th Street Entry. Keep posting here when you're going, I'll be game if I'm available.

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