We recommend letting the airy vocals (Hynes is joined by Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek on this tune) and sultry sax solo wash over you as you watch the sun sink beneath the waves.

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It’s hard to pick a favorite Lovin’ Spoonful hit, since they managed so many good ones in a few short years.Every time he gets in a car, it’s at once a chance to escape and an affirmation of his fundamental approach to life—reckless, yes, self-destructive, yes, but mostly because he’s so driven to get somewhere, hard as that is. This Blue Album deep cut, however, is all about the joy of surfing, and its ‘you take your car to work, I'll take my board’ a-capella harmonies are the perfect encapsulation of what makes early Weezer so great. A posse of likely lads in shorts and backwards baseball hats, EMF at first glance seemed unlikely candidates for pop immortality. Morrissey – the scrooge of summer – we salute you for this 1986 Smiths classic, urging shy types to come on out of their shells: ‘If there’s something you’d like to try, ask me, I won’t say no, how could I. Sans air-conditioning, the interior of the Supra grew hot and hotter as he flicked through nothing on his phone.

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It was, along with all that, an early triumph for future Britney Spears collaborator and general miracle worker Max Martin. He was acting on one impulse after another, hoping he’d find the right direction while dodging the shit that he’d rather ignore.Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. M. Andrew dropped his skull against the headrest of the driver’s seat, free arm dangling out the open window. A hefty topic for a 1999 chart ditty – but one that still made perfect sense blasting from passing cars or in the backbar at your local indie pit.

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Every time we listen to songs about summer we get carried away in thoughts that either brings back smiles, laughter, or tears.Intense, sweaty, and literally haunting, Summer Sons is the Southern gothic tale of race cars and graduate school I didn't know I needed. It began a long string of surf-and-drag hits for the duo, who later came up with a couple of classics (like “Little Old Lady From Pasadena”) without Brian’s help. Just try not to bop your body when the brass kicks in at the ten-second mark of this jolt of pure pop joy. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom that hungers for him.