Songs that are about, or at least highlight, the END of summer

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.

Judas Priest - "Last Rose Of Summer"

Don't forget the version by Eugenius.

XTC's Harvest Festival is a shocking omission, actually. Consider it belatedly added.

Cousteau: "The Last Good Day Of The Year"

Zebra - "Wait Til The Summer's Gone" (Fastway-style post-Zep pop-metal AOR from 1984)

actual title: "Wait UNTIL The Summer's Gone." (sorry)

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?

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!

Songs about waiting for summer to end: "It Might As Well Rain Until September" - Carole King & "Sealed With A Kiss" - Brian Hyland

summer by anna domino, especially the arthur baker remix!

Justin Timberlake - "Summer Love", obv.
Outkast - "13th Floor/Growing Old"

Who brought this thread back in June and why?

archer prewitt - summer's end

roxy music, "sunset"

actually, all of stranded for me. strictly speaking, not an end-of-summer record, but that's the only time i listen to it.

What a depressive thread to resurrect in JUNE!

;)

Summer just started last week, and I'm already feeling depressed. THX

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"The E Street Shuffle":

And as them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams
Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans
And they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are there . . .

Frank Sinatra "The September of My Years" & "September Song"

Lazarus, awaken!

=(

Melt Show - Old 97s, about a summer romance.

"Will you sober up and let me down, when October comes around."

Lee Hazlewood - "My Autumn's Done Come"

friedemann's indian summer is a whole instrumental album about the end of summer. it's absolutely gorgeous.

Kid Rock - "All Summer Long"
Keith Urban - "'Til Summer Comes Around"

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.

Anyone up in this bitch down with Al Stewart's Indian Summer?

Two years and no "Summer Soft"?

And she's goooooooooawawawawawawn
Yes she's goooooooooawawawawawawn
Summer's goooooooooawawawawawawn
And in
comes
aut
umn

"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

Thin White Rope, 'Thing', off Moonhead

The way the two of you were standing outside the door
I knew it was the end of your dream
And when you walked into the room without your girl
You didn't have to say a word to me

In the long lonesome summer many things will change
A lot of part time friends will move along
When good times have you smiling I know you're in there dying
Because it's just another good time gone

One of the times we got to work a little late
For drinking on a night too hot to sleep
You said you didn't mind going on this way
As long as it was good enough for me

They say the weather's changing, seasons are rearranging
Summer's never been this long before
Sometimes it makes me spin how things were so different then
But lately they aren't different anymore

"Dyin' All Young" by Chuck Prophet, which has the great lines:
He broke his mama's heart
Something pulled him like the tide
Up on the banks of Methodonia
Laid down and closed his eyes

3+ years without "Summer Nights" from Grease?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjrEAvib5o

^1 of my fav songs of the last few yrs

How about Abba's "Our Last Summer"?

Cruzados, "Summer's Come, Summer's Gone" (from 1987)

Jonathan Richman - "That Summer Feeling"

When even fourth grade starts looking good
Which you hated
And first grade's looking good too
Overrated
And you boys long for some little girl that you dated
Do 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

Fennesz - Endless Summer works for this thread, as does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9buNckusos0

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.