Autumn Songs

[Phil_A]

For me, the Beach Boys "Till I Die" is the perfect music to accompany sitting outside watching the sun going down on an October evening, with a hint of chill in the air and the leaves just beginning to turn.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OcUeSDMll5s

Which songs for you best sum up that feeling of wistful melancholy as the summer passes and another year begins to fade?

[CaledonianGonzo]

'C'est le Vent, Betty' by Gabriel Yared.

the Beach Boys "Till I Die" i

Have you heard the alternate mix with the long instrumental intro that apears on the Endless Harmony Soundtrack?  The mix was reportedly done only for the engineer's self-interest with no intent for the song to see an official release - but I prefer it to the Surf's Up version.

[thehungerartist]

'Soldier Man' by Shack is my perfect Autumn song:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uekg1n

[buttgammon]

I always thought much of the first Durutti Column album sounded beautifully autumnal, especially songs like 'Beginning' and parts of 'Conduct', on which you can almost hear the leaves falling. It's just an all-round gorgeous album.

[The Widow of Brid]

Fotheringay - Fairport Convention

[alan nagsworth]

Yes, I'm really receiving folk music well these days, thanks in part to weekender's Go Folk Yourself mix, but definitely also thanks to the season. Darker early evenings and a blustery chill swaying my creaky third floor bedroom have put me in a nostalgic mood, as is always the way when Autumn rears its sleepy head. Must be that Seasonal Affective wotsizname, I don't feel the same when Spring comes around and even though it's a kind of dull melancholy, I quite enjoy the change in my emotions and the moods and actions it brings around.

Erm, nice idea for a thread, basically. Here's my contribution:
Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends/Bookends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24Yhd7N91s

The image of the old friends sat on their bench is very Autumnal, but all I can think about is if I'll still have the same close friends when I'm 70. I definitely like to think I'll still be listening to Paul and Art, so I guess anything can happen. I can't help thinking that had I learned to fully appreciate this song a few months back rather than in the last month, I wouldn't feel the same way about it. It would feel like being 70 is so much further away than it does now, which is probably where the Autumn theme ties is all together for me. I love it, and for that reason, I think it's a brilliant Autumn song.

[boxofslice]

This a perfect autumnal song from Jackson Browne

"Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them"

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tPk11AugG4c&feature=related[/youtube]

[The Widow of Brid]

This a perfect autumnal song from Jackson Browne

"Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them"

Oh! I was going to post that (albeit a different version). But my sleepy brain had mistakenly decided it had 'Autumn' in the title, rendering it too obvious. I fucking love that song.

[LadyDay]

The Auteurs - After Murder Park, is autumn to me, as is the whole of REM's Fables of the Reconstruction, but that's partly because it was a beutiful cold, crisp October night when I first saw them play it live at the Ritz in Manchester.

[Emma Raducanu]

Gravenhurst's Damage II

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qpg7ev

Makes me feel autumunal anyway as does Stir by Múm. Though Nagsworth pretty much mentioned the best, Simon and Garfunkel are difinately good for listening to when on a train station in Autumn.

[Jemble Fred]

'St Swithins Day' by Billy Bragg was made to accompany clear white skies and grey September mornings. But then the whole of 'Brewing Up With Billy Bragg' has the bittersweet bleak autumnal thing going on.

Oh, and the whole of 'Behaviour' by the Pet Shop Boys, especially (inevitably) 'My October Symphony'.

And on a similar tack, 'Am I Right?' by Erasure.

The end.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Africa Shox by Leftfield always makes me feel autumnal, but I think that's just because that's when it was released.

Even though I really like autumn, I tend to favour sombre, atmospheric sounding stuff at this time of year. Kid A and Psyence Fiction both get played a lot.

[non capisco]

as is the whole of REM's Fables of the Reconstruction, but that's partly because it was a beutiful cold, crisp October night when I first saw them play it live at the Ritz in Manchester.

That always used to be my least favourite IRS REM album when I was younger, I thought it sounded like REM with a cold, but I love it now. 'Driver 8' is such a great song.

My nomination is 'Mellow Doubt' by Teenage Fanclub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc5eDEYAbRQ
(Apologies for the slightly crappy audio on this live clip, YouTube doesn't seem to have the recorded version, and anyway the best version is the alternative CD2 single that was played in a slightly higher key blah blah geek blah)
It reminds me of strolling round Richmond in October in my 2nd year at uni, when I was obsessed with their 'Grand Prix' album.

[Johnny Yesno]

Danielle Dax's Hammerheads

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEYQRGgOIg

and Evil Honky Stomp

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux8pytIt7Gs

and Numb Companions

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WYUHVJmfRZY

[LadyDay]

That always used to be my least favourite IRS REM album when I was younger, I thought it sounded like REM with a cold, but I love it now. 'Driver 8' is such a great song.

Hah, it was actually the band's least favourite IRS album until fairly recently, partly because they made it in a wet and miserable London and weren't having a great time, in fact, it actually was REM with a cold! I always loved it, hearing the intro to Feeling Gravity's Pull gives me the shivers every time. It's a massive injustice that people think of them as another Coldplay, but I've given up trying to persuade people to actually listen to the first few albums, it's like trying to explain why you like the Smiths.

[Perkins]

Mixmaster Morris's remix of Coldcut's version of Autumn Leaves.

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pwrrxxoL99c[/youtube]

[Sam]

Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Nick Drake

[no_offenc]

Everything off OK Computer.

Also Geogaddi by Boards of Canada, but that's less the music and more because the first time I heard it (and then the subsequent fucking-loads-of times after that, nearly on repeat) was at a point when I had to get the bus home late on at night in the Autumn through some rather bleak bits of countryside and suburbia.

[dredd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA

[dredd]

Seymour Stein - Belle and Sebastian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WfU9gzJ-fA