In honor of it being hot enough to cook things in your pants, here is a selection of tunes dedicated to heat, the summer, and wanting to live inside your refrigerator until sometime around the end of September. Seriously, it's supposed be something like 96 degrees today. For God's sake, stay the hell indoors.
And while all these songs are fantastic summertime jams, nothing--and I mean nothing really tops the What Gives' "Summer Too." From their album Up All Night With the What Gives, it's this lazy, hazy song that sounds exactly what it feels like to be bleary from the heat. As a breakup song, it's pretty fantastic, as well. I tried like hell to find some way to get it for you all, but to no avail. If you can find it, get it.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Quotation of Plato
I can also heartily recommend Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul. 18 minute slow jams? Yes, please.
Thanks for the alternatives to the usual, tired "summer jams," like "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama and "The Addams Family Groove" by MC Hammer.
But in all seriousness, I like African music in the summer. For a really good sweat soundtrack, put in Congotronics by Konono No1. It's like techno-funk made on thumb pianos. http://www.crammed.be/craworld...
For more melodic succor, I cannot recommend more highly The Indestructible Beat of Soweto by various South African artists. It's where Vampire Weekend got many of their ideas (I theorize). Orchestra Baobab and Salif Keita are always nice, as is that low-key record by Ry Cooder and Ali Farke Toure from a few years ago.
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