DESERT ISLAND TOP FIVE: in the spirit of the fact that winter seems to have given up entirely, as it is practically tropical in Ann Arbor and has been for the past few days (real temperature: 40° or so), and it's been sunny for pretty much the entire month of February (and thus no campus-wide case of SAD), and as there seems to be the immanent danger my life might turn into a Teenage Fanclub album, I think it's high time for the following top 5 best songs about summer:
5. "1979" -Smashing Pumpkins: the sound of you and your friends spending the entire month of August driving around all day looking for something to do and finding nothing (but probably only in high school--no one has that kind of time after that).
4. "Summertime" -DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: somehow, I have a strong emotional attachment to this song despite the fact I've never a. done any of the things mentioned in the song and b. never been any of the places mentioned in the song.
3. "Summertime" -Sam Cooke: everyone has their favored version, and a list wouldn't be a list without it, but I prefer the very clean-sounding hauntingness of this version.
2. "Summertime Rolls" -Jane's Addiction: fell into a sea of grass/ and disappeared among the shady blades. Indeed.
1. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" -Sly and the Family Stone: not any summer I've ever had, but the thought that someone once had one like this is just as good.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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