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October 10, 2011
Fall is probably my favorite season. I know summer is great and all, but there is just something about hoodie weather. Football starts and as it starts to cool down a bit, the sun seems less oppressive than when it tries to chase you into air conditioning in the middle of June and July. There are some albums that just scream “fall” to me as well. These albums aren’t necessarily about the season, but something about their feel, tone, tempo, or whatever just makes them fitting.
Despite the fact that it has a song on it called “Summertime” I always tend to break out The Fire Theft’s one and only album as the leaves start to change. The band is made up of members of an earlier band called Sunny Day Real Estate. The album is one of those that you can put on at the beginning and just play it all the way through. It is a very dynamic sound that plays a lot with the loud-soft-loud structure and Jeremy Enigk’s screamy falsetto peppers the whole thing. For me, the entire album balances on the ninth track “Heaven.”
I discovered Death Cab for Cutie in the fall of 2001 with tracks from their album “We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes.” At that time, I was still living in Boston and I remember walking all over the city with a mix of tracks from that album and their debut album that I burned to a disc. I am almost 100% positive I was still rocking a discman in those days. Those songs just seem perfect for this time of year. “Title Track,” “Lowell, MA,” “Little Fury Bugs,” and “Company Calls Epilogue” were a perfect soundtrack for fall, but the one track that does it for me on there is “No Joy in Mudville.” Something about the production on Ben Gibbard’s voice in the chorus of that song gives it a vacant distance that just works.
There are obviously more, but I don’t want to hog it all with my somber-ish Indie Rock choices. Tell me what you guys like to go with when summer ends.
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Mostly metal for me….spent the weekend listening to Jamey Jasta’s solo cd and the first two Five Finger Death Punch cds. The new FFDP album drops on Tuesday…can’t wait for that…and I’m going to Grand Rapids, MI and Pittsburgh to see them twice next month. Nothing warms you up like some serious Heavy Metal!
Night Moves – Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Some people would call this a summertime song, but my favorite part of the song is towards he end when he talks about “autumn closing in”
Two that just scream fall to me, mostly because they were released in the fall of 1991, and a time when everything seemed to be changing around me so quickly – my sophmore year in high school.
Nirvana’s Nevermind and Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91, The Enemy Strikes Black.
We’d drive around for hours listening to both of these cassette’s. Whenever I hear any of the songs I’m immediately transported back to those carefree hours and indellible beats, rhythms and angst-filled rumblings. Ahh, youth.
For me, it is the band Real Estate (without the Sunny Day).
Just finished listening to their 2nd album, “Days”, over at NPR. Here is the link: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141076070/first-listen-real-estate-days
Real Estate is a lo-fi surf band. Just love their laid back sound and to me, is a great listen in the Fall (or anytime for that matter).
Tss, fall songs, what’s that like when you’re singing and then you trip or sumthin? Tss
The first album that jumps to mind is Dave Matthews Band “The Lillywhite Sessions”. I have no idea why. Maybe because Fall => Football => College => DMB (for most people who went to college in the late 90s and early 00s anyway). Also, you could do worse than “November Rain” by GNR. For more recent music, I’ll go with the album “Sigh No More” by Mumford & Sons. I could easily envision that music highlighting a harvest festival.
Mumford and Sons is definitely worthy of the fall… I like that one.
Toadies – “Rubberneck”: Spent many hours studying calculus with that album keeping us awake.
Mushroomhead – “Superbuick”: because evrey MRH show is like a Halloween party.
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide awake, It’s morning.
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble.
Basically anything acoustic/folkie.
I’ll throw everyone a changeup with a country offering…
Zac Brown Band – The Foundation
especially the song most of you country guys might even know “Chicken Fried”…
“Cold beer on a friday night, pair of jeans that fit just right” just screams fall to me
*non-country guys
Back when Napster was all the rage and before they started prosecuting for downloading illegally, my brother bought a book that contains all the songs that ever charted on Billboard’s Top 40. Using that, we burned a whole bunch of songs in chronological order based on when they charted in the late ’80s (my high school years). If I’m feeling particularly nostalgic during a particular time of year, I’ll pull up October ’87 (for example) from my iPod playlists and wax nostalgic for a while. If I think about something/someone from February ’89, I’ll pull up that playlist and listen for a while. It’s kinda cool because the atmosphere lends itself to when the songs were out and I take some serious trips down Memory Lane.
As far as individual albums, Pink Floyd’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” puts me in a fall state of mind. Just bought the remastered edition a couple weeks ago and fell in love with it all over again. “Diamond Days” by The Outfield is another good fall entry IMO.
I love listening to The Beatles year-round, but for fall I especially like Revolver. I’ll 2nd the comment about Zac Brown – love him…also like listening to Rodney Atkins this time of year. I’ll also toss out there that Frank Sinatra during fall is a good thing.
The worst of many bad things about living in Florida now is the utter lack of any real fall season. Looking forward to getting home to it for the Browns-Seahawks game in a couple weeks.
Mumford and Sons for sure–“Sigh No More” just has a good fall feel to it. The Avett Brothers “Country Was” is another. Tom Petty’s “Full Moon Fever” is a definite, as I recall “Runnin’ Down a Dream” being played regularly coming out of breaks during the Browns pregame radio show back in the day. And Pearl Jam’s “Vs.”, which I listened to til the tape wore out.
anything by Mogwai has always had a very fall/winter vibe to me. Scottish instrumental band, very dark. Great stuff.
Most of Neil Youngs early records as well, After the Goldrush, Harvest, etc.