Obligatory Fall Music Mix
My friends always joke about how much i link certain music to certain days/seasons/times-of-the-day, but i think it’s pretty valid. Not to say i can’t listen to that music if it isn’t in that specific environment but some music just seems better when it’s in the morning, or the spring, 3AM, etc.
Now that the leaves are falling off the trees and there has been a cosntant fog/mist the past 48 hours here in baltimore, i think we can officially say the dreary days of fall are upon us. Not the early days of fall, where the heat and humidity give way to more comfortable weekends with colorful trees and rediscovered cozy sweaters, but the “other side” of fall. Where the days are dark, the trees are becoming exponentially bare and the air much much cooler. It’s times like this that the following music seems to just “fit”:
The Arcade Fire – In The Backseat
Band of Horses The General Specific
Elliott Smith – Between the Bars
Elliott Smith – Talking to Mary (demo)
Jose Gonzales – Love Will Tear us Apart (live)
Sufjan Stevens – To be Alone With You
Red House Painters – Have You Forgotten (live)
The Wrens – 13 Months in 6 minutes
Great mix! Thank you! I also associate a lot of music with the seasons, and I’m glad you included a Ryan Adams song as Whiskeytown’s Pneumonia is some of my favorite Fall music.
on November 15th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Looks like another kickass mix- any word on when the new wrens cd is coming out?
on November 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I listened to that Magnolia soundtrack (with Wise Up, among other Aimee Mann songs) for an entire semester my jr. year of college. Great song/soundtrack.
on November 17th, 2008 at 9:53 am
thanks, glad everyone is enjoying it. rumor has it that MAYBE sometime next year the wrens will be putting out a new album. but we’ve heard that before. we can only hope.
on November 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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on November 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Oh, Cat Power just after Band of Horses, great. I really agree with that season/music stuff. Even more. The weather, each day, each hour put different songs in my headphones.
on November 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Been looking for this Cat Power track for a long time. Thanks!
on November 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
thanks a lot, perfect timing for that cold rainy weather, here in Paris
on November 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
You can never go wrong with Jeff Buckley’s cover of “Hallellujah”. Better even than Cohen’s original. BTW I tweeted your list.
on December 1st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
yeah, LOVE that cover.
on December 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
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on December 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
The Sun Kil Moon song you have up is actually a live version of “Have You Forgotten.”
on December 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
you’re absolutely right Adam…DOH…thanks for that catch. And it’s Red House Painters. Changing it now.
on December 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm