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Summer Music
Kool and the Gang is a favourite band of mine (likely a guilty pleasure) This is perhaps my favourite Kool and the Gang song - even though it is the most unlike Kool and the Gang's typical sound that I can imagine.
Summer Madness
Most summer songs have a more 'rural' feel - beaches, open air, that sort of thing. A few, and I think this have a very urban sound. In part I think because Jaz is by nature urban but, this song has always had a 'heat shimmering off the pavement, twilight lights' sound to it. (The Lovin Spoonful - Summer in the City is obviously similarly urban.)
I am also a Will Smith fan (yes, again guilty pleasure) and he sampled it - I quite like this version as well, but, in spite of the hip hop genre I think it is a much more suburban or small town summer song - aided in no small part by the video
Kool and the Gang is a favourite band of mine (likely a guilty pleasure) This is perhaps my favourite Kool and the Gang song - even though it is the most unlike Kool and the Gang's typical sound that I can imagine.
Summer Madness
Most summer songs have a more 'rural' feel - beaches, open air, that sort of thing. A few, and I think this have a very urban sound. In part I think because Jaz is by nature urban but, this song has always had a 'heat shimmering off the pavement, twilight lights' sound to it. (The Lovin Spoonful - Summer in the City is obviously similarly urban.)
I am also a Will Smith fan (yes, again guilty pleasure) and he sampled it - I quite like this version as well, but, in spite of the hip hop genre I think it is a much more suburban or small town summer song - aided in no small part by the video