Top 20 Songs for Your Summertime Cycling Playlist

Time to relax and enjoy some great music on our MP3 players. Best Coast is back with yet another release, “The Only Place,” that is perfect for summertime; their album is due out soon.

Please pay close attention to Alabama Shakes. When I first heard Brittany Howard, a young 20-something, I thought she was an older woman. Howard brings it like I haven’t heard since Janis Joplin.

I also want to take a moment to remember MCA, Adam Yauch, from the Beastie Boys. His passing has hit many people, especially in my age bracket (38), hard. We grew up with the Beastie Boys; we got to know them; they introduced us to different kinds of music just from their samples. Speaking for myself, this is Generation X’s biggest loss – even bigger than Kurt Cobain – but that’s an argument for another time. I included “B-Boy Bouillabaisse” from Paul’s Boutique on the list – arguably their best album. I also threw in “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” from their last album, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2.

Listen to these tunes on July 31, 2012, on bicycleradio.com at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

You can download this entire playlist from iTunes here.

KEY

Artist: NAME

Song: Song Title

Album: Album Name

KISHI BASHI - Bright Whites - 151A

GRIMES - Oblivion - Visions

THE SHINS - Simple Song - Port of Morrow

TANLINES - Brothers - Mixed Emotions

THE VACCINES - Norgaard - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? [Explicit]

ALABAMA SHAKES - I Found You - Boys and Girls

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Out of the Game - Out of the Game

AU - Solid Gold - Both Lights

OBERHOFER - Cruising FDR - Time Capsules II

FRIENDS - I’m His Girl - I’m His Girl - Single

JACK WHITE - Sixteen Saltines - Blunderbuss

LOWER DENS - Brains - Nootropics

SANTIGOLD - Disparate Youth - Master of My Make-Believe

FRANKIE ROSE - Know Me - Interstellar

BEST COAST - The Only Place - The Only Place

THE MEN - Open Your Heart - Open Your Heart

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Onwards to the Wall - Onwards to the Wall-EP

BEASTIE BOYS - B-Boy Bouillabaisse - Paul’s Boutique

BEASTIE BOYS - Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

Brian Ellison is the host of The Prologue, an eclectic music show on BicycleRadio.com that mixes in cycling talk. He lives in Gillette, WY, where he is also the morning guy for KOAL 106.1. Ellison has a 12-year-old son who he spends a lot of time with and an old Trek SL1000 that he spends less time with than he would like.