I think I definitely have enough songs for my party now. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I really got a lot of great stuff I would never have discovered otherwise. Some favorites:
Favorite discovery: Nanci Griffith, "Summer Wages"
Most appropriate (and fun!): Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, "Summer Wine"
Most summery sounding: The Cowsills, "Indian Lake"
Best song I should have thought of but didn't: The Motels, "Suddenly Last Summer"
Best "summer" song whose lyrics don't contain "summer": The Fiery Furnaces, "Here Comes the Summer"
Best reminder of how great the music was on BtVS: The Sundays, "Summertime"
Best mention of The Beach Boys: Chuck Prophet, "Summertime Thing"
Best coincidental download: Teddybears, "Yours to Keep"
(The free single of the week—all about driving around with the top down in the summer!)
And I love love love "Boardwalk Arts"—thanks lisah! Do you ever play on this side of the bridge?
WHOOT! 2 of my songs made the "most" list. hee.
Well, they were both made of awesome.
Hmmm. Well, Jilli, your goth music special is showing something about Tupac instead of its TiVo listing. I'll see if it comes on after and adjust. Lame, MTV2!
Tupac wasn't Goth? I mean, with the dead and all?
t /dark sarcasm
The soundtrack for
Life on Mars
is just fab, truly. UK-Music-That-Didn't-Get-Played-Over-Here is an unknown country to me. (Perhaps not surprisingly.)
(Heh -- I just checked iTunes and to my surprise they actually
have
"Indian Lake". And now it is MINE.)
Oh, and to round out my morning: here's a clip of Dr. Johnny Fever saying "Booger" on WKRP:
[link]
Heh -- I just checked iTunes and to my surprise they actually have "Indian Lake". And now it is MINE.
FTR, iTunes had most of the summer songs suggested.
And I love love love "Boardwalk Arts"—thanks lisah! Do you ever play on this side of the bridge?
Thanks!!! We haven't played over there but we would if the opportunity arose. I wonder where though?
We haven't played over there but we would if the opportunity arose. I wonder where though?
Good question. We have groups a couple of times a week at the local bar (Andy's in Chestertown-that's where I discovered Mercy Creek), but that gets small pretty quickly, and then there's a leap in venue (generally to the Avalon in Easton). For example, apparently the Avett Bros. used to play Andy's, but now there's no way they could play there, I saw them in Easton. But the Avalon is also Nanci Griffith, RIchard Thompson, etc.
Hmmm. Well, Jilli, your goth music special is showing something about Tupac instead of its TiVo listing. I'll see if it comes on after and adjust. Lame, MTV2!
Waaaaah! Noooooo!
(But thank you for checking for me.)
Connie, do you have a link to Vonnie's LoM soundtrack? I'm kind of curious now.
