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now that our summer (such as it was) is on the way out, any recommendations for albums to suit this time of year?

• John Martyn - Solid Air
  The Strawbs - From The Witchwood
  Bauhaus - Mask
  Loop - Fade Out

nice choices

i'd also recommend james taylor's "best of" and patti smith's "horses" for when one feels in that kind of mood...

incidentally, i've seen that "witchwood" album kicking around 2nd hand shops for years - i assume its not referring to the witchwood gig venue on ashton-under-lyne?

don't think so QB it's from the very early 70s

James Blast wrote:don't think so QB it's from the very early 70s

so is the witchwood in ashton

shame though. its a great venue - some absolutely superb bands have played there over the years

damn - I thought this thread was going to be about the latest shades of Dulux paint.

if you like that kind of stuff, any early "autechre" stuff is good for autumn listening too - "amber" especially.

James Blast wrote:The Strawbs

I'm an onion man.

lazarus corporation wrote:damn - I thought this thread was going to be about the latest shades of Dulux paint.

I was thinking it was about those CDs you see in Marks and Sparks, generally purchased by the kind of person who frequents the Mind Body Spirit section in bookshops.

Now, Mr Blast, I have to take issue with your inclusion of 'Mask', by Bauhaus. That is without question a winter album (as are all albums by The 'Haus). Everyone knows that! What's the matter with you, man!

Sorry, don't mind me, I think it's often a matter of when one purchases a record (I got 'Mask' for Christmas a few years back). I have to confess, I actually plan when to buy certain records, because they get so inextricably linked with the time I buy them in my head - and I want to get the right ones linked to the right seasons. Am I making any sense?

Yeah so anyway, here's my pick of Autumn records - watch and learn, James!

Anything by Nick Cave
To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
Some Girls.. - Sisters
Tinderbox - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Nico - Drama of Exile
I would say Patti Smith, if I hadn't gone and bought 'Horses' in April, so that's when it reminds me of. Her sound is better suited to Autumn, I think.

I also listen to a lot of EBM, synthpop and industrial in Autumn, but that's in anticipation of Winter.

We had joy we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.

The Sun was my local as a lad. And Joy was a very game girl.

Francis wrote:

James Blast wrote:The Strawbs

I'm an onion man.

have you got layers then?

If you're wanting *THAT* Autumn feeling (definitions vary, but you KNOW what I mean)...

...Then Mr David Sylvian (formerly of Japan - the band not the country) will always provide...

Try these albums and feel suitably...melancholy:

* Brilliant Trees
* Gone To Earth
* Secrets Of The Beehive (this is a particularly autumnal classic...especially the rather appropriately autumnally named 'September')

If these don't make you sigh in a what-coulda-been-but-there's-still-hope-just-not-that-much sorta way then nothing will...You clearly have no soul...

Plus, if these don't work (my god, what do you need?) try Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden or Laughing Stock or Mark Hollis' (of Talk Talk) solo album from 1999(ish)...

boudicca wrote:Anything by Nick Cave

Talking of which...Mr Cave and The Bad Seeds' latest is a f*cking classic!!! Listened more to Abbatoir Blues than the other one, but bloody hell...he's on form!!! but that's for another strand perhaps!

Summer!

Beth Gibbon and Rustin Man's Out of Season is a great autumn album. Anything very sad and poignant, really. Bury Me Deep is an autumn song. Perhaps Lights too, or that may be winter: the night draws near and the daylight fades...
Floodland is obviously an autumn album, and was released close to my birthday, but is a rather strange variety of autumn record I think. A Forest by the Cure. Anything by Nick Drake. Anything you associate with going back to school, or starting college...

boudicca wrote:...the Mind Body Spirit section in bookshops...

Is it a coincidence that the word "Brain" doesn't figure in the name of that section?

Kate Bush - Kick Inside or Lionheart.

Definitely music to watch leaves fall off trees by.

Lars Svensson wrote:

boudicca wrote:Anything by Nick Cave

Talking of which...Mr Cave and The Bad Seeds' latest is a f*cking classic!!! Listened more to Abbatoir Blues than the other one, but bloody hell...he's on form!!! but that's for another strand perhaps!

Abbatoir Blues is a cracking title, IMHO. Good description of his own music... much better than "industrial groove machine"...

The Chameleons

...automn leaves are falling....

Anything by Raison d'Etre, Boards of Canada (yes, my new fave band ), The Gathering, Anathema and Portishead.

The new Troissoeur.

Mezzanine by Massive Attack.

The postrock of Godspeed you Black Emperor and Anekdoten (SWE).

And of course the For Greater Good project, which is nearly finished.

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:And of course the For Greater Good project, which is nearly finished.

waits patiently

The Pizzicato Five.

No really.

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my nightmare !!! (verry nice for the Autumn Moods)

Some how this albums keeps popi'n up every time at this time of the yaer. The music make's you feel like the cold air out side, but still keeps you safe !

Kiss of death from the border country.... and anything by Cindytalk.

Oh, and get a copy of the compendium 'Death' published by Granta, especially the story about Robinson, mystery p-sshead in Soho. Thinking about that guy will keep you occupied when you're by the fireplace.