Summertime Playlist
 

Hey everyone, it's almost midnight over in Seattle right now, and I'd been listening to some of my mellow indie and hip hop all day, on shuffle. It's been raining all day since noon. All of a sudden, Atmosphere's "Sunshine" came on, and I was elated. I haven't listened to a happy song in months. And then I realized summer is just around the corner! So I just threw together a 40-track summertime playlist in the last few minutes, and thought I'd share it with you guys. Maybe you'd even have some recommendations for more songs to add? Thanks :)

Artist - Track - Genre
Atmosphere - Sunshine - Hip Hop
Blue Scholars - Sagaba (Remix) - Hip Hop
Discovery - Slang Tang - Indie/Electronic
Atmosphere - Yesterday - Hip Hop
Finley Quaye - Ultra Stimulation - Reggae
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood - Indie
Discovery - So Insane - Indie/Electronic
The Get Up Kids - Ten Minutes - Indie/Surf Rock
Surfer Blood - Swim - Indie/Surf Rock
Girls - Lust For Life - Indie/Surf Rock
Harlem Shakes - Sunlight - Indie
Thicker Than Water Soundtrack - Liver Splash - Indie
Kid CuDi - Pursuit of Happiness - Hip Hop
Living Legends - Moving At The Speed Of Life - Hip Hop
Lupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo - Hip Hop
Passion Pit - Cuddle Fuddle - Indie/Electronic
Macklemore - Church - Hip Hop
MGMT - Electric Feel - Indie/Electronic
Surfer Blood - Harmonix - Indie/Surf Rock
The Morning Benders - Excuses - Indie
MyG - Only Wanna Be A Lover 2U - DJ/Instrumental
Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Tales - Indie/Electronic
Of Montreal - A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger - Indie/Electronic
Passion Pit - I've Got Your Number - Indie/Electronic
Phoenix - 1901 - Indie
Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell - Indie
The Roots - The Seed (2.0) - Hip Hop
The Shins - Caring Is Creepy - Indie
Phoenix - Lisztomania - Indie
Skee-Lo - I Wish I Was A Baller - Hip Hop
Star****er - Florida - Indie
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Indie
The Shins - Your Algebra - Indie
Sublime - What I Got (Reprise) - Indie/Reggae
Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina - Indie
Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work - Indie
Sublime - Doin' Time (Summertime) (Uptown Dub) - Indie/Reggae
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes - Indie/Surf Rock
Sublime - Caress Me Down - Indie/Reggae
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk - Indie
Surfer Blood - Take It Easy - Indie/Surf Rock
Vicious Vicious - Here Come Tha Police - Indie
White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing - Indie

Anyway, that's what I've got after ~5 minutes of searching around on my iTunes. Anyone have any songs to add? thanks so much for looking, and have a great summer!

Great list! I love that Sublime track, it carries so much nostalgia for me.

Personally, I'd obliterate A-Punk from that list, in favor or Mansard Roof, Campus, Horchata, Giving Up the Gun, or pretty much any other VW track.

Haha, but A-Punk is so fun to beat on the dashboard while you're driving a boat.
Maybe I'll take it off for Diplomat's Son. I can't get enough of that song (well, of everything VW makes, really). Thanks!

Oh, I just realized, how could Summertime Clothes be missing from this list?

Really feeling you on a lot the tracks in your list there, I think I need to get some of them on my playlist! One band I've discovered this summer that will be high on my list is Hurts, a brilliant UK electonic duo. I've loved everything they've done and right now their single Better Than Love is on repeat. Top track!

Laura

Hello Seattleite! :wavey:

There is some stuff I enjoy on there. I don't ever really make playlists (I mainly just listen to albums) but I'm sure I can think of a few songs that would be good additions.

My album of last summer turned out to be Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest, for what it's worth. Some duds but also some truly magical songs on there. Kelpe also got a lot of play from me over the summer, name the LP Ex-Aquarium and the remix EP Extraquarium.

Well that is a fantastic playlist and I enjoy much of what is on it, loving the Surfer Blood and Passion Pit most.

fuuuuuuck yeah!

Today is a beautiful day in California, which inspired me to start a summer playlist of my own. Here's a rough draft

Aqueduct - Hardcore Days and Softcore Nights
Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
Beach House - Used to Be
Beck - Gamma Ray
Blue October - Into the Ocean
Cake - Shadow Stabbing
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Death Cab for Cutie - The Sound of Settling
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
The Format - The First Single
Green Day - Poprocks and Coke
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Guster - Keep it Together
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby
The Helio Sequence - Don't Look Away
Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
Iglu & Hartly - DayGlo
Jack Johnson
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
Jurassic 5 - What's Golden
Kasabian - LSF
The Killers - Spaceman
Kings of Leon - The Bucket
Late of the Pier - Random Firl
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Lostprophets - Last Summer
Mew - Beach
Miike Snow - Animal
Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
Modest Mouse - Fire it Up
Motion City Soundtrack - Everything is Alright
Mute Math - The Nerve
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
Pinback -Concrete Seconds
Primal Scream - Keep Your Dreams
Reverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion of the World
Smashing Pumpkins - A Stitch in Time
Spoon - The Way We Get By
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

^Wow, that is an incredible playlist. A friend of mine who recently moved here from Australia actually showed me Empire of the Sun earlier today, I'd heard a few of their songs before but never knew who they were till now. they're an Australian band, and she knows one of the guys personally, so that was pretty cool.
Anyway, I added We Are The People to my list, along with a few other songs. I'll update it on here later tonight.