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You are here: Home / TV & Movies / Movies / Is this just the devil in me?

Is this just the devil in me?

by DougJ|  July 21, 201110:32 pm| 154 Comments

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Today’s record high temperatures prove conclusively that Al Gore is fat. It also makes me ask: what are the best movies about extreme heat, what are the best songs?

For movies, I’ll go with the divine Body Heat and the great Do The Right Thing. For songs, I’ll go with Heat Wave and, just to get old-school, Too Darned Hot.

What else? Please, no Hot Town, Summer In The City or Smooth.

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  1. 1.

    khead

    July 21, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Do the Right Thing

    Been using ice to cool down since the AC went out…..

  2. 2.

    Lolis

    July 21, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    I have been grooving to Brite Futures, “Dog Eared Summer.” I got it for free on KEXP Song of the Day podcast available on Itunes. I have gotten so many awesome songs there.

  3. 3.

    Jewish Steel

    July 21, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    Or Prince Buster. Take your pick.

    (FYWP for behaving unreasonably)

    Here’s a better recording:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyyRw7IbVQE&feature=related

  4. 4.

    Mike Toreno

    July 21, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    The temperature in Seattle is 58. So there is no global warming.

  5. 5.

    jharp

    July 21, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    100 fucking degrees here today. Indianapolis.

  6. 6.

    Served

    July 21, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Not a movie, but there’s a Twilight Zone episode where the earth is getting pulled into the sun, and it’s hot as hell in an apartment building.

    Best Songs? The musical “In The Heights” takes place during a heatwave in Washington Heights in NYC, and has some great songs and funny quips about the heat.

  7. 7.

    Nylund

    July 21, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    Movies:
    The heat plays a big role in Summer of Sam. I think it may in Dog Day Afternoon as well, but its been decades since I’ve seen that.

    Songs:

    Too Hot (original by Prince Buster or the cover by The Specials)

    Summer in the City by The Lovin Spoonfull

  8. 8.

    ed_finnerty

    July 21, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    key largo
    zulu

  9. 9.

    Bnut

    July 21, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    Canned Heat – Jamiroquai

  10. 10.

    ira-NY

    July 21, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    This. Hot In Here by Nelly.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Mary

    July 21, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    Sly and the motherfucking Family Stone for the motherfucking win: Hot Fun in the Summer Time

  12. 12.

    Paul

    July 21, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    96 Degrees in the Shade by Third World.

  13. 13.

    Jewish Steel

    July 21, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    @ed_finnerty: Ooh yeah. Zulu’s a good call. Those poor bastards all buttoned up in their wool uniforms.

  14. 14.

    Nylund

    July 21, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    I’m stuck in moderation. In case it was all the links…here it is sans links:

    Movies:
    The heat plays a big role in Summer of Sam. I think it may in Dog Day Afternoon as well, but its been decades since I’ve seen that.

    Songs:

    Too Hot (original by Prince Buster or the cover by The Specials)

    Summer in the City by The Lovin Spoonfull

  15. 15.

    Citizen_X

    July 21, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Damn you Jewish Steel for coming up with the same song I had in mind!

    Well. Here’s the Specials’ version.

    ETA: Aggh! Nylund beat me too!

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    @ira-NY: What the hell happened to Nelly? That dude had some all time shit working for a while.
    Hey!! It must be the $$$!!

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 21, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    Not a movie, but there’s a Twilight Zone episode where the earth is getting pulled into the sun, and it’s hot as hell in an apartment building.

    Hey, I thought of the same one. Just saw it a few weeks ago. Pretty much my personal nightmare.
    Almost on topic, there was a chirpy little report on the weather channel this morning about a piece of ice the size of Manhattan breaking off a Greenland glacier. The anchor-bot talked about it in that “can you imagine that?” sing-song voice they usually save for moose swimming in somebody’s pool videos.

  18. 18.

    Darby

    July 21, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    /lurker (Yes, I’ve been haunting the place since before Cole converted)

    Ring of Fire

    That is all.

    \lurker

  19. 19.

    pajaro

    July 21, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    Lawrence of Arabia

  20. 20.

    vtr

    July 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    Steam Heat from The Pajama Game. Thanks for banning Hot Town, though I like John Sebastian. Yes -Sly.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    July 21, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    @ira-NY:

    Second the Nelly song, but c’mon, dude, you gots to have the video. Equally hot.

  22. 22.

    Aries Moon

    July 21, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  23. 23.

    Mark S.

    July 21, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    @ira-NY:

    This.

    No.

  24. 24.

    adolphus

    July 21, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    Either version of Dune comes to mind.

    There was a cheesy Sci-Fi movie back in the 80’s called Ice Pirates.

    I’ll second Dog Day Afternoon.

    Beau Geste

    Lawrence of Arabia

  25. 25.

    Spaghetti Lee

    July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Rhythm of the Heat?

  26. 26.

    serge

    July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    For movie, William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer.” For music, I’ll take Don Giovanni’s descent into hell.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Absolutely Key Largo. And I love, love, love Ella doing Too Darn Hot.

  28. 28.

    Len

    July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Al Gore isn’t fat. Chris Christie is fat.

  29. 29.

    DanR2

    July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    A Time to Kill,, 1996, with Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock all sweating their asses off for the entire 2 and a half hours.

    Donald Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Kiefer Sutherland and Ashley Judd add to the sweatiness.

  30. 30.

    adolphus

    July 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    Plus there were some episodes of Barney Miller that really made me sweat. I think it was the pit stains on the characters, but you could tell they were really hot. The same for some episodes of Hill Street Blues.

  31. 31.

    ed_finnerty

    July 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    only mad dogs and englishman go out in the noon day heat

  32. 32.

    Citizen_X

    July 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Old South, summer, no AC: To Kill a Mockingbird

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    also, too, the Simpsons where they get a pool.
    “Marge, can you make the oven cold?”

  34. 34.

    Anonymous At Work

    July 21, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    Movie: Long Hot Summer
    Song: Under the Boardwalk

  35. 35.

    adolphus

    July 21, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Soylent Green was a hot, sweaty movie, too if I recall. Plus a lot of fire movies like Back Draft and Towering Inferno.

  36. 36.

    Citizen_X

    July 21, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    Sex, Lies, Videotape

  37. 37.

    lamh34

    July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Ummm hello. I see I’m gonna have to represent for R&B soul


    Kool and the Gang “Too Hot”

    Oh and classic hip hop it’s NOT summer until this song is played:

    DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince – Summertime

  38. 38.

    fleeting expletive

    July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    I thought of the Twilight Zone episode as well. Back in the mid 70’s there was some “Summertime” song that I liked, didn’t know the performer. At the record store all I could find was something from Ted Nugent. As I was looking at the album, the store employee came up beside me and said, “Dude, you don’t want that.” Still don’t know who did the song I liked. Glad I passed on Nugent though.

  39. 39.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    @Citizen_X: Or another James Spader classic of doom, Supernova.
    “Oh, I’m coming for you”

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Inherit the Wind. Spencer Tracy, Harry Morgan, Sinatra and a very large Frederick March. Very dated, but I love Spencer Tracy in just about anything.

  41. 41.

    dexwood

    July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Fire – Arthur Brown
    Baghdad Cafe

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Cool Hand Luke

    Obviously.

  43. 43.

    Gromit

    July 21, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    “Barton Fink”.

    John Goodman roaring down that hotel corridor as the walls burst into flames around him.

  44. 44.

    Captain Goto

    July 21, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    Movie: “The Hill”

    Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ossie Davis.

  45. 45.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    July 21, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    Kook and the Gang “Too Hot”

    Gotta run for shelter, gotta ru-hun for shade.

  46. 46.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 21, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    My iTunes just went to Art Blakey’s Moanin’, which also always struck me as a very hot number for some reason.

  47. 47.

    someone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    Best song about the heat? That’s easy, leave it those from New Jersey:

    It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humanity
    Bouncing Souls

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLrw3pkJx4s

    It’s a four-alarm fricasee boy this heat is killing me
    it’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot tonight
    It’s duelling dicks in a deep-fry It’s hot standing next to these other guys
    it’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot tonight
    It’s sweaty snapper in a stir-fry A blazing sun under a red sky
    it’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot tonight

    It’s hot and sexy and it’s wet and the show ain’t even over yet
    How much better can get tonight
    It’s so hot i can’t even think I need some air I need a drink
    Sweaty bodies everywhere down to their underwear tonight!
    My balls are sticking to my leg Pass the 40; sippin’ dregs
    Raise the roof let’s set it off cause we just can get enough tonight!

  48. 48.

    lamh34

    July 21, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    I agree with “Do The Right Thing”. the scene with the ice cube is what I always remember, among other things.

  49. 49.

    Joel

    July 21, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    It’s certainly not better than Body Heat, but Falling Down was okay.

    How about “Summertime” by Sublime/Pharcyde?

  50. 50.

    someone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    As for a movie, Since Barton Fink and Soylent Green have been mentioned I’ll add: Streets of Fire.

  51. 51.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    July 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    How about “Summertime” by Sublime/Pharcyde?

    Great one. Sublime doesn’t get its due, IMHO.

  52. 52.

    honus

    July 21, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    Sahara, with Humphrey Bogart and the original Flight of the Phoenix. Songs Fire by Arthur Brown, Hendricks, and Springsteen and Red Hot

  53. 53.

    Special Patrol Group

    July 21, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    “Barton Fink” is a good call. I would also nominate “Blood Simple,” what with the ceiling fans and the incinerator.

  54. 54.

    Captain Goto

    July 21, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    “Das Boot” comes to mind as well.

  55. 55.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 21, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Oh, and Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil.

  56. 56.

    Captain Goto

    July 21, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    @G & T, #55: Ooohhh, *good* one.

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Springsteen has a lot of summer songs, doesn’t he?
    Barefoot girl sittin’ on the hood of a Dodge/Drinkin’ warm beer in the soft summer rain

    Sandy, the fireworks are hailin’ over Little Eden tonight/forcin’ a light/onto all them stony faces/left stranded on this warm July

    Girls in Their Summer Clothes

  58. 58.

    dr. bloor

    July 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Guilty pleasure: Summer Breeze, Seals & Crofts. Never fails to put me back on the seat of my gold sting-ray in July, riding over to my friend Len’s house.

  59. 59.

    Martin

    July 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Are you guys fucking kidding me?

    A simply sublime song by America’s greatest composer, performed by two of America’s greatest artists ever.

  60. 60.

    JenJen

    July 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    I was just saying yesterday that here in Cincinnati, it was “Do The Right Thing” hot. My real thermometer hit 103 outside today. Freaking miserable and all the Ohio sweet corn I associate with July in the midwest can’t make up for it, either.

  61. 61.

    kd bart

    July 21, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    Bridge On the River Kwai

  62. 62.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    July 21, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Springsteen has a lot of summer songs, doesn’t he?

    Meh, they’re all it’s so hot in Jersey, gonna eat some fried dough with my girl.

  63. 63.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    July 21, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    Bridge On the River Kwai

    I swear to Bieber you and the Cool Hand Luke people are ripping off the sweatiest movie ever debate from the first episode of Cheers.

  64. 64.

    DanielX

    July 21, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    Summertime…..the version by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring one Janis Joplin.

  65. 65.

    JPK

    July 21, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    Every Sergio Leone western.

  66. 66.

    ira-NY

    July 21, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    This oldie. Heatwave by Martha and the Vandellas.

  67. 67.

    trollhattan

    July 21, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    @Martin:

    Now that there’s hard to top.

  68. 68.

    PopeRatzy

    July 21, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Just pull out War – Anthology
    Summer
    Cisco Kid
    L.A. Sunshine
    Low Rider
    Sun oh Son
    Tobacco Road

    War has always been my “begin the summer playlist”

  69. 69.

    Comrade Luke

    July 21, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    62 degrees here in Seattle. One of our local meteorologists ran the numbers, and we’ve been above eighty degrees for 78 minutes so far this year: 12 minutes on July 2, and 66 minutes on July 6.

    Seventy. eight. minutes.

    But hey, almost 19hrs above 75, so there’s that.

  70. 70.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    July 21, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    The China Syndrome.

  71. 71.

    Jason Bylinowski

    July 21, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    Can’t believe noone has mentioned Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire. That whole movie is one big sauna session.

  72. 72.

    Off Colfax

    July 21, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    Movie: C’mon, dudes. Don’t tell me nobody has mentioned the Mad Max movies yet?

    Song: Meatloaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

  73. 73.

    trollhattan

    July 21, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    Audio on this is flat as a board, but as a summertime pop tune it’s hard to beat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVVe1DkVsQ&feature=related

    Double also, too:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSqi_2yaMmc&feature=related

  74. 74.

    Earl Butz

    July 21, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    “Summertime Blues” – any version, haven’t heard a bad cover of it yet.

  75. 75.

    JPK

    July 21, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    @PopeRatzy:
    Yes, and also “All Day Music.”

  76. 76.

    John T

    July 21, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    My favorite music for bringing the temperature down is Jamaican dub reggae, the spacier the better, with lots of “wet” reverb.

    But I live in Portland, Oregon, where we haven’t really had any summer weather yet. Hearing the lamentations of everyone else in the country (outside of the Pacific Northwest) makes me feel kind of grateful for that.

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    @Ol’ Dirty DougJ: I’m the only one who has mentioned it. And I have no idea what you’re talking about.

  78. 78.

    Montysano

    July 21, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    How ’bout a whole album: Stevie Wonder “Hotter Than July”.

    “Cash In Your Face”

    For a movie: “No Country For Old Men”.

  79. 79.

    freelancer (iPhone)

    July 21, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    Volunteers with Tom Hanks and John Candy.

    “Jesus H Christ! We must be a mile from the sun!”

    Also, Sinatra wasn’t in Inherit the Wind, Gene Kelly played E K Hornbeck aka H L Mencken.

  80. 80.

    dedc79

    July 21, 2011 at 11:32 pm

    Summer Babe – Pavement

  81. 81.

    James E. Powell

    July 21, 2011 at 11:34 pm

    The hot parts of Cool Hand Luke.

  82. 82.

    Ben Cisco

    July 21, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    Alex Bugnon – 107 In The Shade
    Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness (This is a long-form live version at the House of Blues).

  83. 83.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    In case no one has mentioned it yet, Cool Hand Luke has some of the sweatiest scenes in all of moviedom.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    July 21, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Oh, I see James E. Powell was thinking along the same lines.
    Cool Hand Luke was a pretty fucking sweaty movie, IMO.

  85. 85.

    Martin

    July 21, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Ok, gotta trump the room here.

    James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party

    Hot tub! Ha! Da!
    Ah-full of water!
    I say hot tub! Ha!
    Day! Ba! Very, very hot… Very hot! Da!
    Hot tub! Gonna get ya hot-a!
    Gonna make ya sweat! Hey! Say!
    Hot tub! Rub a dub in the hot tub!
    Rub a dub with me!

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    July 21, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    Mmmkay, I found a better Cold Sweat vid.

    Maceo!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni5ELUVM2eI&feature=related

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    July 21, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    @Martin:

    My favorite Eddie Murphy bit, evah.

  88. 88.

    dbwhite

    July 21, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    Rockaway Beach

  89. 89.

    Ben Cisco

    July 21, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    Ohio Players – Fire

  90. 90.

    scandi

    July 21, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    If you like opera/musical theatre, there is a beautiful song in Kurt Weill’s STREET SCENE called “Ain’t it Awful, the Heat?”

  91. 91.

    Jewish Steel

    July 21, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    @Martin: Mine too.

    Good Gawd!

  92. 92.

    Quincy

    July 21, 2011 at 11:58 pm

    In the Heat of the Night. Rod Steiger can sweat with the best of em.

  93. 93.

    Geoduck

    July 22, 2011 at 12:00 am

    “Please, no Hot Town, Summer In The City or Smooth.”

    Wow, only two people didn’t listen. I like HT, myself.

  94. 94.

    MikeJ

    July 22, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Hung Up with Summer – Big Star
    Summer – Buffalo tom
    Double Summer – the Chills
    Other Side of Summer – Elvis
    Summer Skin – Death Cab
    Summer song – decembrists
    summerland – everclear
    something wonderful happens in summer – Frank
    Celebrated Summer Hüsker Dü

    Jesus, I’ve got 97 more summer songs in itunes.

  95. 95.

    Cat Lady

    July 22, 2011 at 12:05 am

    Walkabout
    Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Gerry

    Death Cab:
    Summer Skin

  96. 96.

    freelancer (iPhone)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:12 am

    Three Amigos!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHVpJGXZ21o

  97. 97.

    Jack Canuck

    July 22, 2011 at 12:19 am

    Siouxsie and the Banshees, 92 Degrees.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqyVsZGxi0

  98. 98.

    mvr

    July 22, 2011 at 12:20 am

    Burning and Looting.

    Here’s a version:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za01QWLXisQ&feature=related

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    July 22, 2011 at 12:24 am

    Bobbie Gentry’s voice makes this even hotter: “Ode to Billie Joe.”

  100. 100.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:25 am

    Miami Vice had some great episodes on the heat and humdity

    VietNam movies usually focus on the heat (Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Boys in Company C).

    Year of living Dangerously

  101. 101.

    The Dangerman

    July 22, 2011 at 12:27 am

    @Comrade Luke:

    But hey, almost 19hrs above 75, so there’s that.

    I was in Seattle in June; brrrrrrrr. Cold as the Mariners bats.

    Has “Summer Nights” by Van Halen been tossed into the mix?

  102. 102.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:27 am

    Thong scene from Crocodile Dundee

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhKIut9BkNI

  103. 103.

    diakron

    July 22, 2011 at 12:30 am

    Meat Puppets – Flaming Heart

    Lyrics have nothing to do with hot weather but I don’t care. That’s my submission.

  104. 104.

    JGabriel

    July 22, 2011 at 12:34 am

    Best Film About Extreme Heat: Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia, by Hollis Frampton

    .

  105. 105.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:38 am

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Inside Man

  106. 106.

    Citizen_X

    July 22, 2011 at 12:39 am

    Gin and Juice!

  107. 107.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:40 am

    Fahrenheit 9/11

  108. 108.

    Elliecat

    July 22, 2011 at 12:43 am

    Wreckless Eric: I Wish It Would Rain

  109. 109.

    PIGL

    July 22, 2011 at 12:45 am

    One Hot Summer
    Veda Hille, from Spine, 1996.

    There seems to be no YouTube version, but the song absolutley cooks…and the Grass in the City is Catching on Fire. boom taddada boom taddada boom taddada boom.

    “Gravel and sand, I am avalanche land”

    and I wish I could remember for you all the words, or give you some feel for the melodic power of this almost unknown song.

  110. 110.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    July 22, 2011 at 12:54 am

    The Flamingo Kid

    Ya know when you think about it, summer movies really feature summer weather

    while there are coming of age movies set in summer like corvette summer, American Graffiti, Blue Crush, etc., they don’t feature hot weather.

  111. 111.

    FlipYrWhig

    July 22, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Film : Hustle and Flow.

  112. 112.

    dead existentialist

    July 22, 2011 at 12:56 am

    @ 86 Trollhatten
    BOOTSY!!!!

  113. 113.

    Karen

    July 22, 2011 at 1:03 am

    “Hot Child In The City” Nick Guilder
    “Hot In The City” Billy Idol
    “Summertime, Summertime” The Jamies
    Every song by the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean.

  114. 114.

    eemom

    July 22, 2011 at 1:07 am

    1. Hot August night, and the leaves hangin down and the grass on the ground smelling sweet

    2. Helter Skelter in the summer swelter, the birds flew off to the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling faaaaaast

  115. 115.

    eemom

    July 22, 2011 at 1:10 am

    ….how they danced in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
    some dance to remember, some dance to forget

  116. 116.

    eemom

    July 22, 2011 at 1:15 am

    pre Pulp Fiction (long pre) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John:

    Summer lovin, had me a blaaaaaast
    Summer lovin, happened so faaaaast

  117. 117.

    eemom

    July 22, 2011 at 1:18 am

    Night moves
    In the sweeeeet summertime, summertime

  118. 118.

    Handsome Stranger

    July 22, 2011 at 1:21 am

    My all-time favorite summertime heat movie may be Street Scene — an astonishingly great movie considering it was released in 1931. Directed by King Vidor and starring Sylvia Sidney.

  119. 119.

    Brachiator

    July 22, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Not a movie, but there’s a Twilight Zone episode where the earth is getting pulled into the sun, and it’s hot as hell in an apartment building.

    The episode is called “Midnight Sun.”. Great episode, as always with a twist.

    Also, there is a great 1960s British science fiction movie, “The Day The Earth Caught Fire.”

  120. 120.

    dead existentialist

    July 22, 2011 at 1:26 am

    @ eemom
    Heat gettin’ to ya, or are those just the normal hot flashes?

  121. 121.

    BD of MN

    July 22, 2011 at 1:30 am

    Fine. no “hot” threads when the dewpoint hit 88 and the heat index hit 132 on Tuesday in Moorhead, MN which is just across the border from Fargo…. yes, freaking Fargo…

    just for that, I give you “Predator 2” as my hot movie….

  122. 122.

    AnotherBruce

    July 22, 2011 at 1:40 am

    It might have made 68 today in Seattle, thank god it’s beginning to cool down.

    Not to rub it in of course. Enjoy the heat and humidity.

  123. 123.

    Pappy G

    July 22, 2011 at 1:57 am

    Long time lurker here. Agree with everything I know or recognize from above. Just want to throw in Jane Campion’s ‘In the Cut’ – not a great film, but she captures NYC summers in a very visceral way. I also really dig listening to ‘Here Comes the Summer’ by The Undertones when it gets really hot. But, alas, I live in dsease covered Puget Sound. Haven’t had any cause to break it out yet. Which is fine by me. Al Gore is phat.

  124. 124.

    Linkmeister

    July 22, 2011 at 2:13 am

    I can’t kick about Ella & Louis’s version of “Summertime,” nor about Janis’s, but don’t forget Paul Robeson sang it too.

  125. 125.

    JP Stormcrow

    July 22, 2011 at 2:32 am

    “The night was sultry.” — Throw Momma From the Train.

  126. 126.

    Brachiator

    July 22, 2011 at 2:53 am

    People, people….

    Peggy Lee, “Fever.”

  127. 127.

    vawolf

    July 22, 2011 at 2:58 am

    “Hot As Sun/Glasses” from Paul McCartney’s first album (instrumental)

  128. 128.

    hamletta

    July 22, 2011 at 3:10 am

    My all-time favorite summertime heat movie may be Street Scene — an astonishingly great movie considering it was released in 1931. Directed by King Vidor and starring Sylvia Sidney.

    And featuring the gracious and dignified Beulah Bondi adjusting her undies.

    Was just thinking about that shot this afternoon when everything was sticky.

  129. 129.

    barbara

    July 22, 2011 at 5:30 am

    “The Day The Earth Caught Fire” — great sci fi movie from the 60’s, I think. No longer science fiction.

  130. 130.

    stuckinred

    July 22, 2011 at 5:33 am

    Cruel Summer

  131. 131.

    harlana

    July 22, 2011 at 5:50 am

    Not a movie, but The Midnight Sun, which is also one of my very favorite TZ episodes

  132. 132.

    Taylor

    July 22, 2011 at 5:51 am

    Echo “The Day The Earth Caught Fire.” The science in it is total crap, but its depiction of a world melting down, done in that typical understated British fashion, is better than any histrionics by Emmerich.

    The best book on this subject is Ballard’s The Drowning World.

    Also don’t forget Soylent Green, which considers a world dying due to global warming, among other environmental failures. Silly, but now we can see also prophetic. Who knew the human race was too stupid to survive?

  133. 133.

    Tony J

    July 22, 2011 at 6:05 am

    Mickey Rourke. Lisa Bonet. Angel Heart. It’s hot and sweaty and the Devil’s gonna get you in the end.

    And, for the love of FSM, people. Why has no one mentioned Top Gun? Blue skies, aviator shades and that volleyball scene that I can never watch without getting an itch on (not the Marcus Bachmann kind, the other kind) at the very thought of all that sand getting into sweaty crevices.

  134. 134.

    Lisa

    July 22, 2011 at 7:24 am

    Did anyone mention this totally badass episode of The Twilight Zone yet? I fucking love this episode:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun

  135. 135.

    Cat Lady

    July 22, 2011 at 7:43 am

    Seven Year Itch. Can’t believe no one thought of Marilyn’s street grate scene before now. It’s the iconic image of “hot” for all time.

  136. 136.

    Dr. Wu

    July 22, 2011 at 7:53 am

    Billy Joel’s “Borderline” gets an honorable mention for its line “Blackout, heatwave, .44 caliber homicide/the bums drop dead and the dogs go mad in packs on the West Side”

  137. 137.

    Dr. Wu

    July 22, 2011 at 7:55 am

    Oh, and you can forget about any version of “Summertime” other than Billy Stewart’s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrhcQcAJSI

  138. 138.

    Lurking Canadian

    July 22, 2011 at 8:02 am

    I second Angel Heart. Every scene in that movie takes place in a miserably hot room under an ineffective ceiling fan.

  139. 139.

    Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water

    July 22, 2011 at 8:09 am

    124 Linkmeister, et al- so did Peter Gabriel

  140. 140.

    Amir_Khalid

    July 22, 2011 at 8:52 am

    My own candidate for favorite summer song: Sherry Darling by Bruce. “Let there be sunlight, let there be rain, let the brokenhearted love again …” And the Big Man,
    God bless him, is just all over the song with that magnificent horn.

  141. 141.

    Paul in KY

    July 22, 2011 at 9:44 am

    How bout Mungo Jerry’s ‘In the Summertime’?

    Excellent choices up above by all.

  142. 142.

    chopper

    July 22, 2011 at 9:49 am

    dillinger escape plan: “43% burnt”

  143. 143.

    MomSense

    July 22, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Hands down best song is Ella Fitzgerald singing Too Darn Hot.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWW4R1ZBM

  144. 144.

    brantl

    July 22, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Summer in the City was a great fucking song! Dmmmit!

  145. 145.

    Bridget

    July 22, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Siouxsie and the Banshees – 92 Degrees

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqyVsZGxi0

  146. 146.

    Fogeyman

    July 22, 2011 at 10:06 am

    The musical version of “The Rainmaker”: “110 Degrees in the Shade”

  147. 147.

    phein39

    July 22, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Music:

    Pierre Dorge and the New Jungle Orchestra, (So Hot) Even the Moon is Dancing “Suho Ning Samo”

    Movie:

    “Rear Window” — Jimmy Stewart sitting at his apartment’s courtyard window to catch a breeze, watching his neighbors cope (or not) with the summer heat.

  148. 148.

    low-tech cyclist

    July 22, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Why so harsh on the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” ?

    It is one of the quintessential summer songs – you can almost feel the heat rising up off the pavement while listening to it. Terrific song.

  149. 149.

    Gus

    July 22, 2011 at 10:40 am

    Barton Fink.

  150. 150.

    Gus

    July 22, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Oh, and Hot Fun in the Summertime-Sly and the Family Stone
    Long Hot Summer Night-Jimi Hendrix

  151. 151.

    artem1s

    July 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Drunken Angel

    early Kurosawa, post WWII, set in Tokyo slums. Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor who is trying to save everyone. Toshiro Mifune in his first film with Kurosawa steal the show as a mob guy, street tough suffering from tuberculous. Boy was he HOT. He could totally kick James Dean’s ass.

    Come to think of it, a bunch of Kurasawa’s films feature the oppressive heat as a central character. Stray Dog especially.

  152. 152.

    Cube Zombie

    July 22, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    The Day the Earth Caught Fire

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054790/

  153. 153.

    pookapooka

    July 22, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Honolulu exotica band Don Tiki’s “Heat” from their CD “Skinny Dip with Don Tiki” wherein it is claimed soon every place will be tropical.

  154. 154.

    Bo Alawine

    July 22, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    Here’s one:

    Heavy Shift’s 90 Degrees in the shade
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAe7eeNYJc

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