Roll up, roll up. Ready for more music shenanigans? There’s still no voucher but we know you can’t quit this place because you’re in too deep!
This week, I want to know: What’s your favourite song whose title or lyrics mention the autumn months: August, September and October?
Here’s mine.
Lines close on Saturday at Midday.
Please include video link if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Pic: Zhivago, Galway
Meanwhile…
The resuts are in.
Last week, we asked you to name your favourite song whose title or lyrics refer to animals.
Micko won my esteem with this fitting entry:
“White Rabbit – by Jefferson Airplane. One of my favourites of all time and a song that symbolises the ’60s and is used for almost every drug reference in every film and TV show EVER.”
Nick says: Well done, Micko and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Thanks Nick
Mmmmmf…
Great pick Micko :)
All well and good, but:
While it’s nice to see each weekly theme.
Where responses are sometimes extreme.
But if I win, do you think
When I’ve bought rounds of drink
That the pub will accept Nick’s Esteem?
Brilliant.
I have not fared well thus far
In exchanging esteem for a jar,
I now know if I try it
Licensees won’t supply it
Unless maybe Nick owns a bar?
Hah. Yes the exchange rate has yet to be clarified.
what we need is Nicks Tegrigdy ….not his esteem ;)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fyl0DLWmFs&feature=share
for teenage me, Gun’s n Roses, November rain
I used to love that lads bike shorts
Good tune!
That was the one from new Matrix trailer…I wonder was it a glitch?
It was indeed Boj. And they’ve stuck some lovely string under it to go along with the original Matrix theme in the trailer.
Hope they release it as an album.
The original Matrix soundtrack was in my CD changer for years.
Nice one Micko.
Is August autumn now?
Always was, unless your seasons go by school holidays! :)
What can I say, that’s the way I roll!
Me too btw :)
the leaves in my garden say yes
If you go by the old Irish way, which I learned in school August was Fómhar (harvest), September was Meanfómhar (mid harvest), and October Deireidh Fómhar (end of harvest) I know they now use Samhain for August, but that is later than me going to school.
So we are in Autumn since 1 August by my ancestral count :-)
It’s based on the position of the earth relative to the sun. The longest day (mid June) is the middle of Summer, so Summer is May – July and the shortest day (mid December) is middle of Winter!
That’s relatively constant year to year, whereas the seasons can vary (like the current “Summery” weather)
Hadn’t realised that Fómhar used to be the word used for August – makes sense in the context of the months Meanfómhar and Deireadh Fómhar that follow.
Think Samhain is November SB and Lúnasa is August :)
You are right, Fergalito. My brain is not totally with it today. I got the Fómhar from one of my mother’s old Irish books, and Lúnasa was just the celebration at that time. It was crossing over as I went to school, so in primary t was one, but changed in secondary.
Sure what’s language if it’s not always evolving and flexible.
I love the Irish language names for places and towns – the logainmneacha – so evocative and descriptive unlike the English names. Interestingly (I’ll be the judge of that says you) “Naul” in North County Dublin is “An Aill” meaning cliff in Irish. Lo and behold, for an inland town, on enquiring from a local I was shown where the cliff was.
Earth, wind and fire -September-
A no brainer really. Put on your dancing shoes and dance this gloomy autumn feeling away.,
Do you remember?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk
You got there before me.
Hanging somewhere between a Yeats and Kavanagh poem, this powerful, little song was was written 40 years about by a twenty two year old Bono, it’s about the death of his mother. U2, October. https://youtu.be/kqdJ6CsXt4Y
Technically it doesn’t mention this months, (so can’t win) but it is all about that time of the year and love ;)
I was actually driving back a while ago from Kerry and the moon was HUGE in the sky so we stuck this gem on.
Late at night, little one asleep in the back of the car. Just my self and herself cruising along the motorway with no traffic- total bliss ;-)
Harvest Moon by Neil Young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
sept 25th.
-Farm Aid 2021 will reunite family farmers and musician activists, with performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson & Family, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, and Margo Price-
https://www.farmaid.org/press-release/farm-aid-music-food-festival-returns-live-connecticut-saturday-sept-25/
…down by the river loud and live-farm aid ’94.
https://youtu.be/TiX8Rz5C3LY
Once again it is inspiration time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlBp8IYjUfo
October Swimmer. JJ72. Was their debut single 21 years ago. Yes, you read that right! 21 years ago. Jeez…
https://youtu.be/sirRyQmaM_U
Great song Great live act too.
Oh Christ.
21 years…
Kanye West – Hurricane ft. Ant Clemons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eK_0XA3fe8
Seasons changing, summer starts to leave
Autumn falls on me, fall, winter, and spring
80 degrees, warmin’ up for me
I fell deep, sun ain’t have to leave
Open my eyes and see
We will float over water, leaning into shore
As we make our nirvana, sacred, so pure
Lift up the child, I know we will
I chose not to be a slave
Dropped the Wave Runners, now we run the wave
Like we ain’t have all the hood rats and mud rats
Like you ain’t had ’em, good stats and all that
Nobody gon’ ruin me
I just called my wife up, let’s get Hoover free
I put all my ice up and my Louis V
I just copped my momma crib, I’m back over East
Let me get your ear like Holyfield
From the home of Soldier Field
Coming home, that’s how a soldier feels
All that killing over, that’s just overkill
Yeezy back in the Chi, this that Oprah feel
https://youtu.be/TKRqWKLwEgE
this is a cutie, C’est en septembre
I invite you to fall in love with Barbara, with her chagrin, quel joli temp
Septembre
https://youtu.be/0zvQSISOk7o
gosh I’m homesick for an autumn run down the Seine
« il faut se quitter/pourtant, l’on s’aimait bien », sans tristesse, « car tu me reviendras/mon amour, à demain… ».
There goes my love
An evening star shining right from above
And the love I know my heart is sinking
And the heaven now we both used to hold
Is lying still in the winter cold
And the only thing keeping me warm is this bottle I’m drinking
Miss September, King Dude
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQBQxc_xvM&feature=share
It’s gotta be one of the best songs ever!!
Big Star – September Gurls
https://youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA
Enjoy!
Well done Micko! Great song choice.
Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends.
https://youtu.be/NU9JoFKlaZ0
great dive bar band,they used play/practice live quite a bit unannounced,bowery ballroom in village.
Congrats Micko, nice 1!
Ta man!
I went searching for a certain version of ‘who knows where the time goes’ and I came across this absolutely tuneless gem. Clannad – Who Knows (where the time goes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-uu62EY5A
Seriously? No actual tune? The only thing worse than this is Bono shouting empathy for the Dublin homeless on the Christmas RTÉ late late show.
Anyone fancy some toast?…
Matt Berry – October Sun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKHDBC4pLFo
Amy Winehouse – October Song
https://youtu.be/8Cutj-myERU
A live version of this track from her first album Frank. She still hadn’t become the Amy Winehouse of Back to Black. She seems healthier and happier and this is a lovely performance.
Had Big Star for September and JJ72 for October…
So here’s August(us)
https://youtu.be/jq1VK32PvyE
“Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn’t got time for the waiting game…”
Swiss Avant-garde meets Kurt Weill
The Young Gods – September Song
https://youtu.be/ox2lhBZz0Y0
A fitting soundtrack to the melancholy of the season’s change.
Ólafur Arnalds – Ágúst
https://youtu.be/LYvlmiwEP9M
Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c
Heartbreakingly apt and just an incredible performance.
Did I miss Auto Da Fe and November, November? Always liked that tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x3ZSUr9aJU
Love, love, love this song. An underrated band and a very underrated singer. I bought their greatest hits CD last year and Trevor Knight (bless him) posted it to me from Wexford. While I am still a stickler for the old Celtic seasonal calendar I learned in primary school (Lúnasa, Mean Fómhair, Deireadh Fómhair), I am prepared to shoehorn this in to the competition via the astronomical calendar autumn (autumnal equinox to winter solstice)
And of course, the great Simon and Garfunkel, with April, Come she Will. I loved this version, from their Concert in Central Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXBjDTXS90
One for Bodger
From the album “A Period of Transition”
Cold Wind in August
Van the Man
https://youtu.be/B2kmMohN-AE
Marianne Faithfull narrates the John Keats poem To Autumn. Nick Cave’s mucker, Warren Ellis, provides the musical accompaniment.
https://youtu.be/vZeS_UGn7fU
Nice.
Here’s Jeff Buckley reciting Edgar Allen Poe’s “Ulalume”:
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year
https://youtu.be/JgeaqpmqUT8
“September 17, for a girl I know it’s mother’s day. Her son has gone alee, and that’s where he will stay..’ From the late great Gord Downie/ Tragically Hip.
https://youtu.be/35mJvcY104M
moss free papa
the temptations, papa was….
it was the third of september
https://youtu.be/SBXbW85_zSM