Do you guys have any songs/albums you like listening to specifically during the Fall season? I'm putting together a playlist and I could use some more ideas. Just to give you an idea of what i'm looking for, some of the tracks I currently have include Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart by Al Green, and of course Autumn in New York with Ella and Louis. I have about 14 songs currently. Thanks in advance

I was just putting together a fall playlist comprised of songs released around the fall, songs I discovered during the fall, or songs I associate with the feel of fall. Just a few:

"The Lottery," The Stepkids

"Autumn Leaves," Cannonball Adderley (Stanley Jordan has a nice version as well)

"Private Joy," Prince

"Take Me To The River," Al Green

"Autumn Serenade," John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

"Get Munne," Erykah Badu

"Locked Inside," Janelle Monae

"The May 4th Movement," Digable Planets

"Award Tour," A Tribe Called Quest

"Breakadawn," De La Soul

"Pink Cashmere," Prince

"End Of The Day," Beck

"I Could Write A Book," Dinah Washington

"Prototype," OutKast (Andre 3000)

"Relaxin' at Club F----n", Koop (actually a song about fall despite the title)

"King of Pain," The Police

"September" - Earth Wind & Fire

"October" - U2

"September Morn" - Neil Diamond

Hall & Oates - August Day
Astrud Gilberto - Crickets Sing For Anamaria
The Monkees - Don't Call On Me
Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
Malo - Suavecito
Swing Out Sister - We Could Make It Happen
Kay Starr - I Cover The Waterfront

Woody Simmons - Grey Today

Kimiko Kasai feat. Herbie Hancock - Butterfly
Blackfoot - Highway Song
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

Renaissance - Carpet Of The Sun
Howard Jones - Life In One Day
The Temptations - Mother Nature
Deee-Lite - Apple Juice Kissing
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Jermaine Jackson - Beautiful Morning
Stevie Wonder - Outside My Window
Raymond Scott feat. Dorothy Collins - Lightworks

Basia - New Day For You

"Old Man" by Neil Young

"All Turns to Yesterday" by Mediaeval Baebes

"Far Too Frail" by Skinny Puppy

RJOrion said:

Blood On The Dance Floor album by Michael Jackson

20 YO album by Janet Jackson

Love Show by Skye

Love of My Life by Erykah Badu

Play That Funky Music White Boy by Wild Cherries

Therapy by Mary J Blige

Unbreakable album by Janet Jackson

Here by Alicia Keys

NorthC said:

RJOrion said:

"September" - Earth Wind & Fire

"October" - U2

"September Morn" - Neil Diamond

Might as well throw in November Rain by Guns n Roses! And Same December or Last December by Prince to round things off...

"October Morning" -- Fourplay

MickyDolenz said:

Swing Out Sister - We Could Make It Happen

Quite a few Sister tracks on my autumn playlist: "Get In Touch With Yourself," "Notgonnachange," "Heart for Hire," etc.

Nancy Wilson -When October Goes

Autumn In New York - Frank Sinatra

Tony Bennett -Is That All There Is

A Long Walk - Jill Scott

Stop This Train - John Mayer

Turn On the Stars -Acoustic Alchemy

Window Seat - Erykah Badu

Wholy Holy - Aretha Franklin

Greatful Dead -Althea
Snuffy Walden -Angela Smiled

Do You Know Me - John Mayer

Nights of Pleasure - Loose Ends

Day to Day - Robert Glasper

Come Close - Common

Friends - Bobby McFarrin

Kandace Springs - Neither Old Nor Young

I'm Ok -Lisa Shaw

the Theme(Love from SF mix) -Frankie Knuckles

Thanksgiving -the Bill Tiberio band

OldFriends4Sale said:

Window Seat - Erykah Badu

Come Close - Common

Also regularly appear on my playlist.

namepeace said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Window Seat - Erykah Badu

Come Close - Common

Also regularly appear on my playlist.

It's funny but both of those song represent two different human needs

Window Seat the need to be alone and refresh oneself and

Come Close is the need to connect emotionally to another person

And I tend to not be like either of those in Summer weather, but when the Autumn comes in I want to rap myself up with Me Myself and I and also snuggle closer with others.

Autumn Leaves is a standard that is a picture of New York State & NYC in the Autumn

And Coltrane does em all wonderfully

namepeace said:

I was just putting together a fall playlist comprised of songs released around the fall, songs I discovered during the fall, or songs I associate with the feel of fall. Just a few:

"The Lottery," The Stepkids

"Autumn Leaves," Cannonball Adderley (Stanley Jordan has a nice version as well)

"Private Joy," Prince

"Take Me To The River," Al Green

"Autumn Serenade," John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

"Get Munne," Erykah Badu

"Locked Inside," Janelle Monae

"The May 4th Movement," Digable Planets

"Award Tour," A Tribe Called Quest

"Breakadawn," De La Soul

"Pink Cashmere," Prince

"End Of The Day," Beck

"I Could Write A Book," Dinah Washington

"Prototype," OutKast (Andre 3000)

"Relaxin' at Club F----n", Koop (actually a song about fall despite the title)

"King of Pain," The Police

Anything by Gabriel Faure or Thelonious Monk.

OldFriends4Sale said:

namepeace said:

Also regularly appear on my playlist.

It's funny but both of those song represent two different human needs

Window Seat the need to be alone and refresh oneself and

Come Close is the need to connect emotionally to another person

And I tend to not be like either of those in Summer weather, but when the Autumn comes in I want to rap myself up with Me Myself and I and also snuggle closer with others.

Well put.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Autumn Leaves is a standard that is a picture of New York State & NYC in the Autumn

And Coltrane does em all wonderfully

Indeed.

Can't really answer until April. It is spring here now, leaves on trees and a sea of green with sunnier and longer days - bliss as summer is coming

I love 'Whole Oats' album by Hall & Oates which I consider the soundtrack to autumn. It creates such a groovy, cosy place to be in when golden leaves fall outside your window.

Lau, "The Bird that Winds the Spring"
Kris Drever, "Harvest Gypsies"

Prince, "Pink Cashmere"

Suzanne Vega, Songs in Red and Grey (entire album)

XTC, "Rook"
Joni Mitchell, Turbulent Indigo (entire album)

Any version of the Seikilos Epitaph

The Mamas and the Papas, "California Dreamin'"

Jose Gonzalez, "The Ink of a Ghost"

Vanessa Daou, "Juliette"

Sineád O'Connor w/ Christie Moore, "Lord Baker"

Little Dragon, "Pink Cloud"

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My current pop favs from the 80s are Weird Science (1985) Danny Elfmans' group Oingo Boingo

Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (1985) by Scritti Politti

Once In a Lifetime (1980) by Talking Heads

You Belong To The City (1985) Glen Frey RIP

Eyes Without A Face (1984) by Billy Idol

Superstition said:

Summer Soft - Stevie Wonder “And so you wait to see what she’ll do Is it sun or snow for you? But it breaks your heart in two, Cause you’ll find it’s October And she’s gone.....”

Great song