Summer Mix, 2011—Heat wave edition

Here is the track list for our 2011 summer cd, the 6^th we’ve made as a family:

Lovely Day--Bill Withers

Eet--Regina Spektor           

Boogie Nights--Heat Wave           

Chic C'est La Vie--Countess Luann

Montezuma--Fleet Foxes

Police On My Back--The Clash

Like A Rolling Stone--Bob Dylan

You've Got a Friend in Me (para el Buzz Español)--Gipsy Kings

Firework--Katy Perry

Dancing Queen--Abba

What a Wonderful World--Louis Armstrong

Thunder Road--Bruce Springsteen

Right as Rain--Adele

Candombe Del Olvido--Alfredo Zitarrosa

The Cave--Mumford & Sons

Sugar Mountain--Neil Young

Town Called Malice--The Jam

Viva La Vida--Coldplay

Maybe I'm Amazed--Paul McCartney

Doña Soledad--Repique

Mountain Greenery--Ella Fitzgerald

Perhaps not surprisingly, Uruguayan music is represented as never before. Of the three kiddie pop songs that emerged after a weekend with our Vermont cousins, Justin Beiber and Taio Cruz didn’t make the cut, but Katy Perry turns out to be a crowd-pleaser. And, in honor of a genius tribute video by one of my husband’s colleagues, we have our first ever track from one of the Real Housewives, Countess Luann. As Izzy (5) says, “It’s silly, but it’s fun to dance to.” Coldplay makes its third appearance, one of only three artists to do so in six years. The other two are Stevie Wonder and Pink Martini. That trio captures, I think, what it is we’re up to here: picking great songs that are fun to share across generations.