Albums for crisp Autumn mornings

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1. The Notorious Byrd Brothers

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

2. Miles Davis In A Silent Way

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

3. so far, so good, so what

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

4. Grenadine - Goya

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Laura Watling - Early Morning Walk

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Didn't we do this already????

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE FALL ALBUM HERE

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

5. Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

6. Dave Brubeck - Impressions of Tokyo

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

So anyways....,

7. Weekend - "La Variete"

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

8. Wilco and Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

9. Neil Young Harvest

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

What is it about autumn that makes acoustic guitars sound so right?

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

10. Ahmad Jamal Ahmad's Blues

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

What is it about autumn that makes acoustic guitars sound so right?

Morning wood

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Ba-dum-TISH

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

11. Pet Shop Boys - Behavior
12. The Cure - 17 Seconds

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

13. Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20 1992

― Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

14. Pretty much anything by Van Morrison.
15. "Duets," Helen Merrill/Ron Carter.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

16. The Association - Waterbeds In Trinidad. Of course you have to find it first.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

17. Gin Blossoms' New Miserable Experience is a very good fall album. What a great, underrated album.

18. Also, at the risk of sounding trite, Autumn by George Winston perfectly encapsulates fall.

19. I haven't listened to this in a very long time, but I remember that the Greenberry Woods' Rapple Dapple was nice in the fall too.

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Uh...

~~19. I haven't listened to this in a very long time, but I remember that the Greenberry Woods' Rapple Dapple was nice in the fall too.~~

this has not aged well.

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

20. Galaxie 500 - Anything

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Samp Prekop's debut.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

21. yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out
22. the sundays - summertime
23. mojave 3 - excuses for travellers
24. damon and naomi - with ghost

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

25. Kinks-Something Else

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

26. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

27. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 September 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

28. incredible string band s/t
29. flying burrito brothers - gilded palace of sin
30. neil young - comes a time
31. steely dan - can't buy a thrill

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

it might snow here saturday, tears in x-ray eyes 'half life' would be lovely then.

― keyth (keyth), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

32.coil - black antlers
33.led zepplin - houses of the holy (skip dancing days)

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

aerial m - aerial m

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, and any of the books' albums

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

maybe not for the morning, but i couldn't picture fall without listening to Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

34. Can - Future Days

― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

35. silver jews - the natural bridge

― held tony (held tony), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

36. Mississippi John Hurt -- Avalon Blues

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, that's nice. Hurt's so gentle, you could listen to him every morning for the rest of your life. There was a thread here on "happiest lyric lines" and one of my picks was (the later than "Avalon Blues") "Good to the last drop, just like it says on the can."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

37. scott 3
38. scott 4

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

39. Jens Lekman - Oh you're so silent Jens
40. Mark Hollis
41. Common - Be

― jackl (jackl), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

The Feelies "The Good Earth"
The Feelies "Only Life"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Above selections = #42 & #43, just to maintain decorum.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I've been through my collection, wondering which albums would be most appropriate for crisp autumn mornings. For me, such an album needs to be extremely vivid, psychedelic, involving without being too intrusive, not entirely comprehendable, painted in broad, melting brushstrokes, reflective and generally uniform in sound.

Programming this in, the best results, as I have discovered, are probably Neutral Milk Hotel's ITAOTS, Jesu's recent Silver EP, Ride's Today Forever EP (mostly for 'Today', which is probably the most fitting song I can think of for this thread), XTC's Nonsuch, and various early Verve stuff (early singles + A Storm In Heaven).

Much of this falls under the 'shoegaze' arc; it seems to me like there are different 'moods' of shoegaze, and that the more immediately euphoric, fast-paced albums of that genre would strike a perfect fit with the crisp autumn morning scenario. I was half-tempted to throw Pygmalion into this list, but no, no, no, that album, although it has the right tonal qualities, is too slow, introverted and private an affair; it feels like it wants you to be the only person in on its fascinating little world, whilst the others I've mentioned feel like they're broadcasting their messages of bliss to as many people as have the means to hear them.

XTC's Nonsuch is in my opinion their finest hour (I am aware that this is an unpopular opinion amongst XTC fans), but to these ears its bittersweet vibe is unmatched elsewhere inside the canon. Lacking the precision 1980's production values of their previous albums, it managed to sound both more restrained and more captivating, in essence more timeless than their other works. As cerebral pop songcraft goes, it's tough to beat, but the reason it works so well as crisp autumn morning fare is that the songs lack any sort of intimacy; they, again, deliver their hooks and their pastoral sentiments without the merest hint of secrecy or guilt; they are proud of themselves and they are eager to paint as full an aural picture as can be mustered. I also challenge you all to go outdoors listening to 'Then She Appeared' and not get lost in reverie for a minute or two.

The Neutral Milk Hotel album is the only other non-shoegaze material on the list, and although some might say it betrays my lack of acoustic-guitar material that I have not seen fit to include any more than this here, it is to my opinion that mere acoustic-guitar is not enough to fulfil the qualities of an October morning. It requires a third dimension, an extra psychedelic edge, for me, and ITAOTS provides this with its assortment of buzzing, clanging and whirring sounds (I forget the instruments that create these noises, except for the 'musical saws' of the title-track, but I am well aware of the effects they create), leaving the listener slightly disorientated, slightly hard-pressed to believe he is hearing quite what is being produced by his speakers, giddy with hope, lust, and longing.

This is a highly interesting question, for the crisp autumn morning is as perfect a time as any to indulge one's senses, active and hypersensitive as they are at such a time.

('Unlucky to miss out' song: The Dukes Of Stratosphear's 'What In The World??...', seeing as XTC have already had their slice of pie.)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

(The Byrds would have also gotten a mention but for the fact that they started this thread. Their third dimension is supplied by the fact they employ both acoustic and electric guitars in most of their songs, with a quite wonderful net effect. Their fifth dimension is supplied by all the waccy-baccy they were smoking.)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

ooooohh

44. Fred Neil (aka Everybody's Talkin')

― Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

45. Jim O'Rourke---Bad Timing!

― Savvy Jones (Savvy Jones), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha. You said CRISP Autumn Mornings!

That means CRISPY AMBULANCE - THE POWDER BLIND DREAM
oh yes it does

For they may never record again, my heroes, but at least
they went out in style.

― Delicious Carbonated Motor Oil (Bimble...), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

45. Jim O'Rourke---Bad Timing!

-- Savvy Jones, September 22nd, 2006.

along deaze lines, Pullman---Turnstyles and Junk piles

― held tony (held tony), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

46. Aim - Hinterland.
47. Bjork - Medula.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

50. Dinosaur jr. - you're living all over me

― held tony (held tony), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

51. Ensemble - s/t

― karl (mattmc387), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

52. The Dione Warwick Story
53. Dirty 3 - Horse Stories

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

54. The Autumns,
their 2004 alb, at least, sounds well autumnal.

― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

55. Frank Black - Teenager of the year
56. Mick Turner - Tren Phantasma

― held tony (held tony), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

57. four tet - rounds

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Sunday, 24 September 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

20. Galaxie 500 - Anything

I prefer to save my Galaxie 500 listening for that six day break between Christmas and New Years Day. I don't usually plan on it, it just happens that way.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 24 September 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

58. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited
59. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
60. Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned

― held tony (held tony), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Mine (mentioned upthread) can be 61-65, then, seeing as they haven't been added to the numerical list yet.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

The Feelies "The Good Earth"
The Feelies "Only Life"
-- kwhitehead (bean50...), September 22nd, 2006.

Yes yes yes.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

68, The Letting Go did the job for me this morning.

― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

69. smog - red apple falls

― Mr. Big Boy Talk (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

70, Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

As One - Reflections

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

sundays - reading, writing & arithmetic

― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Trentemoller's first album has been nailing the autumn mood for me today.

― chap, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:17 (nine years ago)

71. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains

― Eazy, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:52 (nine years ago)

72. Suzanne Vega s/t

― Eazy, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:56 (nine years ago)

71 otm

73. Brahms Clarinet Sonatas op. 120 (pick yr recording)

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:13 (nine years ago)

74. Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:26 (nine years ago)

75. Animal Collective - Feels

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:37 (nine years ago)

76. Pink Moon

― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:39 (nine years ago)

77. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

― how's life, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:44 (nine years ago)

78. Michael Gordon - Weather

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:16 (nine years ago)

79 Beth gibbons - out of season

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:28 (nine years ago)

Ruining the format of the thread, I found a CD-R in the car marked "Autumnal" featuring

1) Hood - //
2) Tape - Eagle Miaows
3) Douglas Dare - Caroline
4) Bark Psychosis - The Loom
5) Eple Trio - River Song
6) Talk Talk - After The Flood
7) Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene
8) Douglas Dare - Clockwork
9) Olafur Arnalds - So Close
10) Choir of Young Believers - Hollow Talk
11) Hood - Western Housing Concerns
12) Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend
13) Talk Talk - Ascension Day

― djh, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 20:49 (nine years ago)

Very good, that

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 21:26 (nine years ago)

When I take the dog out for a walk at the moment Tyshawn Sorey's amazing Verisimilitude is my fave listening at the moment. Probably a hard sell because it is a piano trio that is strictly a long listen if you want enjoy it's power. But maybe that is a very autumnal quality idk, but I'm obsessed with this one rn.

― calzino, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 21:42 (nine years ago)

80) Beat Happening - You Turn Me On

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 5 October 2017 01:19 (nine years ago)

81) Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty

― palko, Thursday, 5 October 2017 02:18 (nine years ago)

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