Colleen's Feet-in-the-Sand Music

I cannot express how difficult it is to choose songs to take along for the ride.

That special list of songs you want to listen to at the beach as you relax away the entire year of working the 9 to 5 grind.  It's even more difficult when your music taste is significantly more bitter ~or sweeter~ than those who will share your beach towel at the lake.

I rely on memory of the songs I love to listen to over and over again yet, my memory is fading, my repertoire is building.  How does one possibly choose?   You can't.

I'm disgusted with myself.  Not one Pink Floyd song.  No Elton John.  No U2.  What the fuck is wrong with me?  Why am I picking Amy Winehouse?  I wasn't really into her stuff, don't even know much about her.  Yet she made the list.  Michael Jackson didn't.  Neither did the Rolling Stones and not one goddamned Queen song.  And I was their biggest fan !

I've got Australian Crawl though, you know, their hit "Reckless".   Of course you don't.  I wanted to add some opera but I think I may cross the line there and create needless controversy as to "who spilled the drink" as a dive is made into the OFF button.  I am constantly running around with those *future thought* bubbles above my head.

I did my best.  I was warned I have limits as to how many songs I can "spotify" by my daughter, thusly:  "an audio streaming platform that provides DRM-protected music and podcasts from record labels and media companies."  I am assuming from them to YouTube to eventually my little ole blog.  Apparently it's time consuming to create playlists from one platform to another.  Oh, golly gee, if only some brilliant, pimply faced 15 year old out there could program such a solution to this dilemma.  

Well, here it is, folks.  My final final list, in no favorite order:

Coldplay:  Clocks & Fix You.
Audioslave:   Like a Stone
Hot Hot Heat:  Middle of Nowhere
Australian Crawl:  Reckless
Joe Walsh:  In the City
Collective Soul:  The World I Know
Tina Turner:  River Deep, Mountain High
Spoons:  Romantic Traffic
Eddie Vedder:  Hard Sun
Donnie Iris:  Ah Leah
Chilliwack:  Lonesome Mary
Smashing Pumpkins:  Disarm & Tonight Tonight
Stone Temple Pilots:  Sour Girl
Foster the People:  Pumped up Kicks
Adele:  Someone Like You & Hello
Gino Vannelli:  Wild Horses
Cage the Elephant:  Read to Let Go & Whole Wide World
Rhianna:  Love on the Brain.
Eminem:  Stan & Monster
Foo Fighters:  My Hero & Walk & Learn to Fly
Muse:  Madness & Dig Down
Kim Mitchell:  Patio Lanterns
Justin Bieber:  Despacuto
Thom Yorke:  Suspirium 
Radiohead:  Fake Plastic Trees & No Surprises & High&Dry
Jann Arden:  I Would Die for You
PP Arnold:  First Cut is the Deepest
Velvet Revolver:  Fall to Pieces
Bruce Springsteen:  In Candy's Room
Train:  Drops of Jupiter
Counting Crows:  Mr. Jones
The Verve:  Bitter Sweet Symphony
Mazzy Star:  Fade into You
James Blunt:  You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse:  I Love You More than you'll Ever Know