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Your "spring/summer" albums/songs
« on: May 14, 2018, 11:55:40 AM »
The weather's glorious here this week, and to celebrate I want to know what albums or songs, to you personally, make for great listening in the spring/summer sunshine.

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Re: Your "spring/summer" albums/songs
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2018, 12:08:15 PM »
Anything Led Zeppelin, starting with Houses of the Holy.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2018, 12:13:14 PM »
It's not really a daytime album in my opinion, but Kings of Leon's Come Around Sundown is not only a very summer-y album to me, it's an evening summer album to me. As the title implies, listen to it late in the day, it's 47 minutes long and in my opinion works best when you finish it while the sun is still visible over the horizon. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2018, 12:18:30 PM »
Depends also on the travels I do. Folk metal is more generally a summer genre for me, unless it's something atmospheric like Wardruna.

If I go to the mountains, I go deep into the folk, with Faun, Omnia, Eluveitie, Elvenking.... while if I go to the sea, I go to more sea-ish stuff like Ye Banished Privateers, random assorted songs about the sea and Corde Oblique which is a very nice and somehow proggy acoustic ensemble from Naples.

I'm way more into metal than rock but I guess rock is a good summer genre. Halestorm's The Strange Case Of is always a good summer choice for example.
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2018, 02:05:04 PM »
It's not really a daytime album in my opinion, but Kings of Leon's Come Around Sundown is not only a very summer-y album to me, it's an evening summer album to me. As the title implies, listen to it late in the day, it's 47 minutes long and in my opinion works best when you finish it while the sun is still visible over the horizon. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.

Brother, I was hoping I replied before you, because I would have bet my house you would have said "Asia".     For me and "summer", it's the first one (just because of where I was at the time it came out, though I do like the second one better over all).


Also, the Cars and Cheap Trick.

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« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2018, 02:25:53 PM »
It's not really a daytime album in my opinion, but Kings of Leon's Come Around Sundown is not only a very summer-y album to me, it's an evening summer album to me. As the title implies, listen to it late in the day, it's 47 minutes long and in my opinion works best when you finish it while the sun is still visible over the horizon. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.

Brother, I was hoping I replied before you, because I would have bet my house you would have said "Asia".     For me and "summer", it's the first one (just because of where I was at the time it came out, though I do like the second one better over all).

Also, the Cars and Cheap Trick.

Asia is totally summer, specifically the debut, but I had to mention CAS up front because nobody else here would, I believe. I think Asia's debut is a better summer album despite paling compared to Alpha (great minds think alike, my friend). Alpha is kind of a summery album, but to me it's very much a winter album in its sparkling, gentle beauty and a reluctant acceptance of sorrow and heartbreak. Basically a bright, cloudless winter day. Hell yeah, man.

I think XXX is very much a summer album. "Bury Me In Willow" and "Face on the Bridge" are very summery.
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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2018, 02:51:54 PM »
Ayreon's The Human Equation & The Theory of Everything, Yes's Fragile & Close to the Edge, The Beatles - Abbey Road & Sgt Peppers, all The Dear Hunter albums, Justice - Audio, Video, Disco, Neal Morse - Testimony 1 & 2, the first three Moulettes albums, Outline in Color - A Jury of Wolves, TEE - Trans Europe Expression, Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here, The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, most Epica & Anneke van Giersbergen albums, most Electropop/Synthpop/Dancepop albums, most Disney soundtracks, most Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, and most Rush albums.

Depends also on the travels I do. Folk metal is more generally a summer genre for me, unless it's something atmospheric like Wardruna.

Huh, that's funny. I've always associated most of the Folk Metal bands I listen to with Winter/Autumn. To each their own, I suppose.

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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2018, 03:40:46 PM »
Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Balance always get played more by me during this time of year.  :metal
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2018, 04:05:35 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2018, 04:49:16 PM »
Haken - Affinity is a great spring album.
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« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2018, 05:02:54 PM »
I tend to have spring/summer bands:

Van Halen
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« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2018, 05:42:17 PM »
I don't really have spring/summer music, I listen to whatever genre/band I feel like regardless of the season/time/weather.

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« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2018, 05:53:46 PM »
I don't really have spring/summer music, I listen to whatever genre/band I feel like regardless of the season/time/weather.
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« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2018, 05:55:30 PM »
Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Balance always get played more by me during this time of year.  :metal

Anything Van Halen. Especially the DLR albums.
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« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2018, 05:58:49 PM »
I don't really have spring/summer music, I listen to whatever genre/band I feel like regardless of the season/time/weather.
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Well, I am mostly the same way, but certain times of year just bring out certain bands or songs or albums.

VH and DMB I always associate with summer because every time I have seen both bands, it was in the summertime at an outdoor venue.

Radiohead's OK Computer I will always associate with summer because I discovered the CD during the summer of 2005 (or 2006) and it was my go-to CD that summer when driving to and from the college night course I was taking for six weeks.

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« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2018, 05:24:10 AM »
ELO's Zoom is the perfect summer album for me.
It came out in June 2001 and my parents spinned that disc every day during the summer holiday in Southern France.

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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2018, 05:42:34 AM »
The first that come to mind are Anathema - Weather Systems / WHBWH / The Optimist (yeah, I love this album, don't get the hate) and Alcest - Voyages de L'Ame, also Closure In Moscow - Pink Lemonade if we're strictly speaking of prog music.
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« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2018, 06:56:21 AM »
Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Balance always get played more by me during this time of year.  :metal

Anything Van Halen. Especially the DLR albums.

I usually turn to Van Halen and Sammy's solo albums as well, and plenty of hair bands. 

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« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2018, 07:12:58 AM »
Pink Floyds "The Division Bell" is a nice listen on a late afternoon/early evening summers day.
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« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2018, 07:50:12 AM »
Oh, Cinderella and Night Ranger.

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« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2018, 07:57:55 AM »
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has become an essential summer listen for me since its release.
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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2018, 08:33:26 AM »
I don't really have spring/summer music, I listen to whatever genre/band I feel like regardless of the season/time/weather.

This is usually me as well.  That having been said, Tesseract - Sonder came out right when the we finally broke away from winter, so at least at the moment it has a sunny connotation.

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« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2018, 09:03:43 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2018, 09:59:15 AM »
Pink Floyds "The Division Bell" is a nice listen on a late afternoon/early evening summers day.

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A couple of albums that sound especially great in the summer for me:

Woodface by Crowded House
Second Nature by Flying Colors
Marbles by Marillion
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« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2018, 10:01:57 AM »
God Is An Astronaut's "All Is Violent, All Is Bright" is a very late spring/early summer album to me. "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" by Explosions In The Sky is very much a summer album to me, whereas "The Wilderness" is more fitting in spring.
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« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2018, 11:10:06 AM »
Fair to Midland seems to always be one of my go-to jams for spring and summer. Kvelertak as well-- roll your windows down, turn the volume up as high as possible, and scream Norwegian ramblings. 

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« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2018, 12:12:51 PM »
Seasons don't influence what I listen to, but there are some things I associate with summer (nothing really with spring since the distinction between seasons isn't really significant here.

Just about all Y&T songs have an association with summer (including, obviously, Summertime Girls).

Most of the DLR-era Van Halen music, particularly Beautiful Girls and Ice Cream Man

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« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2018, 03:02:50 AM »
Nick D'Virgilio's adaption of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway!

While the original was pretty sinister and "strange", NDVs version has a very sunny feeling to me. At least a few songs like the title tack, Counting Out Time, Carpet Crawl, Colony Of Slippermen, It.
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« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2018, 07:57:29 AM »
When the sun and heat first start coming out in the early spring and summer I tend to reach for 311. Usually Don't Tread On Me or Uplifter, or just everything on random. They're a very summer-y band.
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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2018, 07:20:18 PM »
Oh I'm all over this one!

In sunny warm weather, I play stuff like Weezer, Green Day, Rage, Korn, Offspring, upbeat Beck, STP, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Black Crowes, DT, heavy Porcupine Tree, etc.

Oasis Definitely Maybe and Be Here Now are good summer albums

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« Reply #30 on: May 18, 2018, 02:05:16 PM »
We’ve got some hot weather in the UK for once so it’s 8ps hair metal all the way atm.

The power/prog has been put away for a while.

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« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2018, 12:51:31 PM »
80's pop like GoGo's etc. always reminds me of summer. 
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« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2018, 01:46:00 PM »
When the sun and heat first start coming out in the early spring and summer I tend to reach for 311. Usually Don't Tread On Me or Uplifter, or just everything on random. They're a very summer-y band.
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« Reply #33 on: May 26, 2018, 09:14:38 AM »
Thurman: Lux.  This was a one-album wonder during the 90's britpop phase, it's britpop with a glam rock attitude, great fun for a sunny day.

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« Reply #34 on: May 26, 2018, 10:18:29 AM »
Anything Neal Morse is my annual go-to once the weather starts to warm up, so Transatlantic, Flying Colors, Neal's solo stuff, and Neal era Spock's Beard. I'll go with stuff like Mr. Big a little more often, and then Thank You Scientist is working its way back into rotation this year.
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