In my mind, summer starts the moment I can comfortably drive with my windows down, turn up my favorite songs and sing along with them, alienating everybody else at the stoplight. My summer soundtrack?
Paperplanes M.I.A.
Perfect for driving through the inner city as the sun sets behind the sky scrapers, watching kids jump rope in the street and working on an orange push pop as you merge onto I-94. Every time I hear this song, I feel deeply, deeply hip. Which I am very much not. Sooooo, good job with that M.I.A.
Float On Modest Mouse
This song is meant to be played at 4 p.m. on a Saturday, as everyone is starting to show up for your backyard barbecue. Maybe you are drinking a shandy and putting your veggie dogs on the grill. It is also imperative that this song be played from a stereo that is in the window of your second floor, playing out over the neighborhood as kids bike down the alley.
Free Falling Tom Petty
I'm not sure if you knew this, but Tom specifically designed this song to be used as background music while you make out with your high school boyfriend, during a thunder storm as the electricity goes out. (Based on something a friend actually did!)
The Bucket (As performed by The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra) Now, I love me some Kings of Leon, but there's something much more "Summery" about hearing this song performed by joyfully plinking ukuleles and sweetly harmonizing voices. Probably the best song for dancing on the porch with your friends before you head to bar.
Energy Spent Liam Finn
What? You don't know my boyfriend Liam? Well, you're going to be obsessed with him after this. This is the song you need playing at the lake house you've rented with a huge group of friends. You will hear it echoing out over the water as you stand on the porch drinking a beer as the grill warms up.
What songs are the score to your summer?
Energy Spent Liam Finn
What? You don't know my boyfriend Liam? Well, you're going to be obsessed with him after this. This is the song you need playing at the lake house you've rented with a huge group of friends. You will hear it echoing out over the water as you stand on the porch drinking a beer as the grill warms up.
What songs are the score to your summer?
22 comments:
Paper Planes will forever remind me of LAST summer. I spent six weeks in Paris and my roommate and I listened to MIA's album on repeat. I can't hear it now without feeling like I'm back there (which is a good thing.)
I'm going to have to check out the songs I haven't heard =)
the ukelele orchestra! I was so gutted to miss them at this year's Cuba St Festival.. have you heard their version of Hey Ya!? So uplifting and perk-inducing!
Free Falling, LOVE!
Char! I love WIUO soooo hard! I really love their 'Take On Me' cover. But then who doesn't, eh?
Summertime Clothes, My Girls and Bluish by Animal Collective! Scratch that, all of Merriweather Post Pavillon! Amazing album that does not fail to put me in a fantastic mood.
Might go Mango Pickle Down River by MIA again as well, and some Architecture in Helsinki. Also, Q-tip's Renaissance for the lazy nights!
Mmmm Shandy and veggie dogs. Yes, please.
For me, the entire Colour and the Shape album by Foo Fighters.
Great list! Lets see, a few songs for my list would be ...
Mrs. Jesus by Tori Amos (a good, sunny driving song)
Nightswimming by R.E.M. (full of memories for me)
Today by Smashing Pumpkins (the ideal lazy summer makeout music, ideally played from an unseen boom box)
That Was Your Mother by Paul Simon (back yard barbecue with my family music) :-D
Yes.
Freefalling is such a timeless summer song.
Haha what a coincidence, Float On and Free Fallin' were my grad songs! This pre-summer I've been listening to a long of Beulah, Lynard Skynard, and tonnes of dirty electro-house and dub step. :) Nothing like powerful bass and sunshine!!
OK, I've GOT to steal this Ukulele Orchestra album from youse, missy.
my new ones this summer:
*gimme sympathy- metric
*that's not my name- the ting tings
*shake it- metro station (I work at a summer camp so it's inevitable that I fall in love with some teeny-bopper songs which I then blame on the children...)
*colorado sunrise- 3oh!3
and
*almost anything by the kooks
i like the ukelele orchestra- thanks for posting them!
Definitely Paper Planes! Plus pretty much anything by Kenny Chesney.
Ohhh, I love your choices, missy! I would deffo have Morning Afterglow by Electrasy - love it, and anything by The Pipettes as they make me do twirls in the sunshine. Sigh.
I'm at that point where paperplanes is kind of played out for me...so instead I suggest Boyz or $20 - also by MIA and off the same album.
Another great choice is the newest Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavillion, esp. the song My Girls.
Also I suggest Tiki Taane - I still love Always on My Mind. So good for summer (o:
omg I am loving this version of The Bucket. Great list!! My summer music has lots of KOL, The newest Weezer album, MGMT always, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand. Oh I am so exicted to have my Burton Liquid Lounger playing the tunes on the beach. ;-)
Summer... sigh Here's an oldie for you
Bobby V
Paper planes makes me feel really hip too. Which I am not either.
yes for take on me and more m.i.a, especially jimmy, boyz and xr-2 :D
You're amazing!
I <3 all of these! and can't wait to start organizing my summer playlist... Sublime always makes the cut.
Big ups to new zealand music there! and appropriate too, since its new zealand music month here at the moment (but you knew that already didn't ya!)
um, is it wrong that all I can think of is "man, that girl's butt is AMAZING!"?
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