Fall is officially here and that means we finally get to indulge in all the wonderful things that come with it: pumpkin spice EVERYTHING, chilly weather, spooky movies, and cozy vibes!
To celebrate this wonderful time of the year, we've decided to spotlight some must listens and watches that you can find at the Enrique Moreno Library that simply scream FALL.
Listens
Red (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift
Don't worry we are, of course, picking the version that should be mandatory listening for any self-respecting Swiftie - Taylor's Version of Red. It might be the autumnal covers of the cover or the incredibly melancholy aspect of the entire album but Red (Taylor's Version), along with folklore and evermore, feels like Taylor's clearly identifiable fall albums. Red (Taylor's Version) is a gargantuan piece of music; spanning 30 songs and multiple genres (including pop, indie folk, and even country), the fall vibes and emotions are on full display with this album. The good thing about us also having the approved Taylor's Version is that you can listen to her 10-minute version of "All Too Well," a devastatingly honest and raw ballad about where she paints an entire relationship. Much like fall, the entire album feels like one big transition piece as she moves away from the country genre and into indie folk, pop, and even electronic.
Whether it's the more straightforward rock outings or the combination of folk/rock that they have in albums like The Joshua Tree, U2's work also carries with it a distinctly fall-like aesthetic to their music that you can listen to once September rolls in. Sure, there are plenty of songs in this "greatest hits" collection that have more of a fun summer vibe, but you have a lot of the early work that presents a lot of its fall-like quality with gusto and flavor. You can definitely listen to something like "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" driving down the road as you look at the ever-changing color of the leaves and those fall colors become even more present into the landscape. These 18 singles are iconic but much like the best of U2 they show a band willing to experiment and push their art forward and much like fall, it has a delightful moodiness that is infectious. But really all it needs is "October" and it would be perfect.
Ghostbusters Original Soundtrack
Fall season is also basically the start of spooky season, which is why we're going with an all-timer horror party jam: the Ghostbusters soundtrack! Not only is the entire soundtrack stacked with incredibly fun acts from the 1980s, like Air Supply, The Trammps, and The Bus Boys to name a few but this soundtrack also features tracks from the indelible Elmer Bernstein score (one of the great pieces of film scoring ever) and of course the Grammy award winning "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. It is easy to take for granted how amazing this song is because it is so popular but one cannot deny that it is a complete winner from start to finish. Not only does it work perfectly within the context of the film but it also works as a pure single - starting out ominously (again perfect mood setter for the fall season) with delightfully discordant notes and then blowing them up with a glorious dance/funk classic. Plus, we even get a remix of the song that just crushes.
Watches
Over the Garden Wall
It really doesn't get more "fall" than this. Over the Garden Wall, created by Patrick McHale, is absolutely essential viewing for anyone wanting to get into the fall season. Not only does the Emmy winning miniseries feature all sorts of magical fall creatures, like skeleton pumpkins, but the show itself is animated with autumnal colors and a distinctly muted color palette that just gives it that cozy late September/October vibe perfectly. Like most great animated shows, Over the Garden Wall is entertaining for everyone and actually is, at times, strangely scary and moody with a sinister villain haunting our heroes as they go on a perilous journey across the Unknown. It also just happens to take place on Halloween, so that makes it even better and if that's not enough you have the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Melanie Lynskey, and Christopher Lloyd, so its all-around great.
Disney's Halloween Spooktacular (Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown I and II, Frankenweenie, etc)
One of the best things about the collection that we have is that you can check out boxsets with multiple movies and that is exactly what this wonderful boxset has - a plethora of spooky Disney movies for you to enjoy. Hocus Pocus and the two Halloweentowns are actually perfect watches for fall/spooky season as both directly use the season to their advantage and incorporate it into their storytelling; all three movies also incorporate an autumnal color palette full of rich browns, reds, and dark blues that just make it mandatory viewing for anyone wanting to get into the fall season. While Frankenweenie, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The Haunted Mansion, and The Watcher in the Woods also include everything that you might expect from fall movie vibes; haunted settings, a wide variety of spooky entities haunting the characters, falling leaves from trees, fall colors, sounds of fall, and a different change of scenery from what we usually associate with summer.
Scream VI
The most outright horror film of this list and one that actually, for the first time in the series, takes place during Halloween! This year's smash hit is the longest film in the franchise and moves into a different setting: New York City (cue Welcome to New York song). Directed by Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett), Scream VI reunites the survivors from the previous film, simply titled Scream (2022), in a different setting and has them come face to face with a much more different Ghostface than the one that they battled last time. With New York, come new rules and that is one of the film's strengths as the franchise pulls no punches in terms of clever twists and turns; plus they even go all out for a spooktacular metro sequence that is a Scream fan's dream (or should we say nightmare). Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Pannettiere, and Courtney Cox also return for this next chapter in the acclaimed franchise.
So whether you want to listen to cozy fall music or get your Halloween started way early, you know you always have plenty of choices to choose from at the Enrique Moreno Library.
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