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Wintry, Autumnal songs

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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.

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  39. 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

  60. 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

  63. 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

  72. 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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqldLiT25Ds

    Oh yes. it’s in Danish. But you’ll get the mood anyway.

  74. 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.

    • 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

        • 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……

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