Lobal warming: a heatwave playlist

Is it finally cooling down? Will there be some respite this weekend? Snakes alive, I hope so. In the meantime, I have wakefully and overheatedly indulged in a typical late-night YouTube wild goose chase for some favourite tunes to express the fire within. Hope you enjoy the playlist.

Spoiler alert: does not contain 'Here Comes the Sun' by the Beatles.

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Simple Minds: 'Sweat in Bullet' (Extended Mix)

Belle and Sebastian: 'I Know Where the Summer Goes'

Lise Davidsen: R Strauss, 'Morgen!'

Don Henley: 'The Boys of Summer'

Wolcensmen: 'Sunne'

Girls Aloud: 'Long Hot Summer' (Alternate Version 1)

Paul Esswood, Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies: Glass, 'Hymn to the Sun' from 'Akhnaten'

Siouxsie and the Banshees: 'Melt!'

Rick Wakeman: Main Theme from 'The Burning'

The Beach Boys: 'The Warmth of the Sun'

The Human League: 'Being Boiled'

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / André Previn: de Falla, 'Ritual Fire Dance'

Sieben: 'Ogham the Sun'

Shirley Horn: 'The Sun Died'

Julian Cope: 'Sunspots'

Gundula Janowitz: Schubert, 'An Die Sonne'

The Cure: 'Hot Hot Hot!!!'

Peter Gabriel: 'Steam'

Lee Morgan: 'Fire'

Emmylou Harris: 'Hot Burrito #2'

Cream: 'Sunshine of Your Love'

Nina Stemme: Wagner, Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, 'Götterdämmerung'

Spotify version (less a couple of tracks I couldn't find...)