Summer's come and gone
Posted by Five-Centres on 17 September 2008 - 8:46am.
As the nights draw in - and unbelievably they already are - and the days get shorter, music in the F-C house goes all Kate Bush, Pentangle and Northstar Grassman and The Ravens. You know, bucolic, woodsmoke, falling leaves, sinister folk.
But there's still room for some dark Cure or even Tracey Ullman's They Don't Know, cos it reminds me of one autumn many, many years ago.
What's your soundtrack to the season?
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Autumn
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Storms Over Still Water is a cosy evening cracker.
The Falling Lea...
ah no, that would be very, very wrong of me.
The Zombies' Odessey & Oracle or Mercury Rev's Deserter Songs fit or their fellow travellers The Silent League's The Orchestra, Has Sadly, Refused. The Eric Mathews single Fanfare as introduced to me by Mark & Lard always tugs at my autumnal pullover.
Time of No Reply
Most of Nick Drake's stuff has an autumnal feel but this is the most specific:
Summer was gone and the heat died down
And Autumn reached for her golden crown
I looked behind as I heard a sigh
But this was the time of no reply.
Lovely lyrics innit?
Renaissance - Northern Lights - This one always does it for me!
Is it too crushingly obvious
Is it too crushingly obvious to say Justin Hayward's Forever Autumn? I think it's genuinely lovely.
And Dream Academy's Indian Summer, though that may be a tad optimistic.
No, I love that song
And Donovan's Season Of The Witch. And anything by Cat Stevens - the man's voice sounds like leaves falling from trees.
Glad you asked
Nashville Skyline, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Dylan's 'Not Dark Yet'.
Sinister folk! Quite right!
This time of year I find myself playing Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Marissa Nadler ...
It's not that I don't play them at other times. But especially at the moment. I don't put on a lot of Orbital, put it that way.
Well it's spring here...
...so, er suffer ye Northern Hemisphere types.