The Wily Filipino

Summer Songs.

Two of the greatest songs that mention the summer, not including five others, like Luna's "Indian Summer," Pavement's "Summer Babe (Winter Version)," Yo La Tengo's "The Summer," Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer," or even Richard Marx's "Endless Summer Nights."

1. The second-best Modest Mouse song ever (after "Dramamine"), "Summer," from the 1997 ep The Fruit That Ate Itself:

wake-up we're stealing cars.... bars

in 1996 and 1997
1998 we're all waiting for the year 2000

just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love

we go to the parties and listen to the DJ's
dance dance dance and go crazy

she's the party queen and she's in party heaven
her clock is stuck on late
got a first name basis at 7-11

we go to the parties and listen to the DJ's
dance dance dance and go crazy

just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love

hold the slip n slide taste the sweat it's salty
irrigation ditch and a swimming hole
nationwide loved the movie

just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love

2. This just has summer written all over it -- from Teenage Fanclub's 1997 album (about which I've gushed before) Songs from Northern Britain, "Ain't That Enough:"

If you can I wish you would
Only if you feel you should
Bring your loving over
All adds up with circumstance
All stood up with taking stands
Bring your loving over

Highlights glisten
Silence listens
Days that found you
Embrace that found you

Here is a sunrise Ain't that enough
True as a clear sky, ain't that enough
Toy town feelings here to remind you
Summers in the city do what you gotta do

Time can only make demands
Fill it up with grains of sand
Bring your loving over
Highlights glisten
Silence listens
Days that found you
Embrace that found you

Here is a sunrise Ain't that enough
True as a clear sky, ain't that enough
Toy town feelings here to remind you
Summers in the city do what you gotta do
Toy town feelings whose gonna argue
Summers in the city Summers in the city

Posted by the wily filipino at May 25, 2007 12:32 AM