There are all kinds of summer jams; this one has heroically mangled guitars and lyrics about a cheapo beach vacation, complete with mixtapes, sweaty seats and sleeping bags. The B side to this seven-inch is a punked-up cover of Bananarama's 1983 hit "Cruel Summer," now with 20 percent more cruelty.

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“I Can See for Miles”

A foreboding accusation of lies and deception, "I Can See for Miles" was given a psychedelic hard-rock veneer by Pete Townshend's whiplash guitar riffs and Keith Moon's thundering drums. The song helped break the Who as stars in the United States, giving them a Top Ten hit in late 1967. "I swoon when I hear the sound," boasted Townshend in Rolling Stone. "The words, which aging senators have called 'drug oriented,' are about a jealous man with exceptionally good eyesight. Honest."