Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]

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Thank Florie it’s Friday.

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.

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53 thoughts on “Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]”

      1. Paulus

        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?

        2. Fergalito

          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?

      1. Micko

        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.

    3. Slightly Bemused

      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 :-)

      1. Col

        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)

      2. Fergalito

        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 :)

        1. Slightly Bemused

          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.

          1. Fergalito

            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.

  5. Micko

    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

  8. Verbatim

    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

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      « il faut se quitter/pourtant, l’on s’aimait bien », sans tristesse, « car tu me reviendras/mon amour, à demain… ».

  16. SOQ

    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.

  18. CapernosityandFunction

    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.

  20. Otis Blue

    “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

    1. CapernosityandFunction

      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)

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