Oh Hot Damn: These Are My Jams (vol 4: Summer Songs 2000)

Summer is always a great time for music. Those are the songs you make memories to- hanging out at the beach, driving around with your friends, bonfires in your backyard. Summer songs always have the ability to take me back to certain years as if they were yesterday.

I've been making "best of summer" mixes so long, I used to make them on tapes, and I made covers for said tapes by drawing palm trees with markers, scanning them and formatting them in ClarisWorks (remember clarisworks??)

The best thing about these mixes (besides being mildly horrified at some of my choices) is that you can look at them and see the evolution of my musical taste, and also tell what I did that summer. I'm going to post all my lists, one each week, leading up to August when I'll make a list of all my favorite songs from this summer.

I give you my list from 2000. I was 15, and this was a time before ipods (or atleast a time before I had an ipod.) I spent my days babysitting the kids down the street from me and watching TRL with them so they could track the progress of NSync's "It's Gonna Be Me" as it climbed up the charts. I was experiencing the resurgence of my love for Hanson, and the beginning of my love for Eve 6.

The Best of Summer 2000
Everclear: Wonderful
B-44: Get Down
Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg: Next Episode
Lit: Over My Head
Eve 6: Promise
Matchbox 20: Bent
Vertical Horizon: You're a God
Barenaked Ladies: Pinch Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Otherside
Incubus: Stellar
KEF: Hottie Boombalottie (I totally still like this song.)
Papa Roach: Last Resort
Soul Decision: Faded
Hanson: If Only
LFO: Veronica
Christina Aguilera: Come On Over

is that what you call a getaway? tell me what you got away with. [maggie' mix # 2]

I started this mix back in March when I was having a terrible day. Generally speaking, I'm a pretty placid individual. I don't let too much get to me. But every so often, like most of us... something or someone sets me off. So I made this mix as kind of an "f- you" to the things that are making me feel angry! Listen to all these songs and you'll instantly feel like kicking some ass! Check it out:

1. Midtown - Empty Like The Ocean
2. Gym Class Heroes - Peace Sign Up/Index Down
3. The Donnas - Fall Behind Me
4. The Academy Is... - 40 Steps
5. 311 - F*** The Bull***
6. Paramore - crushcrushcrush
7. Taking Back Sunday - Carpathia
8. Lily Allen - Knock 'Em Out
9. Jawbreaker - Face Down
10. Brand New - Seventy Times Seven
11. Alexisonfire - 44 Caliber Loveletter
12. Bayside - Devotion & Desire
13. Pierce The Veil - I'd Rather Die Than Be Famous

There are wayyy more but I'm cutting myself off at 13. Some are more recent additions, others are long-time "f- you" ones (like Brand New's Seventy Times Seven). What are yours?

<3 not pissed off maggie