friedemann's indian summer is a whole instrumental album about the end of summer. it's absolutely gorgeous.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:23 (seventeen 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