# My Autumn playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049 "2019-10-20T19:52:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/1 "2019-10-20T19:52:04Z")
Fall is a melancholy season and I am a choleric person so I feel at home during Autumn. Here are some songs I play to feed my melancholy: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vk9QFRvVQQ0/hqdefault.jpg "Tom Rush "Urge For Going"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9QFRvVQQ0) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DeZL2FXkGqI/maxresdefault.jpg "Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with Sandy Denny)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeZL2FXkGqI) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L86gQQBYSc4/hqdefault.jpg "Neil Young - Sugar Mountain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86gQQBYSc4) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DGHjHU_Z8d8/hqdefault.jpg "Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHjHU_Z8d8) Finally, to clear out the cobwebs of age and acceptance: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AZ1MdRgU7Hw/maxresdefault.jpg "I'm Eighteen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1MdRgU7Hw) Intercourse the calendar! ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/2 "2019-10-20T20:26:08Z")
Could you maybe post the titles and artists? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/3 "2019-10-20T20:37:28Z")
Ooh! It’s like opening presents.😉 I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/4 "2019-10-20T20:47:39Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Could you maybe post the titles and artists? I’ll take one for the team: Tom Rush – Urge For Going Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where the Time Goes Neil Young – Sugar Mountain Joni Mitchell – The Circle Game Alice Cooper – I’m Eighteen Nice idea, though I’m not sure how the Coop selection fits in. I’ll add a few when I think of them. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/5 "2019-10-20T21:03:06Z")
\*deleting my own list cuz Meanie ruined it \* Alice is there because I may be melancholic but I’m not suicidal. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/6 "2019-10-20T23:17:32Z")
You’re as young as you feel, Mikey;) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/7 "2019-10-21T00:12:22Z")
The funny thing about that song is that I was seventeen when it came out and I felt it didn’t apply to me. I never matured beyond seventeen and it still doesn’t apply, but us seventeen yr olds have a whiny Janis Ian song and a K Pop band to choose between. I go with Alice. And as there is ALWAYS a song, from the same album we have my current theme: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FfqrZvKI_1g/maxresdefault.jpg "Ballad of Dwight Fry") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfqrZvKI_1g) You have to work for this one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/8 "2019-10-21T00:24:17Z")
Nothing wrong with a playlist for the doldrums. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/9 "2019-10-21T00:36:08Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Nothing wrong with a playlist for the doldrums. It’s like you’re challenging me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oVWNkW21BeA/maxresdefault.jpg "Horse Latitudes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVWNkW21BeA) There is ALWAYS a song, and I haven’t gotten out of my record collection. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/10 "2019-10-21T17:12:02Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from MPSIMS to Cafe Society, which is a better forum for playlists and mood-setting music discussions. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/11 "2019-10-21T17:37:34Z")
Hey Dropzone, I know it’s your playlist but surely… j (OK, Personal, mmm, I hear ya - it’s Autumn Almanac by The Kinks) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/12 "2019-10-21T21:08:34Z")
I heard that once? Thrice? forty years ago. But can I remember people’s names? ☹ **geek** , I posted it on MPSIMS because it was about feels, not music. Harumph! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/13 "2019-10-22T01:21:10Z")
I recently got a recommendation from a friend for the latest album by Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds, [Ghosteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlU_wsT20Q). Boy, it didn’t disappoint for an autumn record, perfect music to hang yourself to… But in earnest, it’s great music, and I just love to listen to stuff like that when it’s fall and outside it’s raining and storming and nature dies. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/14 "2019-10-22T02:07:43Z")
Cave can be fun so I’ll give it a listen. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/15 "2019-10-22T05:53:44Z")
Thanks to my horrible wifi, I can’t really check out the YouTube links. I understand there’s Alice in there too! (I’ll be seeing him in April - for the fourteenth time!) I think of Alice as being summer music simply because I acquired my Billion Doller Babies by mowing grass. If I must come up with an Autumn song, it would be “Ramble On”, Led Zeppelin. I also usually read the Hobbit in the Fall and of course they are related. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/16 "2019-10-22T08:27:26Z")
Classical Music Playlist - Autumn Edition Anything by **Brahms** **Beethoven** works, too **Schumann** , **Dvorák** , **Bartók** , **Hindemith** Some **Bach** , **Schubert** , **Liszt** , **Prokofiev** , **Britten** , **Ligeti** or **Schmitt** Cello, clarinet or bassoon pieces in general. Works that reference woods or trees. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/17 "2019-10-24T15:04:12Z")
Gotta give this thread a little bump - I was enjoying it. Er… I haven’t got another specifically autumnal classic readily to hand, but I think [A Rainy Night In Soho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL-TrD_2g) might suit the mood anyway. j ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-autumn-playlist/842049/18 "2019-10-25T14:51:27Z")
I’m not going to cave in and open any of the links, but I’m going to be generous and assume that the songs mentioned so far have included “Forever Autumn” by Justin Hayward, written by Jeff Wayne for his _ **War of the Worlds** _ album.