Summer is slipping away, and last week, we gave you seven things your family’s gotta do before it’s gone for good. Besides back-to-school shopping (don’t hate, you know you love fresh blank notepaper as much as we do), we suggested your family create a summer 2010 time capsule. Your capsule could be stashed away, ready to be pulled out on a moment’s notice when you’re shivering through the winter and need a little sunshine.
Here’s another way to capture those hazy, lazy days of summer even when it’s gray and frigid outside: a playlist of sunny summer songs. It was curated by the coolest DJs we know: our Facebook fans. Spin this playlist in the depths of December and you’ll swear you feel sand between your toes.
Bunchland’s Summer Playlist
1. Billie Holiday “Summertime”
2. Desmond Dekker “Israelites”
3. B-52′s “Roam”
4. Nick Heywood “Fantastic Day”
5. James “Laid”
6. Bob Marley “Mellow Mood”
7. Chad and Jeremy “A Summer Song”
8. Beach Boys “Kokomo”
9. Foghat “Slow Ride”
10. Otis Redding “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay”
11. Jimmy Cliff “I Can See Clearly Now”
12. Roy Ayers “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”
13. Len “Steal My Sunshine”
14. Bill Withers “Lovely Day”
15. Bran Van 3000 “Astounded”/”Drinking in L.A.”
16. John Mellencamp “Jack and Diane”
17. Musical Youth “Pass the Dutchie”
Bonus track: Arcade Fire “We Used to Wait” (check out the interactive short film created to accompany this song, which lets you enter the address of your childhood home and have it appear in the video via the magic of Google Street View)
Photo by sholden via Flickr.
