Your favorite Prog albums for Autumn and Winter.

[Phlakaton]

Schnauser - Protein for Everyone
Mats/Morgan Band - Thanks for Flying With Us

Schnauser has special significance with fall and leaves all over the road - driving across the turnpike in PA to a funeral. Funny thing though - that album makes me really happy regardless of the reason I was there. Probably because I dont get any real fall or gorgeous trees in Texas. Bleck.

[Big Ears]

Lindisfarne - Winter Song, January Song, Fog on the Tyne, Warm Feeling, Stormy Weather
Badlands - Winter's Call
Judus Priest - Winter, Deep Freeze and Winter Retreat
UK - Alaska
Rick Wakeman - White Rock
Atomic RoOoster - Winter
Black Sabbath - Tyr

[miamiscot]

Jethro Tull's Songs From The Wood feels like autumn but so does Mostly Autumn.

UK's debut always feels like winter to me. Maybe it's that Alaska song...

And just because of the album cover...Wind And Wuthering.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Just about ANYTHING from Quebec; Octobre, Contraction, Opus-5, Morse Code, Sloche, Conventum, Maneige and Harmonium's L'Heptade espec.

For the UK it might be Before a Word Is Said by Gowen-Miller-Sinclair-Tomkins, Power & the Glory by Gentle Giant or H to He by VdGG, possibly even Red Queen by Gryphon or Touch Me by The Enid, alternatively The Civil Surface by Egg or something by Bronski Beat.

[StevegSr]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31bIHG7MwRL.jpg I coundn't resist!

[jamesmanzi]

Yes - Relayer. Released November 1974.

For me it's Drama. I'm guessing I got it around the holidays and listened to it all winter - probably '83 or '84. And the snowy cover too. For whatever reasons, that album sounds like Christmas to me.

[arise_shine]

Agalloch

[Gerhard]

Kate Bush's (relatively) recent "50 Words for Snow" album is a lovely winter time listen.

Hostsonaten has an album for each season. I think I have a couple of them, can't remember which. Here's "Winterthrough" on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ge...4EAD070A368BD7

[bob_32_116]

I know a lot of people here can't stand Coldplay, but I do like some of their work, and I find the album Viva la Vida etc to have a very wintry atmosphere to it, with the exception of the title track. Songs like "Cemeteries of London", "Violet Hill" and "Death and All His Friends" sound particularly chilly.

Of course with a name like Coldplay, I suppose they should be producing music appropriate for autumn and winter.

[Scrotum Scissor]

The Cressida and Fantasy albums (especially Paint a Picture) are very evocative of the season, I find.

Cressida yes, but with Fantasy I find that while PaP most definitely evokes images and feels of winter, Beyond the Beyond comes across as the exact opposite; an exquisite taste of lazy summer afternoons. "Reality", "Just a Dream" and particularly closer "Church Clock" sort among the dearest summer tunes I know from this specific type of UK rock. The Quicksand album is another example of a decidedly "summery" record for me.

[The Dark Elf]

Jethro Tull's Songs From The Wood feels like autumn but so does Mostly Autumn.

Agreed about Songs from the Wood, particularly "Fire at Midnight", "Jack in the Green" and "Ring Out Solstice Bells". But I think Living in the Past offers even more of an autumn/winter feel with "Christmas Song", "The Witches Promise" (definitely autumn this), "Bouree" (festive ), "Wond'ring Again", etc.

[Dave (in MA)]

Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch; they all seemed linked to the autumn to me. Maybe it was because Tull's tours back then invariably came through the area around Oct./Nov.

[Keith 951 ZZO]

My absolute favorites are from Hostsonaten. The Fall & Winter albums are Autumnsymphony & Wintethrough. Great instrumental albums & I am not a fan of instrumental CDs. They also have Springsong & Summereve. I love this stuff. Give it a try. Well, give it a try, please.

[Progatron]

My absolute favorites are from Hostsonaten. The Fall & Winter albums are Autumnsymphony & Wintethrough. Great instrumental albums & I am not a fan of instrumental CDs. They also have Springsong & Summereve. I love this stuff. Give it a try. Well, give it a try, please.

I love Hostsonaten. Their other albums outside of this series are excellent as well.

[Mythos]

I live in Southern California, on November 22 & 23 it was 80 to 87 degrees here.

Hence; we have no seasons

Hence: we listen to whatever all year long...!

[inhortte]

Agalloch

This is my choice.

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[Stevie B]

And just because of the album cover...Wind And Wuthering.

This topic comes up regularly (probably once a year!) and Wind & Wuthering is always the standout Autumn album...and I've always meant to ask...is it JUST the cover? For me, there's nothing autumnal in the music itself...indeed most of the seasonal references on the album are to summer (Afterglow, Blood on the Rooftops, Eleventh Earl...).

And Then There Were Three...is definitely a Winter album however

[bob_32_116]

... and Selling England is a summer album, or perhaps late spring. It isn't just the cover. There is "I Know what I Like" (on which the cover is based); Epping Foreest (I can't imagine events like that happening in the colder months in the UK); and in general to me the music just sounds warm and summery.

[StevegSr]

I forgot about this one and it's about time it came out: Enya: And Winter Came.

[yamishogun]

I know a lot of people here can't stand Coldplay, but I do like some of their work, and I find the album Viva la Vida etc to have a very wintry atmosphere to it, with the exception of the title track. Songs like "Cemeteries of London", "Violet Hill" and "Death and All His Friends" sound particularly chilly.

I'm mixed on Coldplay. I've usually liked 2 or maybe 3 songs per album through X&Y and final bought Viva la Vida last month remembering I liked the 3 songs and it was produced by Brian Eno so curious.

I'd listen to "Lovers in Japan" while in Japan during a few autumns, so that is definitely a fall song for me. As you said, it does seem wintry overall.

[PeterG]

Autumn:
War of the worlds
Trick of the tail
W & W
The Kick inside, lionheart, never for ever
Songs from the Wood
Fragile
Meddle

Winter:
Trespass
The Jethro Tull crimbo album
Sensual world
DSOTM
The final cut
Red
Acquiring the taste

[grego]

UK debut has winter spirit, not only because of Alaska.

[JKL2000]

Kate Bush"s "50 Words for Snow" and a good single malt.

[Digital_Man]

For me it's Drama. I'm guessing I got it around the holidays and listened to it all winter - probably '83 or '84. And the snowy cover too. For whatever reasons, that album sounds like Christmas to me.

And it doesn't even include "run with the fox."

[Neek21]

Opeth: Damnation