# Is this song a Summer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454 "2004-06-21T15:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sofia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/21 "2004-06-22T17:13:51Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Great thread idea, **sofia**. Ah shucks, thanks. Sometime I’m going to start a thread about the art of great thread ideas…some people have it… others (like me) luck into it…rarely. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/22 "2004-06-22T17:57:19Z")
Most “Classic Rock” is summer music to me - “southern rock” or “60s rock.” “Stairway to Heaven” is an October song, though. “Time of the Season” is summer. “California Dreaming” is November, although that might be mentioned in the song, I can’t remember. “Tambourine Man” is June. Slow country music is early winter; upbeat country is late spring. Remember that song “The Humpty Dance”? That’s a song for May. It reminds me of school dances - the song came out years before I was old enough to attend a school dance, and I don’t remember hearing it at any of the school dances I did attend except for Prom, but that’s still the time it makes me think of. I actually have my music organized into WinAmp playlists by genre, by “mood” (happy/sad/slow), and by season. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/23 "2004-06-22T18:04:14Z")
For me the definitive summer song is the Stones’ “Miss You.” I think I spent the entire summer of 1978 askin’ people “_Whatsa matter witchoo, boyyyy_?” ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/24 "2004-06-22T20:50:48Z")
“Under the Bridge” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is forever a summer song for me (though I typically change the station when I hear the opening chords) because it was played constantly on the radio during the summer of 1992. Going back a few years before that, we have “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin abd “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins from the Top Gun soundtrack which was equally unavoidable during the summer of 1986. But my favorite summer song is probably “Dancing in the Moonlight”, especially the Smashing Pumpkins’ cover of it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/25 "2004-06-22T21:22:44Z")
Pilot’s “Magic” from 1975. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/26 "2004-06-23T02:33:29Z")
Funny, I always connect songs from the end of the 70s and the early 80s to the grade in school that I was in. Some that I connect with high school and summer: Martha and the Muffins “Echo Beach”; Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Open Arms”; and Asia “Heat of the Moment”; oooh and Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” :eek: . ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/27 "2004-06-23T02:56:47Z")
I was driving home late tonight and thought of this thread. I head “Angie” by (the Stones?) It had a distinct Autumn “feel” to me. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454/28 "2004-06-23T06:29:03Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > For some reason Boston’s first album reminds me of summer and also Super Tramp’s Breakfast in America. Yeah, **Breakfast in America** definitely. For me “The Boys of Summer” and “Sunset Grill” are very clearly summer. So are, I’m afraid, Phil Collins’s “Take Me Home” and the Kansas album **Audio-Visions**. There’s a Crowded House album released around 1987 (their first popular one? the one with “Don’t Dream It’s Over”) that’s also very summery. U2’s **The Unforgettable Fire** , on the other hand, is a winter, as is Kansas’s **Leftoverture**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-song-a-summer/251454.md?page=1)