Summertime Playlist

Boys of Summer – Don Henly

Summertime – Will Smith

Boyfriend – Best Coast

West Coast – Coconut Records

Pipeline – Lively Ones

Deadman’s Curve – Jan and Dean

Anything by the Beach Boys, but my favourite is Girl Don’t Tell Me.

The INXS “Kick” album

Paul Revere – Beastie Boys

Next Girl – The Black Keys

Sinister Kid – The Black Keys

I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You – Black Kids

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys

Try – Blue Rodeo

No Aloha – Breeders

New – No Doubt

Girl From Ipanema – you name the artist, it’s been covered fourteen million times.

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

Crushcrushcrush – Paramore

Kool Thing – Sonic Youth

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” album

Underwhelmed – Sloan

Little Bones – The Tragically Hip

Sneakernight – Vanessa Hudgens

Wipeout – The Surfaris

Hawaii Five-O – The Ventures

Volcano Girls – Veruca Salt

Bigmouth Strikes Again – The Smiths

Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley

Duran Duran’s “Notorious” Album

I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

It’s the End of the World as We Know it – R.E.M.

Strange Currencies – R.E.M.

Raspberry Beret – Prince

Phantom Planet – California

Fade Into You – Mazzy Star

Holiday – Madonna

I Send a Message – INXS

Kids in America – Kim Wilde

Paradise in the Dashboard Lights – Meatloaf

Jump Around – House of Pain

Connection – Elastica

Go Fish – Cub

Machinehead – Bush

Mad About You – Belinda Carlisle

Love Shack – B-52’s

June Bug – B-52’s

Deadbeat Club – B-52’s

King of Pain – The Police

Some of these songs are so obvious, others remind me of something that happened one summer, others came out in the summer so they make me think of summer and the rest just have the vibe of summer.

What are your favourite songs of summer?