A cool down and a gentle reminder of back when it wasn’t 115 degrees out (remember then?):
The weather outside is so frightful there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING delightful about it. Which naturally led us (in all our infinite editorial wisdom) to want to make a playlist of freezing cold songs.
For you.
Because, you know, you’re not thinking about how cold it is enough.
So here is what we have for you:
Fallen Snow by Au Revoir Simone, because I will use any opportunity to have this song up on the site. ANY. Triple keyboards, precious vocals, icicles melting.
A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger-Of Montreal, One of my favorite songs of 07. The opening burst of sound is straight out of a psyched out Donna Summer song, and as always, the lyrics are priceless, if somewhat inane: I spent the winter on the verge of nervous breakdown, while living in Norway…..
A Hazy Shade of Winter-Simon & Garfunkel. A classic. Also worth noting when you need something to blast while getting ready to go out tonight and Paul and Art just won’t cut it-the Bangles version of the same gem.
A double whammy by Belle and Sebastian-I initially added “A fox in the Snow” but then Cale texted me about “Winter Wooskie” (“Although it feels out of place tucked at the end of the excellent genre hopping Legal Man single, on its own it is quite the overlooked gem”)so we added that too. Twee Team Work!
Cold & Kind – 1900s – Not necessarily a winter song per se, but the title fits, and I love the boy/girl 1970s harmonies and sprinkles of violin throughout it. Fuzzy.
Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – the token creepadelic winter song. Something sinister this way comes. And its Nick’s piano.
then a few gems by Cale:
Winter Wonder Land – Animal Collective yet another amazing track off one of 2007’s best albums
Winter – Tori Amos Remember high school? I got beat up a lot.
Winter Coat-Umlaut Umlaut: this just popped up on random play on the ipod one time, no idea where it came from but it’s BRILLIANT. I know nothing about them and never bothered to look them up, yet play this song all the time while DJing. Nobody ever dances.
Winter is Blue – Vashti Bunyan Damn straight. What are we doing living in this climate we obviously we’re not evolved to be in. From Vashti’s recently unearthed 1970 masterpiece Just Another Diamond Day
Cold as Ice-Foreigner-Now, I promised myself there would be no Elton John or Queen on this playlist (for no reason but the fact that I didn’t feel the warmth towards them today) but then I ended up including this piano monster by Foreigner. I’m going to say its for good measure, and to balance things out. Plus, the keys action is icy cool.
Baby, Its Cold Outside – Louis Jourdan and Ella Fitzgerald. Now, we OBVIOUSLY had to end with this. It was a toss up between this version and the Tom Jones/Cerys Matthews from Catatonia duet, but I went with the golden oldie. And a Tom and Cerys video instead for closing:
Please feel free to add your own favorites (I am sad we didn’t have “Cold” by “Modern English” and “Eskimo in Me” by Wan Light on hand for one) and go buy yourself some mittens.
Duh…
“Cold-hearted bitch” by JET
But that doesn’t exactly fit into this self-consciously delicious mix
Plainsong, the Cure
June 10, 2008 at 11:53 amwinter wonderland by the cocteau twins
colder by colder
eisär by grauzone
last white christmas by the basement 5
cries and whispers by new order
cold by the cure
where’s your ice at by frenchbloke
write your letter by the arcadians
Duh…..
June 10, 2008 at 12:05 am“Cold World” by GZA