Autumn is the only season of the year that I associate with specific music, certain albums, and exact songs.

Some music has the power to bring back exact feelings, and I suppose that, for whatever reason, I remember feelings from past autumns more clearly than from any other time of my life.

I don't mean that I remember certain exact events or specific periods of my life when I hear certain music. It's more abstract than that. What I mean is that there is certain music that I associate with memories of a very specific feeling. It's sort of a placid, melancholy longing that I can't define or explain, and the only thing I'm sure of is that I associate it with autumn.

These are my "autumn albums." This is the music that I always want to hear in the fall of the year, and I invariably find myself digging through my CD collection, trying to find these albums, by the beginning of each October.

Am I a lone nutcase, out on a limb with this topic? Or, do you have your own specific autumn music as well? If so, I'd love to hear about it. Please leave comments.