Summer album!

JoyfulGirl

What are your summer albums?

Mine are:

Ani DiFranco - So Much Shouting/So Much Laughter and Living in Clip

cptshrk

The new Daft Punk is definitely going to be my summer jam !

Nele

All the old Cat Stevens...which is why I am on this site, actually :-)

sova

alt-j "an awesome wave" has been my constant companion for many moons. also very enjoyable is "enter the wu-tang" by the Wu-Tang Clan.

Beej

The Decemberists are summer music, contrary to their name.

riverflow

Nele said:

All the old Cat Stevens...which is why I am on this site, actually :-)

@Nele - I've been listening to quite a lot of him lately too.

I've really been more in an early 70's Cat Stevens - Sandy Denny - Nick Drake - Moody Blues zone lately.

But I'm especially into all things Sandy Denny, whether solo, with Fairport Convention or the short lived Fotheringay. Her voice is simply beautiful (most people, if they have ever heard her at all, she sang with Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore").

As far as Fotheringay's one release from 1971, every track is perfect. I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it already since I finally found it.

lobster

Every Monday, Apple in their benevolence, give away a free song on the Ipad. So that is when I listen to contemporary music and now have an album or twos worth.

I love music but don't listen to much. Strange.
In many ways I try to listen to music that I have not learned to appreciate. I managed this with Reggae, Opera and Bob Dylan. Ambient is my favourite style. World music now covers so much new to explore . . .

When you listen to music rarely, it is so vibrant . . . it sings like the sun . . .
:wave:

zombiegirl

M.I.A.'s Arular album reminds me of a great summer (2005). Ironically, my favorite song (below) sounds very happy but she's actually talking about the violence and terrorism in Sri Lanka. It makes it kind of emotional for me.


Semi-9 and snipered him
On that wall they posted him
They cornered him
And then just murdered him

He told them he didn't know them
He wasn't there they didn't know him
They show'd him a picture then
Ain't that you with the Muslims

Nele

riverflow said:

Nele said:

All the old Cat Stevens...which is why I am on this site, actually :-)

@Nele - I've been listening to quite a lot of him lately too.

I've really been more in an early 70's Cat Stevens - Sandy Denny - Nick Drake - Moody Blues zone lately.

But I'm especially into all things Sandy Denny, whether solo, with Fairport Convention or the short lived Fotheringay. Her voice is simply beautiful (most people, if they have ever heard her at all, she sang with Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore").

As far as Fotheringay's one release from 1971, every track is perfect. I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it already since I finally found it.

Riverflow, funny you mention Fairport Convention - I'm a big Richard Thompson fan. I'll have to check out Fotheringay. Gracias! --Nel

MorningView

Incubus' "Morning View" ; any Led Zeppelin album for when I'm working in the garage; The Door's first album; any Bob Marley album. Some 311 songs, not necessarily full albums. Modest Mouse's "Good News for People who Love Bad News" and "The Moon and Antarctica. Those are the main albums that come to mind for me. If it's not the music itself, it's the fact that I happened to listen to these albums at special times in my life during the summer.