collecting music for summer

[chouchoot]

co-hosting a summer-themed dance party this weekend, which includes making the playlists/DJing. i should've checked through the coffeefortwo "five for friday" archive. here's what i gathered last night:

animal collective - summertime clothes
bananarama - cruel summer
crystal fighters - in the summer
dino - summer girls
eddie cochran - summertime blues
flying lizards - summertime blues (cover)
beach boys - surfin' USA
jesus & mary chain - surfin' USA (cover)
jens lekman - a sweet summer's night on hammer hill
placebo - english summer rain
yacht - summer song
the champs - tequila
the cramps - bikini girls with machine guns
the surfaris - wipe out
lovin' spoonful - summer in the city
bobby darin - splish splash
the b52s - rock lobster
katrina and the waves - walking on sunshine
beach boys - california girls
katy perry - california gurls
big gipp - hot
the cure - hot! hot! hot!
buster poindexter - hot hot hot
erasure - too darn hot
foreigner - hot blooded
nelly - hot in here
t.rex - hot love
uffie - hot chick
richie valens - la bamba
go sailor - ray of sunshine
dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince - summertime
montell jordan - this is how we do it
mongo jerry - in the summertime
the weather girls - it's raining men
harry belafonte - day-o
harry belafonte - jump in the line
patrick wolf - the city
the lonely island - i'm on a boat
bob marley - jammin
jimmy buffet - margaritaville
jimmy soul - if you wanna be happy
rupert holmes - escape (pina colada song)
echo and the bunnymen - blue blue ocean
dead kennedys - california uber alleys
mamas & papas - california dreamin'
phantom planet - california
fabian - heatwave
martha reeves - (love is like a) heatwave
the go-gos - vacation
todd rundgren - bang on the drum
beach boys - fun, fun, fun
bryan adams - summer of '69
stevie b - spring love

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am i missing anything?

Comments

[lunesse.livejournal.com]

Duran Duran "Violence of Summer."

[lunesse.livejournal.com]

oh and same band "Can You Taste the Summer" which sounds like a Coca Cola ad in title but is nice.

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

new young pony club - ice cream
cazwell - ice cream

[makenmelodye.livejournal.com]

Don Henley, "Boys of Summer"
Belle & Sebastian, "A Summer Wasting"
Belle & Sebastian, "Another Sunny Day"
The Sundays, "Summertime"
Pinback, "Fortress"
Gipsy Kings, "Hotel California"
The Long Blondes, "Once and Never Again"
Okkervil River, "Lost Coastlines"
Spoon, "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"
anything by the Pipettes