Music for Snow Days

[Mr. Tea]

I always thought that Supernaut from the same album sounded like the ultimate cocaine tune. Someone test this for me?

Absolutely...the most TRUIMPHANT riff ever riffed, and lyrics about feeling like you're the emperor of the known and unknown Universe because you've just boshed enough charlie to give a bull elephant a heart attack...awesome stuff.

 

[zhao]

heard a very rare Inuit circular breathing singing technique record once... briefly... was lovely.

surely that is the perfect snow soundtrack.

 

[Ness Rowlah]

"Permafrost" - Magazine
"Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"/Jethro Tull
anything by Johnny Winter (oh dear, oh dear )
"Winter killing"/Stina Nordenstam

and then there's Biosphere,

[Nice props Geir, cup of coffee and a broken winter road stick)

Seeing Devoto w Magazine tomorrow (tunes "Permafrost"/"Back to nature",
this thread and on the bottom of Biosphere Jenssen's homepage "Back to nature".
Nice interconnect.

 

[zhao]

probably the best album from this otherwise rather obtuse group -- that Riley Piece:

HALF WOLF DANCING MAD IN MOON LIGHT

is fucking wicked.

 

[michael]

Been listening to a Russian techno(-ish - sort of Gas, Porter Ricks territory) guy called Unit 21 in the NZ summer and feeling like I have to shelve the records til winter hits... so frosty and stuff that really does sound like recordings of harsh winds.

I blogged about his free EP and would totally recommend it if you like Gas, Porter Ricks / Thomas Koener, any of that techno gone crackly / murky / droney.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Wiley of course circa his eski days
Neu!
Vangelis - Blade Runner soundtrack

 

[Diggedy Derek]

Deepchord/Echospace's The Coldest Season.

I reckon that must be what those Ice Road Truckers listen to.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Alec Empire - Low On Ice

 

[vimothy]

Bjork -- Vespertine

 

[qwerty south]

Willie Nelson with Stephen Colbert - "Little Dealer Boy"

http://www.zshare.net/audio/520447855e4b9d7c/

Goldie Lookin' Chain - "Sex For Christmas" (best selling ukhh act ever?)

http://www.mediafire.com/?cntxawzumnz

06-shirley_horn-winter_wonderland_(christian_prommer_remix)

from Verve Remixed Christmas

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dgj2jmftkm5

 

[Tentative Andy]

MOP - Cold As Ice

Oh ho ho I slay me...

 

[forestier]

Lycia, 'Cold'
The Cure, 'Pornography'
Cocteau Twins, 'Victorialand'
Ulver, 'Nattens Madrigal'

I agree with the person who nominated 'Vespertine', one of my favourite winter-time albums. Also, Tuvan throat-singing is quite good for cold days. Being from Australia, though, I can really only imagine snow rather than experience it....

 

[littlebird]

Lycia, 'Cold'
The Cure, 'Pornography'
Cocteau Twins, 'Victorialand'
Ulver, 'Nattens Madrigal'

I agree with the person who nominated 'Vespertine', one of my favourite winter-time albums. Also, Tuvan throat-singing is quite good for cold days. Being from Australia, though, I can really only imagine snow rather than experience it....

*nodding* in fervent agreement, esp. to 'Victorialand' and 'Pornography'; and yes, 'Cold'.

 

[childrentalking]

Oval's 'Do While'.

 

[forestier]

*nodding* in fervent agreement, esp. to 'Victorialand' and 'Pornography'; and yes, 'Cold'.

I'm personally waiting for the widespread hipster rehabilitation of Goth, I mean, if it can happen with Doom Metal...

 

[Tentative Andy]

Absolutely...the most TRUIMPHANT riff ever riffed, and lyrics about feeling like you're the emperor of the known and unknown Universe because you've just boshed enough charlie to give a bull elephant a heart attack...awesome stuff.

Just occured to me - the other all-time classic of early 70s coke-vibe rawk (albeit with more of a downer, boshed-too-much undertow): Whipping Post by The Allman Brothers.
(Though I half-anticipate some clever-clogs to pop up and tell me it was actually done in 1969, genuinely unsure but think it was very early 70s).

 

[littlebird]

I'm personally waiting for the widespread hipster rehabilitation of Goth, I mean, if it can happen with Doom Metal...

my little gothy heart wonders if you are right.

(and wonders how it would evolve...)

 

[Tentative Andy]

Early Goth has always had hipster appreciation hasn't it? Birthday Party, Banshees, Killing Joke etc? At the least, I've never widely heard/read that stuff being slated.
(And if you mean things like Southern Death Cult not getting much love, then I can only feel that's a good thing ).

 

[Tentative Andy]

Getting myself back on topic, most of Dylan's John Wesley Harding album feels quite wintery.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Early Goth has always had hipster appreciation hasn't it? Birthday Party, Banshees, Killing Joke etc? At the least, I've never widely heard/read that stuff being slated.

yeh but really only the Banshees are goth out of those & they're probably the least "cool". Killing Joke = death disco a la PIL which is always cool & The Birthday Party has that noise rock/free jazz (avant cool) punk/tortured poet ting going on. even the Banshess really cos they're kind of like the Cure lite and even if the Cure is a little bit dad rock they're still like "oh we write melancholy love songs & upbeat melancholy songs" also always cool for artsy white folk.

uncool Goth being rehabilited, we're talking like Christian Death & London After Midnight & Sisters of Mercy. and more importantly the fashion, people who call themselves Cyber-Goths and look like the lovechildren of candy ravers and Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice. and I mean more power to em but that whole like is way too sincere to ever be "cool".

edit - oh sorry to get off topic