Autumnal music

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I recently realized that the new albums that I listened to probably the most over the past three years were each albums that I listened to a lot in autumn and that which seemed to reflect an autumnal mood. Two years ago it was The Glow Pt. 2 by the Microphones, last year it was Supper by (Smog) and this year I'm pretty sure it's Sung Tongs by Animal Collective. For me, autumnal music is kind of pretty, not sad but more wistful in tone, and for some reason, usually has a lot of acoustic guitars.
What is autumnal music to you?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we just did this last week (and last year)

listening to Red House Painters while driving through New England

― kephm, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Repetition is the soul of ILM.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My Morning Jacket "Golden"
Beck "Nobody's Fault But My Own"
Morphine "All Your Way"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the beatles - "got to get you into my life"

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i always get 'all your way' and 'whisper' mixed up in my head

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― kephm, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

radiohead - amnesiac

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Savath + Savalas

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, if people have any thoughts on why their selections represent autumn to them, that would be dandy. Is it in the sound? Or did it just happen to come out around then and has been associated with that season since/

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Autumn sweater - YLT

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're right about the wistfulness -- because it's getting colder, there's less sun, etc. But there's a warmth, too: the warmth of coming into a house when there's that first chill in the air. Autumnal music also has the crispness of fallen leaves and the coziness of hot apple cider.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In the case of S+S it's totally the sound. Besides the tons of acoustic guitars and the Astrud Gilbertoish pretty-but-oddly-sad vocals., I think the slight electronics put a sort of dusky haze on everything.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Beneath an Autumn Sky do not sound autumnal, FYI.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

RHP is autumnal sounding, but there are plenty of albums that remind me of going back to school that do not have a 'sad, slowcore sound'

Dream On by aerosmith being example numero uno.

also, i tend to go to more live shows in the autumn , so there is also the nostalgia thing. for example, whenever i hear the chamelons now, i think of the two shows i caught in October a few years back.

― kephm, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Nick Drake is a popular autumnal musician. There are a few Archer Prewitt songs, too, although I don't know if I just remember that because I read a review that used that as its premise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc, I think you hit it on the head for me there, esp. re: "warmth." That Smog album is one of the coziest things ever, which is especially odd coming from him.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe its my new england roots, but the whole warmth thing seems kind of obvious.

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― kephm, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide: 'A Way of Life'
The Mamas and the Papas 'Look thru my Window' or '12:30': Doom Bubblegum
Scott Walker: Just about anything. How about "always Coming Back to You"

― Soukesian, Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

cape canaveral, american music club. first heard as the b-side the wish the world away single which came out in september on 1994; obviously the superior song, too; i listened to it obsessively all month.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Somehow forgot Marc Almond's 'Heart on Snow', though arguably we're into winter here. Great, great album.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

some nice chilly music to enjoy while walking/biking/driving in a sweatshirt under the moon and stars, smelling the first chimneys start to puff, and feeling the earth spin further away from the sun:

*Ultimate Spinach -- just about anything, but especially "Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess" -- guitars like liquid moonbeams!
*Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain" (the song and the album. "Can You Get to That" is especially good too)
*My Bloody Valentine - "To Here Knows When" (this was great while driving on an October afternoon through a New England cemetery, leaves falling on the windshield)
*anything by the Silver Apples
*the soundtrack to "Carnival of Souls"
*Terry Riley - Shri Camel
*The Music Machine - Turn on the Music Machine; Beyond the Garage
*The Squires - "Going All The Way" (from the 1st Nuggets box set)
*Cromagnon - "Caledonia," "First World of Bronze"
*The Jacks - Vacant World

― Curt W, Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

harper lee 'autumn'

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Aim's 'Hinterland' album.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Autumn Afternoon"--Geoff White for the obvious title reference.
However, my guiltiest pleasure is pulling out the Galaxie 500 box. Despite all the of the songs about snowstorms and listen the snow is falling, the cover of "On Fire" declares autumn.

― William Selman, Friday, 10 September 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Morrison's Moondance
The Edgar Winter Group's Autumn: from "They Only Come Out At Night"
Rod Stewart's Maggie May
Carole King's So Far Away

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement, esp. Brighten the Corners

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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