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Everybody Wants Some
I just returned from a delightful long weekend in beautiful Austin, Texas where the temperature hovered around the mid-’80s and low-’90s the majority of the time. I thrive in hot weather (as long as it’s, you know, a dry heat), so I was dreading coming home to chillier environs. Happily, this was not the case, and on the drive to the office this morning, I enjoyed that classic pleasure of rolling down both car windows and cranking the Big Rock for the first time this spring. In this case, I chose to revisit last year’s My Morning Jacket release, Z. As I am prone to, I played it into the ground when it first came out, so it had to be put down for a while—but this morning it sounded fresh and exhilarating, creating that heady, teenage state that makes you want to blow off work and find a bar with a broad tequila selection and a killer deck.
There are some bands and records that always fit this ritual perfectly. I find the hefty guitars and lascivious intent of early Van Halen to be particularly appropriate, especially their debut and Women and Children First. There’s also much to be said for the reliability of the Cult’s Rick Rubin-produced masterpiece, Electric. So, gentle rocker readers, do share: what record makes you want to put your speakers on the deck and dig that Webber out of the garage?
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Yup. Early VH is the best way to kick up the summer.
Wolfmother's new full length will be blaring out of the Trans Am any day now. Crazy good butt rock! Damn, that might be my Saturday afternoon...
holy lobster telephone--electric was definitely summertime party music. and somehow love was always winter.
going further back, the first boston record brings me right back to a tube on a river in new england in july.
i get stuck on classic rock in the summer. can't think of any new music that kicks me into summertime mode.
twisted sister was always the perfect "schools almost over - so give 'em the finger!" tape to paly out of my '67 plymouth baracuda from the boom box in the back seat!
while i'm a lot more eco friendly now, i still have a soft spot in my heart for my old 'cuda....
I'm a summer VH guy too. Thought lately Foreigner and Loverboy have made the rounds.
I also dig Spoon, Bad Religion, Sparklehorse and Todd Terry's "Ready for a New Day."
SML--I'm so with you on the Foreigner. I heard "Dirty White Boy" the other day and it sounded most excellent. The first track off of Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs For the Deaf" is a winner too.
The Sword have been blasting out my Bronco's speakers non-stop!
The one truly epic heavy metal album of the year. There is nothing like The Sword's saturated and massive riffs to herald the dawn of summer!
Audit in Progress from The Hot Snakes is rippin up my walkman right now! The TDK tape is starting to do that wabble thing but I still rock it. Anything by that band is summer worthy. Kinda' jealous about all these car jams you guys are talkin' about. I can't play aynthing in my car for two reasons: my muffler is louder than my stereo and if I use the stereo than I can't use my windshield wipers.
Audit in Progress from The Hot Snakes is rippin up my walkman right now! The TDK tape is starting to do that wabble thing but I still rock it. Anything by that band is summer worthy. Kinda' jealous about all these car jams you guys are talkin' about. I can't play aynthing in my car for two reasons: my muffler is louder than my stereo and if I use the stereo than I can't use my windshield wipers.
The Afghan Whigs, 1965: Not quite as heavy of a choice, but it sounds like summer to me.
The Idiot/Lust For Life: These are on-the-road records for me, and no time to drive like the summer
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One of the best things about Summer, aside from the glorious warm ball in the sky, is turning it up...
Right now, I am crankin' these (not all brand new, but mmm mmm good):
-Wolfmother: Self Titled
-NOFX: The War on Errorism
-Common Market: Self Titled
-Far: Tin Cans with Strings to You
-BRMC: Howl
-Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
-The Beautiful Mothers: Half American Servicemen
-Grieves: Releasing soon!