The sun is shining and there’s not a single cloud in the sky. There’s a part of me that feels like I am rousing from a long deep slumber. There’s another part of me that wants to go back to sleep.
When the sun starts hanging out longer and spring seems on her way, I find my musical choices begin to change. And it’s not just me. DJs start playing different music too. The Velvet Underground seems to be springtime music because I’ve heard Sweet Jane four times in the last two days. I start queuing up the Monkees, Serge Gainsbourg, Rod Stewart and other artists I don’t usually listen to when I am freezing my butt off.
What do you consider to be spring/summertime music?
Tom Lehrer?
Mungo Jerry, old Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Rudy Vallee (just kidding), W A Mozart, G Rossini, and of course, L Beethoven’s 6th symphony (the Pastoral Symphony) (like to listen for the birds chirping, the thunderstorm and the sun returning!)
In no definitive order:
Jane’s Addiction: Summertime Roll
Rush:Lakeside park
Led Zeppelin:That’s the way
OAR:Risen
Team Sleep: 11/11
All are very potent memories of a particular spring.
Vivaldi ‘Spring’ from The Four Seasons
‘Seasons in the Sun’ by Terry Jacks