Yesterday, we published the first half of 50 Fourth of July Songs about America, fireworks, summer, patriotism, freedom, and other themes that are fitting for a 4th of July mixtape playlist. Afterall, you probably know how much we love making and sharing mixtapes and playlists with tens of thousands of people from around the world everyday.

This is Part Two of the Songs for 4th of July Mixtape ; if you haven’t heard Part One yet, you might want to start there first – there have already been thousands of visitors to that mix since it was published early Sunday morning. One of the things that we love about putting together special mixtapes and playilsts is the opportunity they provide to showcase music we love that is not just from the indie genre.

We hope that you have a great and safe July Fourth celebration, and if you want to stream these two playlists for your party or other event, please do so – we put a lot of work into picking the songs we included in these two mixes. You can also save the songs by right clicking on the track name and Save As (.mp3) to your computer.

You will probably take notice of the other “4th of July songs” that are not obvious by their titles, but the lyrics are a match to qualify, or semi-qualify, them as tunes fitting for the red, white and blue holiday, such as Chicago’s “Saturday In The Park,”  Paul Simon’s “America Tune”

Despite the high number of what would otherwise be classified as ‘classic rock’ songs that make up this diverse playlist, we wanted to kick it off with an appropriately titled, uptempo song from Polock, a band that we’ve featured previously, and who we think are still underrated, but there are hundreds of such bands.

“4th of July” - Galaxie 500 from This is Our Music (2006)

“Fireworks” – Polock from Getting Down From The Tree (2010)

“American Tune” – Paul Simon from Greatest Hits (2002)

“Fourth of July” – Thurston Moore and Mike Watt from single (2003)

“Beach Party” – Air France from No Way Down (2008)

“Havin A Party” – Sam Cooke from 60′s Slow Rock (1999)

“A More Perfect Union” - Titus Andronicus from The Monitor (2010)

“Song of the Patriot” – Johnny Cash from Greatest Hits (1999)

“It Always Rains On A Picnic” – Modest Mouse from Sad Sappy Sucker (2001)

“Flags of Freedom” – Neil Young from Living With War (2006)

“(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right” - Beastie Boys from The Sounds of Science (1989)

“We’re an American Band” – Grand Funk Railroad from Grand Funk Railroad (1976)

“Games” – The Strokes from Angles (2011)

“Surf’s Up” – Brian Wilson from Smile (2004)

“Independence Day” – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band from Live in New York City Volume 3 (2005)

“Patriots Of Love” – The Catholic Comb from Sincerely (2007)

“New York This Morning” - Roman Candle from The Wee Hours Revue (2006)

“Back In the USA” – New York Dolls

“(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” – Otis Redding from Otis Redding (1968)

“Philadelphia Freedom” – Elton John from Greatest Hits 1970-2002 (2003)

“Freedom Hangs Like Heaven” – Iron & Wine from Woman King (2004)

“Firecracker” – Frazey Ford from CDN Blast @ SXSW (2011)

“There’s So Many Colors” – Akron/Family from Love Is Simple (2007)

“Precious Declaration” – Collective Soul from AAAA  (1996)

“America” - Neil Diamond from The Jazz Singer (1981)

“All Sparks” – Editors from All Sparks EP (2006)

“Fried Chicken/Mary, Mary” – The Slackers from Redlight (1997)

Finally, we thought it would be a good idea to include a few renditions of traditional American anthems, including a variety of versions of “The Star Spangled Banner” by artists like Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, and the much more mellow cover from Sufjan Stevens.

“The Star Spangled Banner” (Live) – Jimi Hendrix from Woodstock (1969)

“The Star Spangled Banner” (Live 1984) – Marvin Gaye from The Master (1961-1984)

“The Star Spangled Banner” (Live 2004) – Sufjan Stevens