A Panoply of Song - A Spring & Summer Mix

[blancwene.livejournal.com]

Explanation:
Spring is upon us! Here's a mix for blossoming flowers and returning birdsong, sunny days and fireworks displays.



A Panoply of Song - A Spring & Summer Mix:

01. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long
The spring is upon us, follow my only song

02. The Weepies - I Was Made For Sunny Days
and the late light lingers on the grass
and the nights are dark but then they pass
they don't seem so deep

03. Josh Ritter - Snow Is Gone
It's been a long time coming
But now the snow is gone

04. Nina Simone - Another Spring
And then one morning
Another spring is there outside my door

05. Brett Dennen - So Long Sweet Misery
I would paint your portrait over everything mundane
more colorful than Easter Sunday

06. Lavender Diamond - Rise in the Springtime
And so we rise up to the east
And so we rise up to the sun

07-09. Vivaldi - Spring I-III
(If we were to play a word association game, you'd say "spring," and I'd say Vivaldi.)

10. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
This is the springtime of my loving - the second season I am to know
[...]
It is the summer of my smiles - flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.

11. James Vincent McMorrow - This Old Dark Machine
Spring it came upon us,
Every insect filled the air
[...]
Then they caught us in the summer
Dressed in father's finest clothes

12. Great Big Sea - Beat the Drum
I still hear the snares in the square
Colours ablaze in the evening

13-15. Vivaldi - Summer I-III
(The second concerto from "Four Seasons" evokes the heat and languidness of summer. At least, I think so!)

16. The Decemberists - June Hymn
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day
Heralding a summer's early sway

17. Phoebe Kreutz - All Summer Long
And it will keep on getting awesomer and awesomer
All summer long

18. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Walking around in our summertime clothes
Nowhere to go when our bodies glow

19. Laura Veirs - July Flame
July flame
Fiery kite
Will-o-the-Wisp
Lead me through the night

20. Gregory Alan Isakov - Dandelion Wine
Summer days were just a magazine, a magazine, a magazine...

21. Dar Williams - The End of the Summer
It's the end of the summer,
You can spin the light to gold.

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Notes:
--For Laura.
--Part of this mix (ie, most of the summer songs) has been floating around on an iPod playlist for years now, but the rest was assembled in March & April 2013.
--Songs 01-09 are Winter edging into Spring, songs 10-12 are for that strange in-between seasons period, and songs 13-21 are Quintessentially Summer.


Enjoy!
(crossposted at fanmix)

Comments

[mauvais-pli.livejournal.com]

Your mix is very welcome :) And I love that it's a pretty diverse collection. Thanks for sharing!

[ohcaptain.livejournal.com]

What is the 8tracks link? I'd love to be able to listen to this.

[blancwene.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I can't believe I forgot the link! Here (http://8tracks.com/blancwene/a-panoply-of-song) it is. :)

[aliciadances.livejournal.com]

This is lovely!

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

This is my new "Summer Dinner on the Porch" mix.

[vinylchild.livejournal.com]

TY!

[dustuck.livejournal.com]

Oh, this looks lovely! A few songs I know, all of which seem perfect for the theme, and make me sure that the rest of the mix is equally well composed (pun? intended).

[fadeintodawn.livejournal.com]

This is really lovely!

[tavadriel.livejournal.com]

so many new songs - what a great idea for a mix! thanks for sharing!