Summer's Gone Complete Tracks

Welcome to the blogum Summer's Gone. Below you can get all the tracks for free (Just click on them), as well as links to liner notes, videos, artwork and additional songs. Later in 2014 I'll be coming out with a new studio album ...And Now THIS. Hopefully this is enough music to hold you until then.

Summer's On    Get more info on "Summer's On" HERE.

Black Bubblegum  Get more info on "Black Bubblegum" HERE. 

Weh Yeh Gon  Get more info on "We Yeh Gon" HERE.

Tired  Get more info on "Tired" HERE.

Se7en  Get more info on "Se7en" HERE.

Settle  Get more info on "Settle" HERE.

Daddy Was a Conman  Get more info on "Daddy Was A Conman" HERE.

Pennies From Hell Get more info on "Pennies From Hell" HERE.

Staying All Night Long  Get more info on "Staying All Night Long" HERE. 

Chemical Cats Get more info on "Chemical Cats" HERE.

The Money's Running In The Wrong Direction  Get more info on "The Money's Running In The Wrong Direction" HERE. 

Drink & Drive  Get more info on "Drink & Drive" HERE.

The Sun  Get more info on "The Sun" HERE. 

Hologram  Get more info on "Hologram" HERE. 

Trapped In Hell With You  Get more info on "Trapped In Hell With You" HERE.

Death's Dog  Get more info on "Death's Dog" HERE.

Special Effect  Get more info on "Special Effect" HERE.

I'm a Fool To Ever Leave Your Bed  Get more info on "I'm a Fool To Ever Leave Your Bed" HERE. 

Darkness Has Taken Hold of Me Get more info on "Darkness Has Taken Hold of Me" HERE.

Summer's Gone Get more info on "Summer's Gone" HERE.

Summer's Gone Program

Get more free songs at Songs That Broke Up My Band.

Here's my latest album "L".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or buy these studio albums from my previous band:

The Ks Red Numbers Rising Faster

 

 

 

 

The Ks Can't Get It Together

 

The Ks Skunk 

 

 

 

 

 

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Summer's On

This brings me to the end, and you to the beginning. Welcome here! Bunch of songs, bookended with Summersongs, light and dark. Here's the light one. I've had a lot of fun making this "blogum," and I hope anyone checks it out. I'm fond of my songs. I think there's some value here. Right now very few other people do, so if you're reading this and you like any of what's in here, congratulations! You've entered a tiny gift circle; you're in on the ground floor. Or who knows, maybe I blow up later and this is something for the completists. Right now it looks like the former. Regardless, I'm glad anyone's listening.



Here's a free copy of this song.

You should download it HERE. 

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Tired

Started writing this one when my buddies Eppie and Choz were in town. Fun guys, but the body can't party the way it used to do. 

This song will be radically reinvented, or at least tweaked to an interesting degree, on my upcoming album ...And Now THIS.



You'll have to pay for that, probably, but this version you can get for FREE!

You should down load this track for free HERE.

You know what makes me tired? Working my day job! Make me rich!

Se7en

A love song! Warning, this does contain spoilers if you have not seen the movies Se7en or The Usual Suspects. I was going to have the background in the accompanying picture be green or an image of grass to suggest the final scene of the movie but it lost the sense of menace and simplicity, so I kept it this sinister plum. 




As far as the song goes, it was easy enough to know out once I got the concept. The kids seem to like it. 

What's in the box? A free song!

You should download it for free HERE. 

 

I realize it's a very mixed message to offer free songs and then ask for donations, but I mean to give the songs away, and hope that someone comes across me and decides, "Hey, this is creative person who should be sponsored." It's like NPR, only I can't do pledge week. Hopefully a lot of people will get free songs and someone will give me a million dollars. Or ten. Or se7en!

Summer's Gone Program

It’s a well known fact that the second half of the hourglass runs through twice as fast as the first. Hourglass sands come from beaches, and that is why our shorelines are receding. Not only does it bring the ocean rushing in, but it also lowers the sky, which is why the sun sets earlier. This leads to depression and seasonal sickness. I recommend fish oil and vitamin  C. They work for me, though I’m also a believer in the power of placebos. I also believe in the power of gazebos, though like gravity, it is the weakest of the four fundamental forces. I’ve got to say, for such a weak force, it can have a doozy of an effect on a body. The four undemental forces are placebos, gazebos, prayers and promises. None can stave off Autumn.

Beach sand is made from broken down baby's teeth, which is why time bites. These are the facts people, and it’s a known fact that facts are 60% fat. You can try to burn it off, but it still goes to your hips. They  call them love handles but you can’t handle love, though you can candle it, though the fat in the candle wax burns an oily black. Once again I recommend vitamin C and fish oil. The C stands for candle and the fish oil is for oily black, which would be the name of a sailer in a book I’m never going to write. I’ve got a library full. Oily Black is the opposite of Ahab; he refuses to share his fire or search for whales. It turns out he can’t swim, or sail for that matter, and his name isn’t Oily Black it’s Sandy Beaches, but his time is running out.

You see how I tied it all together? You see how I  didn’t? I don’t tie knots I tangle threads and sometimes I tangle yarns and sometimes kittens run out and play with it, but I haven’t seen the kittens in a while. Perhaps they’ve turned to cats or perhaps they’ve turned to unicorns. Impossible you say? What, you didn’t say that? Well I heard someone say something, at some point. My point is that you can’t spell can’t without cat. n’ the n’ is all that remains. Of course n’ is always bringing along a friend, which is a nice way to go, if you don’t mind company. Which is why I always keep live dynamite strapped to my chest. I lit it one time, and it turned out only to be love candles, lit from both ends. There was a lot of oily smoke (A gambler character from a series of books I never wrote) and melted wax that left me with second degree burns, though it felt a lot warmer than that. Must have been measured in Celsius. Far n’ height is how I measure the weather, and it’s a tall storm a few miles away.

--Dan Kilian

Note: This was the program from my show at Fat Baby 9/29/13. I think like six people showed, leading me to my decision that it is time to retire from live performance.  

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Staying All Night Long

Party anthem as warning as crosswise seduction. I think this was the opening number the night I played Freddy's that night. Which belies the whole this is one show called Summer's Gone, but I've given up that game a while ago. Got a bunch of live stuff and here's where I'm sticking it.I'd be more careful about where I stick this, but then I'll lose track, so I'm just doing everything in reverse order, and here we are in the order. Never let the perfect be the enemy of the done!




Sometimes I guess it's called "All Night Long" and sometimes it's "Staying All Night Long" and I'm sure at others it's "I'm Staying All Night Long." I should pick one, and I probably don't want to butt heads with the great Lionel Ritchie.

How you take this song depends on how well you'd receive me turning up ready to stay up all night long, and possibly trying to sleep with you.

You should download this song for free HERE.

I'm asking for money all night long. All the songs are free, but the artist accepts tips!

Special Effect

Here's a love song! You might not be able to hear it, but I'm going for something of a Motown vibe. For a long time there was a line "I can't get your game," which rang false, a bit too Mick Jagger wannabeistic. What do you mean that's not a word? Ran through the alphabet, and settled with "My whole world's in flames" which alliterated well with the next line too. It's not Shakespeare, but I think it's better than "I can't get your game." Not all lyrics need to stand out, especially if they would stand out awkwardly.
 



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Summer's Gone

This is the end, if it's finished. Of course, if you're following along chronologically, as I'm doing while constructing this alblogum*™, it comes first.

It's the obvious bookend to a series of songs which begins (or ends) with "Summer's On." This is another (another? I don't see any other songs yet!) one from the Fat Baby September '13 show. Actually started the show with it, as the entire show was an answer to the Augustine show (More to come on that) so again, the first shall be last.

Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, we never got a sound recording of this one to share. We do have this lovely video though:




If I remember, I'll record it at some future date and share that song here. Let's see if I don't forget.

Thanks for listening! I hope you like the songs. I love them! I also love you, or at least I try to, in that love everyone kind of way, as opposed to the personal, creepy kind. Both are hard, and both worthwhile. I'm hoping my songs are a way to love the world, as opposed to just myself, though the whole thing is self centered, though all expression is isn't it? Yet we need it, at least the good stuff. I'm saying that my self has worth, and sharing what I think is my best creation.I'd say that's all any of us can do, but in fact we should all do more. Help the poor.

Also, help artists! If you agree these songs have worth, help the guy creating them!

Thanks.

Love,

Dan