Hello all!

What are your favorite summer type VGM tracks? Or tracks you associate with a nice summer breeze while the sun is shining?

I'll start:

Desert Flower - Tales of Symphonia
Powell - Seiken Densetsu 3

Tales of Phantasia - Desolate Road: This one's slightly less "happy bouncy bright sunny day" and more "slow contemplative walk through the countryside in summer".

Gensou Suikoden III - Beautiful Grasslands: Similar to the above.

*cheats and types "grass" into search field*

Chrono Cross - Time's Grasslands - Home World: This song is pretty sunny + tropical.

Two come to mind which are a little tropical and thus summery:

Jump in Hawaii! - Jumping Flash 2
Palmtree Party - Sonic CD (US)

I'll give the obligatory nod to Costa Del Sol from FFVII, but my numero uno summer tune of all time is the music from Delfino Plaza (Mario Sunshine). And, yes, I do realize that's a 30 minute long version.

"Whoa I'm In Space Cuba" -- virt's Mighty Switch Force OST

I associate half of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack with summer, but this is due more to personal association than to anything intrinsically summer-y about the soundtrack.  For one thing, I played Chrono Trigger right when it was released in the summer of 1995.  For another, I imagine that it's summer in Crono's time; the Millennial Fair feels like a summer festival to me.

Genso Suikoden IV - La Mer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LVViFSSXY

Pretty much the entire Outrun soundtrack. Both the originals...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56uc-9Ud … ABLW-yxKaU

(The first clip that plays and the two that follow)

And the original arrangements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsM-3tR- … ABLW-yxKaU

(The first clip that plays and the two that follow as well)

The arrangements are perhaps more obvious--I suppose your mileage may vary (see what I did there)--but for me, not only do the originals also seem to innately have a summer sound to them, but I associate them with summer vacations on the beach, back in a time where arcades were ubiquitous--and every other 7-11, sub shop, and ice cream parlor had Outrun tucked in the corner. Even the arrangements remind me of the live music the wafting from the outdoor restaurant & bars...

A great many Sega arcade soundtracks give me that summer feeling for all the same reasons, but these are always on my music player during the summer.

Oh, and apparently, there's an 11-disc Outrun soundtrack set. How 'bout that.