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    There's just some songs or genres of music that just seem like they sound so much better at that time than others. I mean we all know Christmas music goes with December but what about others?

    For me it just seems like Country music sounds so much better during the summer or even summer evenings. Something you can roll the windows down, turn the music up and drive along.
     
    I've always associated CHVRCHES with the Autumn, mainly because that's when a new Forza Horizon game featuring one of their tracks always comes out. Kings Of Leon is a definite Summer band.
     
    I moved from Texas to Ohio in January 2014; so I associate songs that were popular on the radio at that time (Counting Stars, Demons, Story of my Life, Sweater Weather...) with cold, snowy winters. (Because I didn't get much experience with that in Texas, and if you remember, 2014 was the year of the polar vortex...)

    (Also, I associate Katy Perry's Roar with my birthday, tracing back to sometime in my early teens - no special reason, really, all I did was listen to it once around my birthday. Nostalgia grows in me like Kudzu Vines, man...)
     
    Spring is definitely a time for indie, alternative, can't-quite-pigeon-hole songs. Grouplove's Shark Attack, Class Actress's Keep You, Sufjan Steven's I Walked, Fitz and the Tantrum's Fools Gold, Kwabs's Walk... practically anything breezy with some backbone. Grace VanderWaal is great, too.

    Summer is Kings of Leon, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Icona Pop, Sia and some Lana Del Rey for when you start to get a headache. Sigrid is always good at this time of year, too, and Alex Lahey.

    Autumn is Metric, hands down. Some nostalgia pieces, too - things that wake up the kid in you who remembers the red leaves on the pavement. Santigold, Muse, 4 Non Blondes, The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, The Temper Trap, Of Monsters and Men and U2.

    Boz Scaggs with his jazz endeavours are a Winter deal. 80's is usually good at this time of year... and some Rihanna, Tove Lo... it's such a boring time of year. The usual playlist is worn out, so this is when experimentation goes on. Try and get familiar with the latest and greatest hits, which are usually terrible because most people have no discernment. But Imagine Dragons and Years & Years are good sources of comfort.
     
    Fleetwood Mac for me have always been a Summer nights band, although I don't just listen to them then obviously lol. Lana Del Rey reminds me a lot of Autumn, and for that I don't really know why!
     
    i follow this concept Religiously. i usually classify songs by "cold" or "hot" though instead. it really depends on the weather for me above everything.

    i make monthly playlists and i usually end up associating whatever songs are in the playlists with the month they fall in, however
     
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