Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen, Disintegration by the Cure, Nirvana unplugged, and my favorite album ever, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Do not even try to argue with me by suggesting Harvest Moon
It's interesting to think about how much the video comes to play a part in this... like I completely agree with you and also Pictures of You sounds like snow...
That Jayhawks album is perfect for fall, but I would argue that Big Star’s Radio City and Petty’s Highway Companion are their fall albums. #1 and Wildflowers belong to late spring and summer.
Part of Wildflowers being autumnal to me is probably tied to it being released in the fall of 94. I can't detach it from the primacy of those memories.
And Radio City is a good call, even just because it's got "September Gurls."
Murmur is absolutely a fall record (Perfect Circle...swoon!). I'm thinking "autumn record" and "Sunday night music" are close bedfellows? Beautiful but ominous, reverb-forward, downtempo. Yo La Tengo's Autumn Sweater would be a great playlist addition. Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen, Current Joys' A Different Age, This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears, Feel Good Lost by Broken Social Scene... all fall feels. I agree with the Replacements comment too, but there's a strict divide of their summer songs and fall/winter ones for me. Here we're talking Within Your Reach, Swinging Party, Here Comes a Regular, Skyway, Unsatisfied...
I’ve been listening to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. It feels like a September album to me. I also think Portishead’s Dummy has autumn vibes. And Richard Hawley - Late Night Final or Cole’s Corner.
A little outside the F&L/Yasi lane, but nearly anything by The Band and (for some reason) Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die. Yes to Harvest, too. Tbh, my criteria is any album with shades of brown, yellow, or orange on the cover art, sry.
Not as exquisite as Murmur but R.E.M's New Adventures in Hi-Fi came out September of my sophomore year in college and it can instantly transport me to a gray chilly fall day. Give it a second listen (or a first if you haven't seriously). Seriously, this album does not work while the sun is shining.
Similarly, the For Squirrels album does the same.
Finally I'm going to go out on a limb and say Frou Frou (Imogen Heap & Guy Sigsworth)- Details (or if you want to pull the thread, a little, the Garden State Soundtrack). Despite it coming out in July, I didn't hear it until September and the vibes seem way more Fall than summer anyway.
Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen, Disintegration by the Cure, Nirvana unplugged, and my favorite album ever, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Do not even try to argue with me by suggesting Harvest Moon
Ocean Rain, good call! Disintegration is winter for me :)
Lullaby is the perfect Halloween song
It's interesting to think about how much the video comes to play a part in this... like I completely agree with you and also Pictures of You sounds like snow...
Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde is totally a fall album. Here’s my fall playlist - maybe something on here can help fill in the 90 hours.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03wRTGIAvUTPnllikUw4wv?si=wZj1hwBLSvuFNSCuckRRqQ&pi=ca7Bwm4hRH2Ea
you're so on the money with this one
Kind of a fall/winter tweener but ‘Bows + Arrows’ by The Walkmen
yes
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter & Five Leaves Left
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
The Clientele - (really any album of theirs, but especially) Suburban Light & Strange Geometry
Ida - Will You Find Me
American Football - s/t
Red House Painters - RHP I & Songs for a Blue Guitar
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Idaho - Levitate
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
I fully acknowledge my Fall picks lean heavily toward Scottish twee and early 00’s post-emo indie rock.
Some fall albums for me:
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic / The Sundays
Tomorrow The Green Grass / The Jayhawks
pretty much all Bill Callahan
Wrecking Ball / Emmylou Harris
#1 Record / Big Star
Sea Change and Mutations / Beck
Punisher / Phoebe Bridgers
Temple of the Dog
Wildflower / Tom Petty
TEMPLE OF THE DOG absolutely and yes Big Star #1 Record maybe (possibly late summer???)
That Jayhawks album is perfect for fall, but I would argue that Big Star’s Radio City and Petty’s Highway Companion are their fall albums. #1 and Wildflowers belong to late spring and summer.
Part of Wildflowers being autumnal to me is probably tied to it being released in the fall of 94. I can't detach it from the primacy of those memories.
And Radio City is a good call, even just because it's got "September Gurls."
I have so many memories around getting Wildflowers and it being released in November is not one of them.
Had to be there, I guess?
I don’t know what that means.
Murmur is absolutely a fall record (Perfect Circle...swoon!). I'm thinking "autumn record" and "Sunday night music" are close bedfellows? Beautiful but ominous, reverb-forward, downtempo. Yo La Tengo's Autumn Sweater would be a great playlist addition. Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen, Current Joys' A Different Age, This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears, Feel Good Lost by Broken Social Scene... all fall feels. I agree with the Replacements comment too, but there's a strict divide of their summer songs and fall/winter ones for me. Here we're talking Within Your Reach, Swinging Party, Here Comes a Regular, Skyway, Unsatisfied...
Feel Good Lost!!! Yessa.
This was fun. I also have The Glow on my list, and also:
- My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves
- Tom Waits, Bone Machine
- Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
- Cracker, Kerosene Hat
- The Cure, Disintegration
I’ve been listening to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. It feels like a September album to me. I also think Portishead’s Dummy has autumn vibes. And Richard Hawley - Late Night Final or Cole’s Corner.
Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend- so 90s.
A little outside the F&L/Yasi lane, but nearly anything by The Band and (for some reason) Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die. Yes to Harvest, too. Tbh, my criteria is any album with shades of brown, yellow, or orange on the cover art, sry.
I respect that criteria
All Replacements albums are fall albums
okay I actually have to disagree I feel like Mats is like song to song different seasons like for example "I Will Dare" is SO spring
very specific kind of Dude rock but The Dismemberment Plan's "Change" is a primo just-as-it-gets-cold album for me.
Not as exquisite as Murmur but R.E.M's New Adventures in Hi-Fi came out September of my sophomore year in college and it can instantly transport me to a gray chilly fall day. Give it a second listen (or a first if you haven't seriously). Seriously, this album does not work while the sun is shining.
Similarly, the For Squirrels album does the same.
Finally I'm going to go out on a limb and say Frou Frou (Imogen Heap & Guy Sigsworth)- Details (or if you want to pull the thread, a little, the Garden State Soundtrack). Despite it coming out in July, I didn't hear it until September and the vibes seem way more Fall than summer anyway.
“New Dawning Time” by Gardener
Raise by Swervedriver
Nico’s “Chelsea Girl” always screams fall to me. “These Days” just makes me want to walk around lower Manhattan wearing a light jacket.