Summer Sons

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He was acting on one impulse after another, hoping he’d find the right direction while dodging the shit that he’d rather ignore. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. The muggy production only adds to the feeling of being trapped in a sweltering city in the height of summer.

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Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. The Lionel Richie–penned ballad details leaving behind the pain of a stifling love affair to ‘be free, just me. Even more impressive is the way it pulls these threads together—or, perhaps, is pulled and balanced between them—to tell a vibrant story of love and grief. Every time we listen to songs about summer we get carried away in thoughts that either brings back smiles, laughter, or tears. Tastes like strawberries on a summer evening,’ Harry Styles croons seductively on this low-key funk banger about his love for delicious, vitamin-enriched fruits in the sun.The song won multiple awards including the first Best Male Rap Solo Performance Grammy in 2003, and it spawned numerous covers – of which the best and most surprising may be the one by Southern jam band Widespread Panic. But in the US it was their last hit for four years, as landmarks like “Days,” “Waterloo Sunset,” and “Dead End Street” sank without trace.

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The rockabilly icon created an anthem for anyone who’s had to toil away their best summer days, tapping into the teenage angst that was bubbling just below the surface. We recommend letting the airy vocals (Hynes is joined by Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek on this tune) and sultry sax solo wash over you as you watch the sun sink beneath the waves. You’re telling me I have to give you two hundred bucks to pick up my dead best friend’s car,” he said.As the story goes, after relenting to his label’s insistence to go disco, Marvin Gaye turned out a summer jam that eclipsed anything else on the charts. Ray Davies adopts the role of a rich layabout sitting in his stately home protesting (somewhat lazily) about the taxman taking all his money. The singer recruited friends and family alike to create a party atmosphere in the studio, resulting in a song that raged its way to No.

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After that interminable wait and the devastating payoff, he’d be fine if he never laid eyes on Columbus again.The Beastie Boys had already reinvented themselves and shed their toxic bro image with second album Paul’s Boutique, but “Sabotage”, from fourth album Ill Communication, moved the needle even more profoundly. Set in Nashville and its rural surrounds, the novel follows one Andrew Blur as he seeks to unravel the apparent suicide of his adopted brother, Eddie. In fact, it became an unofficial anthem for the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, but Reeves always asserted it was intended as a party song. At the time it was a pretty gutsy move away from the sound of the Jam – with prominent synth, no evident guitar, and a blue mood. It was, along with all that, an early triumph for future Britney Spears collaborator and general miracle worker Max Martin.