Entertainment For Lively Minds
Music to accompany a snow day?
Posted by hermon hermit on 5 January 2010 - 12:10pm.
As the snow is currently 5" high and rising here in west Wales, I am off work and multi-tasking at home to the fine sounds of Midlake, Bon Iver and kd lang (Hymns of the 49th Parallel) on Spotify.
Any further wintry musical suggestions to accompany this fine weather?
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Fleet Foxes probably make
Fleet Foxes probably make the ultimate winter music.
Agreed
There is a parallel universe where "White Winter Hymnal" is the Best Christmas No 1 Ever
Listen the Snow is Falling
It's a Yoko Ono song covered by Thea Gilmore on her last album Strange Communion.
Walk Out To Winter
Aztec Camera, marvellous.
Brr..
Perfect choices- just made me dig out my copy of the KD Lang and there are good wintry tracks on the Thea Gilmore and also the Tori Amos
no snow here in Winchester yet but bloody cold...
Carol Batton
From Folk is not a 4 letter word 2
Doves - Lost Souls
Second time I've mentioned it today.
Great album though. Dark, wintry and atmospheric.
Thanks for the suggestions -
Thanks for the suggestions - have now knocked up a Spotify playlist using these and a few others, see:
http://open.spotify.com/user/hermonhermit/playlist/0QJ410VUP8Bt3CPkHjHfF...
spotify:user:hermonhermit:playlist:0QJ410VUP8Bt3CPkHjHfFP
Thanks for the suggestions -
Thanks for the suggestions - have now knocked up a Spotify playlist using these and a few others, see:
http://open.spotify.com/user/hermonhermit/playlist/0QJ410VUP8Bt3CPkHjHfF...
spotify:user:hermonhermit:playlist:0QJ410VUP8Bt3CPkHjHfFP
Goldfrapp
Felt Mountain. No finer snowy album has been made. Eric Satie also feels snowy to me. And Air's Moon Safari.
Music and landscape
When people ask for snowy music, the first tune I think of is Goldfrapp's "Lovely Head" on "Felt Mountain". But is that because it's somehow inherently snowy (muffled, perhaps?) or is it just because there's a picture of a snowy forest on the inside sleeve of the CD? Surely the slight touches of Morricone/spaghetti Western should lead us to think of a sweltering desert?
I was pondering this when I read the following article about the "tethering" of particular pieces of music to particular landscapes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/02/tom-service-music-landscape-...
Apologies for the repeat
Apologies for the repeat post above - all of the above (apart from Carol B who I can't find on Spotify) now added to the Songs for a Snowy Day playlist
Wonderland
5" high and rising
Love it. Johnny Cash done by Spinal Tap!
this might help
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/no-business-snow-business
Thanks Chris - someone's
Thanks Chris - someone's always been there already on this board...
Mercury Rev-Deserter's Songs
the first three tracks especially...
And Troika by Prokofiev
Snowflakes are dancing
Tubular Bells
It is the sound of snow falling
And this...
...Parce mihi domine by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble.
Can't add these to your playlist otherwise I would...
15 Feet of Pure White Snow
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I drove down to Kent from Stafford this morning and am now wondering if I too will be spending the night on the motorway entombed in 15 feet of the white stuff
Snowbound
From Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad album. Also Tom Verlaine's The Scientist Writes A Letter. "It's snowing,seems like it's always snowing".
Have added...
Jan Gabarek & the Hilliards, Donald Fagen, Mike Oldfield and Nick cave was there already. Can't find the Tom Verlaine or Tomita tracks, sorry.
not sure why
but "Atmosphere" by Joy Division always does it for me....