Readers recommend: summer songs – results

From the Beach Boys to the Violators, here are your favourite songs about the silly seasonWhat makes music sound summery? A wide-open, expansive production with lots of space and jazzy chords, perhaps. Squelchy noises; an easy mid-tempo; congas; and long-duration string notes. Oh, and liberal use of the word "sunshine". Roy Ayers understands this, and so Everybody Loves the Sunshine reeks of sensual pleasure.Actually, not everybody loves the sunshine. Even those that do would be well advised to ...

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