Patch Asks: What Does Your Summer Sound Like?

The sun is (was) shining, and summer is finally here. 

If you're anything like Redmond Patch editor Caitlin Moran, music is a big part of the season. From the Beach Boys to the Stones, there are some songs that Moran says just put her in the mood for a backyard barbecue or a long road trip.

Moran searched her iTunes collection for the words "summer" and "sun" and came up with quite a few songs—along with several tunes that just remind her of warm weather, for whatever reason. Here's her official summer playlist:

• Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
• The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
• The Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
• Belle and Sebastian: Song for Sunshine
• Chad & Jeremy: A Summer Song
• Cults: Go Outside
• Don Henley: Boys of Summer
• Fleet Foxes: Sun It Rises
• King Harvest: Dancing in the Moonlight
• Mungo Jerry: In the Summertime
• Rilo Kiley: Spectacular Views
• The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man
• Sly & the Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
• Will Smith: Summertime

Here in Sammamish-Issaquah, I came up with a few additions of my own, too.

• Billy Idol, Hot in the City
• The Ataris, Boys of Summer remake
• Caviar, Tangerine Speedo

What about you? What song or artist makes you automatically think of summer? Share your playlist suggestions by clicking the "comment" button and leaving a note below.