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What’s your Summer Anthem!

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LittlleMy · 11/07/2025 21:41

So despite being flattened by the heatwave these last few days, I’ve still being enjoying my music and just got me wondering what everyone’s summer favourites are?!

I’ll start, so as a child of the 80s, mine is ‘Cruel Summer’ by Bananarama. So relatable growing up because my parents never took us on holiday ever so the school summer hols always felt torturously long and cruel because all my friends and cousins did get to go away and I was quite sad about that as a kid and this song as well as being so catchy was just perfect for me to hold a pity party to! 😅 And still resonates as an adult when you’re stuck in the office throughout most of the summer!

Anyone else?!

OP posts:
SerafinasGoose · 12/07/2025 14:19

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 12/07/2025 14:15

Was about to ask the same thing. It would be an amazing list!

I've made a 50-strong playlist but don't use Spotify - DH is collating the songs on Amazon as I don't have a membership (prefer my own library). It's also got a couple of outliers that I'm not sure others would necessarily appreciate. Happy to share it though!

(I wanted to put The Macc Lads' 'Blackpool' on it, but since DC might be in the car with me, decided I'd better not)!

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 12/07/2025 14:15

BoredZelda · 12/07/2025 13:55

Is anyone putting together a Spotify list or shall I do it?

Was about to ask the same thing. It would be an amazing list!

Cattery · 12/07/2025 13:58

Beach Baby by First Class
Never Met A Girl Like You Before by Edwin Collins

BoredZelda · 12/07/2025 13:55

Is anyone putting together a Spotify list or shall I do it?

MrsSkylerWhite · 12/07/2025 13:32

Brown Eyed Girl and The Sunny side of the Street

CoubousAndTourmalet · 12/07/2025 13:30

Sweet Child o' Mine.

babasaclover · 12/07/2025 13:01

Love all these suggestions

SerafinasGoose · 12/07/2025 12:58

Daisy Jones and the Six's 'The River' hits the spot too. Not strictly summer but it's upbeat and full of references to rivers, seas and being on the road, so that fits the bill for me!

Also Ramones' 'Rockaway Beach' Van Halen 'Summer Nights' and the Stranglers' 'Peaches'.

Talisin · 12/07/2025 12:45

The Sea / Morcheeba (actually the entire Big Calm album)
Summertime / Ella Fitzgerald
Dear Jessie / Madonna
Boys of Summer / Don Henley

SaintGermain · 12/07/2025 12:38

In the summertime by Mungo Jerry. Never, ever tire of hearing it.

x2boys · 12/07/2025 12:35

Wake up Boo by the Bo Radleys reminds me of the summer of 1995 in the middle of my nurse training really hot summer with loads of festivals and parties.

SerafinasGoose · 12/07/2025 12:20

Three of my top picks already mentioned: QOTSA's 'Feel good hit of the summer', Alice Cooper's 'School's Out' and Martha and the Muffins' 'Echo Beach'.

Any one of the songs on the Pixies' Wave of Mutilation album always remind me of summer. We listened to this non-stop when I used to surf in Cornwall - always makes me think of camper vans, surfboards and beers in the sunset. Happy days!

I'd add Kid Rock's 'Sweet Home Alabama all Summer Long', and one for late summer, The Doors' 'Summer's Almost Gone'.

Thanks, OP. I'm making a summer playlist - great idea!

Vera87 · 12/07/2025 10:32

Summer of 69-Bryan Adams

Havanananana · 12/07/2025 10:02

Summer jobs as a rep in Europe ...

Sunshine Reggae - Laid Back
La Bomba - King Africa
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Aserejé - Las Ketchup
Vamos A La Playa + No Tengo Dinero - Regheira
Sarà perché ti amo - Ricchi e Poveri (or the Danish cover version "Hvor ska' vi sove i nat?" by Laban)
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 12/07/2025 09:46

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 11/07/2025 22:01

Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks

Yes! I have a very ancient memory of this - a party in the garden of a friend of dh (we were still students) sitting on the grass in the sun - on a Sunday afternoon - with the sound of this playing coming through an open window.

Dh’s friend came and sat beside me. ‘Hello’, he said. ‘Are you stoned?’
‘No,’ said I.
‘Oh,’ he said, and added very happily, ‘I am!’ 😂

AntikytheraMech · 12/07/2025 09:42

At The River - Groove Armada

KimberleyClark · 12/07/2025 09:37

Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers
California Girls - Beach Boys
Sittin on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Top of the World - Carpenters

MissyB1 · 12/07/2025 09:27

NotsosunnyShropshire · 12/07/2025 08:50

Elbow - One day like this.

Yes another fab one!

NotsosunnyShropshire · 12/07/2025 08:50

Elbow - One day like this.

LlynTegid · 12/07/2025 08:38

It will not surprise anyone that mine is the same year round.

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau.

Mikart · 12/07/2025 08:30

Summer Breeze Isley Brothers

VickyEadieofThigh · 12/07/2025 08:06

Shetlands · 11/07/2025 21:55

After a lifetime of working in education, this is still my number 1 favourite:
School's Out by Alice Cooper

When I was training, we'd have a disco after teaching practice, get drunk as skunks and bounce around to it.

Love it! It was played at the radio of my first year at university disco in 1977 - I remember us all spilling outside and pogoing to it.

LittlleMy · 12/07/2025 07:16

Thanks again everybody! What great ideas for us all to assemble/refresh our own personal summer playlists!

If I had to name a ‘winner’ btw, based on frequency of recommendation probably would be Boys of Summer by Don Henley. This one had dropped entirely off my radar! Just listened to it tris morning and it’s sooo good - sultry summery - albeit a little sad since its rather a reflective song on what’s gone by.

Anyway, hope those in the affected areas, survive the summer heat okay. It’s already proper suffocating here in my little bedroom in the West Midlands as I get ready for the day. Stay hydrated, shaded and sun screened up everybody! 😎

OP posts:
Middlemarch123 · 12/07/2025 06:34

Club Tropicana.

Love Wham, loved George, RIP.

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 12/07/2025 06:28

Boys of Summer - Don Healy

Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Afraid to Feel - LF System