So a while ago I mentioned that I was taking suggestions for the Most Perfect Beginning of Summer Mix Tape Ever, 2008 Edition, and then utterly failed to follow-up update with the final line-up, since I have also utterly failed to post on or even log into this blog for the past month. Um, yeah. I pretty much rock at blogging.

So—not that it matters in the slightest, but just to maintain a cohesive blog narrative—here it is:

The-Most-Perfect-Beginning-of-Summer-Mixtape-Ever, 2008 Edition (Relentless)

I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You – Black Kids
Polite Dance Song – The Bird and the Bee
She Fell Out – Crystal Castles
Homecoming – The Teenagers
Jump In – High Places
All Over Again – Jay Reatard
Miracle Drug – A.C. Newman
Punk Your Mind – Vampire Weekend (feat. Styles P.)
I Never Needed It Now – The Go! Team
This Sentence – Born Ruffians
Fuck Nicole – The Teenagers
Insane – Grand Ole Party
L.E.S. Artistes (XXX Change Remix) – Santogold
Chamber – These New Puritans
Mr. Agnostic – Born Ruffians
Something I Want (for Real) – RZA feat/Vincent Gallo
Barfight Revolution – Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s
Gypsy March – Grand Ole Party
I Love the Weekend – No Kids
Grip Like a Vice — The Go! Team
Jane Fonda – Mickey Avalon
After Hours – We are Scientists
Tessellate – Tokyo Police Club
Time to Pretend – MGMT

Gotta Get Drunk — Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and George Jones

And I am already on to making the most perfect mid-to-late summer mixtape now ….