Listen more beautifully: Music touches and makes you creative. Here are the UVA summer hits
Before you all rush off on vacation, we’d like to take the floor again. With a summery, light theme. It’s all about music! Why?
- Music is the medium that works everywhere and at all times without much effort: People are born musically, so to speak; everyone can do something rhythmic and tonal, whether it’s humming or wiggling their bottom. Music connects, everyone can participate immediately. Great.
- Music is a unique carrier of emotions. Every commercial needs music, every jingle does something to us. Every blockbuster would be nothing without great film music. And summer also has its very special soundscape.
- Music helps us creative workers (in summer and winter! ) through many a blockage and inspires us when we are stuck somewhere. I’m sure you feel the same way.
How summer sounds with our UVA music tips
So here are our UVA retro summer hits today, freshly sorted and analyzed in a nutshell. In the categories Weather & Location, Love & Campfire, Vacation & On the Road.
Be inspired by our summer music tips and have a good rest!
Weather & location
- “Summer and the City” by The Lovin’ Spoonful from 1966 literally smells of dusty asphalt roads and the dry heat of the big city. In the middle of the song, cars honk and a jackhammer rattles, and we realize: It’s always been like this and we can still take it today.
- In 1972, Chicago wrote the hit “Saturday in the Park”, which carries a lightness that only exists in summer. An invitation to embrace the world: “People dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream… A real celebration. Waiting for us all”.
- In June 1971, “Riders on the Storm” by the Doors was released. It’s actually about a serial killer who is hitchhiking, but the thunderstorm scenario is the perfect soundscape when the forest fire warning level has been raised again.
Love & campfire
- “Junimond” by Rio Reiser is a hymn to overcoming heartbreak, but always also a hymn to life – under the (Berlin!) summer moon.
- “Hey ya” by Outcast was the summer hit of 2003, it’s also about love, freedom and honesty, there’s nothing wrong with that, so shake it!
- “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon & Garfunkel is ancient, but the feeling of endless summer vacations plus heartbreak hasn’t changed to this day.
Vacation & On the road
- With “Autobahn” (1974), Kraftwerk did pioneering work in the field of synth-electropop. The single takes only three minutes to the next departure, the long version with 22 minutes is for long distances.
- Nina Hagen’s Hiddensee homage “Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen” dates from the same year. In 2021, the song was brought out by former Chancellor Angela Merkel for the Grand Tattoo – who would have thought it?
- From the master of the illusion that everything is easy comes this fantastic song: “Sommer Sonne Kaktus” by Helge Schneider. Summer, sun, cactus // Oh, how nice that would be // But unfortunately here in Duisburg // I have to go to the indoor pool.
No matter where you are: UVA wishes you a great summer. Gershwin was right: “Summertime and the livin’ is easy…”
Do you have an urgent or non-urgent request? We are also there for you in summer.
