What's your ultimate "summer" time album?

[edgeofthorns]

What's the album that puts you in a good mood and stands the test of time for you? In other words, what's the music you go for on hot summer's day, driving to the beach, whatever? It might even put you into the "party mode".

Mine is.....

Bon Jovi - New Jersey

In my opinion, this is the ultimate "pop metal" album ever made! Every song has a hook from hell and keeps you singin' from start to finish. When I think of my lazy, childhood summers, this album was most likely playing in the background.

So, what's yours?

~Brian~

 

[PurpleCrayonWriter]

I'm going to go with a literal choice:

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer

I remember listening to it over and over with a buddy of mine one summer. I was probably 16. We had our garage band in full tilt. We played countless games of pool in his basement. And we had two really hot girlfriends. It was a killer summer, one I'm taken back to every time I listen to Endless Summer.

Bill

 

[metalvideos]

Boston - s/t

 

[Harvester]

For the win!

 

[General Zod]

My favorite summer time discs are those I associate with my late teens, the Jersey shore, Trans Ams, and Jersey girls with big hair and small bathing suits.

Black n Blue - Nasty Nasty
Bon Jovi - 7800
Keel - Keel
Motley Crue - Theater of Pain
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Rough Cutt - Wants You
Skid Row - Skid Row
Y & T - Contagious

Zod

 

[edgeofthorns]

For the win!

Glenn, why am I not surprised?

My favorite summer time discs are those I associate with my late teens, the Jersey shore, Trans Ams, and Jersey girls with big hair and small bathing suits.

Black n Blue - Nasty Nasty
Bon Jovi - 7800
Keel - Keel
Motley Crue - Theater of Pain
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Rough Cutt - Wants You
Skid Row - Skid Row
Y & T - Contagious

Zod

Zod, you've just won my heart.

~Brian~

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Hmmm.... Boston's s/t works for me, Molly Hatchet's Flirtin' w/Disaster, as well as the debut Van Halen release....

 

[General Zod]

Zod, you've just won my heart.

Zod

 

[lady_space]

Y & T - Contagious

Long Island ice tea, private room, her and me... I must be dreaming!

That album always makes me think of the summer I turned 14, the last carefree summer I really had. growing up is so overrated. :b

 

[General Zod]

Long Island ice tea, private room, her and me... I must be dreaming!

That album always makes me think of the summer I turned 14, the last carefree summer I really had. growing up is so overrated. :b

That's why I refuse to do it.

Zod

 

[oldboy]

Van Halen-II

 

[Creeps]

Van Halen 1984
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain
Keel - Final Frontier
Huey Lewis - Sports
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Kiss - Animalize
Yngwie Malmstten - Odyssey
Frehley's Comet - s/t and Second Sighting


For some reason those albums have the best summer memories for me

 

[MysticX9]

My favorite summer time discs are those I associate with my late teens, the Jersey shore, Trans Ams, and Jersey girls with big hair and small bathing suits.

Black n Blue - Nasty Nasty
Bon Jovi - 7800
Keel - Keel
Motley Crue - Theater of Pain
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Rough Cutt - Wants You
Skid Row - Skid Row
Y & T - Contagious

Zod

Yes, cool list, great to see some love for the often maligned Contagious album!

 

[truemindframe]

I've always associated Dream Theater's Falling Into Infinity with summertime. Maybe it's the bright-ass cover?

 

[MysticX9]

When I go to the beach I always take these with me:

Scorpions - SAVAGE AMUSEMENT
Whitesnake - 1987
Yngwie Malmsteen - ECLIPSE
John Norum - TOTAL CONTROL/FACE THE TRUTH
UFO - WALK ON WATER

Many more but those are some of the "must haves..."

 

[Jasonic]

Immortal - At The Heart of Winter

 

[DADRocks]

+1 on the Y&T Contagious. Also, Backyard Babies. Just had this cranked in my car with the windows down:

 

[johan68]

Anything by Slade...

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Can't think of any better beach, party, summer music.

 

[voodoo]

For the win!

Excellent choice!!!

 

[Diamond45]

Brings me back to the Summer of 1988 for me....

Whitesnake - S/T
Def Leppard - Hysteria

I don't know how many times I played both of those albums that year...hundreds, maybe?