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Title: Songs For Fall
Post by: LithoJazzoSphere on September 23, 2022, 05:05:20 AM
Fall is here!  My fall playlist might be one of my favorites.  I've been tweaking it for quite awhile and really like the results.  Here are some of the highlights.  Share yours, and/or just talk about autumnal-feeling albums.

Autumn's Grey Solace - "Waning Faithful"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6mt9XYUTs

Dark Tranquillity - "Through Ebony Archways"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oo50aDFNRg

Daylight Dies - "Cathedral"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wu-RVlftok

Dimension Zero - "Everlasting Neverness"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM_LKAQSbBI

Don Ross - "Rockbarra"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guyYPYzswgs

Draconian - "The Failure Epiphany"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tL48gLVzA

Eventide - "Vargavidderna"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDfLio_A7g

Evergrey - "Madness Caught Another Victim"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry48qdWmAnE

Green Carnation - "The Burden Is Mine...Alone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2WJu2Tn-Xg

Halifax Pier - "Untitled"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4VidB-95Q

In Flames - "Pallar Anders Visa"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeqMUkSWO8

Justin King - "Something About Angels"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOqvZto5M_8

Kingfisher Sky - "Rise From the Flames"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WyzRwttyE

King's X - "Honesty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBA4IItv58

Lacuna Coil - "When a Dead Man Walks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqTHzEXgWs

Love Outside Andromeda - "Something White and Sigmund"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-Ga-DE8ws

Michael Hedges - "Fusion of the Five Elements"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIlGYbOw1c

Mike Dawes - "The Impossible"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cTyjqpN9U

Nick Drake - "Hazey Jane I"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfYnXGV8PfM

Nightingale - "I Return"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2YlYssxCo

Nightrage - "The Howls of the Wolves"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m223rC6sIeA

Noumena - "Monument of Pain",
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7Ju-j-1ZM

Opeth - "Haxprocess"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CNQjTtVRl8

Phil Keaggy - "Fragile Forest"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ-XAcdTYZY

Piano Magic - "The Unwritten Law"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3hl2dKwpyY

Ram-Zet - "Pray"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at79EmUDJQI

Trees of Eternity - "Hour of the Nightingale"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IWa9vmx8KY

Type O Negative - "Love You To Death",
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI6bA8eSYag

Witherscape - "Dead For Another Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIT1xFnWjbU

Some of these have many others that would work just as well.  A lot of them are just folky, acoustic, melancholic music, though a few other things slip through that are more halloween-ish, or for some reason just have a fall vibe to me, sometimes probably because I discovered and/or listened to them a lot in a fall. 
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: twosuitsluke on September 23, 2022, 05:11:57 AM
No Agalloch? Very much an autumn/winter band for me.

Also Buddyhunter1 sent me this in a roulette...

https://open.spotify.com/track/4JaOH4VGT40xGLcYAfK2FA?si=LSG5FGVNRY2lToHChCaHMQ&utm_source=copy-link (https://open.spotify.com/track/4JaOH4VGT40xGLcYAfK2FA?si=LSG5FGVNRY2lToHChCaHMQ&utm_source=copy-link)
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: LithoJazzoSphere on September 23, 2022, 05:25:22 AM
Yeah, I have a separate list for winter.  Agalloch is one of those bands I kind of like, but never really fell in love with.  Their music feels more wintry to me though. 
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Zydar on September 23, 2022, 05:30:59 AM
Pretty much anything from Opeth is fall to me, maybe also Porcupine Tree.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Stadler on September 23, 2022, 06:40:27 AM
Historically I listen to a lot of Genesis and Sabbath in the fall.   No reason to change course now! 
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Buddyhunter1 on September 23, 2022, 07:13:42 AM
No Agalloch? Very much an autumn/winter band for me.

Also Buddyhunter1 sent me this in a roulette...

https://open.spotify.com/track/4JaOH4VGT40xGLcYAfK2FA?si=LSG5FGVNRY2lToHChCaHMQ&utm_source=copy-link (https://open.spotify.com/track/4JaOH4VGT40xGLcYAfK2FA?si=LSG5FGVNRY2lToHChCaHMQ&utm_source=copy-link)

:tup
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: nick_z on September 23, 2022, 07:30:13 AM

Dark Tranquillity - "Through Ebony Archways"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oo50aDFNRg

Green Carnation - "The Burden Is Mine...Alone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2WJu2Tn-Xg

Lacuna Coil - "When a Dead Man Walks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqTHzEXgWs

Nightingale - "I Return"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2YlYssxCo

Witherscape - "Dead For Another Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIT1xFnWjbU


You've listed plenty of goodies...just like to highlights a few above from the "metalverse", as they are songs that don't often get mentioned, even from the artists. DT's Through Ebony Archways is beautiful (and, yes, very Fall-like). It's always been a favorite from Skydancer.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: ZirconBlue on September 23, 2022, 08:06:34 AM
A lot of Type O Negative songs fit the fall them, especially from October Rust.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: hefdaddy42 on September 23, 2022, 08:29:21 AM
Nice list!

Opeth feels like November to me, and I will be doing a complete listen-through then, accompanied by reading Jordan Blum's new book.

Shout-out for the Phil Keaggy tune.  Awesome choice.

Fall is odd for me.  Definitely less happy/major music, but not yet quite as dark/heavy as winter.  I like a lot of acoustic stuff in the fall, things that I could potentially play/sing myself around a fire pit.  Dawes is good for the fall, Nick Drake, maybe some Cohen, lots of stuff really.  The time for Beach Boys is over lol.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Grappler on September 23, 2022, 09:51:25 AM
Sentenced - Dead Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gP31FzPI9w
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: HOF on September 23, 2022, 09:59:36 AM
I think classic prog in general is a very fall/winter genre. Mellotrons go great with a gray day. Early Phil Collins Genesis is very autumnal. A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, especially. Evidence of Autumn which is Duke era is a great fall track.

Transatlantic and The Flower Kings are two other prog bands that remind me of fall. Moon Safari is another for whatever reason. I think a lot depends on the whether when I first got into an album.

 
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Lethean on September 23, 2022, 10:04:33 AM
"Now, October..." :) https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI (https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI)

I don't generally separate fall and winter as far as my music associations in my brain go.  So most of this will apply to both seasons.  I also am an album listener so I have fewer individual songs and more bands/albums instead.  I think I do have a few more songs for winter though.

Katatonia - besides Lethean, any and all, but I did make a point to listen to The Fall of Hearts yesterday. :)

Riverside - pretty much their whole catalog too, and Lunatic Soul as well.  Wasteland was a fall/winter thing for me the year it came out.

Leprous - pretty much everything here too.  But the last three albums have been released in late summer or fall, and so was Bilateral, so much of my discovery period for those albums was fall.  And Tall Poppy Syndrome is very much a fall album for me. I don't know when it was released but I bought it in the fall of 2010 and have a lot of memories of driving around with it and taking walks and leaves crunching beneath my feet, etc.

For a specific song, My Domain from Borknagar reminds me of fall. (Hopefully 425 is enjoying it as we speak).  And their song Up North is a song for all seasons, and while I love the summer verse, the fall and winter verses are next level awesome.

Up North: https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE (https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE)
My Domain: https://youtu.be/VBjxml8rUQA (https://youtu.be/VBjxml8rUQA)
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: nick_z on September 23, 2022, 10:41:50 AM
Sentenced - Dead Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gP31FzPI9w

Ooh, that's a good one. Their Frozen album is probably their most "autumnal" (despite the title, I guess  :biggrin:)

"Now, October..." :) https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI (https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI)

Lethean is so good...and for some reason I connected to it even more after I saw their "lockdown" streaming concert live, and they opened with it. Such weird times. And that concert felt so intimate, as if we truly were in the room with them (it wasn't super-high end production, but I always thought the camera work was excellent and did really make you feel "there")

And their song Up North is a song for all seasons, and while I love the summer verse, the fall and winter verses are next level awesome.

Up North: https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE (https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE)


Another fantastic one. One of my favorite songs that year.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: nick_z on September 23, 2022, 10:56:50 AM
Amorphis - Summer's End

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVBE0cvDukE

Not just in the title  ;) Love the mood in this one. Great closer too.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Lethean on September 23, 2022, 11:18:33 AM
I should add Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray to my list.  I think overall FW has a fall/winter vibe for me, but that album in particular.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Lethean on September 23, 2022, 11:26:11 AM


"Now, October..." :) https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI (https://youtu.be/oz7E_BsKrVI)

Lethean is so good...and for some reason I connected to it even more after I saw their "lockdown" streaming concert live, and they opened with it. Such weird times. And that concert felt so intimate, as if we truly were in the room with them (it wasn't super-high end production, but I always thought the camera work was excellent and did really make you feel "there")

Yes!  I was so excited to hear them start with Lethean.  Very intimate and really special set.  It was so nice to have something like that so early during the lockdown.  And I love that the Dead Air release that they put out didn't include any fixes whatsoever; it wasn't a perfect performance, but it was special and it's nice to have it captured exactly as it was.

Quote
And their song Up North is a song for all seasons, and while I love the summer verse, the fall and winter verses are next level awesome.

Up North: https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE (https://youtu.be/NAKWe0DkBsE)


Another fantastic one. One of my favorite songs that year.
Mine as well.  :)  :metal
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: hefdaddy42 on September 23, 2022, 11:34:03 AM
I should add Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray to my list.  I think overall FW has a fall/winter vibe for me, but that album in particular.
Good call
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: emtee on September 23, 2022, 11:37:42 AM
George Winston - Autumn full album. Wonderful listen if you dig solo piano.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: SoundscapeMN on September 23, 2022, 11:38:03 AM
No Agalloch? Very much an autumn/winter band for me.

totally, especially The White EP.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: King Postwhore on September 23, 2022, 11:42:40 AM
Waterfall by The Neal Morse Band reminds me of fall.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: nick_z on September 23, 2022, 11:52:54 AM
A couple more entries...the mood of these feels right for the season too:

Kent - 400 slag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikX4o6pokUI

Kent - Den döda vinkeln
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAcEWgXgPU
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: lonestar on September 23, 2022, 12:15:22 PM
Mechanical Poet- Clue of a Scarecrow

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mechaniccal+poet+clue+of+scarecrow&&view=detail&mid=ED5A32BA7B40E3EEA388ED5A32BA7B40E3EEA388&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmechaniccal%2Bpoet%2Bclue%2Bof%2Bscarecrow%26FORM%3DHDRSC4 (https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mechaniccal+poet+clue+of+scarecrow&&view=detail&mid=ED5A32BA7B40E3EEA388ED5A32BA7B40E3EEA388&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmechaniccal%2Bpoet%2Bclue%2Bof%2Bscarecrow%26FORM%3DHDRSC4)
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: Ben_Jamin on September 23, 2022, 02:41:42 PM
Fall is officially Opeth Season for me...

Specifically Blackwater Park is my go to fall album. The songs that represent it best are Bleak and Harvest.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: LithoJazzoSphere on September 23, 2022, 02:51:02 PM
Also "Patterns in the Ivy", "Still Patterns in the Ivy Pt. 2", and "Still Day Beneath the Sun". 

Pretty much anything from Opeth is fall to me, maybe also Porcupine Tree.

"Blackest Eyes" especially works, it's almost an Opeth song. 

Amorphis - Summer's End

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVBE0cvDukE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVBE0cvDukE)

Not just in the title  ;) Love the mood in this one. Great closer too.

Argh, should have had this one, it's definitely been a staple listen in many late summers/early falls. 

I'm sure I'll continue to occasionally think of songs I probably should have had in the list (although I was trying to limit it somewhat, though it quickly started getting out of hand, oh well), but here's another more recent one.

Kaki King - "Can't Touch This or That or You or My Face"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7BKX9P5M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7BKX9P5M)
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: The Letter M on September 23, 2022, 05:11:04 PM
I think classic prog in general is a very fall/winter genre. Mellotrons go great with a gray day. Early Phil Collins Genesis is very autumnal. A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, especially. Evidence of Autumn which is Duke era is a great fall track.

Transatlantic and The Flower Kings are two other prog bands that remind me of fall. Moon Safari is another for whatever reason. I think a lot depends on the whether when I first got into an album.

Came to say that Wind & Wuthering is my go-to autumn album. I see A Trick Of The Tail as a late-summer album, so both go hand-in-hand with September. And Then There Were Three and Duke feel like late-fall and early-winter albums to me. It's funny how those four just fit the latter-year seasons so well.

-Marc.
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: ReaperKK on September 23, 2022, 05:30:54 PM
A lot of great tracks here and great thread idea! My first thought is "The Sun in September" by Matthew Halsall: https://open.spotify.com/track/0YeP4gSyzoUA8O09B0MBaF?si=82dfb4b6490c4ba3

I'm also a fan of the new age artist Jami Sieber:

"Maenam" - https://open.spotify.com/track/6EUNwDbEUtQL4yMEVFiS0c?si=45d10a86aef34174

"A Dialogue Of Silk" - https://open.spotify.com/track/3V1bwwx5YqBS5gQeGbnf7a?si=7a1fa240b5494def
Title: Re: Songs For Fall
Post by: ReaperKK on September 23, 2022, 05:34:07 PM
Fall is here!  My fall playlist might be one of my favorites.  I've been tweaking it for quite awhile and really like the results.  Here are some of the highlights.  Share yours, and/or just talk about autumnal-feeling albums.

Don Ross - "Rockbarra"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guyYPYzswgs

Justin King - "Something About Angels"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOqvZto5M_8

Michael Hedges - "Fusion of the Five Elements"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIlGYbOw1c

Mike Dawes - "The Impossible"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cTyjqpN9U

Phil Keaggy - "Fragile Forest"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ-XAcdTYZY 

These are awesome tunes! If you like the acoustic vibe check out:

Michael Kelsey -  "Solace" https://open.spotify.com/track/4Tj1xVseyFIEifWb1p7w0U?si=0df3226cfb4747c5
Michael Kelsey - "Sleepwalker" https://open.spotify.com/track/1vjphcw26IJpuqt20ZnxX0?si=439cd73ef2eb468a