NFT: Your favorite summer time album

THE album of my 11th summer. Obviously just a hits album, but what a hits album! Me and all my friends intro to the Beach Boys while having fun at the Jersey Shore in 74.

no one album in particular

But offbeat summer song There's No Surf in Cleveland by The Euclid Beach Band

a cup of my summertime youth that ran over.....

Will always remind me of the days leading up to my HS graduation. Great times...

Tom Dickie and the Desires- Competition
B-52's-B-52's
Hoodoo Gurus- Mars Needs Guitars
Neil Young Crazy Horse- Live Rust

Listening to that album down the Jersey Shore

.. but I am going way back to when the first Cars album came out. This is not my favorite by any stretch, but has summertime memories for me.

Summertime, Summertime by The Jamies
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The Doors

Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, The Who or Widespread Panic... really do have one particular album

Anything early Allmans is the sound of summer for me.

… I feel like in the summer of 1982 every song was on every NY radio station at all times. I always equate songs from that album with summer.

Licensed to Ill.

Summer of '88 that album was a couple years old and really coming into its own as a cover to cover classic. friends of mine were just getting their drivers licenses and everywhere we went that CD was in the car CD player (yes I'm that old).

Sometimes I see pictures from that era and just looking at the pictures I can hear "Brass Monkey", "Paul Revere", "No Sleep til Brooklyn", etc. playing in the background.

Only other album that has that similar nostalgia is Appetite for Destruction and it was around that same time in fact.

Maybe a little bit later it could be the Weezer Blue Album.

Endless Summer, Born to Run, Van Halen 1, but my favorite may be Bat out of Hell just because of Paradise by the Dashboard Light. I still remember high school walking down thru the grove listening to cheerleaders singing that in the warm early summer sun.