This playlist is guaranteed to get you fired up for the start of school. It’s filled with tracks about summer love, books, history, and teenage romance, all leading, inevitably, to songs of teenage angst.
1. “Summer of ’69” by Bryan Adams
2. “Summer Nights” by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
3. "Summertime" by Janis Joplin
4. “Hell Raisin’ Heat of the Summer” by Florida Georgia Line
5. “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” by Bruce Springsteen
6. “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf
7. “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” by Joe Jackson
8. “You Can Make Him Like You” by The Hold Steady
9. “Somebody’s Baby” by Jackson Browne
10. “Even the Losers” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
12. “Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band
13. “Kiss Me on the Bus” by the Replacements
14. “Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen”
15. “Don’t Stand So Close to me” by the Police
16. “Every Day I Write the Book” by Elvis Costello
17. “A Brand New Book” by Graham Parker
18. “Great Expectations” by The Gaslight Anthem
19. “Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
20. “English Civil War” by the Clash
21. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by the Band
22. “Checkpoint Charlie” by Little Steven
23. “Pride (In the Name of Love)” by U2
24. “Sitting Still” by R.E.M.
25. “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” by Pink Floyd
26. “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam
27. “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats
28. “No Surrender” by Bruce Springsteen
29. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana
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