Artist	Song
Ramones	I Don't Want to Grow Up (Tom Waits)
Smithereens	A Girl Like You
Radiohead	Nobody Does It Better -Live (Carly Simon)
Echo & the Bunnymen	Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
Roxy Music	Love is the Drug
Sugarcubes	Birthday
They Might Be Giants	Toddler Hiway
Johnny Cash	Boy Named Sue
Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Sugar Daddy
Magnetic Fields	Papa was a Rodeo
David Gray	Gathering Dust
Martin Sexton	Freedom of the Road
Kate Bush	Rocket Man (Elton John)
Johnny Cash	Sunday Morning Comin' Down
Nina Simone	Sinner Man
George Harrison	My Sweet Lord
R.E.M.	Find the River

Comment:

This mix was created for the Burn Baby Burn blogger swap (http://www.encorswish.com/burnbabyburn/index.htm). The goal was two fold: include songs that reminded me of summer (as required by the swap...I admit some are a stretch, but if I could picture myself singing the song at the top of my lungs with the windows and sunroof of my car open, I could include it) and the songs had to be related to the themes of by blog Being Daddy (www.beingdaddy.com). Some comments:

1) GET UP - REM..."Get up...sleepy head"...I'm often singing this in the morning as I go in to get my daughter up. I just noticed that this didn't upload from the playlist...This should be listed as the first song.

2) RAMONES "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"...For obvious reasons, plus a Tom Waits song. How cool?

3) SMITHEREENS - "Girl Like You"...I remember seeing The Smithereens at the 102.7 beack party in Asbury Park one early summer...also a song played regularly on the formerly great Jersey Shore radio station, FM106.3.

4) RADIOHEAD "Nobody Does It Better"..."Baby, you're the best."

5) ECHO AND THE BUNNYMAN "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo"...Snug as a bug in a rug...I have fond memories of seeing these guys with New Order at Jones Beach somewhere around the summer of 1988...

6) ROXY MUSIC "Love is the Drug"...I've been saying to people that if we knew parenthood was going to be this good, we'd have done it long ago.

7) Sugarcubes "Birthday"...The summer of 1988 I was lifeguarding and I remember reading a Rolling Stone article on this new band, The Sugarcubes. I went out the next day and bought the album from Sam Goodie where my friend Tommy worked. I think he charged me about 4 buck for like five CDs I bought. Obviously, 'birthday' now has new meaning for me.

7) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS "Toddler Hiway"...Again, for obvious reasons. Also, however, I saw these guys (again, summer 1988) a few months after their first album came out at this tacky supper-club in New Jersey called Club Bene. There were about 30 people there and I had to leave early to be home for my curfew.

8) JOHNNY CASH "Boy Named Sue"...Oh the terrible ways I'm going to embarrass my daughter.

9) Hedwig and Magnetic Fields...Okay, I only included these because they included the words "Daddy" and "Papa" in their titles. That and there great songs. Hedwig is currently in the most frequent rotation on my CD player.

11) DAVID GRAY "Gathering Dust"..."I'm too young to settle down and make a home..." Every once in a while it does feel a bit like this...but...

12) MARTIN SEXTON "Freedom of the Road"...but then the feeling passes..."I've had enough of this freedom of the road..."

13) KATE BUSH "Rocket Man"...I hate the Elton John version, but this cover is just "space-y" enough to work. "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise the kids..." Indeed.

14) JOHNNY CASH "Sunday Morning Comin' Down"..."In the park I saw a daddy with a laughing little girl that he was swinging..."

15) NINA SIMONE and GEORGE HARRISON...Two songs about The Big Daddy...

15) REM "Find the River"...To bring it full circle, we sing this to our daughter as a lullaby..."Hey now little sleepy head..."

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