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 (seventeen years ago) link
frank sinatra ~ "when the wind was green"
elliott smith ~ "summer of sam"
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:31 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:41 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
not sure who sings it but its annoying radio blurb....
― sim (simbo), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
"You say your summer has gone..."
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― simon 803 (simon 803), Sunday, 20 August 2006 08:59 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:14 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryborg3k (Badarts), Sunday, 20 August 2006 13:46 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link
bebel gilberto - august songbeautiful and very melancholic
― ChiaroScuro (chiaroscuro), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Blanche - "Another Lost Summer"
oh, it hasn't?...(raises eyebrow)
― hank (hank s), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:00 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Steve Goldberg - Summer's Ending
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:50 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward Bordas (edb), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dolores Haze (Arachne), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:11 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Judas Priest - "Last Rose Of Summer"
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't forget the version by Eugenius.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ChiaroScuro (chiaroscuro), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― SALLY FORTH (pete38), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
XTC's Harvest Festival is a shocking omission, actually. Consider it belatedly added.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 12 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Cousteau: "The Last Good Day Of The Year"
― davidsim (davidsim), Sunday, 12 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Monday, 13 November 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Zebra - "Wait Til The Summer's Gone" (Fastway-style post-Zep pop-metal AOR from 1984)
― xhuxk, Friday, 15 June 2007 11:45 (seventeen 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