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Back to work already?

[Alyssa]

I second Isaac’s thanks to Matt, and extend my gratitude to him for taking over basketball coverage for the week. Now I don’t feel guilty about throwing a little baseball into the mix. But before I get all serious, I thought I’d wave goodbye to the hour left in the long weekend and welcome summer in with a few thoughts on summer jams.

Far be it from me to defend Will Smithâs rap career. My own tastes run a little more towards the Dirty South and a little less towards â?Welcome to Miami.❠But New Yorkâs Vulture blog is running a search for the best new song of the summer, and none of the entrants so far are particularly…summery. Is there actually a better song about June, July and August than â?Summertimeâ?

Iâve racked my brain and my iTunes playlist. And while â?Summer of â69❠and â?The Boys of Summer❠capture individual summer romances, and the entire early Beach Boys early catalog is the best possible homage to surfing and driving, the former are kind of wellâ¦angsty, and the latter are more than a little dated. But no matter how passé Will Smithâs shorts and flattop are, I canât imagine a time when firing up a grill and hanging out in the sunshine wouldnât be more fun than, say, coming back to work after a holiday weekend.

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If you need to procrastinate while you recover on Tuesday morning, throw your favorite summer songs in the comments and I’ll put up a Muxtape of the most-mentioned ones at the end of the week.

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