Do you permanently associate a particular album or song with the specific season or weather event when you first heard it?

For me the music of Boards of Canada always makes me think of chilly autumn days. I first heard Campfire Headphase for instance, on a rainy autumn day driving in the rural areas of the DC exurbs.

Disco Inferno's DI Goes Pop always makes me think of watching falling snow outside my window when I first heard it. (Also had to play "In Sharky Waters" twice right away cause it absolutely floored me.)

I spent a lot of time walking around in the snow listening to the first Walkmen album right after I bought it. It's always sounded wintry to me since.

all summer jams work like this, guess "autumn jams" is a bit more niche, but the one that springs to mind for my is Bryter Layter, that is October in an old European city for me.

almost all the music i own is for nighttime and/or cloudy days

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I bought a cassette of Nico's Desertshore in the midst of a Minnesota winter and played it often in my car, so that album reminds me not of desert but of snow.

Yes for Autumn & Winter.

Autumn = Van Morrison's Moondance, Wilco's Being There, Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One ("Autumn Sweater", c'mon)
Winter = Radiohead's Kid A/Amnesiac, Songs:Ohia's The Magnolia Electric Co., Grouper's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, Patty Griffin's Impossible Dream

wire’s 154 is the most january music ever to me

aphex twin’s SAW1 is an early spring to which SAW2 is maybe better in some ways but also kind of a letdown

Grouper can be sort of chilly or muggy I’m not sure I find it hard to remember you know

the first time I listened to the Suicide album it was in the car during a snowstorm and it was a rear wheel drive with bald tires so I was sliding all over the place, it was fucking terrifying and not knowing what was gonna happen in "Frankie Teardrop" made it much worse

I don't remember when I first heard them, but here's how I classify Nico:

The Marble Index: 3 AM on a night in January
Desertshore: 6 PM on an evening in November

a friend has a story about being stuck in a car on a narrow country road during the foot & mouth outbreak in Jan 2001 while a forklift moved a pile of dead cows onto a huge bonfire in front of them, and the only CD they had to listen to was the Hanson Christmas album, that probably left a mental imprint

milkshake was a memorable summer

I remember being home from college during winter break and I'd hang out at a friend's house and we'd just stay up forever, like I remember it being 4 AM and we were all sleep deprived and weird and we put on MTV, they played the "Fergalicious" video and we just stared at it jaws agape because it was so weird. then I drove to my Dad's place to sleep, only to be awoken by my stepbrother playing XBox live once he got home from school at 3 PM, he was talking to someone from a foreign country about "American music" and playing "Smack That" by Acorn on repeat for over an hour

a friend has a story about being stuck in a car on a narrow country road during the foot & mouth outbreak in Jan 2001 while a forklift moved a pile of dead cows onto a huge bonfire in front of them, and the only CD they had to listen to was the Hanson Christmas album, that probably left a mental imprint

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Answer to the title question is yes, but some records have a strong sense of seasonality that overrides Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories.

I first listened PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake while walking on a particularly chill winter night; the starkness of the music seemed to perfectly match the bare trees and frost, so it’s permanently a winter album to me.

pretty much EVERY time I hear "Lean Back" these days, I remember walking into my friend's brother's house in Miami in 2004 and seeing it on the plasma tv in the living room, and thinking "this song's gonna be huge".

like definitely can't hear it without that specific memory.

every time I hear it I drive to Miami, instantly

and literally I've been revisiting old Gucci Mane mixtape tunes lately because they've transported me back to the summer of 2010, which was one of the best times in my life. the feelings still remain. in fact, I put on Lemonade int he car and immediately pulled over and got an energy drink at the 7/11. the same flavor I used to drink every day in my bedroom as I watched kung fu movies and listened to Gucci Mane.

i'm all about this associative shit.

Grateful Dead are like wearing white: between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Fall = Dylan, Pentangle, Fairport, ISB.
Rainy Fall = In a Silent Way

Not music, but I finished the last third of Catch-22 while a hurricane passed over New England, a rare enough thing there. Now in Carolina the event always makes me think of Yossarian.

A also bought Astral Weeks in the dead of New England winter solely because it was an album I thought I was supposed to have according to the blue Rolling Stone record guide. I didn't listen the night I bought it, but plopped it on the next day when a snowstorm put the school busses on a 2 hour delay. It did not rock, and I did not like it, and still associate the album with that disappointing wasting a precious free morning in the depths of my high school misery.

Not quite the same, but every time I hear Van Morrison's "Dweller on the Threshold" (which isn't that often even though I like it), it immediately brings to mind listening to it on a Van Morrison cassette while I was driving through the Rocky Mountains on my way to California, the only time I've ever done that (so far). Obviously there are other songs on that cassette, and I listened to other things too (John Coltrane's studio recording of "My Favorite Things" also brings the same memory to mind), but very few songs trigger that memory so vividly. Not sure why, but it may have something to do with the music accompanying that sensation of driving that fast, curvy highway very well on a cool, crisp, sunny and clear June day, which I imagine is common weather at that elevation.

Posting because I just put on Beautiful Vision.

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

this is an autumn record for me, always

I think I've mentioned it elsewhere but I hid out in my bedroom and put on John Coltrane's Live in Seattle at the moment Hurricane Andrew was hitting South Florida in 1992. It's a vivid memory because the music seemed to match the storm outside. Lots of wild blowing, sheets of sound rising and falling.

first time I heard the s/t Suicide record I was driving home from work in a snowstorm in a rear wheel drive car with bald tires, needless to say "Frankie Teardrop" scared the shit outta me and I haven't been able to hear it since without thinking of that

AMC's San Francisco is always going to sound like October to me

i permanently associate reading gene wolfe's 'book of the new sun' with listening to 'transient random-noise bursts with announcements' but that's a different thread

which obviously won't stop me from mentioning it. great books/album

having fun reading this thread again. the Hanson anecdote still kills me.

A chronic feeling I’m having when I’m driving anywhere is this: “I’m gonna get in an fatal accident, my car will be overturned and my neck broken, and my lifeless body will spend an eternal ten minutes lying there, conscious and dying, before death finally comes for me….

“Is this (*waves hand at the stereo*) what you want to be the soundtrack to that moment?”

For this reason I often drive in silence; and when I’m listening to music I’m almost always listening to Black Sabbath, it’s really the music I most associate with my future final moments

i permanently associate reading gene wolfe's 'book of the new sun' with listening to 'transient random-noise bursts with announcements' but that's a different thread

I have a similar thing with George Orwell's 1984 and OK Computer. It helps that it also thematically fits.

I listened to the CD of Neil Young's Harvest Moon a lot during the Christmas break of '93, back when new CD acquisitions were still a fairly rare and precious thing, and I still feel like throwing it on every holiday season.

Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is a definitive cold, fall album for me. Spoon's Kill the Moonlight is that first warm spring day where you can drive around with the car windows down.

All these years later I still associate Beck's Odelay with a particularly bad migraine headache I had. Why I continued to listen to this album during the headache is something I can't really answer, I guess just because I had bought it that day and really wanted to hear it. It's kind of ruined the album for me. Even typing this post is giving me headache vibes.

Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive : i think i first heard this on a rainy day in early autumn... starts with "September" - can't really listen to it outside of autumn/winter

Murray Street by Sonic Youth is a full on winter record for me. Obviously it came out in the summer of '02, and the cover art evokes the summer, but I didn't pick it up until deep into the following winter. The twinkling guitars and the feedback evoke lights reflected on ice and cold wind for me, and the bass and drums are like the warmth of some refuge.

Vespertine the other obvious one! weirdly my memory had been that it came out in winter; it is a winter record! but seems it came out on 21st August... I probably just listened to it non stop as that year turned to autumn and winter.