Ho ho hum.
It’s nearly Christmas and to help with your last minute Christmas shopping I’m giving away a festive Golden Discs voucher worth a tinsel-tastic €25.
All you have to do is tell me below what is your favourite song about or mentioning winter.
Here’s mine.
Lines MUST close at 2am [Saturday].
Please include video links where possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s winner
Meanwhile…
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White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes
I always thought of this as a kind of secular Christmas song. Lovely harmonies with evocative imagery of childhood antics. Sublime.
https://youtu.be/DrQRS40OKNE
Winter, The Fall of course!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoVbq1K74f0
Great. Listening to that now, feeling christmasssy : )
Luke Haines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgrc4SglMpc
Mittens, 15 feet of snow (4, 75 metres!), darkness, icicles, the protagonist starting to freeze, our favorite Australian crooner summons a fierce and frightful picture of the winter in this Behemoth of a song…
Listen to it by the fireplace with a hot cocoa for best results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfhvxTZ0wo
Winter Song by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
Beautiful harmonies and poignant lyrics.
It holds very bittersweet memories for me, yet it never really feels like Christmas until I listen to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xr_KKPTHE
Oh please no! A dirge by any definition!
I love Tori Amos’ Winter, it reminds me of my leaving cert year where I sang it (very dodgily) for an exam. The piano is playing such a sweet but melancholic melody I cannot think of it without welling up a happy tear or two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDlGUdDF8Y
Radiohead – Creep But It’s All I Want For Christmas Is You By Mariah Carey – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE4shVkwqIk
Simon and Garfunkel, hazy shade of winter
https://youtu.be/bnZdlhUDEJo
I just love the energy that the Bangles put into that. Great song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk&ab_channel=TheBanglesVEVO
“Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, this air of silence
In the bedroom and all around”
It Must Have Been Love –Roxette
RIP Marie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4
God I love that tune
But you don’t love Abba …
Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles…
And before you cry foul….
“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here
Here comes the sun (doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right”
Susan Quirke – Winter’s Here
Yule May Like This
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/12/20/yule-may-like-this-23/
Simon and Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade of Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZdlhUDEJo
A positively upbeat outlook on a negatively seen season
“Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That’s an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend that you can build them again”
Great choice
The Mamas and the Papas – California Dreamin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZULM69DIw
Winning
The Winter by Cake!
https://youtu.be/NzfotSTopyE
Winter Wonderland-Kate Rusby
The first thing that popped into my head, and I’ve played it three times on the way home :)
Damn I still love this track!
Back in 1987, just when I thought thrash metal couldn’t get any better this happened….
https://youtu.be/dLp-JgswVb4
Nuclear Winter by Sodom
Classic anti-aircraft themed thrash metal packed with great riffs, Angelripper’s heavily chilling vocal style (fairly unique for the time, I thought) and brilliant drum work… what’s not to love :)
anti-war… damn u autocorrect! :)
Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
https://youtu.be/WM7-PYtXtJM
Yes please.
The Smashing Pumpkins do a great cover
But Stevie…
Stevie is brings an emotional depth to the song that is just… Perfection
So true.
One of the greatest of her songs only bettered by Gypsy
It is far too early on Sunday morning, but never too early for this song. And such a great version – one voice, one guitar. And just watch them, they play beautifully off each other.
Smashing Pumpkins was a great cover, but you cannot beat the original.
I have happy memories of listening to Chris de Burgh’s Lonely Sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscG8CM77uk
Bought from a market stall during a cold, crisp autumn, the Spanish Train album has a Christmas feel to it with A Spaceman Came Traveling as the climax.
Lonely Sky contains the lines:
I’m huddled in this french cafe
I never thought I’d see the day,
But winter’s here and summer’s really over,
Even the birds have packed up and gone,
Peeling tangerines in my lonely garret as snowflakes sparkled and fluttered onto the grey granite streets of my Yorkshire childhood home, I couldn’t but help thinking that Chris had sold out to Mammon. Arguably he sold out with Far Beyond These Castle Walls, but that’s for another day.
Still today, when I hear this song, I think of northern winters brightened by the memory of Spanish heat, bound in a tangerine.
new here? that horrible pox and everything he’s ever produced is verboten
I’d say they did it to annoy you.
Was tempted to nominate another CdeB song just to make you twitch. But then I thought to myself, it’s Christmas.
right up there with ABBA and The Beatles brother
So, I’ve won then?
Not new to the site, been posting sporadically for the last few years, obviously not said anything to rile you before.
I’m agreeing with you that most of his oeuvre is pretty odious, but some of the early stuff is OK.
you’ll need first to renounce de burgh and all his works
then maybe
Didn’t get the shift during the Lady in Red slow-set, Brother?
it’s the reason I always take the stairs, hoop
Johnny Mathis – Winter Wonderland
Darts fans love it
Winter Road – Bill Callahan
https://youtu.be/4wWw1AePnvo
Pixies cover of Neil Young’s Winterlong. Not a well known song by either of them, but made it onto a mixtape I gave to a girl once when she was going off travelling. She came back and now she’s the missus.
https://youtu.be/mWWjMgzhbu4
+ 1 absolutely love that version. I miss Kim Deal
River – Joni Mitchell
Everyone else can go home
Love Unlimited – It may be winter outside(but in my heart it’s spring)
From their 1972 album, From a Girl’s Point of View We Give to You… , this song was written by Barry White who later married one of the group. Love Unlimited was formed to providing backing vocals to Mr White and their success helped to launch his career with his first album in 1973.
When the temperature dips
I miss my baby’s arms
His tender finger tips
Knows just how to keep me warm
It may be zero degrees
With the snow falling down
But I’ve got warm and tender love
Just as long as he’s around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOW-shJrPKA
A bit off piste maybe, but I think Pure Imagination does it for me. Can’t hear it without thinking of sleepy Christmas afternoons surrounded by selection boxes and the sound of Gene Wilder’s lovely warble.
https://youtu.be/SVi3-PrQ0pY
Maybe this is the wrong post… sometime people post on the wrong post and this is what happens…Here are a few suggestions for Broadsheet 2020…
Option A – Bring back Broadsheet on the tele.
Option b – …somehow curate these Golden Disks post suggestions as some sort themed playlist.
Option C – I don’t even have to tell you what C is… you know!
Thank you all, Happy Yule season!
Jumpers by Sleater-Kinney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZA_7FtttRY
“Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
The coldest winter that I ever saw was
The summer that I spent”
I Am A Rock – Simon and Garfunkel.
Sometimes a very appropriate song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A
So I’m the one show picket line
#IStandWithTheMuppets
There was a time when passing a picket made you a scab
A time when One Out All Out meant something
Just saying
#IStandWithTheMuppets
https://youtu.be/h5gxq59Y-Vc
Yazoo – Winter Kills
https://youtu.be/4DvP3N1IeOA
Aztec Camera – Walk out to winter
https://youtu.be/kE3lTlPwykE