One of the great things about this time of year is that wonderful feeling of being snug, cocooned and safe from the elements. Is there anything better as we approach Mid-winter than curling up at home, or in a cozy public house and gazing at the chilly outside, glass or bong in hand, whilst listening to songs that match the mood?
So, inspired by this track which I heard today on RadMac, I am throwing myself at the mercy of the Massive to ask for your favourite Wintry/Autumnal songs.
Please join in with your own selection, if you would like to, and I shall compile them all into a Spotty playlist in due course.
The aformentioned track is this – ‘Mary’ by Big Thief. I think its beautiful.
Lemonhope says
Let’s make it a collaborative playlist – please feel free to add songs
Chris says
Oft-posted on here, but this pushes all those autumnal/wintry buttons for me. Heavy snowfall, log-burner on, a nice malt…..and this.
JustB says
Big Ovaltine fan myself too.
davebigpicture says
Bob’s house in Winter
JustB says
Only single Ovaltine though. Blended Ovaltines are the pits.
bricameron says
“ Ovaltine. Has there ever been a better way to end the day? “
Yes. There has. A line of coke snorted off a black Woman’s ass,sinced you asked.
P.S. I got permission.
Mike_H says
Small of the back is a much more stable platform, I think you’ll find.
The top of a bald midget’s head is completely impractical, studies have shown.
Moose the Mooche says
Depends how long the line is. The spine is good if you really want to go to town.
Mike_H says
My spine is the bassline, Moosey.
(All Lined Up)
Kid Dynamite says
Kid Dynamite says
Kid Dynamite says
Rachel’s’ NY Snow Globe
Kid Dynamite says
bricameron says
I see you kid.
Sewer Robot says
Any song where Kevin Rowland shouts “Brrrrrrrr”.
Lemonhope says
Chuckle
Not sure if he does on this
Colin H says
But that’s all of them, isn’t it?
Paul Hewston says
I agree about Mary – one of the loveliest songs of the year. How about this – Another World by Miranda Lee Richards.
Lemonhope says
Got another one
Lemonhope says
dai says
It’s -31C wind chill here today (Ottawa), but sunny ….
retropath2 says
I love this
attackdog says
I am trying hard to visualise myself in my local cosy pub with my bong in my hand. Lovely thought.
I doubt the regulars would know what it is.
Colin H says
Anne Briggs, ‘The Snow it Melts The Soonest’ (1971):
And, apparently based on that performance, Dick Gaughan’s version from 1980:
Colin H says
‘King Winter’ by Joan McEldowney, an old friend I haven’t seen in a while. This has prompted me to do so.
bungliemutt says
I’ve posted this song before, but it’s a stunner, and I’ve seen Thea play it live.
Dave Ross says
Billy Mackenzie weaving wintry, autumnal vocal magic……….
Winter Academy
Rigid Digit says
Simon & Garfunkel – Hazy Shade Of Winter
Rigid Digit says
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
Rigid Digit says
Everyone loves Mumford & Sons, right?
Winter Winds
Rigid Digit says
Wizzard – Rock n Roll Winter
Rigid Digit says
Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews – Baby It’s Cold Outside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3JfmExzsQ
Diddley Farquar says
Doors, Wintertime Love
Lemonhope says
The Blue Nile ‘Over The Hillside’
Wheldrake says
Aimee Mann – Whatever Happened to Christmas?
Kaisfatdad says
Very classy, Wheldrake. Having fallen for Aimee’s song I was surprised to discover that it was a cover of Sinatra track from the 50s.
Lemonhope says
Scritti Politi – ‘Snow In Sun’
Lemonhope says
Midlake – ‘You Never Arrived’
Rigid Digit says
The Decemberists – January Hymn
Lemonhope says
Tracey Thorn ‘Joy’
Rigid Digit says
Rolling Stones – Winter
Mmm … Goats Head Soup. I feel a re-listen coming soon.
Lemonhope says
Mazzy Star “Look On Down From The Bridge’
Sewer Robot says
Dude, you can’t just drop this stuff in sans warning. What’s next? the final scene of Jurassic Bark?
Moose the Mooche says
Wish that I could hibernate. Go to sleep and never wake until the sun shines once again.
https://youtu.be/BoaA7l0ClEU
Moose the Mooche says
It’s the darkest time of year…
Mike_H says
A favourite bit old folky/jazzy prog. About daydreams.
(Caravan – Winter Wine)
retropath2 says
I’m always posting this….
mikethep says
Can’t believe we’ve got this far etc…
Kaisfatdad says
Time for some Aztec Camera!
mikethep says
And beautiful early Joni from 1966. Starts about 1:00 if you want to skip.
Mike_H says
(Emily Remler – Snowfall)
duco01 says
Any Emily Remler posted on this board gets an Up from me. Incredible player.
Colin H says
I’d forgotten that I had recorded a winter song, from a singular perspective. It was created in homage to Irish folkorist, song collector, broadcaster and musical icon, who overwintered in the Hebrides one year in the 1940s, collecting traditional music. Every day there, he swam in the bitterly cold sea. He was an extraordinary man. This piece features Colin H (ac/el gtrs), Andy Powell (lead guitar), John McSherry (uilleann pipes), Ali MacKenzie (bass), Lee Hedley (harmonica), Louise Potter (drums).
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/hebridean-seas-in-winter
Colin H says
Missing info: the name was Seamus Ennis (1919-82).
retropath2 says
And his name?
atcf says
I listened to this in a snowy park last Friday and it was magical:
Lemonhope says
Nick Drake ‘Northern Sky’
Lemonhope says
John Martyn ‘Solid Air’
Lemonhope says
Kate Bush ‘Moving’
Lemonhope says
Talk Talk ‘Time It’s Time’
Freddy Steady says
@lemonhope
Fab!
Lemonhope says
Rickie Lee Jones ‘Stewart’s Coat’
Sniffity says
Winter Song
Sniffity says
Autumn Song
Milkybarnick says
Renaissance.
Vulpes Vulpes says
I love this. The whole album is lovely.
retropath2 says
Drive the Cold Winter Away by Horslips. Title track of a wonderful winter record.
retropath2 says
Dead of Winter by Eels
retropath2 says
The First Chill of Winter/Boo and Darden
retropath2 says
Es Kann Nicht Ewig Winter Sein/Bersarin Quartett
Lemonhope says
Elbow – The River
Lemonhope says
Laura Marling ‘The Valley’
Moose the Mooche says
That young lady will catch her death of cold if she isn’t more careful.
Lemonhope says
The From Male Voice Choir & The Salvation Army ‘Going Home’
ClemFandango says
Lemonhope says
Jane Siberry & KD Lang – Calling All Angels
duco01 says
I was playing this in the car a week or two ago. It has aged a lot better than expected for an early 80s pop track. It’s still very acceptable.
Yazoo – Winter Kills
Lemonhope says
Keeping the 80’s alive, here’s China Crisis – ‘Christian’
https://youtu.be/GIOOxY3ZlGw
Lemonhope says
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
Black Type says
This is just lovely.
GCU Grey Area says
Genesis’ Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering always feel like very autumnal albums. I think a large part due to Tony Banks’s analogue synths.
Goldfrapp’s Tales of Us plays nicely at this time of year, as does the Beth Gibbons / Rustin Man.
Tears For Fears – Famous Last Words.
XTC – Sacrificial Bonfire
hubert rawlinson says
Retro has put a couple of mine on so here’s a Wizard with one z, Silly Wizard
Lando Cakes says
What could be more wintry than sex with a snowman? Kate Bush:
Moose the Mooche says
Even a bloody snowman gets more action than I do.
Mind you, that’s a hell of a carrot.
Lemonhope says
Bon Iver – 29 #Strafford APTS
Steerpike says
The Clientele from their beautiful and long awaited new album Musc For The Age Of Miracles
Wheldrake says
The incomparable, much missed Jackie Leven put music to this poem by Robert Frost. From the album Creatures of Light and Darkness.
Gary says
“The last days of December are the loneliest kind.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xKBoKFTKI
Moose the Mooche says
He looks like David Soul there.
“Don’t give up on us, Cantonese boy”
Colin H says
Jethro Tull ‘Jack Frost & the Hooded Crow’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znY3bezzFqU
Kaisfatdad says
There’s something wintry about many of Stina Nordenstam songs: invariably they are sparse and uncluttered.
Kaisfatdad says
One of my favourite snow songs is Snow falling the street light ( my translation) by Anne Dorte Michelsen. It’s about going home with a lover and then lying there wide awake full of regret that you came. A numpty in a neighouring flat is playing music all night and you lie there unable to sleep, watching the snow fall on the street outside.
Oh yes. it’s in Danish. But you’ll get the mood anyway.
Mick50s says
This is gorgeous
Lemonhope says
So many good choices – this was one I caught my breath and went *o* to – [not oo, but o] how could I forget this!
Kaisfatdad says
The rather wonderful Múm from Iceland. Suggestive, mysterious and slightly bizarre.
I stumbled across that track on a Spotify playlist called Late Night Tales of Winter.
Let’s have one more from that list. Fun-loving Scots, the Boards of Canada.
Kaisfatdad says
Nice work, by the way, Lemonhope. This thread has generated a cracking playlist.
anton says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxdnkQkPjA
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Lemonhope says
Forever Young – Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine
Lemonhope says
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Distant Sky’
Mike_H says
(Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves)
Kaisfatdad says
A wintry tale of a broken heart from Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
davebigpicture says
Off topic but I only recently learned that Kid Creole not only has a Masters Degree in English but was in a band with his brother before finding solo success. Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band had a US #1 with this
Moose the Mooche says
Masters Degree in English? Was his thesis about ono… ono… onomatopoeia?
Kaisfatdad says
Dr Buzzard made three albums (all on Spotify) and one of my pals rates them more highly than Kid Creole’s stuff. I wouldn’t go that far, but they are worth a listen.
I may be wrong, but perhaps KC and the Coconuts had more success in Europe than the US.
I am a big fan.
Stories abound about where KC is now. Married and living in Malmö. Appearing in panto in Manchester……
Lemonhope says
Sigur Rós – Andvari
Lemonhope says
Sigur Rós – Heysátan
Kaisfatdad says
Dylan Thomas’s eponymous, magical account of his childhood inspired this fab song by John Cale.
Lemonhope says
Lemonhope says
As it’s mid-winter to seems apt to add at least one more song