Happy Holiday Weekend!

Most of us office dwellers are off today since tomorrow is the actual Independence Day holiday - and that means a three day weekend! Fantastic. Seems like a great time for a classic summer anthem: "Summertime Girls" by Y&T.

Comments

[Gary]

Have a great weekend gang. This weekend is the first time I've had more than one day/week off since Easter,so some celebrating with adult beverages and a shit ton of kick ass music is in order. I love this song,as it always reminds me of being in my early 20's,when life was a lot more carefree...

[Ace Steele]

Always a great song... and a great video.

[Kixchix]

Ah yes!!! Remember those high cut bikini bottoms boys!!! Totally 80's.

One of the greatest summertime songs, despite hardcore Y&T fans who think it's a sellout. Who cares? Everybody wanted a hit. (Note: priest: Turbo, Maiden: somewhere in Time)

Gary, enjoy your well deserved long weekend! The music is a big part of it. "Party hearty, Rock n Roll....drink Barcardi....smoke a bowl!!!" Haha... Was that a saying outside of NY????

Enjoy peeps. It's 6:30am and I'm already having fun!!!

[Gary]

Kixchix. Thanks,and yeah,that saying at least made it to PA, where we used to take it literally on a daily basis (at least the bowl part! Lmao) As for the bikini bottoms 😜.😜👍. Dayum they were awesome! I'm just glad the silly looking old style basketball short shorts that Meniketti and the gang are rocking went out of style.When ya sat down,stuff tended to "sneak out" of them....lmfao

[Bob]

This song is cheesy as hell, and it still puts a huge smile on my face 30 years later. It was the first song on my legendary summertime mix tape. I hope everybody has a wonderful long weekend!

[Metalboy!]

Speaking of Summertime Mixtapes, Gary... Here ya go, Boyz... (And, yes, this Cheeze Metal Summertime Anthem is on it, unfortunately for me, AND, even more unfortunate, it's not the only one... Ah, anything for a theme... including many rarities and hidden gems... Go to heavyharmonies.com for info on any starred (*) bands and more often than not you can find the song on YouTube... As I've said before, there's a whole other parallel universe of 80's/90's Indie 80's Glam / Sleaze / AOR / Hard Rock / Metal out there waitin' for us, kidz!... There's even a song called "4th of July" by Staxx from 1992...

SUMMEROXX Mixtape:

1) School's Out - Alice Cooper
2) Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days - Judas Priest
3) (This Ain't) The Summer of Love - Lizzy Borden
4) California U.S.A. - Black Rose*
5) Summerlove - Fate
6) House Is On Fire - Sleeze Beez
7) Ya Wanna Party - Pound of Flesh*
8) One Summer Night - Dirty Rhythm*
9) Fine, Fine Wine - Vince Neil
10) Green Eyed Lady - Spiced Ice*
11) One Step Away - RATT
12) Summer - Sweet Cheater* (Not THAT Sweet Cheater - a better one!)
13) Cherry Lane - Keel
14) Don't Stop - Chain Gang*
15) Paradise Beach - Tubeless Hearts*
16) Indian Summer - TNT
17) Hot Summer Nights - Quota*
18) The Heart Of Summer - Fair Warning
19) Summer Love - Pretty Boy Floyd
20) I Remember You - Skid Row
21) Summer Nights - Van Hagar
22) The Boys Of Summer - Bad Influence
23) Goin' Crazy - David Lee Roth
24) New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite
25) Summertime Girls - Y&T
26) Hot Tonight - Lionheart
27) Cool Me Down - Wild Horses
28) Summer Job - Razzle*
29) Blondes In Black Cars - Autograph
30) Wheels In Motion - Sing-Sing
31) Sweet Melody - Lancia*
32) Rockin' With The Radio - Blue Tears
33) Kerp The Fire - Heaven*
34) Beneath Da Coconuts - Fate (different singer)
35) Malibu Beach Nightmare - Hanoi Rocks
36) Summertime - Strawberry*
37) Here Comes The Summer - Iggy Pop
38) Summer's Over - Pleasure Bombs
39) Heat The Fire - Femme Fatale
40) Summertime Blues - Joan Jett
41) No Reason To Cry - Princess Pang
42) Summer In The Rain - Heavy Bones
43) Summer Breeze - Type O Negative
44) Set Me On Fire - Type O Negative
45) Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe
46) Hazy, Lazy, Crazy Daze Of Summer - Swingin' Thing*
47) Dancin' In The Street - Van Halen
48) L.A. Rocks - Y&T (Ugh! Again? Must have the word "Summer" in it)
49) Seaside Lover - Lost Boys
50) Always Think Of You - Priscilla (Listen at your own risk)
51) Summer Song - Sweet Savage*
52) Cold Summer Nights - BoysVoice*
53) I Can't Wait - Blue Blud*
54) Wait Until Summers Gone - Zebra
55) Forever - Vince Neil
56) Slippin' Away - Junkyard
57) The End Of Summer Days - Tyketto
58) Wish Upon A Star - Pistol Dawn*
59) Can't Hold Back The Young - Brass Kitten*
60) Sexy Summertime - Supa Group*
61) The Look In Your Eyes - Delaurian*
62) Summer Rain - Gypsy Blue*
63) Heartaches - Stitch*
64) Steal My Heart - Wild Ride*
65) Mire Than A Feeling - Bad Habit*
66) School's Out, Summer's In - Character (Phew, cuz this ever s*ck!)
67) Without You By My Side - Pharaoh*
68) Summer Nights - Valor*
69) Never Split Us Apart - Social Disgrace*
70) Summertime Goodbye - TUFF
71) (The Inevitable Return Of) A Summer Of Love - Flies On Fire*
72) Take Me Home - Head On
73) Ace In The Hole - Xavier*
74) Miami Madness - Skitzotik*
75) Saving It All - Private Toys*
76) Missing You - Cuttlass*
77) Summer Love - Wanted*
78) Your Love - Wanted*
79) Summer's Fall - Crash Alley*
80) Under Summer Skies - In The Pink
81) Tears Are Fallin' - Collision
82) Diving - Ginger*
83) Burn The City Down - AXÉ
84) Summer Downtown - Rough Justice*
85) I Know Who You Did Last Summer - Diamond Lane
86) Animal Attraction - Reckless Love
87) Summertime - The Syre
88) One Summer's Dream - Kid Cyote*
89) 4th Of July - Staxx*
90) On The Rocks - Jet Black*
91) Tell Me A Story (Mr. Destiny) - Frenzy*
92) Drinkin' Without You - Crashdiet

[Gary]

Wow Metalboy!!! I've got some "mining" to do.Im going to dig around and check out some of these gems you've so graciously turned me/us on to here. Kudos for a job well done bud. I'll tilt a few in your honor as I go digging around to check some of these out! 😎

[Metalboy!]

Be prepared, Gary... Though there are some great ones, there is also some real crap on it that made it on simply because the songs had the word "Summer" in it. That said, offhand, I would say 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 28, 31, 33, 46, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 88, 80, 90 and 91 with the standouts being 8, 12, 14, 17, 31, 52, 59, 65, 67, 71, 74 and 88 being the standouts, IMHO!!!

[Metalboy!]

...Standouts to listen, too, that is. Geez, I'm hungover!

[Dj]

I still think Ride The Wind us the ultimate summer party song. Hope you all had a great fourth of July weekend!

[Metalboy!]

"Ride The Wind" is one of THE worst Poison songs ever recorded! But if it had the word "Summer" in it, it could go on my playlist as there's much worse on that, as well as much better.

[Him]

Quite the list, Metalboy! And your search skills, not to mention your ability to filter through them, impresses.

Just to be fun, I would add: "Surf Nicaragua" by Sacred Reich and Queens of the Stone Age's "Feel Good Hit of the Summer." And just to be honest, that would be because Allyson turned me on to those songs in her post:

http://noisecreep.com/best-summertime-metal-songs/

Some great stuff there, Allyson. Great stuff. I'd urge regular readers to take a look at the work she wrote for Noisecreep (as I am sure some of you have already done).

A bit late, but I do hope you all had a 4th filled with Crues, Brews, and Cues.