[Editor's note: It's the last Friday of the summer, so your Flavorwire editors and writers are taking a much-needed break. We'll return to our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, but in the meantime, we'll be revisiting some of our favorite content from the past few months. This post was originally published July 16, 2010.] Every summer there are certain songs that are completely inescapable. Whether it be at your family’s awkward 4th of July barbecue reunion or blasting inside the department stores you already feel kind of lame being inside, these hot weather-themed songs are totally unwelcome yet simply will not die. Below we have compiled a list of ten of these tracks that need check into the retirement home and spend their last few days out of earshot. Some of these are beloved classics, and we understand it may be hard to cast some of these into the fires of Lamedor, but one must have courage sometimes.
10. “Summer of ’69″ – Bryan Adams
When your glory days were all the way back in ’69, it’s time for you to head to the glue factory. Order this song one retirement, please!
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I get that many of these songs suck, but what’s with the ageism? Besides the fact that it comes off as snotty and, yes, immature, it’s kinda weird for a site that constantly references cultural touchstones from the Stone Age (i.e. the ’80s and earlier).
I’s rank Don Henley’s original ode to Santa Monica Boulevard right at the top of this list. #2 would probably be anything beach-related from David Lee Roth’s solo output.
Err… I mean “I’d”
umm…summer or ’69 isn’t about 1969. It’s about 69 the position. Adams has come out and said so. Plus, “it’s me and my baby in a 69″ is a bit of a giveaway. It makes it that much better when its played over a department store PA when you know what it’s about.
Being old is for nerds! Anyone stupid enough to be born before 1990 should be quarantined from those of us who listen to cool music.
Heleina doesn’t listen to cool music – she just thinks she does.
Plus, I heard from Francois that she was born before 1990.
I have one from the 2000′s :Hot in here by Nelly. It’s like listening to nails on a chalkboard…
Boys of Summer never gets old. I can get behind the others listed here pretty much.
im pretty sure katy perry’s album name is teenage dreams not california gurls. so shes not stealing theyre album name..
yeah but that song sucks! Half the other songs on the list are classics!
Dude, you’re just so mad young! You rock! Don’t worry about the tats, you are so totally going to shred that interview at Taco Bell.
i respectfully petition to add “girls of summer” by LFO. *shudder*
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the market for summer songs has reached its saturation point.
the market for autumn songs has not.
I reply to your dare by saying I’m a lifelong (though not diehard) sheryl crow fan at the age of 21. by I agree, soak up the sun need to die a horrid, bloody death.
chill out dude.
“song that has no emotion, no feeling, and no cool is hardly even music at all.”
then what do you file king crimson under?
get off the whine wagon and start enjoying life.
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