I tried to have this ready to
release on the day of the summer solstice.
Only 2 days late! The playlist is
good to either shuffle or listen top to bottom.
Soon I will have all the audio files available to download via
dropbox. Hold on tight!
“Up Up Up” kicks off the playlist
because it reminds me of a specific moment last summer: 2 in the afternoon at Lollapalooza, perfect
weather, good sized crowd, beach balls in the air, and Givers absolutely killed
it from the first note they played. I
don’t normally dance to music, but I couldn’t stop when they played! The next 5 songs echo that sort of
energy. “Afraid of Summer” takes things
in a more sentimental direction for the next few songs. “Green Garden” begins a group of 6 songs that
have more influence from funk, jazz, R&B, and electronic dance music. “Such Great Heights” provide a great
transition into the next batch of more alternative/punk songs. It was originally an electronically
influenced song, but in the hands of Streetlight Manifesto it becomes an
incredible ska anthem. “Swing Lo
Magellan” softens things up into a folk/country/bluegrass direction. After the incredible climax of “The Ocean”,
the playlist ends gracefully with an afterthought at the camp fire: “Blue Spotted Tail”
1.
Givers,
“Up Up Up”
2.
Anberlin,
“Autobahn”
3.
The
Lonely Forest, “(I Am) The Love Addict”
4.
Alt-J,
“Dissolve Me”
5.
Patrick
Watson, “Into Giants”
6.
Sigur
Ros, “Gobbledigook”
7.
Lost
Lander, “Afraid of Summer”
8.
Ramona
Falls, “Helium”
9.
Sigur
Ros, “Hoppipolla”
10. Jim James, “A
New Life”
11. Laura Mvula, “Green
Garden”
12. Frank Ocean, “Sweet
Life”
13. Derrick Gardner,
“We Jazz June”
14. Daft Punk, “Get
Lucky”
15. Justin
Timberlake, “Suit & Tie”
16. Flying Lotus, “The
Nightcaller”
17. Streetlight
Manifesto, “Such Great Heights”
18. Sum 41, “Summer”
19. Goldfinger, “Superman”
20. Less Than Jake, “Dopeman”
21. The Starting
Line, “Left Coast Envy”
22. Dirty
Projectors, “Swing Lo Magellan”
23. John Denver, “The
Eagle and The Hawk”
24. The Picketts, “Baba
O’Riley”
25. Steve Martin
& The Steep Canyon Rangers, “The Great Remember”
26. Aoife O’Donovan,
“Beekeeper”
27. John Butler, “The
Ocean”
28. Fleet Foxes, “Blue
Spotted Tail”
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