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soapy [Edit] [Delete] 74 replies 13:21 January 15th, 2013

I've been listening to this while walking around in the snow this morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFCiSbyW1s

what about you?

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The last time I had snow days off work

I sat in my living room watching the huge flakes falling while listening to Spiderland by Slint. It's not about snow by it sounds like snow to me.

keith | 15 Jan '13, 13:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
Maybe because I bought it in the legendary winter of '10

but Public Strain is a snow album for me. The first song especially sounds like blizzard music.

deadwrong | 15 Jan '13, 13:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- yep
  
  also the front cover reminds me of snow. well...it is snow.
  
  incandenza_ @deadwrong | 17 Jan '13, 19:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  deadwrong and kubrahhh this'd this
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Puds | 15 Jan '13, 13:44 | X | ^ This | Reply

pichaelmarker, kubrahhh, and DriftingSkeleton this'd this
Absent Friend - Bark Psychosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OSxc9XYRc

HumanDog | 15 Jan '13, 13:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
Surely 50 words of snow?

fiddygent | 15 Jan '13, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
- *50 words for snow
  
  fiddygent @fiddygent | 15 Jan '13, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  crosseyedsniper and untrue this'd this
A licky boom boom down

JohnM | 15 Jan '13, 13:53 | X | ^ This | Reply

theShipment, JimmyHuntspill, littlebirds, ma0sm, CrispinAlexander, ThirstyDog, skippingkate, 8stepstoperfection, and spiritofjazz this'd this
- came to this
  
  i'm done here
  
  CrispinAlexander @JohnM | 15 Jan '13, 18:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icb_tRTnA4g
  
  pichaelmarker @JohnM | 15 Jan '13, 21:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivoYMJq2kiI

badmanreturns | 15 Jan '13, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ben Frost - By The Throat

Better if you go out walking in the snow at night.

chadders | 15 Jan '13, 14:20 | X | ^ This | Reply

stalecloud, wonton, GoatmeatMF, and funkycow this'd this
- Yeah this is perfect
  
  Anything heavily distorted works well though. Obviously Ravedeath (though Radio Amor is an alternative) by Tim Hecker, which also features Frost :)
  
  wonton @chadders | 15 Jan '13, 14:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Re reading this, it looks like I don't know the first thing about By the Throat
    
    It's only perfect if you enjoy being terrified.
    
    wonton @wonton | 15 Jan '13, 14:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
- also brilliant on windy days
  
  incandenza_ @chadders | 17 Jan '13, 19:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Esmerine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKaiMeoTwA

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9jk6qk6TI

Popol Vuh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUD128X2dI

Matryoshka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUPDOiFEnY

ThierryEnnui | 15 Jan '13, 14:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- <3 matryoshka!
  
  Jordan_229_2 @ThierryEnnui | 15 Jan '13, 22:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
There Is Love In You

rainmaker | 15 Jan '13, 14:37 | X | ^ This | Reply

Furryboy this'd this
black metal

GoatmeatMF | 15 Jan '13, 14:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

fuck_this_band, heartworms, ethricdouble, incandenza_, Mehodor, soapy, Poprivet, and CeeJay this'd this
Immortal obviously

Cementimental | 15 Jan '13, 14:46 | X | ^ This | Reply

Mehodor this'd this
Echospace - The Coldest Season
Biosphere - Cirque
Yagya - Rhythm of Snow

DriftingSkeleton | 15 Jan '13, 15:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
My winter mixtape from last year was this...

I really need to update it or do a new one...

1. MBV – Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
2. The Twilight Sad - Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed
3. Epic45 – We Left Our Homes For Winter
4. The Field – Sun & Ice
5. Atlas Sound – Winter Vacation
6. Lilys - Snowblinder
7. Coldplay – Shiver
8. Laura Veirs – Icebound Stream
9. Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
10. Sonic Youth - Hoarfrost
11. Low - Snowstorm
12. Tim Hecker – Arctic Lover’s Rock Pt. 1
13. Bomb The Bass – Winter In July
14. Broadcast – Winter Now

funkycow | 15 Jan '13, 16:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
- pop in a hidden track - Galaxie 500 - Listen The Snow Is Falling
  
  Albert-Swearengen @funkycow | 15 Jan '13, 17:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  funkycow and thesewoodenideas this'd this
i lick your boom boom down.

meths | 15 Jan '13, 16:19 | X | ^ This | Reply

Gashwrecker this'd this
- Was just about to post this
  
  INFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFORMA
  
  Gashwrecker @meths | 15 Jan '13, 17:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Had to walk to college one day in really heavy snow. It wasn't unpleasant like a blizzard, no wind, just really heavy falling, really still. Everything was coated in white, was really nice.

Had this playing on headphones, probably the most enjoyable commute I've ever had.

hanshotfirst | 15 Jan '13, 16:26 | X | ^ This | Reply

emmettcruddas this'd this
Joni Mitchell - River

bruised_blood | 15 Jan '13, 16:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
Elpmas by Moondog

it's not snowing here in Cornwall though :(

myyada | 15 Jan '13, 17:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
Heres a playlist I made about a year ago with Bamnan about the snow

http://open.spotify.com/user/118268690/playlist/6lbHbMpWiZlbxhQFjDuUf3

fappable | 15 Jan '13, 17:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
Never understood people that think music to listen to in snow means finding songs with words related to snow in their titles

I recommend Matryoshka's "Zatrecenie" - a great album in itself, but lends well to being played in a snow landscape.

kostenurky | 15 Jan '13, 17:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Well, most of the 'ice' and 'snow' tracks in my playlist above...
  
  ...have a very wintery feel (Coldplay excepted). I suppose it's a shortcut since a lot of the time the artists do actually mean something with the titles of their songs.
  
  I could just listen to Yellow Swans' Going Places, Ben Frost (good name) or the whole of the first Field album etc (but it wouldn't be as much fun).
  
  funkycow @kostenurky | 15 Jan '13, 20:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yeah it was the Coldplay one that jumped out at me
    
    kostenurky @funkycow | 16 Jan '13, 00:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Fair enough, I think I have some editing to do
      
      funkycow @kostenurky | 16 Jan '13, 06:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - OK - amended playlist and JAG for the mix now on mixcloud
      
      It now has some Low, Grouper, etc for some of the other posters...
      
      http://www.mixcloud.com/funkycow/winter-mix-worcester-in-a-winter-wonderland/
      
      funkycow @kostenurky | 19 Jan '13, 20:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Are you from Worcester?!
        
        I'm from Worcester (sort of).
        
        brainfeedr @funkycow | 12 Mar '13, 08:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        I am indeed.
        
        funkycow @brainfeedr | 12 Mar '13, 12:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
Last year I went for a walk in the snow and listened to Hex Induction Hour.

Wierdly perfect for that sort of weather. Especially this version of Winter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZu6FJerf-U

Oissin_ | 15 Jan '13, 17:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
- weirdly perfect in any weather in my view
  
  although half of it (including Winter, I think) was recorded in a cave in Iceland which might explain its snow-compatability.
  
  bornin69 @Oissin_ | 15 Jan '13, 23:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
  - I don't know about it being perfect in any weather.
    
    I love it, but I find I can only REALLY enjoy it when the weather is below a certain temperature. Which is odd, I don't have that with any other album.
    
    Oissin_ @bornin69 | 16 Jan '13, 00:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- YES
  
  incandenza_ @Oissin_ | 17 Jan '13, 19:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
Youth Lagoon

Is a cracking little album for wandering around in the snow

spoiledff7 | 15 Jan '13, 17:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

hanshotfirst this'd this
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Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)

petetheweed | 15 Jan '13, 18:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
Two Dead Minutes by Blood Red Shoes

Just has this cold, dead, bleak feeling right from the guitar intro, and was the first thing in my ears today during my snowy hike to work. Also good for long drives thru rolling hills.

Stone_Wick | 15 Jan '13, 19:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Wintermusik by Nils Frahm

Just finished listening to it there, what a marvellous album.

dis-charge | 15 Jan '13, 20:16 | X | ^ This | Reply

kostenurky and imho this'd this
Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen

Icarus-Smicarus | 15 Jan '13, 20:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Vespertine

pichaelmarker | 15 Jan '13, 21:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

DriftingSkeleton, suedehead, and incandenza_ this'd this
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

pichaelmarker | 15 Jan '13, 21:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

funkycow this'd this
- Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
  
  Portland doesn't get that much snow, but the winter of '08 saw a solid month where a single day didn't go by without it snowing, hard.
  
  That album got me through that winter, and that snowstorm. There's something about the way the instruments move that feels like drifting snow at times.
  
  ThisTemporaryLife @pichaelmarker | 15 Jan '13, 22:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
- for me
  
  Grouper sounds best during the magic hour on long, clear summer nights.
  
  incandenza_ @pichaelmarker | 17 Jan '13, 19:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
Coteau Twins - Lorelai OR Little Spacey

fappable | 15 Jan '13, 23:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- OR
  
  Persephone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8u0VeHWVw
  
  heartworms @fappable | 16 Jan '13, 13:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  fappable this'd this
this;

like snowdrops bouncing off your heartstrings;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW4x6Sv7FiE

Jordan_229_2 | 16 Jan '13, 00:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
nighttime snow only

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYNidNgQic

Jordan_229_2 | 16 Jan '13, 00:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Olafur Arnalds

ThirstyDog | 16 Jan '13, 02:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Stare, the EP he did with Nils Frahm, would be perfect in the snow.
  
  Going to try it out tomorrow.
  
  1_234589 @ThirstyDog | 17 Jan '13, 21:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Sigur Ros

Anything but especially Staralfur. I got the LP for Christmas years ago and spent a miserable freezing winter's day listening to it on a family outing to Barry Island. It is not so much snow I suppose, more that really cold, frosty, crisp winter morning with a blazing sun shining down. I can almost smell the winter when I play that song.

steinbolt | 16 Jan '13, 13:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Atlas Sound

suedehead | 17 Jan '13, 15:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal

I remember the song coming on the radio when it just started snowing during my first year at university. Now every time it's cold or snowing it just seems to fit the mood so well!

danwink | 17 Jan '13, 16:25 | X | ^ This | Reply

the_dazzled this'd this
The whole of Mew - Frengers

godisinthetv | 17 Jan '13, 16:54 | X | ^ This | Reply

pichaelmarker this'd this
any Galaxie 500

or early Low - pre-TWLITF.

incandenza_ | 17 Jan '13, 19:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Have had Trust on pretty solid rotation this weekend
  
  So I can agree with you there.
  Also that Martin Rossiter solo record from last year was great during a walk yesterday.
  
  the-breacher @incandenza_ | 20 Jan '13, 09:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
i was listening to the skyrim soundtrack earlier

seemed pretty fitting
also true adventures by british sea power

krankenhaus | 17 Jan '13, 20:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
just been running in the snow listening to this italo/space type disco mix

https://soundcloud.com/cremeorganization/mr-clavio-i-found-my-place-in
epiccc

mug_mug_mug | 17 Jan '13, 21:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bill Ryder-Jones - If...

Is perfect for a cold winter day.

sister-ray | 20 Jan '13, 12:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
I've been listening to David Grubbs a lot for the past few days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQ6fi_RJos

Oissin_ | 21 Jan '13, 15:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
Animal Collective - Winter's Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSTSD2EhMUI

Stringly | 21 Jan '13, 16:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Trent Reznor and a piano

Hand Covers Bruise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBNCYkSceU

What If We Could - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Kn7iYZ_Bc

Blackjack_Bauer | 21 Jan '13, 19:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
i made a mix

of stuff that I thought sounded good whilst stuck indoors, looking out at the snow:

http://www.mixcloud.com/yrvancouver/snow-tones/

warplp101 | 21 Jan '13, 19:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Sorry to re-post mine (above) but I'm listening to yours, and it's lovely
  
  Hadn't heard of most of these other than the obvious (Fennesz, Basinski , Mark Eitzel and the Beach Boys). Nice job:
  
  My effort below:
  
  http://www.mixcloud.com/funkycow/winter-mix-worcester-in-a-winter-wonderland/
  
  funkycow @warplp101 | 21 Jan '13, 19:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - thanks dude
    
    yours is going on tonight, baby
    
    warplp101 @funkycow | 22 Jan '13, 08:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
Arcade Fire - Tunnels

citizenmeh | 21 Jan '13, 20:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
you asked of the sun

to kindly fuck off
so that you could see the snow falling

riverlodge | 21 Jan '13, 21:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
Sol Seppy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUddpT1bvKQ

Furryboy | 21 Jan '13, 23:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Joanna Newsom - Ys

is my snow music.

berksy | 22 Jan '13, 09:06 | X | ^ This | Reply

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