wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

They should do a Summer song of All Time!

Will SMith: SummerTime!

Who let the dogs out!

Sorry Regina but that song is very very good, but... This song is a landscape, while alot of my favorite must is a character study. As a buddist I think the entire song is ironic, but because you play and sing so beautiful I am unable to tell your meaning, or point.
Still love ya!

@ ray kroc. indeed, combination pizza hut and taco bell is inspired music.

Fo onassis I'm in new jersey b###h. I can hear the thumping car speakers from here

Regina Specktor is a Musician. I hope she doesn't sell out like Black Eyed Peas! Just kidding. Seriously don't see out.

Summer's around the corner, and I think that
the song of the summer should capture the very
essence of the season: graduation, outtings, and the feeling of looking foward to the future. The song should express the feeling of peaking over the fence, which is filled with curiosity and hopefullness. That is why I choose No Such Thing by John Mayer. He captures the feeling of being done with high school and it captures the momentum of June. This summer I think we all need a break from the battered economy and maybe re-live our happy moments after high school graduation.

I had to write on behalf of my intelligent, articulate, Black-Eyed-Peas obsessed 9-yr-old daughter. I hear the song every day now that she's out of school: morning, noon, and night!

Pretty much any song from the Kings of Leon album "Only By The Night". That's what I've been listening to since its release (especially the song "Notion") and it's what I'll be listening to all summer and beyond!

Summer's around the corner, and I think that
the song of the summer should capture the very
essence of the season: graduation, outtings, and the feeling of looking foward to the future. The song should express the feeling of peaking over the fence, which is filled with curiosity and hopefullness. That is why I choose No Such Thing by John Mayer. He captures the feeling of being done with high school and it captures the momentum of June. This summer I think we all need a break from the battered economy and maybe re-live our happy moments after high school graduation.

What a NARROW group to select from!

It's as if you never listen to "ALL SONGS CONSIDERED" - really, try it -it opens up your mind to other good stuff.

There is SO MUCH GOOD MUSIC OUT THERE!

Summer jam '08 was "Paper Planes" and this year it will be "Every Girl" by Wayne.

Please Understand That the Black Eyed Peas were one of the most creative groups around. Then They sold out and stopped making original and started making commercial music. Music that numbs the brain. When I listen to The B.E.P.'s I get upset because of so much they have lost. If you listen to their first album, any song, you will see.

"combination pizza hut and taco bell" is like a masterful haiku without the 5-7-5 but with 100% awesome. the queen should knight the geniuses who wrote it. i bet this song is on repeat on prince harry's ipod.

The big summer song is always something that comes out of nowhere and catches everybody by surprise. It's a song that you want to sing in the car at the top of your lungs. All these songs are boring. I've heard it all a million times. Nothing new here. Hipsters are gonmna pick Dirty Projectors or Grizzly Bears. They're not gonna appeal to anybody outside the Williamsburg city limits. Way too self conscious. And fawning over the usual suspects like Kanye, you guys are all to inbred in the music business.

Hot in here by Nelly, is the every summer song,
I does not seems to ever fade away, it get hotter in hotter in every party and enjoyable to listen to.

Playground - Richard Bona

Two things - 1. Why must the summer song be a hip hop song? I mean, it will be, but it really speaks to the blandness of new music that it will be as opposed to any other style.

2. Why should I take the advice over new music from someone who uses such an old term like "Taking it to the next level"? No offense to the critic who used it, but the rhetoric is as deja vu invoking as all these songs seem to be...

turn yo swag on

turn your swag on

SOULJA BOY<3

Howbout
!!!( chk-chk-chk)
"Must be the Moon" or "Heart 2 Heart"..!!

I love the new Black Eyed Peas song - I Gotta Feeling. Simple, easy-going fun song to sing along with - typical Black Eyed Peas. My boyfriend thinks it sounds like euro-trash electro music but I disagree and glad that your guests agree with me!

I'M ALERGIC to most of today's radio air played songs. WE STILL NEED MORE by SUPERGRASS is my song of the summer -an old one i know-. But hey, it could very well be SUMMER by Shy Child for all i know...

Ok, 'Sueño Erotico' by Los Amigos Invisibles.
¡Ha!

now and forever: Voila l'Été, by the Negresses Vertes

I second Peter. Lisztomania by Phoenix will likely be the indie hit of the summer. So catchy and hummable.

Of the ones posted I prefer Knock You Down with Hilson, West and Neyo. But for those of us who lean toward the indie/alt genre i nominate Nicorette by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

Boom Boom Pow - easily the song of the summer, if not the year!

Another song that we'll hear incessantly this summer: "D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)" by Jay-Z. And thank goodness - Autotune is the WORST!

(@ Betty Anne - that Pitbull song is hot! Are we supposed to love that song so much?)

Summer Song/ The Homecoming Queens. A great local band, and a song with an awesome, carefree summer vibe. Definetly beats out the rest of the mainstream.

I thought I accidentially switched my radio to Hot 97!

Of the top five, I'll have to pick Boom Boom Pow. Blame It is pretty old and played out already...But for favorite summer songs, I'll stick to my deceased rappers...Biggie and Tupac! Can't go wrong with that.

Wow, these songs make me feel old! They all sound like garbage. 'Blame It' is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

Whatever happened to catchy hooky summer songs?
These songs are neither.

Black Eye Peas are the WORST!!!
Is this a joke? Those unoriginal hacks don't deserve this attention.

I can't get the Petra Haden a cappella version of the old Bellamy Brothers song "Let Your Love Flow" now available as an MP3 on the Toyota web site - http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/commercial.html - that is used in the new Toyota Prius ads out of my head. Everyone I know feels the same way.

With the growing electronic movement in music, I beleive that the song of the summer, rather the album of the summer is Sexuality by Sebastien Tellier. Most notably is the song called Divine.I love to hear it, at any given time of the day.

Sorry to see John's not a fan of Drake's "Best I Ever Had." I think the urban community has already made it the song of their summer thus far. It just moved into the top spot on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs, is already #1 on Best Rap Songs, and is getting downloaded like crazy on iTunes even though you can download it for free along with his mixtape, So Far Gone, at his blog.

By the way, Jaime Foxx's "Blame It" ruled the winter. WAY too early to be the song of the summer. Just heard his latest single, "Digital Girl," which features Kanye and who else? Drake!

"Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear

This feels like summer!!

Along with DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's Summertime, there are two other worthy songs sharing the same title, one by Mungo Jerry and the other by New Kids on the Block. Yes, I said it....

Though neither are new in 2009, both are great, lighthearted poppy songs for enjoying the summer!

it's not current, but "all i ever wanted" by new riders of the purple sage, or what about "what you want," my bloody valentine, or maybe even dirty three's "some summers they drop like flies"

Hi
The Jamies' Its Summertime is from the late 50's but hasn't been surpassed! Thanks.
artie Freedman

i luv the BLACK EYED PEAS!!!!! i honestly don't know what song is better I GOT A FEELING or BOOM BOOM POW!! But i think one of them shoud be named SONG OF THE SUMMER!! I hope the rest of the voters think so 2. thx 4 letting us listeners vote!

GO BLAK EYED PEAS!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi- The Jamies'- It's Summertime. From the late 50's, but hasn't been surpassed! Thanks
Artie Freedman

why are these people on the radio? intelligent, informed people with decent taste don't listen to black eyed peas.

Please, no more hip-hop, at least for the rest of the 21st century.

Best summer song ever:

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie!!!

Why isn't Pitbull's "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" on here. It's blastin' in every car that rolls by in NYC.

Liztomania by Phoenix.

It'll never catch on...but boy is it 100% fun.

OMG. listning to this i'm starting missing "i kissed the girl" from last summer. is it another side effect of global warming?

in my world the song of the summer is "sacred trickster" by sonic youth. it rocks in a hard but breezy, fun way, as only sonic youth can rock. Since for the last 10+ years SY has released their records in the late spring and toured in the summer, for me SY is a summer institution.

So far, there is no summer song greater than "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry (1970). Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is pretty good, though.

Combination Pizza Hut + Taco Bell!

Nice piece on summer songs. I'll nominate "Boys Boys Boys" by Lada Gaga. It's fun fluff with a killer hook, as she's know for. I hope it comes out as a single. It could make for a great music video. I think Paper Gangsta" is another single possibility on The Fame. It's a bit dark, but liberating. Maybe better suited for August or September.