Side A
Artist	Song
The Kinks	Education
Supertramp	School
Paul Simon	Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
Elton John	Teacher I Need You
Steel Pulse	School Boy's Crush
The Kinks	I'm in Disgrace
The Beach Boys	Be True to Your School
Ten Years After	Good Morning Little School Girl
The Kinks	The First Time We Fall in Love
Paul Anka	Sealed With a Kiss
Alice Cooper	School's Out
Cream	I Feel Free
Percy Faith	Theme from "A Summer Place"
The Beach Boys	Fun Fun Fun
Jimi Hendrix	Long Hot Summer Night
The Who	Summertime Blues
The Zombies	Summertime
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Don Henley	The Boys of Summer
Frank Sinatra	Summer Wind
Dar Williams	The End of the Summer
Deftones	Back to School (abridged)
Bare Naked Ladies	Grade 9
Elvis Costello	Chemistry Class
Brownsville Station	Smokin' in the Boys' Room
Fountains of Wayne	Too Cool for School
The Kinks	The Hard Way
The Kinks	The Last Assembly
Vitamin C	Graduation (Friends Forever)
Elvis Costello	Welcome to the Working Week
David Allan Coe	Take This Job and Shove It
James McMurtry	Where's Johnny
Cheap Trick	Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School
The Kinks	School Days
Jethro Tull	Teacher

Comment:

2CDs 120 minutes

I Will Be Good

For all the students and teachers out there.

Better than the anticipation of Christmas, or any other single day, the anticipation of school's end and summer's start is a very heady feeling for students and teachers alike. Thinking about this transition from school into summer brought about the idea of doing a song cycle from school to summer, back to school, transition to the world of work, disillusionment, and the descent (heh, heh) into dirty-old-manhood.

I want to throw a HUGE nod to the Kinks, whose theme on Schoolboys was taken and expanded upon. I used most of that album. It was a major favorite in college. Apologies if any die-hard Kinks fans are offended.

I've always loved James McMurtry's song of too-early success and the concomitant later failure of early potential. It fits in very well here. Also, I was quite happy to stumble across the Deftones track. That song is imo the perfect aural representation of sand in the grinding psychic gears that accompanies the realization that a student very shortly actually does have to be back in school.

Not wanting to close on a wistful, nostalgiac note, I added the forward-looking Jethro Tull coda to what could have been a completed mix. Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. Enjoy the mix!

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