Aside from Christmas music, do you associate certain songs with a season?

[Joe Fields]

This is something I've done my whole life. I identify many songs I like with a particular season. For example, today feels like a fall day , and suddenly I wanted to hear this song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM0Tdp3ZZyg

post the songs that you identify with a particular season...

[taterguy]

1. This Drivin'n'cryin clip reminds me of summers on a river with ice cold beverages

Honeysuckle Blue (Turn your speakers up full blast if you actually watch this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zQh8UhOMg

[BOSSHOG]

2. New Orleans has a whole industry of Music centered around Mardi Gras

which occurs in February or March (depending on the Catholic Calendar.)

- Mardi Gras Mambo
- Funkin it up
- Mother In Law
- Bourbon Street Parade
- When the Saints Go Marching in
- They all axed for you

And on and on and on. Wonderful music and thoughts are always of Mardi Gras.

[Joe Fields]

5. I'm over a half century old, and STILL haven't been to the big party.

I gots to go soon. I've been all over the country, but strangely, I have never been to NO. It's on my short list these days.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Hello Joe

Mardi Gras can be a pain if you don't like big crowds. The summer months are low season for tourism but its hot as hell. However, I will search for excuses to go to the Quarter anytime of the year (we are 52 miles away.) Come on down, let the good times roll.

[Joe Fields]

15. I love huge outdoor parties, and I know there's none better than

what you all put on down there. I sooo want to see NO recover. And it's up to us to do so. I think I'll be there next year, BOSS!

[BOSSHOG]

16. Believe it or not

I don't work for the chamber of commerce but every beer and po-boy purchased is the way to recovery. For calendar marking purposes Mardi Gras is early next year, February 5th. Mardi Gras is always on a tuesday which usually is a local event. If ya want raucous jocularity come the weekend before.

[Joe Fields]

19. I live for racous jocularity!! When I go, it will be for the week.

Here's to NO. :toast: And when I come down, we must get together.

[BOSSHOG]

20. Roger that My Friend

My Dad moved to Missouri (from Arkansas) his last ten years. He died in West Plains (Pomona) I traveled there often to be with him.

Raucous Jocularity it is !!!! Let us absorb all the gluttonous and lusty sins of the world then get ashes on our forehead and be forgiven yet again.

[Joe Fields]

21. I know West Plains well. Pretty part of the state. I'm not sure a few

ashes on my forehead will cover all my sins, but what the hell...:toast:

[Inchworm]

3. Halloween and Thanksgiving songs

For Halloween...
Louis Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
March to the Scaffold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqB6_Z9eUw

For Thanksgiving...
Arlo Guthrie
Alice's Restaurant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

Family traditions...
-You can replay March to the Scaffold as loud as you want as long as there are trick or treaters
-you cannot talk during the looong version of Alice

:hi:

[Bjornsdotter]

4. Yes!

There is a song, I don't expect anyone here to know it, but it always reminds me of Mid-summer. It was popular in the summer of 1967 and of course they play it at this time of year in Sweden and it's blasting from my speakers.

It's "Jag Tror Pa Sommaren" by Mats Olin. It means I believe in summer and it's about all of the sights and smell of the season.

Skol :toast:

[Joe Fields]

7. If there is a way to post it, I'd like to hear it!

:toast:

[Bjornsdotter]

10. I have a copy

..on my other computer. I'll try to post it by tonight.

Cheers

[Joe Fields]

12. I'll watch for it, or you can pm me.

[MAGICBULLET]

6. yes definitely

There are many, but the one that has always stuck out to me personally for summer has been "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley

also George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" is very much wintery but the start of a transition into spring. A truly lovely song.

"Asleep" by the Smiths is dark, cold winter.

and "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire has always reminded me of autumn. Those talented songwriters sure know how to do it.

[Joe Fields]

8. Boys of Summer is one of mine also. And Here Comes the Sun is

special for me, too. I remember Jim McKay, doing the Winter Olympics in '72, closing out the final day with a montage of scenes from the two weeks worth of events, to the tune of Here Comes The Sun. Ever since then it has been my favorite winter song.

[MAGICBULLET]

11. doesn't Harrison have that special touch?

I think many of his songs have that feeling of nostalgia. I feel the same way about "Something", "Long Long Long", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "If I Needed Someone" as well.

[Joe Fields]

13. I definitely agree. There is a beautiful wistfulness to his compositions.

:toast:

[tanglefoot]

14. the funeral march...

with Mother's Day for having to visit my mother-in-law and make nice. :crazy:

[Initech]

17. Sublime is one of my favorites to listen to during the summer.

I have a whole slew of bands I really only listen to during the summer.

[Aristus]

18. I always think "Late Spring, Early Summer" when the radio stations

start playing the Beach Boys' "Kokomo."

[johnnie]

22. Monster Mash

It always seems like Halloween to me

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Valentine's Day for me.

(Simpsons reference.)

[Joe Fields]

25. RIP Bobby "Boris" Pickett...

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I find laid back, mellow hip-hop makes me feel like summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2bqTc88ns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rjo0AR0k34

[kwassa]

26. Summertime, Summertime Blues, Hot Fun in the Summertime,

always make me think of late spring.

Eddie Cochran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97elblDi3tY

Sly and the Family Stone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYEK4zuNOqU

[hellbound-liberal]

27. Hey Joe, Great idea! Here's one that reminds me of each of the other three seasons

Spring- Crowded House- Don’t Dream it’s Over (I heard it first on MTV during Spring Break)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xy0dW3SBtw

Summer- Good Vibrations- Beach Boys (All Beach Boys music reminds me of summertime)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbkxfuHlcq8

Autumn-Fields of Gold- Eva Cassidy (As the Barley turns to gold, I can feel the autumn coming on)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs