"Summer", to me, hints at playing, loving and losing, and just plain lazing about.
This is the kind of sentiment I had in mind once I had a large selection of potential tracks and was looking to find some common factor by which to narrow it down. What I wound up with was my attempt at creating a
conceptual album! It is based loosely on my experience of switching cities in the middle of one summer, and composed entirely of tracks that aren't mine! Isn't that
crazy?
imagist42's The Hot Months: A Summer Mix
The Hot Months is (roughly) the tale of a wistful young man who has spent his life trying to find a life. He has reached a point in his life where, after trying everything he can from college to BASE jumping to discover some purpose beyond hanging out and having fun, he has settled into his quaint, old, and most importantly
hot hometown for one last summer. After an initial bout of boredom, he discovers a nightlife hidden in the summer heat that he never knew--and along with it, an old flame. He and she do the whole courtship "thing" for a bit, but he ultimately finds that she wants a life vastly different from this comfortable, familiar one he has developed. She leaves, and the resulting fallout nearly destroys him and everything he has built up around him, until she returns for one last visit to help him come to terms with the fact that their fling wasn't exactly a stable relationship to begin with. In the process he realizes that he cannot stick around in the same old place forever, and as their last act together they head out of town in opposite directions, leaving nothing but shadows behind.
http://www.mediafire.com/?j4zncm9ixzz
Holy crap is it a pretty awful concept and so many times during almost every song the lyrics don't fit
at all but it sure was fun to put together.