Miserable Retail Slave

Summer. 

Just the word alone is enough to make the inner elementary school student in everyone smile. Summer vacation was a time of freedom, slacking off, enjoying the boundless energy that only a three day binge of Mt. Dew and Sour Patch Kids could provide. 

Even though I'm older, it doesn't make Summer any less an enjoyable time. The parties, the bonfires, the sunburns, baseball, beer, beer, beer, the windows open at night, outdoor jogging, the smell of freshly cut grass - these are the things that make Summer such an amazing time.

Everyone knows that there are certain songs that scream "summer" - the songs that remind you of good times and great weather with wonderful people, no matter what time of the year played. These are the songs that you play with the windows down and the music blaring. 

This is your Miserable Retail Slave summer mix. Find these songs on iTunes or elsewhere to assemble the ultimate mixtape. 

Since it's May 1, it's only fitting that we start with Jonathan Coulton's "First of May"

I won't spoil the "surprise" hook to the song for those who have never heard it before. The song begins as a beautifully sung acoustic ode to the end of winter and the beginning of warm weather. By the end of the first verse, the song becomes an extremely catchy ode to...something else. 

Coulton apparently got the idea for the hook of the song from an old schoolyard rhyme. One that I've never heard, but wikipedia never lies, right? 

-RFP