Hey all!! It's time for my annual "Heat Wave" music thread! Post your favorite "HOT" songs here!

[Coventina]

I'll start with Madonna's cover of "Fever"!!

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PS: Check out Madonna's new album! She remains the QUEEN!!

[Delarage]

1. Billy Idol: Hot in the City

I always think of this one when it is stifling out.....

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[Coventina]

2. The Cure: Hot Hot Hot!!!

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[nocoincidences]

3. Hot town, summer in the city

Lovin' Spoonful

[Shambala]

5. Beat me to it!

[nocoincidences]

7. Only by a few seconds!

Next time I'll let you win!

[Shambala]

4. Summer In The City

Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty

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[Coventina]

6. Bananarama: Cruel Summer

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. Hot Fun in the Summertime

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[Coventina]

9. Diana Krall: So Nice (Summer Samba)

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ETA: corrected link!

[House of Roberts]

10. Relief from the heat. Kool and the Gang.

Superb bass line and sax solo.

Too Hot.

[Coventina]

11. B-52's: Summer of Love

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[blm]

12. Nope. Linda Ronstadt is still the HEAT WAVE Queen.

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[Coventina]

16. She's ok I guess.....AZ native and so we're proud of her.

[Coventina]

13. The Sundays: Summertime

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[Ptah]

14. Dusty Chaps - Heat Stroke

Tucson,AZ band from the 1970's that played mostly original music. From their first album "Honky Tonk Music" on Bandoleer Records (1975)

[Coventina]

15. Duran Duran: Violence of Summer

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[justaprogressive]

17. Hot 'Lanta

[Coventina]

18. Erasure: Too Darn Hot! (Cover of Cole Porter song)

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[Alpeduez21]

19. 1865(96 degrees in the Shade) Third World

[Coventina]

20. Buster Poindexter: Hot Hot Hot!!

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