MUSIC - Good Listening Through the Year

We've had a few cold spells, and even now the nights are chilly. On those stiff mornings, I put in one of my favorite albums. The days are warm, but once the sun has set we need more than shorts and a tee-shirt. So I put in Revolver.

Every Beatles album - each one of course one of my favorite albums ever - sounds that much better if played during the appropriate season. Please see my musical calendar below.

• Summer days: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Long, hot summer days: Yellow Submarine (the album, not just the title track)
• Long, hot summer days, after sunset: the “White Album”
• Summer turning into fall and fall days: Revolver
• Fall before sunrise or after sunset: the “White Album” (can be listed here twice since it’s only a nighttime preference)
• Fall turning into winter: Let it Be
• Christmastime and before or after winter parties: Abbey Road
• Dead of winter: the collection of singles (Past Masters, really Volume 2)
• Winter into spring: Rubber Soul
• Spring: Magical Mystery Tour
• Spring turning into summer: Help!
• When you’re just really bored: Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, and Beatles for Sale

Try it out this year and let me know what you think.