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 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 12:22 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Talking about both film scores and other music. Mine are very much.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 2:07 PM   
 By:   dbrooks   (Member)

I guess mine is kind of affected by the holidays. For example I usually only listen to Home Alone or Miracle on 34th St. near Christmas time. Maybe I watch a horror movie around October and get me in the mood for Christopher Young.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 2:24 PM   
 By:   couvee   (Member)

Absolutely. To Kill a Mockingbird, L'Adolscente (Sarde), Brideshead Revisited (Burgon), Castillos de Carton (Gaigne), The Dove, The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea, all typical summer scores. For hot sunny afternoons. Typical winter: Nicholas and Alexandra, l'alpin l'e sempre quel (Nicolai), The Lion in Winter (I can't help it, I know winter is in the title, but it's the music that makes me think of images of medieval castles in the snow). In springtime I play Civilta del Mediterraneo (Nicolai) on the first warm and sunny day after winter. For some reason on autumn mornings, perhaps a bit overcast or foggy, I play 'Reconnaisances', a Marie Laforet album that I have. So yeah, just a few examples of music I associate with certain seasons.

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 2:46 PM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

I listen to Die Hard 1&2 more around Xmas time.
Under Fire and Extreme Prejudice and High Velocity in the summer.

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 3:08 PM   
 By:   Stefan Huber   (Member)

Yes, very, very much. One thing that's even more curious: I often find myself pulling albums in the same month I have purchased them. This is not happening deliberately - just an odd trick by the subconsciousness that makes me remember things at time of the year I first was "confronted" with them...

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 4:10 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

A little bit, but not very.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 4:14 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I was living in New England when my wife and I first got together, and late that first September, she got me as a gift a Herrmann Hitchcock CD collection that had "The Trouble with Harry" on it. We saw the film around the same time. Because of the film and also the place and time, I always associate that music with Autumn in New England, and I tend ti spin it when Autumn hits - which seems to be later and later every year, but let's not go there. wink

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 4:22 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Two very "autumny" non-film music albums for me are Jean Michel Jarre's "Sessions 2000" and Yann Thiersen's "L'Absente". Moody, textural, rainy, impressionistic.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 6:25 PM   
 By:   TerraEpon   (Member)

Mine are affected by the website Random.org

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

I"ve thought on this occasionally too.

But although theres a sort of pattern, it"s not logical in terms of imagery. For example I tend to have a Jerome Moross rush every spring, and a 'mediaeval' thing around December. Maybe the latter is to do with Xmas carol conditioning or something, but the former is visceral. There's no connection as far as I can identify with 'autumnal/vernal' musical metaphors directly.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 12:31 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

Sort of yeah.

The Village, Black Beauty, Alien 3, The 13th Warrior and Jennifer 8 are scores that get played most during autumn.

Edward Scissorhands, In Dreams, the first two Harry Potter scores, Die Hard 2, Urban Legends 2 and Chain Reaction are definitely winter scores

K-Pax, Heat, Gladiator, Leon and The Beach (soundtrack not score) I like to listen to in the spring

Die Hard with a Vengeance, Speed, Predator 2, The Mummy get played most in the summer

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 3:23 AM   
 By:   johnbijl   (Member)

I think all my choices might be affected by the seasons.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 5:28 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

I don't think my listening choices are seasonal, but I do tend to listen to louder, aggressive music when I'm busier at work - which tends to be August/September and March. When I was new to the job, it was my habit to blast Shostakovich's 4th symphony on the way to meetings with clients that I had any trepidation about.

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 5:47 AM   
 By:   The Thing   (Member)

Not really with soundtracks.

But I may choose to listen to certain Black Metal albums during the winter, as they often conjure up that atmosphere.

And I'll watch movies like The Thing or The Day After Tomorrow during winter in a cold house with the heating off, so I can experience the same sort of cold environment, lol.

 
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