Sounds of Summer: Hello to Goodbye
It's the last week of August and Labor Day is around the bend. It's time to put away your whites, your nautical stripes, your teeny weeny polka dot bikini, and take out your scarves, your houndstooth prints, and your newly opened school supplies. The days of Fall are drawing nigh, but that's no excuse to send the Summer off without a proper farewell. Hopefully my playlist can get you out of the end-of-summer blues and into the anticipation of September swing.
Exactly how it feels, huh?
- The Last Day of Summer - The Cure
Who better to write a perfect lament over the end of this glorious season and wallow in your dismay with?
- August is Over - We the Kings
It's a bittersweet song. It's got that happy make-you-dance pop/punk feel, but you can't deny that you'll miss the summer and all the trouble you got into. More importantly, who you got in trouble with. *mischief*
- Summer Skin - Death Cab for Cutie
Miss that summer fling? Feel your heart wrenching when you think of them? Was he/she the one that got away? Ben Gibbard & Co. help you remember them in a good light and feel your heartbreak for you.
- Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
Don't you wish that summer never had to end? Yellowcard and their tubthumping electric violin take that same summer love longing and make a song that I KNOW you want to belt along with when you're all by yourself. Go ahead, you're on the computer by yourself. No one's watching. "Let your waves crash down on me and take me awayy-yay!!!"
- Indian Summer - Beat Happening
The Seattle twee-pop pioneers utilize their simplistic drum beat and cutesy twingy guitar riffs to remind us that the best part about summer is that it always returns.
- All Summer Long - The Beach Boys
Who defines summer sound better than The Beach Boys? Let their dreamy vocals sway you into a more optimistic mood about the impending end.
- The Boys of Summer - The Eagles
We all know The Ataris version, it was suggested to me so many times! But have you guys heard this version by The Eagles? I almost prefer their chill nostalgic feel. Can't you just imagine sitting in your beach lounger in the backyard salvaging and savoring those last rays of sunlight?
- Summer Hair = Forever Young - The Academy Is...
"I'll never let you go/Won't ever forget/Tell me you'll remember/Forever young" The Beckett sums up the coveted infinite feeling unique to summer as a last salute to the season. He's right, you know. Suddenly, we're all running out of time.
- We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes
After some end of summer closure, it's time to get excited for the possibilities of the new school year. Have you met my friend Jack? He can totally help you out with that.
- September - Earth, Wind & Fire
JUST because the summer's gone, doesn't mean that you can't have fun come September. Welcome Autumn in with a PARTY-YEAH! DANCING IN SEPTEMBER!
(Although: The 405 by Death Cab For Cutie also says end of summer to me as well)
*fail* What would I do without you Em?
YOU HAVE YELLOWCARD ON HERE!
Is Yellowcard a bad thing? I thought that Ocean Avenue was at that point where it was okay to have around again without being ostracized.