First day of October, Autumn is on its way… Depressing, isn’t it?
NO, because here’s a new Spotify playlist themed accordingly! See, there’s always an upside.
Click the picture, plug in your headphones and roll around mentally in a pile of imaginary leaves. Careful not to squash any hibernating hedgehogs. You know the drill.
Official Postculturist AUTUMN playlist on Spotify
Tracklisting:
Robyn Hitchcock – Autumn Is Your Last Chance
Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds
Saint Etienne – Suburban Autumn Lieutenant
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
The Flaming Lips – My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Autumn’s Child
Lambchop – Autumn’s Vicar
Strawbs – Autumn
Billie Holiday – Autumn In New York
Devendra Banhart – Autumn’s Child
The Small Faces – The Autumn Stone
Pet Shop Boys – The Samurai in Autumn
Donna Summer – Autumn Changes
Euros Childs – Autumn Leaves
Vashti Bunyan – Autumn Tears
Carla Bruni – Autumn
The Tiger Lillies – Autumn Leaves
- Robyn Hitchcock – Autumn Is Your Last Chance
- Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds
- Saint Etienne – Suburban Autumn Lieutenant
- Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
- The Flaming Lips – My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
- The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Autumn’s Child
- Lambchop – Autumn’s Vicar
- Strawbs – Autumn
- Billie Holiday – Autumn In New York
- Devendra Banhart – Autumn’s Child
- The Small Faces – The Autumn Stone
- Pet Shop Boys – The Samurai in Autumn
- Donna Summer – Autumn Changes
- Euros Childs – Autumn Leaves
- Vashti Bunyan – Autumn Tears
- Carla Bruni – Autumn
- The Tiger Lillies – Autumn Leaves
Comments, critiques and “Oh my Christ, I can’t BELIEVE you missed out…” retorts all gratefully received below.
Well, it hasn’t got the word ‘autumn’ in the title, but I’d argue for the song you took your headline from – California Dreaming. NOT the Mamas and Papas version, but the wonderful cover by Lee Moses, which rescues it from singalongacliche and injects a bit of proper soul.
It’s sadly little known and a bit hard to get hold of. If you want an mp3 of it, I’ll get one to you…
um, “Autumnsong” by Manic Street Preachers. “My cosmic autumn Rebellion” by the magnificent Flaming Lips. Um. “Autumn Shade” by the Vines?
Good call on everyone’s favourite beardy-weirdy, Natalie Portman squiring folkie, Devendra Banhart though.
ST
…and Mrs. Sarkozy too.
incidentally, what is this spotify of which you speak?
Good choices, persons.
Ooh Red, yes please, I’d love an mp3. I’m very partial to the karaoke singalong Mamas & Papas version, so it’d be great to hear the one you think’s even acer. Thanks.
Swissy, the Flaming Lips song is song 5 already. Look! But if you haven’t explored already, do get over to spotify.com and download, so you can join in the joy.
I’m such a div. I also listed Devendra Banhart originally too, but proofread enough to remove that one! Dur.
Do ignore me, won’t you?
I also want unaccountably seem to want you to include “Hazy Shade of Winter” and “April Come She Will”, but they’re just plain the wrong season, innit?
OK, done (I think).
Thanks to the wonder of Red, the Lee Moses cover can be downloaded here for the next seven days:
Click here for California Dreaming – Lee Moses (6.1mb)
It is utterly magnificent. Red’s right.
Oh good, you’ve done it! I was just emailing you slowly again to say go on, post it!
Here’s what I’d have said here if I was a more efficient commenter:
It’s not that I was really knocking the Mamas and Papas track, which I have also sung along to on many occasions – lots of them attached to happy memories with friends and stuff.
But when I first heard Lee Moses singing it, he transformed the song into something much… deeper, somehow. Not just about winter, but the real pain in life and yearning for something better… It made the song mean a lot more to me.
Aha, now I see you’ve made me more efficient than I thought I’d been…
It is the wonders of Queenie on here and no mistake!
No, not sad. This is my favorite time of year! The colors are beautiful, the air crisp, the smells homey. Autumn is the best. So there! *G*
Sorry to Aravis & all other Americans that you can’t hear the music. Spotify isn’t available outside the UK yet. But I think they’re planning to expand, so hopefully soon…
Spiffing. Always enjoy a bit o’beefheart.
OK Red, the internet has spoken. We’re all agreed. Come back to blogdom! You’re needed!