Anything by Hood (especially "The Leaves Grow Old And Fall And Die")
― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
How about:
White Stripes - We're Going To Be Friends
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walking blues Climb the fence, book and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends
― oops i mean xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
the happenings ~ "see you in september"
mum ~ "will the summer make good for all of our sins?"
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, it's a long, long while from May to DecemberBut the days grow short when you reach SeptemberWhen the autumn weather turns the leaves to flameOne hasn't got time for the waiting game
― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, this is about a "winter's day", right?
Really, "All Summer Long" and "Night Moves" put pretty much everything else on this thread to shame, I'd say. (Though "Boys of Summer" and "Hot Fun in the Summertime" might come close.)
― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
frank sinatra ~ "when the wind was green"
elliott smith ~ "summer of sam"
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
It closes American Grafitti, and Simpson's "Summer of 4 ft 2" in tribute.
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
It's at least an IMPLIED end-of-summer song, written about (good) memories of summers past.
― Euler (Euler), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
not sure who sings it but its annoying radio blurb....
― sim (simbo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
"You say your summer has gone..."
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― simon 803 (simon 803), Sunday, 20 August 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha yeah, it's a stretch. I still associate that song with the end of summer, or early fall. Partly the harmonies, partly the title, definitely the nostalgic, memories-are-crystallizing vibe of it. And the flute solo.
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Sunday, 20 August 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link
The sun shines high aboveThe sounds of laughterThe birds swoop down uponThe crosses of old grey churchesWe say that we're in loveWhile secretly wishing for rainSipping coke and playing gamesSeptember's here againSeptember's here again
― Gerard (Gerard), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Bobby Goldsboro: Summer (the first time). "Was a hot afternoon -the last day of June- And the sun was a demon."
Very "end of summer" vibe on this record, in spite of the seasonal placing on the opening line. Particularly in the swooping strings after the "I saw the sunrise as a man" line. A great, great record, in fact.
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryborg3k (Badarts), Sunday, 20 August 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
One summer never endsOne summer never beginsIt keeps me standing stillIt takes all my willAnd then suddenlyLast summer
Garth Brooks's "That Summer" (another one about being deflowered by an older woman) feels pretty verge-of-autumn as well, maybe because he keeps talking about wheatfields, and also because maybe all songs wistfully nostaglic for summer = late summer, except when they don't.
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
bebel gilberto - august songbeautiful and very melancholic
― ChiaroScuro (chiaroscuro), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Blanche - "Another Lost Summer"
oh, it hasn't?...(raises eyebrow)
― hank (hank s), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
But Garth is from Oklahoma, where most of the wheat grown is winter wheat. Winter wheat is typically harvested in mid June, not even summer!
I dig the song, though, and agree that it fits in the thread.
― Euler (Euler), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
"It brings me good weather... It keeps me together... It picks me up when I'm -- DOWN..."
― Tronid K (tronidk), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
KD Lang's Summer Fling
always gave me that feeling I hope newer music would have in this vain. Not perfect, but timely.
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Steve Goldberg - Summer's Ending
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Doctor Casino (agode...), Saturday 6:02 AM. (Doctor Casino)
You don't know anything about surfing. Go watch some Gidget reruns to prevent further embarrassment.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward Bordas (edb), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dolores Haze (Arachne), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
It was actually the song that made me want to make the thread (along with "David's Last Summer") but it slipped my mind when I actually got around to posting it.
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Judas Priest - "Last Rose Of Summer"
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't forget the version by Eugenius.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― ChiaroScuro (chiaroscuro), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― SALLY FORTH (pete38), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Kid Rock - "All Summer Long"Keith Urban - "'Til Summer Comes Around"
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Man I was never really a big fan of Buffalo Tom but I just went back and listened to "Summer" which was on one of those old CMJ CDs I somehow still had and thats a pretty great tune. Such great vocal melodies.
Not much of a fan either, but that was a solid tune that one.
― Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone up in this bitch down with Al Stewart's Indian Summer?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Two years and no "Summer Soft"?
And she's goooooooooawawawawawawnYes she's goooooooooawawawawawawnSummer's goooooooooawawawawawawnAnd incomesautumn
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Come Monday," Jimmy Buffett (just heard this on the radio yesterday):
Headin' up to San Francisco For the Labor Day week-end show I've got my hush-puppies on I guess I never was meant for glitter rock and roll And Honey I didn't know That I'd be missin' you so
Chorus: Come Monday, it'll be all right Come Monday, I'll be holdin' you tight I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze And I just want you back by my side
Yes, it's been quite a summer Rent-a-cars and west-bound trains And now you're off on vacation Something you tried to explain And Darlin' it's I love you so That's the reason I just let you go
― xhuxk, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Thin White Rope, 'Thing', off Moonhead
The way the two of you were standing outside the doorI knew it was the end of your dreamAnd when you walked into the room without your girlYou didn't have to say a word to me
In the long lonesome summer many things will changeA lot of part time friends will move alongWhen good times have you smiling I know you're in there dyingBecause it's just another good time gone
One of the times we got to work a little lateFor drinking on a night too hot to sleepYou said you didn't mind going on this wayAs long as it was good enough for me
They say the weather's changing, seasons are rearrangingSummer's never been this long beforeSometimes it makes me spin how things were so different thenBut lately they aren't different anymore
― Bring me Sanka or Tetley (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 December 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"Dyin' All Young" by Chuck Prophet, which has the great lines:He broke his mama's heartSomething pulled him like the tideUp on the banks of MethodoniaLaid down and closed his eyes
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Monday, 7 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
3+ years without "Summer Nights" from Grease?
― dad a, Monday, 7 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjrEAvib5o
^1 of my fav songs of the last few yrs
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
How about Abba's "Our Last Summer"?
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Cruzados, "Summer's Come, Summer's Gone" (from 1987)
― xhuxk, Friday, 29 January 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Jonathan Richman - "That Summer Feeling"
When even fourth grade starts looking goodWhich you hatedAnd first grade's looking good tooOverratedAnd you boys long for some little girl that you datedDo you long for her or for the way you were?That summer feeling is gonna haunt you the rest of your life
― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:04 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this song is enormously moving to me btw
― some dude, Friday, 29 January 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Fennesz - Endless Summer works for this thread, as does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9buNckusos0
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
beach boys, "girl don't tell me," which looks at the beginning of this summer thru the lens of the end of last summer, and therefore is really about the end of last summer when it gets right down to it.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Urge For Going" by Joni Mitchell
― banjoboy, Sunday, 31 January 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3DbemBDhU
― Duke, Sunday, 31 January 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Style Council - Long Hot Summer
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 31 January 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Taylor Swift, "Tim McGraw"
Just a boy in a Chevy truck, That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck, On backroads at night An’ I was right there beside him all summer long An’ then the time we woke up to find that summer’d gone
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Dusty Springfield - Summer Is OverCarole King - I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 March 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
christy cummins, "summer memories"
(i'm spending my evening following youtube links for something called "teensound girls," which seems to be an endless collection of second-rate late '50s and early '60s girl group pop with deliciously weird arrangements by people like christy cummins, courtney rain, clairette clement, bernadette carroll, claudia carithose and literally dozens of others who i know nothing or next-to-nothing about, and half of whose names appear to be misspelled on these clips, and i love that there was a singer named christy cummins, and it occurs to me that everyone i listed above and most of what i have listened to so far are artists whose first and/or last name begins with a C, even though i am just aimlessly following youtube links, and, well, this particular song is called "summer memories" so there you go.)
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 March 2010 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuzzy - Summer Is Gone
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 5 March 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
In Flames -- Darker Times (first line: "September is here again.")
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Ash "Oh Yeah", but that's about the start of the summer
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yo La Tengo's "Summer," though I can't really tell if it's about the end of summer. The melancholy feel and line "'til the summer comes undone" make it seem like it is.
― nickn, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
Loudon Wainwright III - "Summer's Almost Over"
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 November 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
On Some Faraway Beach, Eno?
― Random Penguin House (doo dah), Saturday, 3 November 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
According to Ken Emerson (in his Stephen Foster book Doo Dah), Thomas Moore's 19th Century "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (a song I'm not sure I've ever heard) "may have been the first song ever to sell more than a million copies." (Sheet music, obviously.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 16 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link