― 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
XTC's Harvest Festival is a shocking omission, actually. Consider it belatedly added.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:16 (eighteen 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
actual title: "Wait UNTIL The Summer's Gone." (sorry)
― xhuxk, Friday, 15 June 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't heard Zebra since sitting on the school bus, driven by Otto, back in 1984. I really liked "Who's Behind the Door". Is there much more to them?
― bendy, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
From Rolling Metal thread, earlier this week:
This morning I am listening to Zebra (two-LPs one one CD reissue of No Tellin Lies and 3.V, which I've never heard before though Martin Popoff insists that they're not quite as good as the self-titled debut LP which I bought a copy of for $1 a few months back but still haven't gotten around to putting on yet-- xhuxk, Saturday, June 9, 2007 4:35 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link
my favorite Zebra songs so far are "I Don't Like It", "Drive Me Crazy," and the curiously jazz-swung "I Don't Care," all on No Tellin' Lies. "About To Make The Time" on 3.V, on the other hand, sounds exactly like Styx. The singer, as others have pointed out, has a helium falsetto maybe almost worthy of the guy in Pavlov's Dog. His high notes in "Isn't That The Way" could nearly pass for Frankie Valli or Lou Christie, which may well be unprecedented in the hard rock realm. Basically, though, they're a Zeppy AOR band in the Fastway or Kingdom Come sense, and I'm liking them a whole lot. (When they were sharing CD-changer space with Swan Song sisters Lez Zeppelin yesterday, I kept getting confused because songs would come up that sounded like Zeppelin but weren't otherwise familiar, and then I'd remember that Zebra were also in the mix.)
-- xhuxk, Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:21 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
Zebra were a huge bar band in the New Jersey->Long Island metro area for years prior to their first record, which as I may recall, had a good version of the Beatles' "Slow Down" on it. Like Twisted Sister, like Rat Race Choir, the latter which never made it. I remember ignoring Zebra a lot at the Allentown Fairgrounds or other big LV venues. They did hit the same audience as Kingdom Come whose second album didn't sound nearly as much like Zep as the first which had the Kashmir cop on it. I actually still like the second KC LP.
-- Gorge, Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:58 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
My favorite track on 3.V is "Better Not Call," I think -- new wave disco-metal powerpop, sweet!
― xhuxk, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Songs about waiting for summer to end: "It Might As Well Rain Until September" - Carole King & "Sealed With A Kiss" - Brian Hyland
― 2for25, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:31 (seventeen 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