"No Sugar Tonight" by The Guess Who
On the day that kicked off my summer, I had just finished writing summer goals with the crew and was on my way to bandit a half marathon for my first time and on a whim. This song was the last song I heard before I got out of my car immediately before running and as a result (as Matt and Katie can attest) this song was stuck in my head the whole 13.1 and 2+ hours of running. "No sugar tonight in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea. No sugar to stand besides me, no sugar to run with me." And that's how my summer started."Grillin' and Chillin'" by Sammy Kershaw
It seems like every summer there's a song someone in our crew plays ironically only to have it catch on and get played ironically until it almost becomes unironic. One year it was "Goin' Up the Country" by Canned Heat, and another year it was Kanye West's "Bound 2." Whatever song it is for a given summer, it always makes its way into some of the videos we shoot and frequently crops up throughout the summer. "Grillin' and Chillin'" rose to notoriety at our summer goals writing party that started with a grillin' and chillin' BBQ, and was inspired by the now-infamous Applebees commercial--and now it's become permanently entangled with my 2019 summer memories."Mrs. Robinson" by The Lemonheads
This cover came from when I went on a man date in Hollywood with one of my favorite guys, John Luna. Although the date got off to a rocky start with our BBQ place being closed in the afternoon for a few hours, the date really started when we got to Amoeba Music to get a random CD to be the soundtrack we'd listen to on our date. That random CD ended up being It's a Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads. I'd say there's roughly one quality song I legitimately enjoyed off the album. Take a guess which one it was."Dream Baby Dream" by Bruce Springsteen
For the first and only time on this list, this isn't a memory I'm going to share with you guys, but it is important. It did originally catch my attention in a nice scene in the movie American Honey, which I randomly watched with Lindsey. Gotta keep the fire burning. Dream baby dream."Ocean Man" by Ween
Okay this one is a little bit harder than the others to explain away. I think the craze started when I read a comment on Reddit where someone mentioned the song, listened to it and laughed, sent it to Dakota, and now a few months later we're still talking about it. Although it wasn't written for Spongebob The Movie, it was reasonably made famous recently by it and it doesn't entirely make sense--but then again, I guess what meme really does."Rivers and Roads" by The Head and the Heart
This song was (probably only in my mind) the theme song of our 47 mile excursion to bike the entirety of the Jordan Parkway Trail in one day. Importantly, the completely paved trail follows the entire Jordan River as it runs from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake and intersects with, at one point or another, basically every important road in Utah. I sung it out loud as we biked, now and then, and when I wasn't singing it, it was stuck in my head. Songs getting stuck in my head seems to be a reoccurring entry into this playlist, but the songs are also usually relevant in other some way, too, so..."James Dean" by The Wrecks
My distinct memory for this song came while sitting in a plane in Alberta, Canada about to take off. When I heard the intro scream and the rocking, self-deprecating yet self-accepting lyrics, I felt a rise in my chest and I listened to it another 2-3 times after it ended. We can't all look like James Dean, but who cares? Also, a fun fact: one of my students recommended The Wrecks to me. Thanks, Hannah."Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)" by Four Year Strong (acoustic)
Here, Lindsey gets her own entry on this playlist since she's an important part of my summer. In a nice moment of flying down the highway to the airport to drop off Cam, this song came on and I immediately recognized it from my times of being friends with Dakota and seeing these guys at Warped Tour, even though I don't listen to these guys much at all."If It Feels Good (The it Must Be)," "River," and "Beyond" by Leon Bridges
With Dakota at the Hollywood Bowl, I saw Leon Bridges in concert and it was a big deal for me. In short, I loved it. Here I've got listed the opener, the closer, and the new song I didn't know beforehand that I fell in love with, which are all memorable in their own right."Because I'm Me" by The Avalanches
This song kept cropping up this summer and it all started with Dakota adding it to our four person roadtrip playlist "A Roadtrip Where We End Up Hating Each Other" as one of his 10 songs. He wanted to delete it to add something else while I happened to be listening to it, and I told him "no."That brings us up to date, but the summer is only half over! Tune in sometime in August for the rest.
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