ATTENTION FELLOW RECLETS 🚨🚨

Let’s create a fall-themed playlist - give me your best fall songs!

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ATTENTION FELLOW RECLETS 🚨🚨

Let’s create a fall-themed playlist - give me your best fall songs!

Sarah · Answer

Stay Gold: IMO, evocative of how ephemeral the fall season is

Jill · Answer

When Autumn Comes by Linda Eder: Gorgeous vocals and sufficiently moody 🍂

S.A.V. · Answer

Girl from North Country: I love Bob Dylan and can probably find a Dylan song for all seasons, but thinking about the “winds hit(ting) heavy on the borderline” immediately takes me to that first chill in the air. Love.

Josie · Answer

duvet - Bôa: this song is fall to me

Laura Messersmith · Answer

Neil Young - Harvest Moon: It’s not truly fall until I’ve scuffled through piles of leaves with this song as the soundtrack.

Jessie · Answer

Love Potion Number 9: Fun, a little spooky, very witchy. A perfect October anthem.

Sarah Cooney · Answer

Dreams: I listen to this song every fall on repeat as I do a long afternoon walk through the Upper West Side. Never fails to bring me smack back into the middle of a golden autumn afternoon in Manhattan in the late 90s.

Sarah · Answer

We're Going to Be Friends: A back to school, fall vibes love song. My dear friends' first dance song a million years ago and it's for some reason the only first dance song I remember from all the weddings I've attended. Deeply sweet.

Sara · Answer

Everything is Romantic - Charli XCX feat Caroline Polachek: The autumn version of the original, which is such summer vibes.

eric · Answer

Pet Shop Boys - My October Symphony: because its sad and beautiful at the same time

Leila · Answer

Golden brown- the Straglers: My favorite song, especially since it gives fall vibes and is so beautiful

Rish · Answer

Homecoming - Josh Ritter: The perfect fall vibes song.

(Also allegedly where the phrase “the air is getting crisp” was popularized?? I read that on a Reddit thread once so don’t quote me haha)

Karen Fischer · Answer

Violins by Blondshell: This came up on my Spotify while I was taking a walk last night. I enjoyed it!

Matt · Answer

Yo La Tengo - “Autumn Sweater”: Wouldn’t that be better?

Emily · Answer

Luna - Season of the Witch: always a thrill to hear them play this Donovan cover live

Matt · Answer

Van Morrison - “Moondance”: Fantabulous!

LaurenLikesThings · Answer

Warpaint - Disco: Witchy! moody!

Matt · Answer

The Free Design - "Kites Are Fun" (1967): Introverts, this one's for us! Now, I mean this without malice, but if you see a few promo photos of sibling vocal group The Free Design, you might expect it's preppy fodder for the listening diets of squares that they created. The Dedrick family kept their sonic palette loaded with lighter tones, that's for sure, but the way they applied them was with substance and a will to be adventurous. For instance, I'll argue that the wordless vocal arrangement in the final minute of their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song" is one the most purely psychedelic moments in the whole discography of the sixties. Anyhow, when Stereolab dedicates a song to you, you must be doing something right as far as artistic relevancy goes.

"Kites Are Fun," title track to their first album, is a good example of what I'm talking about. On paper, it seems like a lightweight affair: pleasant acoustic strumming, a lilting recorder piping away, a three-part harmony singing about, well, kites being fun. But the instrumental melody and vocal lines are whimsical yet unexpectedly a little haunting as well. The way the verses start airy and then pick up like a heart gone racing, as though mimicking the change of the kite from grounded to airborne as you run with it, and the lyrics going from innocent to intimate with that shift is brilliant. The voice of the narrator reveals of themself and their kite, "[W]e'd like to be a zillion miles away from everyone / 'cause mom and dad and Uncle Bill don't realize," then that transfixing bridge, "...kites are fuu-uun." Love it. You can interpret the kite as literal or figurative, but either way, I'll always applaud a song that celebrates being alone, but not lonely, and not caring a whit what others think (because they just won't get it...I mean, we all agree that Uncle Bill doesn't know shit, so why bother). The whole album is a great listen.

Matt · Answer

Dusty Springfield - “Spooky”: One of my favorite tunes for summoning those blessed October/Halloween vibes from the stereo. Springfield’s breezy vocal gliding on top crisp, lounge-y instrumentation will leave you spellbound. As for the lyrics…Dusty, stop letting this goober waste your time. He ain’t spooky, he’s just shifty.

Matt · Answer

The Kinks - “Autumn Almanac”: Oh, my autumn almanac (Armagnac)