The Summer When Everything Changed

For me, the last few summers have blended together in a way that feels like something of a haze. I'd struggle to pin down if the full moon party I played at was last year or three years ago, when I watched Purple Rain in the park, or exactly which year my bike got stolen. I can't imagine that I'll mistake 2020 for any other summer.

From a screenwriting point of view, the year has been a conspicuously flawed draft. The global pandemic and racial revolution are objectively good plotlines, but would have worked better as separate seasons rather than playing them both out at once. The reality TV President character has descended into such a caricature that his thread plays more like a daft cartoon than clever satire.

Ideally our story will resolve with the comforting predictability of a Hollywood feature with racial justice attained, the virus defeated, and that bloated fake tyrant taken straight from the White House into federal prison, but my concern is that God doesn't seem to be that kind of writer and is by all accounts more likely to complicate the plot with a new war in the middle east or an alien invasion.

Track List

Sault feat. Laurette Josiah  - This Generation

Damon Locks - Rebuild a Nation

Elements of Peace - Together Part 1

Carlton - Come On Back (Mad Professor Remix)

Big Youth - Jim Screechy (Smith & Mighty Remix)

Beats International - Come Home

Nightmares on Wax - Flip Ya Lid

Kenny Vaughan - Feels Like Heaven

Al B Sure - Night and Day (Kutt Edit)

Bullion - We Had a Good Time

The Human League - Human

David Essex - Rock On

Colonel Bagshot - Six Day War

DJ Lostboi - The Voyager

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Overflowing

Deniece Williams - Free

Kansas City Express - This Is the Place

Tindersticks - Like Only Lovers Can

Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira

Cecilia - Chocolat

Fabiana Palladino - Waiting

Yves Tumor - Strawberry Privilege

Stina Nordenstam - Little Star

Underworld - Cups (Misterons Dub)

Sega Bodega & Eartheater - Fade Into You

Kamaal Williams feat. Lauren Faith - Hold On

De La Soul - I Be Blowin'

Dorothy Coates & the Originals - Ninety Nine and a Half