The Vinyl Experience - Summer Solstice

VE 179 Summer SolsticeMiles Davis: SummertimeThe Band: Time To KillXTC: Season CycleRay La Montagne: For The SummerB52s: June BugThe Kinks: WonderboyLove: The Good Humor ManLovin Spoonful: Rain On the RoofSmall Faces: Itchycoo ParkTony Bennett: Lazy AfternoonPink Floyd: Grantchester MeadowsWilco: Sky Blue SkyOasis: Don't Look Back In AngerThin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In TownToday on the VE--celebrating the summer solstice with songs to roll out the season. I'm PC and this is the VE:Miles Davis: SummertimeThe Band: Time To KillXTC: Season CycleHappy Sumer Solstice from the VE. "Season Cycle" came from XTC's album Skylarking. That record, and the onebefore it, Stage Fright by the Band were produced by Todd Rundgren, some 16 years apart. Rick Danko's song "Time To Kill' captures the easy free feeling of early summer with many sweet days ahead---- God Willing And TheCreek DOn't Rise...that's the title of Ray La Montagne's 2009 LP featuring the song "For The Summer'Ray La Montagne: For The SummerB52s: June Bug"Cosmic Thing" was one of the great LP comeback stories..for The B52's...from it, "June Bug." Summer SolsticeCelebration. spining some records from the 60s that havent lost innocence, or freshness. As the Kinks sing,"everybody's looking for the sun...."The Kinks: WonderboyLove: The Good Humor ManLovin Spoonful: Rain On the RoofA couple of American bands--Love and Lovin Spoonful...sandwiched in between British legends The Kinks...andthis summer essential by Small Faces....Small Faces: Itchycoo ParkThe VE Summer Solstice celebration continues with a couple of great word-picture songs, by artists who come fromfar corners of the galaxy..but still places where summer comes...Tony Bennett: Lazy AfternoonPink Floyd: Grantchester MeadowsAs dissimilar as Pink Floyd and Tony Bennett are, they seem to be on the same page when it comes to summerdaydreaming. From Ummagumma, early Floyd and "Grantchester Meadows" fly-swat and all...and from an earlyJune night at Carnegie hall in 1962, Tony Bennett in his prime, with the tulip trees a bloomin and the beetle bugs azoomin on a Lazy Afternoon.Summer is a state of min dtoo. If you're havin gtrouble getting into it, take refuge in these songs by Wilco and thenOasis...Wilco: Sky Blue SkyOasis: Don't Look Back In AngerOasis, from the LP with the summer tite What's The Story Morning Glory..and Wilco with the title cut of 2008's SkyBlue Sky. Finally on the VE...if all we've heard hasn't convinced you that it won't be long till summer comes--thisone will do it.Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town

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