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Breaking news for anyone who’s been sitting at home all-day inside a fridge: it’s hot outside. Like, obscenely, sickeningly stickily, soul-meltingly hot. If, like most of London, you’ve discovered that most of your being is now made up purely of sweat, console yourself by listening to our scorching playlist. Okay, it won’t cool you down, but it might take your mind off the stifling heat for a while.
Click play on the video above, sit back and let the sunny tunes roll. Or skip through to one of these hot little numbers.
Lovin’ Spoonful – ‘Summer in the City’
Roy Ayers – ‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine’
The Specials – ‘Too Hot’
MK – ‘Burning’
Inner Circle – ‘Sweat’
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – ‘Long Hot Summer Night’
Husker Du – ‘Celebrated Summer’
Talking Heads – ‘Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes on)’
Pulp – ‘David’s Last Summer’
Pavement – ‘Summer Babe’
Of Montreal – ‘Oslo in the Summertime’
Nelly – ‘Hot in Herre’
Rico Love feat. Usher – ‘Sweat’
Louis Armstrong – ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’
Chet Faker – ‘Melt’
Katy Perry – ‘Hot n Cold’
Bob Marley – ‘Sun is Shining’
Jungle – ‘The Heat’
Imagination – ‘Burnin’ Up’
Coolio – ‘Too Hot’
Modern English – ‘I Melt with You’
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers – ‘Ice Cream Man’
Bruce Springsteen – ‘I’m on Fire’
Caribou – ‘Sun’
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – ‘Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy’
Billy Idol – ‘Hot in the City Tonight’
Holger Czukay – ‘Let’s Get Hot’
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