What Music Would You Play On A Hot Summer Day In A Town Where There Was Nothing To Do But Play Music and Drink Cool Beverages.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I would think Billie Holiday's Summertime, Night and Day and Georgia on my Mind. What would you play?

― S Samson, Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Nation of Ulysses, Plays Pretty For Baby
Bob Marley, Uprising
Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

A whole sheaf of Durutti Column LPs.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cico Buff" by Cocteau Twins, without a doubt.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Stones, man. The Stones.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, not the Stones, they're a night band - I'm envisaging a perfect summer's day here - am I wrong?

― chris sallis, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Skylarking by XTC

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

A perfect Georgian summer's day when you have nothing to do but lounge on a porch and drink. I am just thinking of last summer as I am playing Billie Holiday.

― S Samson, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

personally, I think ALL music sounds better at night (that's just me). But on this hypothetical day I'm putting these CD's in the 5CD-changer. Saving the Stones for night.

B-52's Cosmic Thing
REM's Reckoning
Sublime's 20th Century Masters Millenium Collection
Sugar Ray's Sugar Ray
Smashmouth's Anthony's Best of Smashmouth CD-R.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd play the Ramones.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

To clarify my above answer, I'd listen to Bob Marley while cooking and eating breakfast, The Nation of Ulysses while riding my bike in the afternoon, and Neutral Milk Hotel while getting blazed at night.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Good call on Reckoning. The Ramones are a good NYC hot summer's day band. But which album? Or does it matter? A greatest hits would suffice.

Ha! Good call on NMH. I would have to play this Jeff Mangum internet bootleg at night. Then I could pretend that he is playing on my porch. Billie is good for smoking cigarettes and drinking to at night while watching night fall.

― S Samsonite, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Urban Dance Squad's "Mental Floss For The Globe"

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

" A perfect Georgian summer's day ..." -- Georgian!? oi man,forget Billie Holiday, and the rest! better listen to all those cool three-part harmonies sung by venerably sun-tanned elderly Georgians, high up in the mountains!
oi,oi how i (would) envy you! ;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

For the first nice spring day in the midwest I'm listening to the new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Also good is ambient, but probably if you're lying in bed.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the name of the new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album? Last summer I had the run of my friend's house and I miss the heat. And the incredible once a day rainstorms.

― S Samson, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the name of the new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album?
"Master & Everyone"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd lock myself in a dark room w/closed curtains and listen to SAWII. That's what I did today, in fact.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, definitely Wilco's "Being There."

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Soloman Burke - Rock n Soul
Kinks - Something Else
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The Breeders Last Splash

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 17 March 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Splash seen and seconded, and raised with Screamadelica (the album and the song) and that Jacki Mittoo album Soul Jazz released last year.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 17 March 2003 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)

back to back, gal costa's second s/t album (with "cinema olympia" and "tuareg") and gilberto gil's _cerebro eletronico_.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

it's hot, right? like georgia - hot & humid? if so, let's start with cool water by roy rogers & the sons of the pioneers. of course, samson, billie holiday would represent, and she'd be followed by blind willie mctell. i suppose he'd serve a suitable segue for some a 'lil louder a la the white stripes. what happens as the sun sets, the stars appear and the bugs come out?

― j.a.e., Monday, 17 March 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Beefheart.

― rex jr, Monday, 17 March 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Every Day Should Be A Holiday" by the Dandy Warhols.

Oh yeah, and of course, The Teardrop Explodes.

― kate, Monday, 17 March 2003 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

samson where in ga are you from...my answer is de la of course

― plo style, Monday, 17 March 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Born and bred in NJ but I spend summers in Savannah.

― S Samson, Monday, 17 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

sly & family stone - anthology

― H (Heruy), Monday, 17 March 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

piano magic - A Return to the Sea
XTC - Summer's Cauldron and GrASS (from Skylarking)
Microphones - SLighted
Summer Hymns - Mr. Brewer
yo la Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome ("summer's what you make it"!!)

― gabriel (gabe), Monday, 17 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I second SAWII, especially disc 2 track 2 (parallel stripes).

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 17 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Pavement - Crooked Rain seconded
Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark (true!)

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 March 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh for a long summer sunset and a cold beer. On the breeze: barbecue. On the stereo: Nas' Illmatic, New Order's Technique, and Led Zep's Houses of the Holy.

― EC, Monday, 17 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Snoop Dogg...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

pavement - terror twilight
lemonheads - it's a shame about ray
suede - suede
teenage fanclub - sparkys dream
the beta band - the three ep's

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Stardust-The Music Sounds Better With You

Depeche Mode-I Just Can't Get Enough

Phoenix-If I Ever Feel Better (Buffalo Bunch Remix)

Aphex Twin-Analogue Bubblebath

Inner City-Good Life (DJ Bootykuts Basement Jaxx remix)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

On the back porch, goodies on the grill, tongs in one hand, Sierra Nevada in the other, friends and family around, and on the boombox...

Tribe Called Quest's Beats, Rhymes, and Life
Sublime's 40 Oz. to Freedom
Medeski Martin and Wood's Shackman
Blind Melon's Soup
Ani D's Revelling/Reckoning

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I really want to have someone DJ in my garden next time I have the house to myself for a while, I wonder how ok the neighbours would be with it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

invite them!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe, there's new neighbours now, it can be like that crap Apt Pupil film except instead of being a nazi the old guy next door will have djed at the paradise garage.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Three summery hip hop albums:
People Under the Stairs--"OST"
Digable Planets--"Blowout Comb"
ATCQ--"Midnight Marauders"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything I could air-guitar to.

― hstencil, Monday, 17 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

like "hmm I've been MEANING to dust off some of these old records for awhile too, I'm glad you mentioned you were having a house party, reminds me of the old days" and he comes over with originals of everything and when he touches the turntables suddenly the sound system gets 1,000,000 times better and a disco light you didn't know you had starts spinning around

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Midnight Marauders is as summery as a jar of fireflies. Playing that album, even in the dark depths of a Michigan February, will make me fiend for lemonade.

― EC, Monday, 17 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman is a Star
and, on an obviousness tip "summer" by War

― Conor (Conor), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think of even one TCQ track that doesn't sound like audio-summertime.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

any reasonably upbeat hip hop
or the beach boys

― robin (robin), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

robin were you out last night at all? I was just wondering cos the police shut down tivoli at 3.10 when Jon Carter had been on for about 15 minutes, and I heard they shut everywhere else too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's Active, EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY. The New Pornographers. Discs 2 & 3 of the Beach Boys Boxset. The Orb's Live CD, as evening came on.

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Vision
Creation
Newsun

― schnellschnell, Monday, 17 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

sounds like kingston every sunday--the streets are empty, everyone is at church...

in these situations i choose:

sizzla
congos
n.e.r.d.
heptones
u roy

― cybele, Monday, 17 March 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

crooked rain, crooked rain

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 March 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Gram Parsons.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I Left You, of course!

― Orange, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Thinking about this now. Top choice at the moment is Sun Ra's Lanquidity.

― Pataphysician, Monday, 2 July 2018 21:38 (seven years ago)

Van Halen

― calstars, Monday, 2 July 2018 22:04 (seven years ago)

Los Panchos

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 2 July 2018 23:05 (seven years ago)

S K Y N Y R D

― mookieproof, Monday, 2 July 2018 23:07 (seven years ago)

― calstars, Monday, 2 July 2018 23:11 (seven years ago)

'today' by galaxie 500

― meaulnes, Monday, 2 July 2018 23:11 (seven years ago)

Savage Republic jamahiriya
A '69 Dead set with a long Dark Star.
Pharaoh Sanders you've Got tO have Freedom
Sun Ra Strange Celestial road or Lanquidity
Caribou Vibration Ensemble live set
Mercury rev Boces
Fela Kuti Black President, though may be going for a couple of the full length lps tracks would work better.
D.P>. Misiani and Shirati jazz Kings of HIstory

― Stevolende, Monday, 2 July 2018 23:13 (seven years ago)

Mulatu Astatke: Ethiopiques 4
Hailu Mergia: Tche Belew

― Pataphysician, Monday, 2 July 2018 23:29 (seven years ago)

Paradise and Lunch by Ry Cooder

― banjoboy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 02:28 (seven years ago)

new order - age of consent
erykah badu - bag lady (dr. dre mix)
solange - stillness is the move (with dre beat)
chromatics - cherry
dawn richards - 86

― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 05:43 (seven years ago)

Marion Brown - Vista

― Pataphysician, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 12:57 (seven years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.