HOT NEW SONGS FOR THE SUMMER!!

Ya know, I hate to sound like a snob...but I was floating around the internet and came across a column on www.MSNBC.com called Soak up the Summer Sun with these Songs...Cute title...good alliteration...I'm kind of curious what this guy thinks will be the hot songs this summer...so I click...here’s a summary of the list:

“Margaritaville,” Jimmy Buffett (1977)
“Surfin’ Safari” (1962), “Kokomo,” (1988) The Beach Boys
“Under the Boardwalk,” The Drifters (1964)
“Brown Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison (1967)
“Hot Fun in the Summertime,” Sly and the Family Stone (1969)
“Summer In the City,” Lovin’ Spoonful (1966)
“Girl From Ipanema,” Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto (1964)
“Summertime Blues,” Eddie Cochran (1958)
“Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (1975)
“I Can See Clearly Now,” Johnny Nash (1972)
“Three Little Birds,” Bob Marley and the Wailers (1977)
“No Shirt No Shoes (No Problems),” Kenny Chesney (2002)
“California Sun,” The Dictators (1975)
“Quiet Village,” Martin Denny (1959)

Now, aside from the ultra hip Kenny Chesney song from 2002...I dunno...I dunno what even to say...Who needs a list like this? A cruise ship director would get fired for this playlist. I really wanna know...who is searching the web, looking for some summer jams, and comes across this list feeling helped out in any way...You'd have to be deaf not to have heard these songs to death already...get a clue.

He's even lame enough to even give a little blurb about every song...Like he’s actually enlightening his readers...shit like

"...Berns also produced the sublime “Brown-Eyed Girl,” wherein Morrison’s perpetual cloudy countenance was replaced with a sunny grin. You can literally hear Van the Man smile as he breezes through honeyed memories of a summer love gone by."

Eric! This isn't necessary...there is no more analysis to be done...the songs are all 30+ years old...and not very complicated to begin with...

This annoys me because that column could have just as easily been filled with 5000 words on some up and coming bands that really could use the press. Instead the middle aged twits who read this article will just continue to think that their generation was the greatest, and ignore the musical accomplishments of their children's generation. Too bad, cause there's a lot of good stuff out there.