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'September' - Earth, Wind & Fire -

Earth, Wind & Fire were never likely to record a downbeat number about cold autumn nights. Instead, this classic disco stomper from 1978 sees the band recalling dancing in late September, when "there never was a cloudy day."

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'November Rain' - Guns N' Roses -

Rocker Axl Rose comes over all sentimental in this 1991 classic rock anthem. Turn up the volume and raise a glass to lost loves!

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'Wake Me Up When September Ends' - Green Day -

There's clearly something about fall that can soften the heart of even the hardest rockers. Punk band Green Day are in thoughtful, slow mode in this number from their provocative 2004 album 'American Idiot.'

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'Boys of Summer' - Don Henley -

Former Eagles singer Don Henley looks back on the heady days of summer in this classic song about love's young dream and the passing of seemingly-endless sunny days.

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'Autumn Leaves' - Nat King Cole -

Many artists have recorded versions of this touching jazz standard, but Nat King Cole's crooning 1955 version is the best of a formidable bunch.

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'Gone Till November' - Wyclef Jean -

Wyclef Jean scored an international hit with this track from his 1997 debut album, 'The Carnival.' He knows he's breaking hearts, but can't be tied to a nine-to-five, so he's off until November.

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'My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion' - The Flaming Lips -

Oklahoma alt-rockers the Flaming Lips are in whimsical mood in this stirring 2006 fall ditty about migrating birds and dying nature. The one bird that stays serves as a poignant symbol of hope.

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'Harvest Moon' - Neil Young -

Music legend Neil Young created one of the most beautiful fall tunes of all time with this mournful 1992 classic. Taken from the album of the same name, it's full of lovelorn yearning.

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'Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground' - The White Stripes -

In this 2001 indie rock autumn anthem, all Jack White can see are "dead leaves and the dirty ground" when the object of his affections is not around.

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'Pale September' - Fiona Apple -

Beautifully-written lyrics and Fiona Apple's striking voice make this 1996 tune an autumn classic. With heart-breaking clarity, she remembers a time when "the autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin."

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'Autumn Serenade' - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman -

This 1963 collab is a warming ode to the beauty of fall. John Coltrane's sax solo adds an extra dash of autumn spice to the musical proceedings.

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'Leaves That Are Green' - Simon & Garfunkel -

"The leaves that are green turn to brown." The thoughtful lyrics ponder on the passing of time and the changing seasons in Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's 1966 classic.

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'Autumn Almanac' - The Kinks -

The British mod rockers took an altogether lighter look at the arrival of autumn, with their 1967 ode to all that's good about the arrival of fall in the UK.

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'Autumn in New York' - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong -

New York really is beautiful in the fall, and this heartfelt 1956 rendition of a classic ode to autumn in the Big Apple will have you wanting to book a ticket pronto.

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'All Too Well' - Taylor Swift -

Swift warmly recalls "autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place" and a boy who kept her scarf as a memento, in this bitter-sweet 2012 song.

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'Autumn Leaves' - Ed Sheeran -

No, not Sheeran's version of the jazz classic, but a moving 2011 lament to a lost love. Autumn is definitely the season for melancholic recollections of past relationships!

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'The Last Day of Summer' - The Cure -

British goth-rockers The Cure are not a band you associate with golden summer days. And, indeed, their pained-but-beautiful 2000 single recalls that "the last day of summer never felt so cold."

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'Seasons of Wither' - Aerosmith -

Even hard-living rockers like Aerosmith can get the change-of-season blues. Steven Tyler recalls time spent with a "blues hearted lady," in the band's 1974 power ballad.

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'October' - U2 -

Irish stadium rockers U2 were still in the springtime of their career when they recorded this anthem in 1981. The song plays tribute to the season where "the trees are stripped bare, of all they wear."

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'September Song' - Frank Sinatra -

Ol' Blue Eyes summons up end-of-summer magic in his 1965 classic about that perfect time when "the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame."

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'Til Summer Comes Around' - Keith Urban -

The Australian singer-songwriter is another musician struck by the autumn blues in this 2009 track. His forlorn feelings about the end of another long summer are soul-stirringly set to country music.

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'Autumn Changes' - Donna Summer -

Donna Summer keeps the grooves positive in a feel-good 1976 fall number that sees her determined to patch up a relationship that seems to be dying with the summer sun.

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'Colder Weather' - Zac Brown Band -

Light the fire and pull on a cozy sweater, this yearning number from 2010 will have you feeling more autumnal than a steaming mug of hot spiced wine.

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'Forever Autumn' - The Moody Blues -

The band really did have the autumn blues in this beautifully-crafted 1978 autumnal musing on migrating birds and a love who blew away "like a leaf on a breeze."

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'Autumnsong' - Manic Street Preachers -

Welsh indie rockers Manic Street Preachers created a heartfelt ode to somebody's seasonal hairstyle change with this soaring 2007 tune.

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'Autumn Town Leaves' - Iron & Wine -

American singer-songwriter Sam Beam is better known by his Iron & Wine stage name. He perfectly encapsulates the bitter-sweet sensations of fall in this 2018 folk-rock song about a place where "we hold our hats while the days fly past."

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'Sweater Weather' - The Neighborhood -

The Neighborhood recall the simple pleasure of warming someone's hands inside your sweater, in a sweet indie-pop fall favorite from 2012.

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'Autumn Sweater' - Yo La Tengo -

Sweaters and autumn go together like lattes and pumpkin spice, and American rock band Yo La Tengo whimsically capture the cozy-sad fall vibes in their sweet 1997 song.

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'Autumn's Not That Cold' - Lorrie Morgan -

Country singer Lorrie Morgan is not going to let heartbreak, or the change of seasons, get to her. This is a warming breakup survival number, with lyrics like: "I’m not that lonesome and autumn’s not cold.”

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