October's Day towards evening

[Mothfairy]

Ahh, my favorite season is upon us. Autumn! If this remaining heat would just go away.

I'm making a fall-like music playlist on my iPod. Anyone have any ideas...Tull related? I'm having a mental block and can only think of Heavy Horses right now. I have several Blackmore's Night songs because some are pretty obvious...now I'm looking for Tull to add.

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Aug 23, 2013 14:54:12 GMT -5 Mothfairy said:

Ahh, my favorite season is upon us. Autumn! If this remaining heat would just go away.

I'm making a fall-like music playlist on my iPod. Anyone have any ideas...Tull related? I'm having a mental block and can only think of Heavy Horses right now. I have several Blackmore's Night songs because some are pretty obvious...now I'm looking for Tull to add.

Songs From The Wood, Crest, Roots, 20 years boxset (the disc with Part of the Machine & Overhang)

[Mothfairy]

I am so in love with the 20 year set. Amazing...unfortunately I killed it. Ok, well now I know what to look up on iTunes.

(My best loved CDs end up being the most dead)

SFTW always had that feeling to it, I know someone else from the old board said they only played it every fall. Interesting.

[Mttbsh]

As much as I like Tull's wonderful fall music, let's not move too fast. It's been a unprecedented long beautiful hot sunny summer in Seattle (the land of rain) and I'm in no hurry for it to end!

[Mothfairy]

I received a PM asking about suggesting any music, not just Tull. I say...sure, why not?

Mttbsh, too late, the weather, trees and the time it gets dark, if you look close are all slightly beginning to change here in Northern New England, which also has some of the best fall scenery on the planet....I'm uncomfortable in too much heat.

Also, I just want my playlist ready! I've already finished the Christmas playlist because obviously that's easier to sort out. =]

[Morthoron]

Hmmmm....

Leaves falling red, yellow, brown, all are the same,
and the love you have found lay outside in the rain.
Washed clean by the water but nursing its pain.
The witch's promise was coming, and you're looking
elsewhere for your own selfish gain.

-or-

The weather's on the change
Lines joint in faint discord and the stormwatch brews
A concert of kings as the white sea snaps
At the heels of a soft prayer whispered

-or-

Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust, an October's day towards evening
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough, salt on a deep chest, seasoning
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood, a rein of polished leather
A heavy horse and a tumbling sky, brewing heavy weather

-or-

I draw around me like a cloak
and soundless glide a-drifting
on eddies whirled in beech leaves furled
brown and gold they fly
in the warm mesh of sunlight
sifting now from a cloudless sky.

-or-

Good morning Weathercock:
How did you fare last night?
Did the cold wind bite you,
did you face up to the fright
When the leaves spin from October
and whip around your tail?
Did you shake from the blast,
did you shiver through the gale?

And beyond Jethro Tull, how about:

Indian Summer - The Doors
When Ye Go Away - The Waterboys
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Moondance - Van Morrison
Forever Autumn - The Moody Blues
Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
Leaves that are Green - Simon & Garfunkel
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
October - U2

And one of my favorite poems, written by Graeme Edge of The Moody Blues:

When the white eagle of the North
Is flying overhead
And the browns, reds and golds of autumn
Lie in the gutter, dead

Remember then, the summer birds
With wings of fire flaying
Come to witness Spring's new hope
Born of leaves decaying

As new life will come from death
Love will come at leisure
Love of love, love of life
And giving without measure

Gives in return a wondrous yearn
Of a promise almost seen
Live hand-in-hand
And together we'll stand

On the threshold of a dream....

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Very good post Morthoron, great suggestions. Didn't know you were a White Stripes fan.

[Pieter]

My main focus is always the music. I love you guys in helping me pay attention to lyrics. I simply don't take enough time, but when I do I'm so often moved by Ian's sharp analysis, his personal view. Oh Tull makes me so happy!!!

[Mothfairy]

I agree, thanks Morthoron!

[Mothfairy]

Thanks to everyone I have forty-something songs on Fall playlist. Another I added and its the only one that's a little less about autumn leaves and stuff and more Halloweenish is Pet Sematary by The Ramones.