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Summertime Sound

What’s on your summer playlist? When the sun gets hot and the days get long and slow, my musical taste gets a bit more conservative. The music that goes well with an iced tea in the backyard on a July Saturday is a certain subset of the usual rotation here. My list includes:

  • Brazilian jazz

  • 60s Motown hits
  • Generic “oldies” (usually I can’t stand this stuff)
  • Classical piano, especially Satie and Mozart
  • Older, slower ska (no 90s stuff please)
  • Spanish guitar music

What’s your list? What’s summer music? I’m interested.

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6 Responses to “Summertime Sound”

  1. Don Says:
    July 9th, 2003 at 3:32 pm

    Summer’s the season of the Chamber Music Festival in the Seattle area, so I associate the two and tend more toward classical tastes in the warmer months.

    In no particular order, a few other types I prefer in summer:

    Many artists I liked in the early ’90s, such as the fat lady sings and 10,000 Maniacs, because those were great summers and the music reminds me.

    Folk, which I first encountered in summertime festivals in Salt Lake City and other places.

    Live jazz — love the improvisational quality.

  2. ignatz Says:
    July 9th, 2003 at 3:48 pm

    Chamber music is so beautiful, and rare to see performed well. I grew up going to the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Society concerts which had topflight artists inexplicably playing in a high school auditorium. I still love quartet and trio music to this day.

  3. Don Says:
    July 9th, 2003 at 11:03 pm

    The last trio I heard was Eroica Trio at Benaroya Hall… beautiful show, I was really impressed by them. They played with such passion, the three of them filling the hall with such intense full sound. Amazing how three instruments can produce such a feast for the ears.

  4. Halfjack Says:
    July 10th, 2003 at 9:59 am

    So far it’s been non-stop White Stripes, mostly the first two albums. Something about that southern Blues sound with really noisy guitar suits the heat.

    When it rains I go back to the Hives and the Repo Man soundtrack.

  5. Frank Patton Says:
    July 23rd, 2003 at 2:55 pm

    1. Billy Joel
    2. Rock
    3. Celtic (Yea, I like Enya and her ilk)
    4. Classical – Mozart, Beethovan, Bach, Mendelson, Tchaichowski (sp?) Telemann
    5. Kitka

  6. Eric Says:
    July 27th, 2003 at 1:13 am

    1. Apocalyptica (Heavy Metal by 4 cellos)
    2. Yoko Kano and the Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop soundtracks)
    3. Classical – Mozart, Saint Saens
    4. Tool
    5. Rondellus – Sabbatum (Renaissance style covers of Black Sabbath)
    6. Harry Connick, Jr.
    7. Yanni

    And yes, I DO have weird tastes….

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