Bjork's Vespertine is my favorite album for winter...the very intimate, crystalline sounds go down well with falling snow and frosted-up windows. Not to mention it compliments Christmas lights and the smells of winter and the holidays. Absolutely perfect for the season. If you don't have it and you have snow outside, do yourself a favor.

What's your favorite winter music?

Absolutely Vespertine.

The impossibly high children's choirs, the lush strings, the micro-managed beats, the insanely close and muffled vocals... It sounds and feels like getting into a steaming hot bath after you've been making snow angels and ice skating all day. Some of the beats, particularly in "Aurora" sound like snowshoes marching across the tundra. Many of the songs deal with hibernating, domestic bliss, creating your own little heaven - all the things that can be appreciated as the good part of Winter. The content is extremely emotional and introspective, which matches perfectly the mood many experience during the cold months and especially the holidays. I can't think of many albums more suited to a particular season, feeling and mindset as this glorious piece of work.

My favorite Winter-album is Hejira by Joni Mitchell. The mood on that album fits perfectly to snowy landscapes.

Add The Sensual World & Little Earthquakes to the two albums already mentioned.

These 2...

i don't have much knowledge of classical music but in the winter i love listening to tchaikovsky, mahler, chopin, and the work of the few other composers i have in my collection. especially in the past few days, with the snow falling...the don't call it the romantic era for nothing, ya know! this is also the season when natalie merchant gets pulled out the most.

Another Vespertine thread!

GangstaFam said:

I love it when you get on a roll.

Vespertine makes me think of icicles cracking and melting and dripping into the snowbanks from the eaves.

the Sibelius Violin Concerto has famously been referred to as a "polonaise for Polar Bears"

polonaise


(pl´´nz´, ´´–) (KEY) , Polish national dance, in moderate 3–4 time and of slow, stately movements. It evolved from peasant and court processions and ceremonies of the late 16th cent. and was later used by J. S. and W. F. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Chopin, exiled from Poland, expressed his patriotic fervor in 13 polonaises.


It's a very beautiful concerto, very enjoyable to listen to, both icy and lumbering.

heartbeatocean said:

Thanks!

I've noticed that I definitely have a thing for electronic music in the Winter. Much more so than at any other time.

Madonna: Erotica & Bedtime Stories
Björk Vespertine
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes & Under The Pink



when someone asked me to describe Björk's 'Vespertine', i told her if winter had a sound, this would be it.

i LOVE winter

These ones are good for late Fall and early Winter, basically November through January...

CHIC0 said:

Those ones seem more like Fall to me.

GangstaFam said:

Winter

CHIC0 said:

Erotica maybe I could see. But Bedtime Stories to me will always be late summer/early fall. The aqua and pink colors, the breezy instrumentation, the sexy harmonies - it's all too warm if ya ask me. But of course, this is all subjective and only relative to me.

GangstaFam said:

you're entitled to be wrong.


Bedtime Story, Love Tried To Welcome Me, Sanctuary, and a couple others feel like the dead of winter to me.
ooh i almost forgot.. "Something To Remember" as well.

let me guess, that's a Spring album for you.

anytime i hear Enya or certain Sade songs, i think of winter. because wwe had to listen to those two a lot during Christmas time at one of the record stores i worked at. Especially "Sheppard's Moon" and "Best of...Sade"

CHIC0 said:

Hey thanks!

GangstaFam said:

you're welcome. now throw some more wood on the fire.

CHIC0 said:

Sade is total summer to me.

GangstaFam said:

i agree..Spring/Summer for me. it's just that we were forced to listen to them all winter. so it's like a Pavlov's dog affect.

It may be a bit obvious, but how about Vivaldi's "Winter" Concerto?

There's one for each season and they do sound like the different seasons. Spring is bright and awakening, like things coming to life.

LEONARD COHEN: FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT

"IT'S FOUR IN THE MORNING THE END OF DECEMBER
I'M WRITING YOU NOW JUST TO SEE IF YOUR BETTER
NEW YORK IS COLD BUT I LIKE WHERE I'M LIVING
THERE'S MUSIC ON CLINTON STREET ALL THROUGH THE EVENING"

I chose N.E.R.D.'s "Fly or Die" as one of my favorite winter albums. Its so filled with adolescent imagery that its like being trapped inside of that Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer Christmas special. The big red dog that they have included in the video for She Wants To Move reminds me of Clifford, the Big Red Dog or Rudolf's nose. Songs, like Backseat Love, Jump, and The Way She Dances remind me of family gatherings when teenaged cousins would invite their girlfriends or boyfriends over and we would catch them necking in a bedroom or something. This album has a really innocent and sometimes whimsical feeling, just how Christmas is to a child.

Any1 agree?

Paris 1919 is a great winter album.

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come.
Don't know why, I just listen to it a lot in early winter.

Hey and no one has mentioned

Under Ice by Kate Bush

one of my favorite favorite favorite songs ever. I want to make that song into a movie.