While we are still vacillating between warm days and cool nights here in Oklahoma, it is finally starting to feel a bit like autumn. This is one of my favorite times of the year, but it’s also bittersweet knowing that the blight of winter is right around the corner. I’m not a fan of the cold. However, I AM a big fan of music that conveys the feeling of transition between autumnal bliss and the bleakness of winter.

My good friend Aaron challenged me to come up with a fifty song playlist that represents this transitional time. This isn’t the most upbeat playlist I have ever shared here, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Note that a few of these tracks have appeared on other Timely Tunes mixes, but hopefully they resonate differently within this context. As always, it’s best to listen to this in order, as I have taken a lot of time to create a good flow throughout the playlist.

TIMELY TUNES, VOL. 61 ~ Eternally Autumn

Tracklist

1. Morrissey “Everyday Is Like Sunday”
2. The The “Good Morning Beautiful”
3. Lambchop “Autumn’s Vicar”
4. Whiskeytown “Desperate Ain’t Lonely”
5. Neil Young “Give Me Strength”
6. Chromatics “Into the Black”
7. Bedhead “Disorder”
8. Unwound “October All Over”
9. Bark Psychosis “Absent Friend”
10. Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm “23:17”
11. Four Tet “Two Thousand and Seventeen”
12. Andy Stott “Numb”
13. David Sylvian “Darkest Dreaming”
14. Nick Drake “Hanging On A Star”
15. Lou Reed “The Bed”
16. Robert Wyatt “At Last I Am Free”
17. Fleetwood Mac “Brown Eyes”
18. Yo La Tengo “Tears Are In Your Eyes”
19. Mount Eerie “Between Two Mysteries”
20. Cocteau Twins “Hitherto”
21. Roedelius “Black White Felt”
22. These New Puritans “Organ Eternal”
23. Bat For Lashes “Siren Song”
24. The Cure “Plainsong”
25. Robin Guthrie “Monument”
26. PJ Harvey “Horses In My Dreams”
27. Sparklehorse “Sea Of Teeth”
28. Sun Kil Moon/Jesu “A Dream Of Winter”
29. Codeine “Atmosphere”
30. Low “Murderer”
31. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Push The Sky Away”
32. Nico “My Heart Is Empty”
33. Dead Can Dance “De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow)”
34. Portishead “Roads”
35. This Mortal Coil “Another Day”
36. Sinead O’Connor “Feels So Different”
37. Everything But The Girl “Two Star”
38. The Blue Nile “From A Late Night Train”
39. Mark Hollis “The Watershed”
40. Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz “Haru”
41. Grouper “Headache”
42. John Cage “Dream”
43. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore “Im Rauch”
44. Erik Satie “Gnossienne No. 4”
45. Sunn o))) “Alice”
46. Stars Of The Lid “The Evil That Never Arrived”
47. Popol Vuh “In The Night, The Snow”
48. Kevin Drumm “Cloudy”
49. Aphex Twin “#3”
50. William Basinski “dlp 1.1”