Summer In Stereo #14

It's no secret that HERC believes that 1982 is the single greatest year in pop music history.  And eighty-five posts into his Summer In Stereo marathon of 100 Summer Singles, guess which year has been featured the most?  That's right, 1982!  Add the song above to the list and it is even more unanimous.  But "Don't You Want Me" is no ordinary Summer song - it is unquestionably HERC's Song Of The Summer for 1982, besting all other contenders.  

A couple of weeks ago, the soft rock kid, guest contributor and generous friend of The Hideaway, unveiled his year by year Songs of Summer list, one song per year for each year since he was born (including his birth year), with each artist only allowed one song for maximum variety.  After much internal debate, here is HERC's list of the Songs of Summer from each year since his birth that most conjure up Summer for him, many of which have yet to be featured on Summer In Stereo posts yet:

year		song	artist
1966		Good Vibrations	The Beach Boys
1967		Soul Finger	The Bar-Kays
1968		Tighten Up	Archie Bell & the Drells
1969		In The Year 2525	Zager & Evans
1970		Cecilia	Simon & Garfunkel
1971		Draggin' The Line	Tommy James
1972		Summer Breeze	Seals & Crofts
1973		Playground In My Mind	Clint Holmes
1974		The Streak	Ray Stevens
1975		Love Will Keep Us Together	The Captain & Tennille
1976		Rock N Roll Love Letter	Bay City Rollers
1977		Undercover Angel	Alan O'Day
1978		Take A Chance On Me	ABBA
1979		My Sharona	The Knack
1980		Lookin' For Love	Johnny Lee
1981		This Little Girl	Gary U.S. Bonds
1982		Don't You Want Me	The Human League
1983		Little Red Corvette	Prince
1984		Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young	Fire Inc.
1985		Everybody Wants To Rule The World	Tears For Fears
1986		The Edge Of Heaven	Wham!
1987		Wanted Dead Or Alive	Bon Jovi
1988		Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N Roses
1989		So Alive	Love & Rockets
1990		The Humpty Dance	Digital Underground
1991		Unbelievable	E.M.F.
1992		Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover	Sophie B. Hawkins
1993		Come Undone	Duran Duran
1994		Wild Night	John Mellencamp & Me'Shell Ndegeocello
1995		I Got 5 On It	Luniz
1996		Counting Blue Cars	Dishwalla
1997		MMMBop	Hanson
1998		Never Ever	All Saints
1999		I Want It That Way	Backstreet Boys
2000		I Disappear	Metallica
2001		South Side	Moby with Gwen Stefani
2002		The Middle	Jimmy Eat World
2003		Like A Stone	Audioslave
2004		Scandalous	Mis-Teeq
2005		Ohio (Come Back To Texas)	Bowling For Soup
2006		Crazy	Gnarls Barkley
2007		Good Directions	Billy Currington
2008		Paper Planes	M.I.A.
2009		Second Chance	Shinedown
2010		The Only Exception	Paramore
2011		Walk	Foo Fighters
2012		Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye featuring Kimbra
2013		Get Lucky	Daft Punk
2014		All About That Bass	Meghan Trainor

The songs from 2001 and 2004 are not HERC's preferred versions.