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

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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.)

Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:02 (three years ago)

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.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:07 (three years ago)

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.

fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:09 (three years ago)

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

brimstead, Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:16 (three years ago)

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.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:33 (three years ago)

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

Indexed, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:02 (three years ago)

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

Left, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:34 (three years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:36 (three years ago)

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

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:40 (three years ago)

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

fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:41 (three years ago)

milkshake was a memorable summer

Left, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:59 (three years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:06 (three years ago)

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


Looooool

Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:12 (three years ago)

Omg

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:59 (three years ago)

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

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:01 (three years ago)

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.

blatherskite, Friday, 3 September 2021 16:22 (three years ago)

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

Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 September 2021 16:36 (three years ago)

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.

Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 September 2021 16:42 (three years ago)

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

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

Taliban! (PBKR), Friday, 3 September 2021 16:49 (three years ago)

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.

Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 3 September 2021 16:58 (three years ago)


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