Friday, July 6, 2012
TOO DARN HOT: For those of us on the East Coast, it's been a pretty darn sweltering week and promises to be a sweltering weekend, so it's time for a return of a favorite--a Friday Playlist--and this week's theme? Hot. Let's start off with some Buster Poindexter, a little bit of Sondheim, and some Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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The Cure's Hot Hot Hot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A09Iqj68U
ReplyDelete"Hot Fun in the Summertime" - Sly & the Family Stone
ReplyDelete"Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer
And one about hot times:
"Under the Boardwalk"
Hot-n-Fun - N.E.R.D.
ReplyDeleteHot Summer Night - Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Sly & The Family Stone
ReplyDeleteJosh Baskin loves Billy Idol
Hot Prog Rock
You left out your own title number - "Too Darn Hot" - I'm partial to this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWW4R1ZBM
ReplyDelete"Summer in the City" - Lovin' Spoonful
"In the Summertime" - Mungo Jerry
I was reminded of that last one from Amazon's "20 essential songs of summer" - they're offering the downloads for 25 cents each. Worth checking out - there's some fun stuff on there.
"Soak Up the Sun" - Sheryl Crow
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have to call you out on your extremely East-Coast-centric post. The rest of us are f***ing sweltering too. The country has broken over 4000 different temperature records this week- not just in the center of the universe that is NYC. Today we have a bit of a break in Chicago - I think it's only 99 out there. As opposed to 108 on my car themometer on Tuesday afternoon. It's been like this all week. We just have a better electrical grid that's able to handle it because the last time this happened in 1995, 700 people died the first weekend.
ReplyDeleteI also forgot "The Heat Is On." (Which has to go on the list of memorable sax riffs alongisde "Baker Street.")
ReplyDeleteEric Klinenberg's "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago" is a fantastic book about the 1995 heat wave - it made a lasting impression on me.
ReplyDeleteEveryday Sunshine -- FISHBONE
ReplyDelete(Sorry for the Vevo. I looked for a live version with decent quality, without success. That fits though, since it was hard to get close to a Fishbone show back in their golden era without getting jostled quite a bit.)
My favorite version of "Too Darn Hot" is probably Erasure's from the Red, Hot + Blue album.
ReplyDeleteScrolling thru the iPod:
Hot House, X
Hot Me Hot, Louie Rankin
Hot Pants, James Brown
Hot Sauce, Thomas Dolby
Hot Un, Grandaboy
Hotwax, Beck
Too Hot, The Specials
Summer, War
Summer, Autoclave
Summer Home, Typhoon
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears, Julee Cruise
Summer of my Life, Archie Roach
Summer Single, John Wesley Harding
Summer Song, Dave Brubeck Quartet
Summertime, Prudence Johnson
Summertime, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Summertime, James Brown & Martha High
Summertime, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Summertime, Janis Joplin
Freedom Summer, Har Mar Superstar
Here Comes Summer, Jerry Keller
In the Summertime, Roger Miller
Indian Summer, Belle Stars
Merci for the Speed of a Mad Clown in Summer, Sheila E
My Summertime Thang, The Time
That Sunday, That Summer, Nat King Cole
The Green Fields of Summer, Peter Wolf & Neko Case
The Last Day of Summer, The Cure
The Last Rose of Summer, Tom Waits
Unemployed in Summertime, Emiliana Torrini
Sun is Shining, Bob Marley
ReplyDeleteSun Oh Son, WAR
Sun on the Water, Kirsty MacColl
Sunless Saturday, Fishbone
Sunlight of no Light, (Gospel at Colonus)
Sunny Afternoon, Rickie Lee Jones
Sunshine, Har Mar Superstar
Sunshine and Beaches, Madeline
Sunshine and Ecstasy, Tom Tom Club
Sunshine of Your Love, Jimi Hendrix
Sunshower, Dr. Buzzard Original Savannah Band
Ate the Sun, Mr. Gnome
Black Sunshine, Me Phi Me
Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes
City of No Sun, PJ Harvey & John Parish
Fly Into the Sun, Lou Reed
Saturday Sun, Nick Drake
Shadow of the Sun, Paul Weller
The Sun Don't Shine, Ken Layne & the Corvids
Walkin' in the Sun, Prudence Johnson & Gary Rue
Yellow Sun, Brenda Kahn
favorite song from summer 2012: Dream Baby Dream by Neneh Cherry and the Thing.
ReplyDeleteCruel Summer --
ReplyDeleteHow can you forget the Bananarama!
Another Hot Day - 110 in the Shade. Same dudes who write The Fantasticks, so, good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFMlzVcjGRk
ReplyDeleteStay (Wasting Time) - Dave Matthews
ReplyDeleteYeah, as in don't be elderly and check on your neighbors. Oy. (But yes, it's a fantastic dissection of what went wrong).
ReplyDeleteDry County, by the B-52's...in which they sing "The heat of the day's got me in a haze...those lazy days of summer are here."
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