What songs would you folks put on an easy, breezy summer playlist?

As a soundtrack for the dog days of summer, specifically when sitting on the porch at my place in the country and wasting a day listening to cicadas and watching the river float lazily by, I want something delicate, folky, and for some reason even a little melancholy. So whenever I get down there I will most assuredly listen to Horse Feathers' Words Are Dead and Iron and Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days. Those two records for some reason really encapsulate that place and feeling for me. So if i had to cherry pick a few of the songs that from those albums that best convey that idea...

Iron and Wine - Passing Afternoon, Sunset Soon Forgotten
Horse Feathers - In Our Blood, Like Lavender, Finch on Saturday

These work well for backyard fire and general chilling:

Time Will Tell - Bob Marley
Pachuca Sunrise (acoustic) - Minus the Bear
Constellations - Ed & Jack Johnson
The Writes Audience is Fiction - you.may.die.in.the.desert
Sing It Again - Beck
A With Living - Do Make Say Think
Looks Just Like the Sun - Broken Social Scene
On the Beach - Neil Young
Hideaway - Karen O
Unbroken Chain - Grateful Dead

I've been packing mine with Ryan Adams, Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, Allman Brothers, Band of Horses, Grateful Dead, Morning Benders, Tom Petty, and some Beastie Boys...for good measure. Results have been satisfactory.

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dude put some tad on there

I'd throw some Dr. Dog jawns on there for sure.

Gold Soundz obv.

Not bad...some Handshake Drugs and Company in My Back I also feel would b appropriate.

Summer is classic rock and hard rock. Guitar driven party music. Van Halen, Zep, Crue, The Cult, GnR, etc.

And Death Metal too.

Shut up.

I'm really digging Kid Rock, All Summer Long.

Just listened to that last night while driving and it was really nice.

finch on saturday works for me, but i dunno about the others MF.

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
The Black Keys - Never Gonna Give You Up
Danger Mouse - Theme of Rome
Flipper - Ha, Ha, Ha
Django Reinhardt - Smoke Rings
Mumford & Sons - The Cave
Brett Dennen - Comeback Kid
Radiohead - Lotus Flower

are my current playlist.

well the reason they work for me may not work for someone else, being based heavily on personal nostalgia and all.

understood.

i just wanted to acknowledge it.

oh yeah i figured someone would probably call me out on the fact that most of those songs aren't really summer songs. just a personal connection that they have with summer for me i guess.

Now now. I don't make fun of you for listening to whatever it is you listen to. Probably should but I don't.

Good day.

Death Metal is 364 days a year music. On Christmas i observe my right to listen to Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer on repeat all day.

With Death Metal its like Christmas every day!