Brainwaves – June 22, 2021 – Celebrating summer
Written by Brian Blum on 20/06/2021
June 21 is the official start of summer – at least in many parts of the world. So Brainwaves is celebrating summer with an all-summer music set. That’s right, every song on the show has “summer” in the title. Sounds Under Radio, Blitzen Trapper, The Decemberists, Matt Pond PA Wiretrain, Mungo Jerry, ELO, Vanity Fair and a bonus track from the summer queen: Donna Summer.
| Band | Song |
| Sounds Under Radio | Portrait of a Summer Thief |
| Blackfield | Summer |
| Blitzen Trapper | Summer Town |
| Alice Cooper | School’s Out for Summer |
| Fountains of Wayne | The Summer Place |
| Bowling for Soup | Summer of ‘69 |
| Pink Floyd | Summer ‘68 |
| The Decemberists | Summersong |
| The Cure | The Last Days of Summer |
| The Gin Blossoms | Idiot Summer |
| Matt Pond PA | Summer (Butcher Two) |
| Matt Pond PA | Summer is Coming |
| Wiretrain | Skills of Summer |
| Regina Spektor | Summer in the City |
| R.E.M. | Summer Turns to High |
| Death Cab for Cutie | Summer Skin |
| Meatloaf | Hot Summer Night (You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth) |
| Mungo Jerry | In the Summertime |
| Seals & Crofts | Summer Breeze |
| Simple Minds | Someone Somewhere in Summertime |
| The Stranglers | Midnight Summer Dream |
| Electric Light Orchestra | One Summer Dream |
| The Wallflowers | Feels Like Summer Again |
| Patti Smith | Summer Cannibals |
| Barenaked Ladies | Summertime |
| The Lovin’ Spoonful | Summer in the City |
| The Monkees | The Door Into Summer |
| One Direction | Summer Love |
| Fountains of Wayne | It Must be Summer |
| Jonathan Coulton | Summer’s Over |
| Donna Summer | On the Radio |
| Vanity Fare | Summer Morning |
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