Best Music to Listen To Whilst Walking Around in the Snow.

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For some reason, for me it's either IRON MAIDEN or GANG OF FOUR, though vintage U2 always comes to mind when drunk and walking in the snow (curse you, MTV!)

You may feel differently.

― Very Drunk Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Today, it was Dreamboat Annie.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Disco Inferno - "Footprints in Snow"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Permafrost -Thomas Koner

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

nick drake

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Unforgettable Fire is a great snow album. Slowdive is good snow music as are The Chameleons. I can agree with Iron Maiden, though I wonder about Gang of Four. Snow demands atmospherics, no?

― Hawley Griffin, Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Basic Channel comp -- good for walking in the snow, better for lying in the snow.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 23 January 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Gum

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's got to be the Cocteau Twins really hasn't it

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

recent Low

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a really beautiful aesthetic experience tonight where I came home drunk and decided I needed to shovel my car out NOW ("That's what a MAN does," I told my incredulous girlfriend with swagger. So I took my iPod out and stumbled around with my shovel, and I found Joanna Newsom especially poignant.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh ooh Stina Nordenstam as well

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Opeth

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never actually seen snow, but I'd imagine Loveless. 'small change' by Tom Waits would be fitting

― Seuss, Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the Chills

― youn, Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Handsome Family - In the Air
Saint Etienne - Good Humor
Lamb - What Sound
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Miles Davis - Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet
Pogues, Low, U2 are good picks

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

COLDPLAY!!!!

hahaha im an ass

― JD from CDepot, Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Biosphere - Cloudwalker

― Graeme (Graeme), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

mcluskey keeps you warm

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigur Ros (for snow, and night, but maybe not for drunk)

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yume Bitsu's "Sharp, Twisted" is good sometimes too. maybe more for drunk, and night than snow

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost everything that Chuck E. played tonight, especially Eddy Grant's "Romancing the Stone" and the Equals' "Baby Come Back" back-to-back.

And now that I'm home from that, Sade's Lovers Rock.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

But even better than all of that: Love Unlimited, "It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Permafrost -Thomas Koner

ooooh good answer. I was gonna say "desertshore" by nico.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

clearly yoko ono, "snow is falling everwhere."

― swvl (vozick), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember walking around in the snow a few years ago listening to Nico or Berlin-Era Bowie. It was definitely excellent snow music.

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I listend to Unwound/Replikants produced Swedish post rockers YIND today.

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's got to be the Cocteau Twins really hasn't it

Yes, and specifically Treasure, although Head over Heels wouldn't hurt, either.

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 23 January 2005 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

mayhem's "freezing moon" on repeat.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 23 January 2005 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus F'n Christ. Cocteau Twins Treasure in the snow. Now that is classic. Unfortunately I no longer live in a locale that gets much of any snow, but I remember very much what it was like when I did, and another friend of mine has been talking about being snowed in as well.

"Vintage U2" does come to mind, though. I mean when it was Christmas of 1983 and I was out of school and I discovered the "War" album, now that was mother fucking somthing else etc etc etc etc. And one really must tip their hat to Steve Lillywhite, the production was incredible. I remember particularly liking "Like A Song". My parents paid no mind to my insanity as I blasted the album (or at least side one) over and over and over and over.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 23 January 2005 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday afternoon: The World of Arthur Russell & The Soul of Disco.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotta be the Cocteau Twins. You could even go the whole hog with them and play 'Frosty the Snowman/Winter Wonderland.' But that might be taking it a bit far
What about that Galaxie 500 one? 'Listen the snow is falling' or somats.
Low are quite snowy.Is it cos their from Duluth and it conjures up the right images. Their Christmas album. A bit late though.
I reckon East River Pipe would sound good in the snow too.
Vintage Bad Brains for the particularly slippery streets?

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Sunday, 23 January 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I second Stina Nordenstam too and would add Jane Siberry.

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Sunday, 23 January 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, I usually associate the Cocteaus with Autumn, not winter, but I'll give that a shot.

Not sure why I put Gang of Four in there. I think it stems from in incident circa winter 1990. I'd been invited to a party on 4th Street & Avenue A (which, for its day, was a bit more of an adventure than going there would be today). I was living uptown at the time. Because I'm so damn neurotic, I got there right on time!, and what sort of ass wants to be the first guy at a party? So, I ended up walking around the snowy East Village/Alphabet City with my walkman, playing the then newly released Gang of Four compilation, A Brief History of the Twentieth Century. For some reason, Gang of Four's spartan shards of dissonance served as the perfect soundtrack to chilly, snow-caked urban squallor,

― Hungover'n'Headachey Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 23 January 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hex Enduction Hour

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Sunday, 23 January 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes it has to be the Cocteaus but the album is VICTORIALAND!!!

― chris sallis, Sunday, 23 January 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Good call on Cocteau Twins. Although Vespertine and Music for 18 Musicians are great, too.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 23 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Panda Park - 90 Day Men

Probably any post rock album. Id prolly listen to Explosions in the Sky the most.

Mum

― Mike D (nullnvoid), Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

scnd by jim o'rourke so you can hear the sounds of somebody walking through the snow when you're walking through the snow.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Um. Duh. Bjork "Vespertine"

jeesh

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Galaxie 500 "Snowstorm" is right on.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh good answer. I was gonna say "desertshore" by nico.

Is that the one with -- I think it's her son -- singing "Le Petit Chevalier"? Man, that's creepy. Good choice, if so.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's the one. listened to the vinyl last night, wanted to slight my wrists (no, just kidding). but the desertshore, permafrost, leonard cohen trifecta i played was AWESOME.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

whilst still snowing, Eno's Discreet Music is ideal.

Whilst shovelling today, though, it was Teedra Moses' Complex Simplicity.

― john'n'chicago, Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan worked for me.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Disco Inferno - Footprints In The Snow

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh good answer. I was gonna say "desertshore" by nico.

Is that the one with -- I think it's her son -- singing "Le Petit Chevalier"? Man, that's creepy. Good choice, if so.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...) (webmail), January 23rd, 2005 4:07 PM. (vassifer) (link)

Yea, you're right. Its a great album. I used to listen to it on vinyl while crunked off my ass last winter....

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Daytime: Sufjan Stevens - Greeting From Michigan
Afternoon/Sunset: Fennesz - Venice
Night: Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills

― thank god i ain't too cool for the safe belt (smile), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes "Desertshore" became one of my favourite Nico albums. Probably my second fave, in fact.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

after what?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Except for el sabor, you are all fools of the highest order.O nly Mayhem is appropriate, and only one Mayhem song, 'Freezing Moon' - and then, only the version sung by Dead. Anything else is shit.

― Janne Karlsson, Monday, 24 January 2005 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Codeine Frigid Stars
Palace Arise, Therefore
Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

tim hecker's radio amor makes everything seem crazy

― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 24 January 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

immortal - battles in the north
susanna & the magical orchestra
van morrison "balerina." yes. really.

I second (or third) the galaxie 500.

― pm, Monday, 24 January 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Magazine's Secondhand Daylight

It may make you even colder though.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I just trudging along to Yo la Tengo - Painful all day. Kinda made me want to just lay down in a drift and stay there, though. hm.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 24 January 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

after what?

Nico-Icon. Perhaps an unpopular choice, but I think "Drama of Exile" as it was originally released sounds too ornate in comparison.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

is that a posthumous thing? I don't have it. Only have chelsea girls, desertshore and the end.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it is a posthumous thing - it's mostly different versions of the songs on the Drama of Exile album, with a few extras tacked on.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I went walking in what passes for snow in Edinburgh while listening to Solo Piano by Gonzales about 1 week ago. It was pretty much perfect.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Two days after I moved to Newport, I bought the Chapterhouse "Blood Music" CD, with the free Global Communications remix CD with it. That night it snowed very heavily, so I taped the remix CD, chucked it into my walkman and walked into work early in the morning watching the sun rise over the snow, with this gorgeous glacial music playing in my head all the time. So whenever it snows, that remix CD gets pulled out, which isn't often enough around here.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 January 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Autofire - Litter Duty

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In the snow, at night, drunk = MORPHINE. Especially The Night.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Residents - Eskimo

― the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Shadow's Introducing always felt very appropriate to me.
Stina is a good pick too.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Biosphere - Cirque
Burkhard Stangl & Christoph Kurzmann - Schnee
Vladislav Delay - ele (or Entain)
Yagya - The Rhythm of Snow
Adlib - "Einöde (Wilderness)"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is nice for snowy pedestrian travels. I'd also raise my mittens for Ha Ha Sound by Broadcast and Through The Trees by The Handsome Family.

― Bren (Bren), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had Espers and Six Organs of Admittance on pretty high rotation for the last snowy and bitterly cold week. I switch them out for High On Fire when I start freezing and need to walk faster. All sound great sandwiched against my ears by a toque/hood combination.

I walked home late at night through a very desolate city listening to disc 2 of the Conet project in -25C weather a few days ago... pretty heavy moment for sure.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I substituted "freezing cold" for "snow". Montreal is in serious winter mode right now.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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― chuck, Monday, 24 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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― chuck, Monday, 24 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

The amazing Satoshi Ashikawa record that everybody likes, in particular 'Still Park'

― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:02 (five years ago)

kevin drumm - imperial distortion

― Joses Chrust (map), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:10 (five years ago)

Somebody mentioned Thomas Köner's Permafrost upthread, but that whole trilogy — Nunatak, Teimo, and Permafrost — really go together. (They were reissued as a 3CD set years ago; I still have it on a shelf somewhere.)

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:14 (five years ago)

Bára Gísladóttir – HĪBER

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:15 (five years ago)

Rick James - The Definitive Collection, and Ashkenazy conducting Sibelius' 4th Symphony.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 23:50 (five years ago)

When I went out walking in the snow today I was listening to Amon Amarth's Surtur Rising, FTR.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 00:35 (five years ago)

listening to plaid “stem sell” comp and a lot of tracks have that muted yet magnificent almost claustrophobic/cosy quality that i would associate with walking late at night in the snow, if only we got some damn snow in vancouver this year

― scanner darkly, Friday, 5 February 2021 23:42 (five years ago)

154

― Left, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:01 (five years ago)

Labradford.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:02 (five years ago)

Labradorford, ffs.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:04 (five years ago)

agree with Vespertine

― Dan S, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:06 (five years ago)

Labradorford

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― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 February 2021 01:06 (five years ago)

Explosions in the sky - the Earth is not a cold dead place - still have a powerful memory of walking in absolutely pouring snow and sub zero temps in Chicago after dropping off an apartment rent check a few months after it came out. Pretty good for a Texas band. That and '... And Justice for all'

― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 6 February 2021 01:21 (five years ago)

I do love Vespertine, but since it already contains the sound effects of walking in the snow, it would feel redundant to actually walk in the snow while listening to it.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:26 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/jqbX58f.jpg

― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:35 (five years ago)

some snow songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/79BpcMhAdD7vfwOYqZNdli?si=IdyHU2FKQIGs6lhL1TsPBw

― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:53 (five years ago)

Enslaved – Frost

― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:55 (five years ago)

xp similarly no sense in listening to the KLF stadium tracks while in an actual stadium

― scanner darkly, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:48 (five years ago)

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

― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:53 (five years ago)

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