Songs of Summer 2011

We at DEMO: The Hart House Music Magazine have compiled a list of cool songs that remind us of the summer of 2011.

The songs are great and we highly recommend that you check at least some of them out.
Click on the links to see the thoughts of our writers regarding each track.

- DEMO's Summer Songs of 2011 -

Best Coast - Bratty B

Bon Iver - Beach Baby

The Zolas - Cab Driver

Bright Eyes - Cleanse Song

Galileo Galilei - The Traveler in Search of a 4-Leaf Clover

Dead Man’s Bones - Lose Your Soul

Dark Tranquillity - Lethe

Animal Collective - My Girls

The Weeknd - Rolling Stone

Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

Outfield - (I Don’t Want To Lose) Your Love

Matt & Kim - Yea Yeahs

Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina

Steve Conte - Call Me Call Me

- List of Contributors -

Mahmoud Bitar
Ervin Cheah
Q Chen
Lou Doyon
Evangeline Fitz
Kashtin Fitzsimons
Miguel Leandro Gambao
Elena Gritzan
Stephanie King
Justin Lee
Radhika Mathur
Sydney Riemschneider
Emily Elizabeth Scherzinger
Fan Wu

Part 14

Miguel Leandro Gambao, 1st Year, English Literature and Philosophy

Song: Call Me Call Me

Artist: Steve Conte

Album: Cowboy Bebop Blue Soundtrack

As I graduated high school and was making the transition to freshman year, I would often talk with my friend Maurice about Cowboy Bebop, the critically acclaimed Space Western anime. We both loved the music of the show, comprised (mostly of jazz music) by Yoko Kanno. In the show, Call Me Call Me was played at one of the most emotional parts of the story, with two main characters leaving the group of five after spending nearly the entire show with them. For my friends and I moving and transitioning to a new stage in life, that scene and the accompanying song became symbolic of our camaraderie.

Part 13

Lou Doyon , 1^st Year, Anthropology

Song: Coast of Carolina

Artist: Telekinesis

Album: Telekinesis!

My summer job included a 30-minute commute along on of the most beautiful highways, with the slowest speed limit--Trans-Canada in Banff National Park. To get me from home to work, and from work to home, I was in desperate need of some solid tunes, and Telekinesis was there to help. With the mountains in the background, the lakes in the foreground, and the beginning of a new life in Toronto ahead of me, I found comfort and happiness in this song right from June until September.

Part 12

Ervin Cheah, 1st Year, Commerce

Song: Yea Yeahs

Artist: Matt & Kim

Album: Grand

A great upbeat song that uplifted one of my more gloomy days. One of those forgotten tracks that creeps up in your shuffling iPod and just hits the right spot. It took some intense will power to not bust out a crazy move while strolling down the sidewalk in the breezy summer. Yea yeah, yea yeah, yea yeah!

Part 11

Sydney Riemschneider, 2nd year, History

Song: (I Don’t Want To Lose) Your Love

Band: Outfield

Album: Play Deep

This summer was one of discoveries for me. I did not get to experience the kind of summer only told in teeny bopper novels, as I was working for “the Man” day in and day out at Canada’s Wonderland. To go along with the manual labour, was a wonderful 80s soundtrack playing every single day.



Thankfully being an 80s music fan, the fact that Wonderland has not updated their music collection since ’97 did not bother me. It was actually difficult picking out one song that fit perfectly. As emotional and physical turmoil developed in my life, only a song involving mullets and hot pants--“(I Don’t Want To Lose) Your Love” by Outfield--could be the obvious choice to describe my summer.

And if you are not a fan of the original, check out Katy Perry’s cover and the extraordinary acoustic version by Bon Iver.

Theme Songs of Summer: Just Before Winter Creeps In--Part 10

Fan Wu, 2nd year, Literary Studies

Song Title: Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

Artist: Joanna Newsom

Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender

Joanna Newsom has made two albums after The Milk-Eyed Mender that surpass it in scope, both musically and lyrically. But this summer I came back to her debut album after first having heard it four years ago with new perspectives on women, folk songwriters and eccentricity. There is no doubt that Newsom is all three of those, but she is much more: she is, and has been, one of the strongest, most literary lyric writers on the indie scene. With aching, ambiguous lines like: "I do as I please / Now I'm on my knees / Your skin is something that I stir into my tea"--Newsom evokes both the pleasure and submissiveness we learn from love. I spent my summer with her, and it could not have been any other way.