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Aug 30, 2021

Summer Sounds

SWANK: Summer Jams are all about mAnthems. These are the 5 mAnthems that are currently on heavy rotation for my poolside tanning and tequila sunrise sessions. Aloha, Ben Swank

  • Alan Parsons Project - "Don't Answer Me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALC7kt6iUHY)
  • Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown"
  • Steve Miller Band - "Wild Mountain Honey"
  • Bob Seger - "Still The Same"
  • Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"

Bonus post-dip in the pool EP: David Lee Roth – Crazy From The Heat

REBECCA:

DILLON:

  • JEFF - The Boys R Back in Town
  • Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM)
  • Culture Kids - Culture Kids
  • Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  • Various Artists - Freedom Rock Vol. 4

DREW:

HARRY:

…in autobiographical order:

  • D'Angelo - Voodoo (2000)
  • Bob Dylan - New Morning (1970)
  • Natural Child - For The Love Of The Game (2012)
  • The Lijadu Sisters - Danger (1976) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bc6XJvv5Bc)
  • Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now (Live 1973)

JOSH:

DANI:

CAM:

NAT:

KATIE:

  • Madonna - Madonna
  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc9-DfSxf4o)
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
  • Little Joy - Little Joy
  • The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

TRENT:

  • Pixies: Bossanova (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0R9kFljjv0)
  • TV on the Radio: dear science
  • Blackalicious: blazing arrow
  • London Elektricity: Yikes!
  • Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Pig Lib
  • BONUS!!…MØ: title unknown b/c the album isn't out yet. if the singles are indicative of the album though, then it's going to be stellar.

BONNIE:

JAMIE:

  • Summer Surf (1964) - Dick Dale and His Del-tones Dick Dale still tours and his son is an incredible drummer. He talked about being in Hawaii in the 60's and how they'd practice all night and then just sleep on the beach. I spin this record regularly during the summer.
  • Surfin' Safari (1962) - The Beach Boys Pretty standard summer album, I used to cruise down to Virginia Beach with the top down blasting this back when I lived in Norfolk.
  • Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)- Crosby, Stills & Nash This is a great road trip album for me personally. Good memories cruising the backroads in upstate New York listening to this.
  • Workingman's Dead (1970)- Grateful Dead This is one of those records that I grew up with and I associate with bonfires and chill summer evenings with friends and family.
  • RAM (1971)- Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney Backyard BBQ's aren't complete without a solid spin of RAM. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiXR388p4c)

Summer Jams a 'la Blackwell:

  • Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender - Already a fan, my appreciation was massively buoyed by catching consecutive live appearances by Joanna in Brighton, England and at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium the summer of 2004. This album was the perfect audio accompaniment to the European countryside whizzing past from the window of a Mercedes Sprinter.
  • that dog - Totally Crushed Out - An album that accompanied the transitional summer from eighth grade to high school with pinpoint accuracy. The songs on "Totally Crushed Out" are heartbreaking stories of lost love, missed chances, the "what could have been?" which is totally what leaving eighth grade is all about. It made sense to me, but not too quickly. As I grew, I kept finding myself coming back to the record...it never aged and always seemed to equate to that particular moment in my life that I happened to be living. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_YBPFGg-Q)
  • The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off - I still think "Bows and Arrows" is impeccable, but more and more I keep coming back to this record. Each song hits me in an entirely different way...the lurching mid-song change-up of bassline and tempo on "Lost in Boston" is one of my most favorite moments in any song ever. The unbridled hardcore of "Tenley Town" is wonderful if not only for raising the question "are these guys making fun of the blast beat or just really enjoying it?" There's nary a better song title than "Emma, Get Me a Lemon" and the mere act of writing all of this makes me smile at how much I truly cherish this band.
  • Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped - Criminally overlooked as part of the band's oeuvre, at this current moment I would respectably place it as their third best full-length (after "Sister" and "NYC Ghosts and Flowers" respectively). Summer 2006 killed this one. With the departure of Jim O'Rourke the songs took on a much more succinct edge. No Moore aimlessly wanking. These were quick, digestible pop songs with a bite. "Sleeping Around" rides like a lost Asheton classic while "Do You Believe in Rapture?" (originally slated to be the album title) is hauntingly austere in its Velvet Underground simplicity and tone. A lullaby the likes of which we'd not heard from these folks since "The Diamond Sea" a decade earlier. Driving back from Columbus after a Dirtbombs show I put the disc in. The entire band, a motley mob of miscreants who can never wholly agree on anything musical, all commented on how they liked the record. It was a pretty listen as the sun came up over the Midwestern amber waves of grain. Seriously, even Ko said she liked the record...and she hates all noise stuff with art leanings. If anything, that was a testament to the listener-friendly jams and overall digestibility of the record.

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