It's GREAT weather here in mid-Europe! We tan, we swim, we drink rosé!

And I love to whip out that summer music! Whenever temps run high, I crace Sheila E's Romance 1600 (esp A Love Bizarre, but the entire album will do) and Cameo's Word Up and Candy remix.
I also love the mellow moods of Buena Vista Social Club and Gloria Estefan's Mi Tierra, what I think is her best album EVER.

These are albums and songs that set the mood just right for me. What are YOUR summer jams?

I was thinking about creating a thread like this, but looks like you beat me to it

Anyways, here are some of mine

Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime
Five Stairsteps - O-O-H Child
War - All Day Music
The Stylistics - Country Living
Slave - Watching You
Slave - Screw Your Wig On Tite
Roger - A Chunk Of Sugar
Con Funk Shun - Indian Summer Love
Ohio Players - Let's Do It (Interpolated with 'Let's Love')
Ohio Players - Angel
O'Jays - Love Train
Michael Jackson - Farewell My Summer Love
The Meters - Out In The Country
Malo - Suavecito
Lenny Williams - Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh!
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station - Is It Love?

etc etc

my summer's all about sinatra baby.

which's also why we rarely take my car

PricelessHo said:

Ermmm.
Why not take your car? Are there Sinatra haters in your family?

HamsterHuey said:

my friends are metallica heads

PricelessHo said:

Ewwwww. Weirdo's.

HamsterHuey said:

i tried telling them that once, but after having a quick flashback of how they look like while watching a metallica dvd i decided life's too short as it is already

the new Madonna album is shaping up to be a great summer album, if it can manage to hold my attention for the whole season. it's already waning a bit, i think. speaking of Madonna, i can hardly listen to Justify My Love during the summer. it's already hot enough and this the audio equivalent of what heat waves look like coming off of hot asphalt.

i always end up listening to Madonna during the summer.


and Prince. lots of Prince.


for some reason, it's always one of these 2 that occupies my entire summer.

right now i'm really into the cheesy remix experiences prince commisioned
from dj brother jules, see the thread in prince m&m.

HamsterHuey said:

we're not in Mid-Europe.....

abierman said:

and we're not all drinking rosé

But ALL Dutch are wanka's, obviously. We're not north. We're not south. We're not west or east. That's the fucking middle even if the center is REALLY big. Like Aksel's ego.

And ALL the people in the park were drinking rosé. So shut up and go back under the rock you crawled from.

Bitches.

I played the hell out of this album every summer since it came out. Love it.



And also Carlos Vives' Dejame Entrar and Juanes' Mi Sangre.

Summer is the cruelest seasons when it goes for new music.
Especially in Europe.

Who could forget the summer smashes from past years
http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related
http://www.youtube.com/wa...kHm8uUuT0o
http://www.youtube.com/wa...Orc37wNUqU
http://www.youtube.com/wa...z7t-Ox3XvU
http://www.youtube.com/wa...03JVPaZpyc
http://www.youtube.com/wa...L2UsAbI1hg
http://www.youtube.com/wa...0RzAR8I6kU
http://www.youtube.com/wa...0rEL724Dlg



[Edited 5/11/08 11:22am]

But as far as my current jams are concerned:

Aretha Franklin - Soulville
Tina Turner - Sexy Ida Pt 1
Calvin Harris - Vegas / Acceptable in the 80s
Vicarous Bliss - Limousine
Jill Scott - Getting in My Way
Cindy Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Goldfrapp - A&E
Annie - Greatest Hit
Etta James - Watch Dog
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Feist - Sea Lion (Chromeo Mix)
Lo-Fi-FNK - What's On Your Mind
Mariah - Touch My Body (Seamus Remix)
Phil Collins - Don't Loose My Number
El Perro del Mar - Somebody's Baby / Candy
Toni Braxton - How Many Ways
Ray Charles - I Don't Need No Doctor
The Knife - You Take My Breath Away
Dj Mejdi - Signature
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better
Moloko - Sing it Back
Ella & Louis - Can't Take That Away
Madonna - Lucky Star/Hung Up Conffesions Tour
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation
Britney Spears - Break The Ice (Kaskade Radio Mix)
Digitalism - Pogo
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Kavinsky - Dead Cruiser
No Doubt - Spider Webs

I think all of Stevie Wonder's classic 70s records have a vibe that perfectly fits summer.

Purple Rain (When Doves Cry was released on my birthday [May 5] and the album ruled the summer of 84.)
Other Prince . . . (Can usually find Prince for any day of the week except the Sabbath. [The Cross, The Word, God, . . ]
Whatever's spinning on the I-Pod. I just learned it wasn't blasphemous to forward past a track I wasn't feeling at the moment.
[Edited 5/19/08 17:26pm]

Friends of Distinction - Grazin In The Grass
Jamiroquai - Seven Days In Sunny June
Everything by Incognito.

rushing07 said:

and YOU know all of them!!!!

HamsterHuey said:

eff you, Herman!

your ego is a lot bigger than mine.....and you know it!

abierman said:

Austria is in middle Europe the Netherlands are not, end of discussion..

Serious said:

You're right, Martina.....and I'm sure Herman knows as well! But silly Herman wants to divert the attention to my so-called 'big ego'.....

abierman said:

But I agree with him that you're ego is really big . Everbody here knows that .

Serious said:

such BS.....if one makes the effort to get to know me, he/she will find out the opposite.....apart from maybe a healthy ego....I thought you knew....

There are many bigger ego's here on the org, but I'm not mentioning names as that is not necessary!

abierman said:

The way you present yourself on the org is of someone with a big ego . As I don't know the man Aksel your org personality is the only one I can judge .

Serious said:

Oh, I am pretty low-key around here lately.....dry....as in real life! This is not a Sananda/TTD-thing, right???

abierman said:

It sure isn't.

SUPRMAN said:

Hehehe, I love typo's. Try imagining Prince with his 84 hair in 94.

grin

most anything happy and upbeat


....somebody say Spice Girl weather??

where you at ehuffnsd?