during the week while i’m driving to work (pretending i’m going to the beach) i listen to my summer playlist. nonstop. i’m the kind of person who gets easily frustrated by radio commercials or songs i don’t like on the radio. you wouldn’t think it’s a bad quality to have, but i start to freak out a tad bit when i can’t find songs to listen to. although i love when one of my favorite songs plays on the radio, sometimes the wait isn’t worth it. instead i turn to my summer sounds (so cheesy), and they keep me calm enough to not enter another state of mind, road rage.

1. pompeii by bastille

2. cowboy boots by macklemore & ryan lewis

3. unbelievers by vampire weekend

4. american pie by don mclean

5. drunk in the woods by walk the moon

6. wagon wheel by old crow medicine show

7. the walker by fitz & the tantrums

8. sweet home alabama by lynyrd skynyrd

9. i will wait by mumford & sons

10. i’m gonna be (500 miles) by the proclaimers (i tend to scream, not sing, this one)

11. something i need by onerepublic

12. alive by empire of the sun

13. safe & sound by capitol cities

14. carried away by passion pit

15. counting stars by one republic

16. tightrope by walk the moon

17. home by edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros

18. ho hey by the lumineers

19. born in the usa by bruce springsteen

20. on top of the world by imagine dragons