Essential Spring Playlist
With a calendar’s promise of warm weather, it provided me the opportunity to dust off my personal collection of windows-down, scream-along playlists. I’ve comprised a small list of songs that I turn to when I am confronted with the transition into the warmer seasons.
- Change Your Mind – The Killers
- Going Away To College – Blink-182
- Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
- Wave Goodbye – Humdrum
- Big Me – Foo Fighters
- Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles
- In a Jar – Dinosaur Jr.
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”- Fall Out Boy
- Cherry Flavoured – The Neighbourhood
- She Don’t Use Jelly – The Flaming Lips
- Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
- Float On – Modest Mouse
- Island In The Sun – Weezer
- How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees
- Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
- All I Think About Now – Pixies
- Mardy Bum – Arctic Monkeys
- Long Line of Cars – CAKE
They don’t particularly mean anything, and are mostly nostalgic—inductive of memories of learning to drive, warming up before softball games, and walking to the convenience store down the street from my house with my friends.
This spring is different from the 17 others I’ve previously experienced, in the way that I’m spending it here at UNE instead of at home, in Massachusetts. There’s a strange but exciting feeling that comes with being in a new place, listening to songs with which you associate memories from home.
