https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRijqJHOOE&feature=related
― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
YES!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
I sort of think Summer in the City rules pretty hard but In the Summertime is sort of lighter and airy and not as intense and therefore inherently more summery. It's a tough one for me.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
Summer in the City is an amazing song.
The other one, whatever.
― dell (del), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Mungo, a fibrous woollen material generated from waste fabric
― buzza, Friday, 19 August 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Quincy jones's summer in the city over three6mafia's "in the summer"
― 50000000 elves (blank), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not the question at hand, buddy!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
:( ok "summer in the city" it is
― 50000000 elves (blank), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
lol my roommate and i were singing mungo jerry in with new gibberish lyrics all last summer
it is one catchy ditty
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
also: a jug player
also: look at them muttonchops
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol They are pretty great.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
mungo jerry kinda looks like sly stone and a werewolf had a baby
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
if her daddy's rich take her out for a mealif her daddy's poor just do what you feel
hmm
― bentelec, Friday, 19 August 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
surely if her daddy's rich then she should be taking YOU out for etc etc.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
the back of my neck does get pretty dirty and gritty tbh
― some dude, Friday, 19 August 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Summer In The City" has that spooky-ass electric piano. Plus, it rocks harder than any other Spoonful song. Goin' with the Spoonful on this, by a mile.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
MUNGO
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 19 August 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
You cannot fuck with that piano.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 19 August 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
"In the Summertime" just feels like some overly-cutesy "Sweet Georgia Brown" knockoff to me. "Summer in the City" otoh is a stone cold classic.
― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Friday, 19 August 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 7 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
So, dig your vote in now..
― Mark G, Monday, 7 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly surprised that this is a question.
"Summer In The City" by several miles.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 7 January 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
it's winter
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
del, tarfumes otm
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
MUNGO FTW
I don't hate Summer in the City or anything, but I really do <3 In the Summertime.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
if you like that cutesy faux-old time tippity-tap bullshit more than the most thoroughly hood pop-rock joint of the 60s you can just gtfo and never be seen again.
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
summer in the city makes me feel like http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=66775
that's all i have to say
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised I missed this. "In the Summertime," not even close. I got sick of "Summer in the City" 25 years ago (loved it as a teenager, continue to love a few other Spoonful songs). "In the Summertime" may sound even better today than when I loved it in 1970, as a kid. There was some discussion of the "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find" line on a Mungo Jerry thread a little while back.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Summertime > > > Summer In The City > > > > > > > In The Summertime
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 7 January 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
summer over the rainbow >>>> any of em
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 7 January 2013 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
Love 'em both, especially the way they both break down to false ending w/noisy engine sound fx halfway through. The Spoonful track is unusual in that it appears to be the rare ANTI-summer day song, with that pessimistic descending piano line. But at least it offers hope, since at night it's a diffeent world...And then that wistfulness that the days can't be like the nights. Great song! I guess I really have to vote for that one. I do love "In The Summertime" too, though (had the single when I was six.)
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, January 7, 2013 3:37 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
CTRL+F "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
No results.
Click "Flag post" repeatedly.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
no "Hot Child in the City"?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Mention not that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw5qwyyvfe1qayvoco1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1357687774&Signature=35%2B9PqFKJc8zxmgZjKa7QablORw%3D
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
I would vote for "Hot Fun in the Summertime" ahead of "In the Summertime" too, not to slight the latter. I'd vote for "Hot Fun" ahead of almost anything.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Hot Fun" can go toe to toe with "Summer in the City"
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
Polls are bout to close, bitches. Remember, if you don't vote, you have no right to bitch about the result.
Paid for by John Sebastian
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
mungo voters suck it
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Rockists! (Just kidding--I'm parodying somebody who would say that in earnest.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/stinkylulu/homo%20heritage/LilyMandate-cover.jpg
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I'd vote for "Hot Fun" ahead of almost anything.
― clemenza, Monday, January 7, 2013 3:33 PM (2 hours ago)
No doubt, brother.
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
What about "Sunny Days" by Lighthouse?
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
In the Summertime is like a retarded nursery rhyme.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I have no idea why I left this poll open for a year and a half. I also have no recollection of starting it to begin with.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:41 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol word
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
YOU'RE like a retarded nursery rhyme.
:(
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
IN THE SUMMERTIME FOREVER
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
"Hot Fun" > War's "Summer" = Kool & the Gang "Summer Madness" >>>>> "In the Summertime" > "Summer in the City"
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
I'll call "Hot Fun," "Summer," and "In the Summertime" a draw, "Summer Madness" second, and, the one song that's mostly dead for me, "Summer in the City" a distant fifth ("Do You Believe in Magic," though, now that's a fantastic summer song).
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link