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Your
Essential
Summer
Playlist
Nothing says summer like blasting your favorite music. Use our list of songs compiled just for you to make your season rock.
BY GELISH
07.06.23

We polled everyone at Gelish and Morgan Taylor to pull
together the ultimate list of essential summer songs. You
know, the ones that sound like the soundtrack of every pool day, BBQ and days spent in the sun. Rock on!

  • When the Sun Goes Down - Kenny Chesney
  • Good Time - Niko Moon
  • American Country Love Song - Jake Owen
  • Vacation - The Go-Go's
  • Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
  • California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
  • Everybody Love the Summer - Roy Ayers Ubiquity
  • West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
  • Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
  • Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA
  • Kokomo - The Beach Boys
  • Red Red Wine - UB40
  • The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
  • Doin' Time - Sublime
  • Dynamite - Taio Cruz
  • Today Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
  • Boys of Summer - The Ataris
  • Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
  • The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars
  • California Girls - Katy Perry
  • Summertime - The Sundays
  • Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
  • Summit - Skrillex (feat. Ellie Goulding)
  • Cruisin' - D'Angelo
  • Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift
  • Levitating - Dua Lipa
  • What I Got - Sublime
  • Hit 'Em Up - 2Pac
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