Thank Frosty it’s Friday.
And a happy new year to all you good good people.
With snow falling on cedars and other trees today, there can be only one theme to this week’s voucher-less music chat: what’s your favourite song about or featuring snow?
Here’s mine.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close on Saturday at Midday.
Meanwhile…
The Pogues & The Dubliners – The Irish Rover
Last month, I asked you for your favourite drinking song. Goldenbrown won my esteem with this entry:
“A great drinking song about the drink – and a great tale – I wanted it to be a true story LOL. And it’s my party trick when I’m out on the jar.”
Nick says: Thanks Goldenbrown and all who entered.
Pic: Freebird, Dublin
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there was a program on rte last sunday (?) evening about the wild rover, tracing its origins and playing multiple versions of it. the father-in-law was beat into it for an hour listening to the one song over and over again.
Informer – Snow
https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo
A leaky bum bum down!!
Lil Baby – Pure Cocaine.
https://youtu.be/IixEG5N0GdE
It may be slightly Christmassy, but it is a beautiful and sombre melodic retreat for those of us who like to indulge our introversion after the festive season!
“Now I don’t feel so all alone in the cold wonderin’ where I’m going today,
For a snowflake fell and it felt like a kiss now I’m okay”
A Snowflake Fell – Glasvegas
https://youtu.be/GGfZo4gqSd8
Happy New Year Nick! Great to see your esteem back up for grabs again!
Here’s my pick from Belle and Sebastian’s glorious If You’re Feeling Sinister:
Fox in the Snow
https://youtu.be/rmClYjK1CgA
Happy New Year Nick
“We come from the land of the ice and snow…”
Immigrant Song – Zeppelin
And here it is in one of it’s probably finest uses in any movie – 2 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_LZU7TdvWA&t=174s
It brings me back to when I had my heart broken, while living in a bedsit in Portobello, listening to Bon Iver on a loop.
‘I crouch like a crow/ Contrasting the snow…’
My heart has since healed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3lJIxyZ60&ab_channel=jokerman02
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
When you have a nightmare about the white stuff and you join in in a silly dance in some soviet-ish compound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfhvxTZ0wo
Snow in San Anselmo by Van the Man
nice one golden
ta Janet!
👍
maith thu, goldenbrown,
go hiontach ar fad..!
:)
a (very un-PC*) 1985 pure French electro-pop bijou: flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqeJUGzvnq0
neige @ 0.01
smoking and drinking @ 1.00
*: snowflakes s’abstenir!
:)
happy birthday Elvis…
(I know you’re out there somewhere)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5BAf1CfM9A
snow @ 0.01
+ happy birthday Ziggy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qrOvBuWJ-c
“snow-white tan…”
Thanks Nick, I really like your own choice, it’s one of those incredibly sad bordering on maudlin songs that gets inside your head. These verses are just great
We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how
She said she’d married her an architect
Who kept her warm and safe and dry
She would’ve liked to say she loved the man
But she didn’t like to lie
I said the years had been a friend to her
And that her eyes were still as blue
But in those eyes, I wasn’t sure if I
Saw doubt or gratitude
I humbly submit this songwriting masterclass
Merle Haggard ‘If we make it through December’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TByT3QlWc
I don’t mean to hate December
It’s meant to be the happy time of year
And my little girl don’t understand
Why daddy can’t afford no Christmas here
If we make it through December
Everything’s gonna be alright, I know
It’s the coldest time of winter
And I shiver when I see the fallin’ snow
Happy New Year Nick!!
One of the most important lessons that I learnt from the brilliant,
Mr Frank Zappa – Don’t Eat Yellow Snow
https://youtu.be/TLIppgE45wM
Enjoy and Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Christy Moore’s Easter Snow is a tribute to Seamus Ennis, a man he described as “ a giant of Irish music”.
The tune on this song belongs to Seamus and Christy added his own lyrics recounting a drink soaked visit to Ennis’s house in The Naul.
The pipes at the end are the highlight of the song for me.
When I hear this it puts me in mind of fragility, the fragility of nature, people, talent, health, society. Most of us don’t truly understand how lucky we are….
https://youtu.be/d4iQuBddAVw
Black Sabbath Snowblind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8B4BdAs0h4&ab_channel=BlackSabbath
My eyes are blind, but I can see
The snowflakes glisten on the tree
The sun no longer sets me free
I feel there’s no place freezing me
Let the winter sun shine on
Let me feel the frost of dawn
Fill my dreams with flakes of snow
Soon I’ll feel the chilling go
Crystal world with winter flowers
Turn my days to frozen hours
Lying snowblind in the sun
Will my ice age ever come?
The Icicle Works: “Love Is A Wonderful Colour'”
https://youtu.be/tLGnQCrwo3I
Mary Sandeman – Massacre of Glencoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JXdN5fJ2fY
A song based on the events of 13th February, 1692, when, acting under orders from William of Orange, the MacDonalds of Glencoe were wiped out by soldiers of the Earl of Argyll’s Regiment of Foot.
English version by John McDermott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXEpog0j6Q
As ever, Bill’s got ya covered.
“The road is dangerous
And pretty and white
Tires spinning on snow
World spinning heavy and slow
And I’m headed home…”
Bill Callahan – Winter Road
https://youtu.be/3zIJ7lZKNQY
Elbow – And It Snowed
https://youtu.be/sZlPEbHgsF8
Elliott Smith – Angel in the Snow
https://youtu.be/BCR2hBy2t6I
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Straight outta Belvo…
JJ72 – Snow
https://youtu.be/Miz1asgNeKI
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
https://youtu.be/bpFUc8ABDMQ
…to all the degenerates at The Christmas Tree Lounge.
where everyday is Christmas day.
Sia – Snowman
https://youtu.be/gset79KMmt0
Great call Nick, lovely song. made for this time of year. Timeless!
The Walkmen – While I Shovel The Snow
Well they say, “Can’t please everyone”
But I’m stuck on a winning streak
Well today, there’s clarity
And tonight, I see tomorrow
All at once, the winter’s here
All the lochs are frozen over
As I look in back of me
See a shape beside the walkway
Half of my life, I’ve been watching
Half of my life, I’ve been waking up
Birds in the sky could warn me
There’s no life like the slow life
So for now, I’ll take my time
For now, I can’t be bothered
But I learned a lot of things
And I fudged a lot of numbers
Once again, the winter’s here
All the lochs are frozen over
So I look in back of me
See a shape beside the walkway
Half of my life, I’ve been watching
Half of my life, I’ve been waking up
Birds in the sky could warn me
There’s no life like the slow life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQFObDpxgI
The always brilliant Nick Cave & the bad seeds with an amazing tune and memorable video for their classic song, Fifteen feet of pure white snow.
https://youtu.be/4sfhvxTZ0wo
A late post.
Happy new year Nick, congratulations Goldenbrown.
Snow…
Just like life, unique and fleeting…
Prince & the Revolution • Sometimes It Snows in April
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgBhSMSUM
Nick wins this week, a helping of self-esteem for that perfect song. I wish they hadn’t run out of things to say.