Face Melting Action

It’s mid-May and there are occasional days with sunny bits in between the endless rain that is a Pittsburgh Spring (also fall and the warmer parts of winter and fuck, most of summer too, but still…SUMMER!), and that means it’s finally time for me to come up with a new Summer Driving Playlist.

This means, of course, that I need to lay SUMMER PLAYLIST ‘09 - ‘10 to rest, and posting it to Tumblr seems as good a way as any.

As can be seen, my summer jams (especially for driving) are usually less of the lazy/hazy/shimmery type and more “songs that someone driving next to you might look at you funny for loudly belting through an opened window”.

1. Punk Rock Girl - Dead Milkmen
2. I’m a Pretender - The Exploding Hearts
3. Town Called Malice - The Jam
4. In The Street - Big Star
5. Constructive Summer - The Hold Steady
6. Interplanet Janet - Man or Astroman?
7. Don’t Stop Believin’ - Marnie Stern
8. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
9. Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
10. Miss Teen Wordpower - The New Pornographers
11. Chrissie Kiss The Corpse - Of Montreal
12. More Bad Times - Presidents of the United States of America
13. My Boyfriend’s Back - The Raveonettes
14. The Underdog - Spoon
15. Me and Mia - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
16. Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco
17. The Punks are Writing Love Songs - Tullycraft

It’s definitely of a few years ago (and even was when I made it really), but I think it can still serve well. I need to move on just because I’ve listened eleventy billion times, but I’ve thrown it together in a zip file in case anyone else can make use of it as the weather gets better.

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