Great summer album??

GhostBoy
GhostBoy Posts: 113
edited May 2008 in Other Music
Looking for any recommendations for great summer albums. Maybe something that is sort of "indie pop-ish," sort of like the 2007 album by The Broken West. Something light with great big hooks that you just can't evict from your head, no matter how hard you try. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Clarity by Jimmy Eat World is an awesome 'summery' kind of album.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    try

    Electric Version - The New Pornographers.

    it is exactly what you described. bang on.
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  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    Any Sublime album will do. I prefer 40oz to freedom
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    What? I never heard of any of this stuff!!
    Everyone knows the best summer album is 5150 by Van Halen. :)
    Roll the windows down and let it go.................:D
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • SavedFucker
    SavedFucker Posts: 215
    red hot chili peppers - californication has always been a good summer album

    ditto on the Sublime

    right now the new Raconteurs and the new Black Keys are my summer albums
    i'll trade you my tee shirt for a grilled cheese
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    Electric Version by The New Pornographers is seconded. Also check out Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Endless Summer by Fennesz. Like summer shattered into a million pieces and then fed to you, or as a review I read described it, "Like being stabbed repeatedly by the most beautiful woman you've ever met".

    You'd have to hear it to understand all the unpleasant connotations that both of those statements conjure up. It is VERY summery though, hence the name :)
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  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    I'm listening to Brad- Brad Vs. Satchel and that actually feels like a great summer album.

    also, the new Raconteurs album is great!
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    The Knack - Get The Knack
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    Pretty much any Guster album... particularly Ganging Up On the Sun and Keep It Together. Also, Gomez's "How We Operate" is a nice summer album.
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • letsongsprotest
    letsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    Albert Hammond Jr.- Yours to Keep
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Three Doors Down - Away From The Sun is a great one
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I'm throwing Robert Plant's Dreamland in the ring, described on release as 'the soundtrack to your late summer evenings' :)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Fleet Foxes- The Sun Giant EP (songs 3 & 4 are AWESOME)
    Band of horses- Cease to Begin
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    The newist REM album is a great summer afternoon album..maybe not what you're looking for and a little poppy, but I recommend it

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