Everyone needs to have one special tape that has the perfect mix of summer time songs for whatever you do this summer. This tape is versatile, and will match the mood whether you're on the beach, on a road trip, or on an all-night drinking binge at a cottage keg party.

Ignore the urge to make this Mixed Tape into a CD. Fight against the pull of technology - this music is the kind that sounds best after being rewound twenty of thirty times.

Side A
Surfin' USA - the Beach Boys
Low Rider - War
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Paradise City - Guns 'n' Roses
Summertime - Sublime
Is This Love? - Bob Marley
Ocean Man - Ween
The Tide is High - Blondie
Here Comes the Sun - the Beatles
New Orleans is Sinkin' - Tragically Hip
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams (or the cooler Sum 41 cover)

Side B
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Hotel California - the Eagles
California Girls - the Beach Boys
Stir it Up - Bob Marley
The Lines you Amend - Sloan
Been Caught Stealin' - Jane's Addiction
The Pina Colada Song - Jimmy Buffett
California Dreamin' - the Mamas and the Papas
The Scene - Big Sugar
What Would you Say - Dave Matthews Band

If you don't have time to make yourself a Mixed Tape, any albums by the following artists are also acceptable; the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Weezer, the OC Soundtrack and AC/DC.

The following are not acceptable; Backstreet Boys, the Lizzie Maguire Soundtrack, New Kids on the Block, and Smashmouth.

Please listen responsibly, and enjoy your summer vacation!