🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer's day.

I am by nature nocturnal. Life, now, makes me play by different rules, but when I ran my own company, I was usually still up editing at 4 AM and sleeping the day away. I have a love/hate relationship with the sun, and would have made a good vampire. And you can trace that back to high school, where summer for me was staying up all night and sleeping the hot part of the day away. And a lot of that time was just talking -- I can talk, if you didn't notice -- mostly to a lovely, dark-haired lady. Yeah, the best part of summer.

"There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Sleeping all day, staying up all night"

This is Yellowcard, a Florida band probably best known for having a rhythm violinist. At its core, this is very basic -- a literal three chord song -- but the hook is great, the refrain is massive, and the chorus is hard to not sing along with. And the violin? It works. This is pure post-punk pop and a lot of fun. And it captures that high school summer perfectly.

"Ocean Avenue," Yellowcard

 

[vagrantx]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Jamiroquai has never felt like summer to me. They're the soundtrack of a smoky neon-lit bar, where people sip plasma wine and discuss the intricacies of space travel.

But then they drop the rare acoustic track, and I just want to lay in the grass and have the world keep spinning around me, as I lose myself in Jay Kay's voice. Someone feed me grapes, please. It's an emergency. I'm overwhelmed.

Jamiroquai - Seven days in sunny June

 

[Great_Scot]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer's day.

I am by nature nocturnal. Life, now, makes me play by different rules, but when I ran my own company, I was usually still up editing at 4 AM and sleeping the day away. I have a love/hate relationship with the sun, and would have made a good vampire. And you can trace that back to high school, where summer for me was staying up all night and sleeping the hot part of the day away. And a lot of that time was just talking -- I can talk, if you didn't notice -- mostly to a lovely, dark-haired lady. Yeah, the best part of summer.

"There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Sleeping all day, staying up all night"

This is Yellowcard, a Florida band probably best known for having a rhythm violinist. At its core, this is very basic -- a literal three chord song -- but the hook is great, the refrain is massive, and the chorus is hard to not sing along with. And the violin? It works. This is pure post-punk pop and a lot of fun. And it captures that high school summer perfectly.

"Ocean Avenue," Yellowcard

Not heard this for years, thanks for sharing!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Jamiroquai has never felt like summer to me. They're the soundtrack of a smoky neon-lit bar, where people sip plasma wine and discuss the intricacies of space travel.

But then they drop the rare acoustic track, and I just want to lay in the grass and have the world keep spinning around me, as I lose myself in Jay Kay's voice. Someone feed me grapes, please. It's an emergency. I'm overwhelmed.

Jamiroquai - Seven days in sunny June

That was my coin flip song. Yellowcard had tails...

 

[vagrantx]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer's day.

I am by nature nocturnal. Life, now, makes me play by different rules, but when I ran my own company, I was usually still up editing at 4 AM and sleeping the day away. I have a love/hate relationship with the sun, and would have made a good vampire. And you can trace that back to high school, where summer for me was staying up all night and sleeping the hot part of the day away. And a lot of that time was just talking -- I can talk, if you didn't notice -- mostly to a lovely, dark-haired lady. Yeah, the best part of summer.

"There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Sleeping all day, staying up all night"

This is Yellowcard, a Florida band probably best known for having a rhythm violinist. At its core, this is very basic -- a literal three chord song -- but the hook is great, the refrain is massive, and the chorus is hard to not sing along with. And the violin? It works. This is pure post-punk pop and a lot of fun. And it captures that high school summer perfectly.

"Ocean Avenue," Yellowcard

Never heard a punk'y violin before!! That's new. Novel. That was aweome! Thanks for this

That was my coin flip song. Yellowcard had tails...

I am not even slightly surprised. We're parallell entities after all!

 

[orangecurious]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
So many things went through my mind... songs for the start of a summer day, the end, a summer night... then this, THIS, YES, you know it, but THIS is what London sounds like on a hot summer day, the heat from the pavement and road, the stifling heat trapped between buildings, the quiet side streets that offer respite, the drifting along before another blast hits you, the hazy sky shimmering in the heat... the saxophone and guitars are the soundtrack to my city in summer.
Also... this is still an amazing song

 

[lingus60]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Style Council: Long Hot Summer

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

2010 was wild. This song screams Summer to me.

Like a G6 - Far East Movement feat. Dev and The Cataracs

 

[subdudeme13]

I am new to this thread but saw this and thought I might add in my 2 cents. You may not have heard this if you are younger.

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day
My initial reaction was to go with something snarky and negative, simply because summer is the absolute worst. But I'll play nice.
"Summer in the City" - The Lovin' Spoonful

 

[kenbrack]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day.

 

[JKL123]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day​

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime​

 

[AbsintheFather]

I always liked the whole feel of this song

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

2010 was wild. This song screams Summer to me.

Like a G6 - Far East Movement feat. Dev and The Cararacs

That was a ride, Purple. And I looked up what "G6" meant, and that was yet another ride...

 

[WizzyWig00]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

A beautiful song...

...and an equally amazing cover

 

[curious_slut]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

A lot of hemming and hawing on today's choice but I kept circling back to my fave girl band.

Long Hot Summer - Girls Aloud

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 19

Janet Jackson - Whoops Now

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19

Janet Jackson - Whoops Now

Janet did adorable songs so well.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

I keep drawing songs, like water from a well, from The Beach Boys, but this song always reminds me of summer, the beach and being / feeling eternally young. Plus, I think it's a four minute masterpiece.

I... I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day
Van Halen, Summer Nights

This is one of my absolute favorites

 

[Kittycity]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day

Oor Calvin depicts it perfectly..

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 19: A song for a hot summer day