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| I Can't Wait for Summer, I Can't Wait for June |
I've been hankering for summer, a distinct body ache for sunshine gnawing at me on cloudy days. This is a mix to get me through to summertime, to aid school year recovery and spark my dreams for next year. It's a mix with a lot riding it, and oh,
I cannot wait for summer,
I cannot wait for June,
When all the ghosts are quiet,
and everything is new.
To be refreshed, to shake off sorrows, to turn my face to the sun.
Embedded below is a playlist of "I Can't Wait for Summer" for your listening enjoyment.
Brief commentary follows.
"A dreaded sunny day" ;) Catchy, up-tempo, great lyrical fun.
This song is warm like a summer night, atmospheric and tender.
O Nostalgia!- coming of age: the guilt of our parents, the ground we walk on, the freedom we hope to achieve.
This Beach Boy's song descendent has an exuberance that get's me shouting with the "Yeah!"s and the "Woo!"s every time. Undeniable.
6. "Love is Stranger" by Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams is one of the first cds I bought as a teen. Annie Lennox; she gives the icy stare then lets that amazing voice of hers drag ya in.
One of my favorite Clash songs, vocal by Mick Jones. Most danceable critique of the isolated lives modern culture creates? Oddly jubilant considering the lyrical content.
Vocal by Carl Wilson, one of the sweetest voices to grace pop music.
I won't lie, the first time I heard this song was when it was attached to the movie Free Willy. The vulnerability and love emanating from this song can make me cry every time I listen to it if I let myself. I love MJ's vocal on this track- he starts in an open mezzo-piano and by the end of this song has pushed his voice to the other end of the spectrum. The pop-song choir can't be employed better than here!
This song sounds like summer. There's a haze to the edges of it that warmth, sunshine, and being with someone special create.
Liam swagger, rock 'n' roll delicious.
The desire for connection is an oft visited theme for James, a band that produces cool lyrics by the dozen. You can read 'em here.
Arcade Fire turns it up to 11! Loneliness is part of summer, too.
This song, while seemingly about nothing (I did Google Marat bathing, though), is contagiously happy.
Days can run into one another when the sun is shining...
This song was released as a single only. Banshees' brand fusion of strings and rock, John McGeoch guitar. Sonic fireworks!
The hot stickiness of this song is very Miami...the keyboard floating menacingly above the song is a bright, hot sun hanging on the edges of a polluted sky.
To be refreshed, to shake off sorrows, to turn my face to the sun.
Embedded below is a playlist of "I Can't Wait for Summer" for your listening enjoyment.
Brief commentary follows.
1. "I Can't Wait" by Twin Shadow
The song that inspired the mix! I think the first stanza is an incredible description of what I feel at the end of every school year.
The song that inspired the mix! I think the first stanza is an incredible description of what I feel at the end of every school year.
2. "Cemetry Gates" by The Smiths
"A dreaded sunny day" ;) Catchy, up-tempo, great lyrical fun.
3. "Shed Your Love" by The Helio Sequence
This song is warm like a summer night, atmospheric and tender.
4. "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins
O Nostalgia!- coming of age: the guilt of our parents, the ground we walk on, the freedom we hope to achieve.
We don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
5. "Where I'm Going" by Cut Copy
This Beach Boy's song descendent has an exuberance that get's me shouting with the "Yeah!"s and the "Woo!"s every time. Undeniable.
6. "Love is Stranger" by Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams is one of the first cds I bought as a teen. Annie Lennox; she gives the icy stare then lets that amazing voice of hers drag ya in.
7. "Lost in the Supermarket" by The Clash
One of my favorite Clash songs, vocal by Mick Jones. Most danceable critique of the isolated lives modern culture creates? Oddly jubilant considering the lyrical content.
I wasn't born so much as I fell out
Nobody seemed to notice me
This is the story of a lot of kids lives. This song may be the topic of conversation on TSMM on another occasion. Nobody seemed to notice me
8. "Please Let Me Wonder" by The Beach Boys
Vocal by Carl Wilson, one of the sweetest voices to grace pop music.
9. "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson
I won't lie, the first time I heard this song was when it was attached to the movie Free Willy. The vulnerability and love emanating from this song can make me cry every time I listen to it if I let myself. I love MJ's vocal on this track- he starts in an open mezzo-piano and by the end of this song has pushed his voice to the other end of the spectrum. The pop-song choir can't be employed better than here!
10. "Strawberry Swing" by Coldplay
This song sounds like summer. There's a haze to the edges of it that warmth, sunshine, and being with someone special create.
Now the sky could be blue
I don't mind
Without you
It's a waste of time
11. "Roll With It" by Oasis
Liam swagger, rock 'n' roll delicious.
12. "Say Something" by James
The desire for connection is an oft visited theme for James, a band that produces cool lyrics by the dozen. You can read 'em here.
13. "Empty Room" by Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire turns it up to 11! Loneliness is part of summer, too.
14. "We Walk" by R.E.M.
This song, while seemingly about nothing (I did Google Marat bathing, though), is contagiously happy.
15. "Your Cloud" by Tori Amos
The Western concept of "separate" is not shared by all cultures.
The Western concept of "separate" is not shared by all cultures.
If the rain
Has
to separate from
Itself
does it say
"pick out your
cloud?"
If there is a Horizontal Line
that runs from the MAP
off your body straight through
the Land shooting up
right through my heart
Will this Horizontal Line
when asked, know how to find
Where you end
where I begin
"pick out your
cloud"
Has
to separate from
Itself
does it say
"pick out your
cloud?"
If there is a Horizontal Line
that runs from the MAP
off your body straight through
the Land shooting up
right through my heart
Will this Horizontal Line
when asked, know how to find
Where you end
where I begin
"pick out your
cloud"
16. "These Are the Days" by Paul Westerberg
Days can run into one another when the sun is shining...
17. "Fireworks" by Siouxsie & the Banshees
This song was released as a single only. Banshees' brand fusion of strings and rock, John McGeoch guitar. Sonic fireworks!
We are fireworks – slowly, glowing
bold and bright
We are fireworks – burning shapes
into the night
bold and bright
We are fireworks – burning shapes
into the night
18. "Miami" by U2
The hot stickiness of this song is very Miami...the keyboard floating menacingly above the song is a bright, hot sun hanging on the edges of a polluted sky.
19. "Never My Love" by the Association
Classic, yearning love song that resonates with as much power today as it did yesterday.
Classic, yearning love song that resonates with as much power today as it did yesterday.
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