Comments on: Your Take: Seasons Come, Seasons Go

By: Mayor JoBob

Mayor JoBob — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:33:55 +0000

Living in the Pacific Northwest during the fall and winter months is downright depressing. Country music’s got me covered there! Otherwise I listed to hard & classic rock!!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:44:07 +0000

It’s funny, but I actually agree with Mr. Foster here. I can really only stand the goofy, upbeat summer songs in the winter, when I need an escape. When summertime itself rolls around, I really like songs with a laid back groove and a certain mood – where the singer is kind of beaten down by life, but not particularly desperate or bothered by that fact. I just referenced this one in another review, but “Too Cold At Home” is pretty much my perfect summer song. I’ve had Jamey Johnson’s “Place Out On The Ocean” high on my playlist lately too, along with Worley’s “Tequila On Ice” and Clint Black’s “Burn One Down”.

They’ve all got the same mood, and they just make me want to kick back on my porch with a beer and enjoy the evening.

By: Fizz

Fizz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:47:54 +0000

This is a topic I’ve always been fascinated by: the way music affects moods, the way it can be tied to a certain time of year, the way it can provoke such strong sense-memories in people.

My tastes in country music stay pretty much the same year-round, as I’ve never cared for the gimmicky, forced summer songs that so many artists barf up. I think I do tend to listen to more classic country in the wintertime, since that was the time of year I first really began to explore it. I’m talking the real old stuff here. And I tend to like bluegrass to unwind on cold winter nights. In the summer, I probably tend to listen to more rowdy, hard-edged country.

For hard rock adn heavy metal, my first adn best musical love, though, I find a bit more seasonal variety: more fun, carefree, and yes, lyrically vacant hair-band fare in the summertime, and more of the seriously heavy death- and black-metal stuff in the winter. A lot of those Scandinavian bands tend to make frequent references to and strive for a musical feeling of cold, and it’s not exactly pool-party music anyway, but it can be refreshing to put on something fun and frivolous in the middle of January, really picks you up.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:59:43 +0000

No difference in musical tastes from season to season for me. Heck, i’d love listening to LoCash Cowboys “Here Comes Summer” in January as much as May. The only difference in musical tastes is during the Christmas season. There’s nothing that spells out Christmas like hearing Vince Vance’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” on the radio. It just has that Christmas charm, that sound, it’s beautiful.

By: Julia Hughan

Julia Hughan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:04:43 +0000

We typically have miserable rainy winters down here (no snow, just shorter grey days and plenty of rain). On the first morning in October/November when I wake up and notice a change in the weather (a clear sky, sun etc), I instinctively rush to my car, slide open the sun roof, find the Dixie Chicks Home album, select “Long Time Gone” and start driving with a huge grin. It is and odd ritual but it has become a force of habit since I started driving seven years ago. It is almost like a marking of the beginning of summer for me.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:34:46 +0000

It would be like someone singing Christmas songs in the middle of the summer or anytime after Christmas. Would anybody be in the mood singing Christmas carols between January and before Thanksgiving? Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” comes to mind since it was released in October 1982 and peaked in the Top 10 in February 1983.

And would someone sing anything about baseball, basketball and football after these sports seasons have done come and gone?

By: Dana M

Dana M — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:33:48 +0000

I love listening to sad songs in the winter. Strangely enough, in pop culture, it’s prime time to release a ballad in November where it has a chance of being more successful. I’m not sure if it’s like that in country, but I love slow deep songs during Fall/Winter. I feel more sensitive to the music. If I listen to Randy Roger’s Band “In My Arms Instead” on a nice cold day, it makes me feel content.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:51:41 +0000

Yeah well, you don’t want to hear “It’s a Summer Thing” in fall, winter or spring. But I admit, if I listen to too much of Lee Ann Womack during January, or February and her songs about love angst…I can really get depressed. They are so deep, dark and meaningful to me. So I take her in the fall, in summer but winter…No.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:42:26 +0000

I love country music in the fall. I don’t even think it has anything to do with a particular sound, although if I had to pick, I’d say maybe a more natural, rustic, and traditional yet soothing sound is what comes to mind for fall music to me.. like Joe Nichols “Real Things”.

But more than anything its just me getting outside more, going out on the trails and taking in the changing of the colors. An early fall morning hiking with my coffee and my dog… there isn’t much better to me.

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:00:40 +0000

I actually think I enjoy a good summer song (like “Redneck Yacht Club,” not a crappy one) as much in winter as in summer. I’ve never really been one to suffer from winter depression, and I can usually cope well with season changes. The seasons may change, but my musical tastes mostly stay the same all year round.