Heat records have been broken all across the U.S. in recent weeks.

Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat for the past month or so, while the Northeast has been dipping in and out of excessive temperatures for weeks.

Here in the west, we’ve had a mild summer with below average temperatures for most of the summer. So, it only made sense to us to put together a playlist mix with songs that have the words heat, hot, burn, humid, and so on, in the titles. Yeah, kind of corny, but really it just all comes down to the music.

For folks in the mid-west and the south, there is relief on the way, according to the Weather Channel. Note: Not all of the songs are meant to be literal, but are songs we like that have one of the keywords in them. For example, there are songs with “hot” in the title, but the literal use of the word has more to do with desire and attraction than the temperature.

“Hot Night Hounds” – Annuals

“This Heat” – Generation X

“Beat the Heat” – Woodsman

“Heat Fire” – Vampire Hands

“I Am Warm and Powerful” – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

“Heat & Hot Water” – ARMS

“Warmer Current’s Pull” – Blind Man’s Colour

“Heat Distraction” – Women

“Three Day Heat Wave” – Pony Boy

“Warmer Climes” – Boat Club

“Hot Ones” – Shudder To Think

“Humid Air” – The Moaners

“Hotwax” – Beck

“Hot Math” - Andrew Bird

“You’re So Damn Hot” – OK Go

“Heatwave” – Whalers

“Too Young to Burn” – Sonny & The Sunsets

“Hot Freaks” – Blitzen Trapper

“Hot Bed” – The Whigs

“I Got The Hots” – The Soft Boys

“Burn” - The Cure

“Fast Burn” – Lost Boy

“Hott in Here” (Nelly)” – Beck

“Hot Night In A Cold Town” – John Cougar

“Hot House Of Omagararshid” – The Yardbirds

Bonus Tracks

“Heatwave” - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

“Bubbling Hot” – Pato Banton

“Hot Love” – T. Rex

“Heats” - Kampi

“Hot Mess” – Chromeo

“Mr. Heat Miser” – Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer soundtrack