Summer Soundtrack: Volume 5

Sure, it's not actually summer yet, but it's close enough. Consider this an invocation of sun and blue sky and swimming and a hundred smog free days. This first song is something that we've posted before in a different version, but it demands to be heard again. Hopefully you'll be humming it the next time you're riding your bike through a meadow or an abandoned brick factory. And be sure to buy the Little Wings album Light Green Leaves because it's an ideal summer soundtrack in its own right.

Little Wings - The Way I Deux
For the past few weeks this song has been playing in my head pretty much constantly. The problem with this is that the song demands to be sung out loud, even at the most inappropriate moments: in the rotting fruit market down the street from my house, at that moderately expensive restaurant on the corner, at another band's show during the quiet moments. Luckily my lady-friend has the same problem, so at least it's always a duet.
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Zooey - Endless Summer on the Beaver Island
Summer vacation for Nintendo game school children. Floating down pixelated rivers on rafts and overturned orcs. Drinking from bright yellow chalices. Humming the music from Castlevania.
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Beat Happening - Indian Summer
A friend of mine often recites the first verse from this song in a very serious voice so as to get across the genius of Beat Happening, and to very great effect. Please read aloud before listening: "Breakfast in cemetery/boy tasting wild cherry/touch girl, apple blossom/just a boy playing possum." Now proceed with listening to your new favourite song.
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