I Can’t Dance springs to mind because of the video, as does Misunderstanding. I’ve just woken up so need to ponder older tracks without videos. Good thread though!
Mama, again partly the video but also the live performances suggest very hot weather.
Illegal Alien suggests a hot climate to me, which is not the same as summer, but the unfortunate accent adopted by Phil reinforces that along with the images used and the live performances etc.
Invisible Touch has a little of the ‘summer-y’ feel with its hook and MTV gloss, but the lyrics are not ‘summer-ish’.
Again, That’s All perhaps the brightest, most ‘summer’ feel to it, but the lyrics don’t quite match.
Reminds you of how ‘autumnal’ and wistful a lot of Genesis music is.
Hard agree that Genesis are much more of a winter/autumnal band. Very few tracks in their catalogue that could be called a summer song at all but if i was to stretch iiit:
Jesus He Knows Me
Misunderstanding
IKWIL
Counting Out Time
It
Illegal Alien
Paperlate
On the Shoreline
Mad Man Moon.
"Was it summer when the river ran dry
Or was it just another dam
When the evil of a snowflake in June
Could still be a source of relief"
I was also going to say Mad Man Moon. Heathaze is the other one that comes to mind.
I have no idea why Jesus He Knows Me reflects 'summer'. I Can't Dance, yes. IKWIL has that feel about it. To me the entire Lamb album takes place in a very hot New York summer.
Harlequin:
QuoteThrough the flame still summer lingers on Though her pictures soon shatter.
QuoteDisplay MoreDriving the last spike:
Driving the last spike
Lifting and laying the track
With blistering hands
And the sun burning your back
And my final pick - one that describes the UK!
Uncertain weather:
QuoteA day of uncertain weather
Captured in a frame forever
A face in a faded photograph
You Might Recall
Second Home by the Sea.
Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
Things that go to make up a life
Endless days of summer longer nights of gloom
Just waiting for the morning light
Scenes of unimportance like photos in a frame
Things that go to make up a life
As we relive our lives in what we tell you
You Might Recall
Definitely get end of summer vibes from that and Like it or Not
Agree with all the above, but Heathaze is the most evocative for me. Strangely, I love the song but it's my least favorite season.
Driving The Last Spike, Throwing It All Away, Misunderstanding, I Can't Dance, Way Of The World, Invisible Touch, The Brazilian, Home By The Sea (but in version with 1992), Follow You Follow Me, Illegal Alien, Paperlate.
Display MoreMad Man Moon.
"Was it summer when the river ran dry
Or was it just another dam
When the evil of a snowflake in June
Could still be a source of relief"
I bought the album A Trick of the Tail in July 1976, just after I left school, and played it constantly through the next months.
In the UK, the summer of 1976 was long and hot, and many parts of the country suffered from a severe drought, so A Trick of the Tail, and especially Mad Man Moon, always evoke memories of that (for me) wonderful summer before going off to university.
Italian Compilation Summer 1982.
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/12247979-Various-Saint-Vincent-Estate-82
Genesis- Paperlate. 
I guess it ís just me, but just because a lyric mentions 'summer' or 'sun' doesn't make it emblematic of summer, particularly in the case of Driving the Last Spike. The line 'endless days of summer' in HBTS doesn't mean the whole song takes place in summer.
I guess it ís just me, but just because a lyric mentions 'summer' or 'sun' doesn't make it emblematic of summer, particularly in the case of Driving the Last Spike. The line 'endless days of summer' in HBTS doesn't mean the whole song takes place in summer.
No, it's not just you.
I find it amusingly baffling that given Spike's traumatic subject matter anyone could listen to it and feel it's suggestive of summer. But then I'm all for everyone interpreting art however they feel.
With HBTS it seems the mere mention of 'summer' is enough for some to make it a contender for a "Genesis summer song". It reminds me of someone who disputed my description of Not One Of Us as being about people being 'othered' and insisted "it's obviously about blind people" (because of the line "... in the land of the BLIND")
I'm interested by views on other songs that don't necessarily mention a season but obviously have a feel that somehow evokes a season for some. You Might Recall doesn't feel summery to me but I kind of get why some do feel it.
I'm struggling to think of any Genesis songs that evoke any season. Rooftops certainly has an autumnal/wintry feel.
The whole of Signals by Rush has a summery feel for me simply because I listened to it incessantly during the hot summer of 1983.
You Might Recall:
Everyday seems summertime
The river flow with wine
When you were here with me
I wish we'd stayed that way forever.
