2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274289#Comment_274289 2010-12-12T09:38:33-08:00 2010-12-12T09:42:07-08:00 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6

I'm just listening to Tori Amos' Midwinter Graces, and it prompted me to wonder what music people associate with Midwinter (or Christmas, or whatever you prefer to think of it as) that we're NOT ...

There's a Christmas mix my Dad made when I was tiny that I've listened to every December since, and has become Christmas musonified (is that a word?) for me, including parts of Handel's Messiah and a good dose of Steeleye Span.

Gaudete]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274291#Comment_274291 2010-12-12T09:49:09-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2

It's this version of Gaudete for me:

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Midwinter is, for me, the time to wallow in depressing music with lots of strings. I was actually just listening to this: Also, the entirety of Sigur Ros' ( ).

I was actually just listening to this:



Also, the entirety of Sigur Ros' ( ).

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This sprang to mind first... cold and dark, and the line 'it is a starless winter night's tale - it suits you well'.

This sprang to mind first... cold and dark, and the line 'it is a starless winter night's tale - it suits you well'.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274310#Comment_274310 2010-12-12T11:14:41-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=961

Growing up, I associated Christmas with this LP of singing monks from an abbey in upstate NY. My father had odd tastes in music. But at least he spared us hours of Bing Crosby and the like. A few ...

A few years back I picked up a bunch of Christmas music CDs from a dollar store, for use as stocking stuffers. Most were execrable; lots of autoharps and flutes and bell choirs. But one had a piece I find both cheering and hilarious: The Ode to Joy on clawhammer dulcimer (adopted from an arrangement popularized by Pete Seeger for banjo), which suddenly merges into Angels I Have Heard on High.

And then there's the Christmas Revels CD I picked up around the same time. Some interesting poetry and carols sung by kids, plus a couple pieces that blow me away: A great take on The Holly and the Ivy, and the original non-clogging-and-dancing Lord of the Dance:
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I for one will be dusting off my Gjöll collection for the next few weeks..... And i will be listening to these titles as well....

And i will be listening to these titles as well....





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I don't necessarily relate this song to midwinter, but it did wonders for me last night in lifting my mood and I would heartily prescribe it as a midwinter blues antidote:

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That Barry Adamson and Pansonic album is sooooo good.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274389#Comment_274389 2010-12-12T18:39:55-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019

Grouper, Gregor Samsa, and Brian Borcherdt's albums after The Remains Of.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274394#Comment_274394 2010-12-12T19:05:59-08:00 2010-12-12T19:09:06-08:00 CaratheWalton http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3266

Mr. Duffield-I really like Midwinter Graces, I've been listening to it a lot in my car. My guilty holiday pleasure/midwinter pleasure is Twisted Sister's "Twisted Christmas," it's so ...

My guilty holiday pleasure/midwinter pleasure is Twisted Sister's "Twisted Christmas," it's so wrong, but it's a lot of fun.


I also am quite fond of Handel's Messiah, I've sung it several times both in college and in my local choral society and I love to sing along to the Chorus. Although, I feel kind of strange rocking out to the Hallelujah Chorus in my car, although that one's more common. I have a gospel choir version of the Hallelujah that I really enjoy.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274406#Comment_274406 2010-12-12T20:34:57-08:00 2010-12-12T20:36:51-08:00 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6088

Always liked the Pogues Fairy Tale of New York around this time of year, a perfectly disfunctional song. "Well, it's Christmas eve, and I'm in the drunk tank..." "You scumbag, ...

Fairy Tale of New York around this time of year, a perfectly disfunctional song.

"Well, it's Christmas eve, and I'm in the drunk tank..."

"You scumbag, you maggot,
you cheap lousy faggot,
Merry Christmas your arse,
I hope it's our last"

Just puts me in that holiday mood.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274417#Comment_274417 2010-12-12T21:47:39-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 Audley Strange http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4475

Well since I tend to spend most Xmas's and New Year in various altered states it's mostly certain techno tracks that invoke the season. This one especially.

This one especially.

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I've had this record for as long as I can remember. It got broken out every year when I was a kid. It's still playable.

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@shannon.gilly-My daughter has gotten into Peanuts and so I bought her a Peanuts piano book, she has been playing Linus and Lucy, the Peanuts theme a lot, it's so great to see her enjoy something I ...

Linus and Lucy, the Peanuts theme a lot, it's so great to see her enjoy something I loved as a kid and still love.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274524#Comment_274524 2010-12-13T13:58:32-08:00 2010-12-13T14:04:49-08:00 frenchbloke http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=759

I associate WInter with the 'Faith / Carnage Visors' 2 on 1 cassette which has haunted my every winter since 1982

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@ frenchbloke YES Also , this. and and

Also , this.

and



and

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I've been listening to an album called Winter Songs a lot lately. Not all the songs are great, but it starts like this. Ever since the Thanksgiving before last, when my sister and I drove to my ...

Ever since the Thanksgiving before last, when my sister and I drove to my uncle's cabin in a terrible blizzard listening to Fleet Foxes all the while, this song in particular comes to mind when I put on a scarf and get ready to face the weather.

And, of course, there's this.
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Sorta a Christmas song. The PTV original is worth a listen as well.

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This is how Real Men do christmas: (bet they were liquored up for that one) And this is how Chipmunks do christmas: And this is how pagans do christmas (?) Sorry. Haha.

(bet they were liquored up for that one)

And this is how Chipmunks do christmas:


And this is how pagans do christmas (?)

Sorry. Haha.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274593#Comment_274593 2010-12-14T03:23:50-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 Brent Wilcox http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1653

Meredith Monk's Dolmen Music

Dolmen Music]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274715#Comment_274715 2010-12-14T16:07:07-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 lucien http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7742

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@ Frenchbloke- THOSE SONGS ARE WINTER. Spent many cold hours there myself nice selection I remember being nearly homeless and destitue in the winter of 2005 when all I owned was a discman Diamond ...

I remember being nearly homeless and destitue in the winter of 2005 when all I owned was a discman Diamond Dogs, Young Americans and Let's Dance. Those sounds always remind me ( although surprisingly fondly) of those lonely cafes and snow filled streets. Haven't listened to Bowie since but somehow this made it's way into my life just as the winter started this year.

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I'm big on the Weakerthans and Sundowner in the wintertime; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq9xGc9r4v8&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvKD2PDeik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq9xGc9r4v8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvKD2PDeik]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=274994#Comment_274994 2010-12-16T12:38:55-08:00 2010-12-16T12:39:25-08:00 Yoav http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6196

Got to be Al Green 'Lay it down' from the relatively new album from Al. Brilliant and what winter is good for:

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@ Frenchbloke Seconded. Add: and (the last one purely because it's the highest quality... also it's just the music that matters, the lyrics are pretty much incidental to ...

Seconded. Add:





and



(the last one purely because it's the highest quality... also it's just the music that matters, the lyrics are pretty much incidental to winter).


Winter is grim up north.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275053#Comment_275053 2010-12-16T20:36:36-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 dorkmuffin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6719

This is an obnoxious fan video, but the music is intact. George Winston's December album always started playing in my house around this time of year. Some of it was traditional Christmas music, some ...

This is an obnoxious fan video, but the music is intact. George Winston's December album always started playing in my house around this time of year. Some of it was traditional Christmas music, some of it was his own, but it's all really really soothing. The above video has his composition "December" and his version of "The Holly and the Ivy" with a really silly slideshow.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275119#Comment_275119 2010-12-17T07:11:35-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 Will Ellwood http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2556

I made a mix CD on Monday for the winter. It's called Cold Dark Winter. Forest by Zoe Keating from Into The Trees Escape Artist by Zoe Keating from Into The Trees Night by Zola Jesus from ...

Cold Dark Winter.

1. Forest by Zoe Keating from Into The Trees


2. Escape Artist by Zoe Keating from Into The Trees


3. Night by Zola Jesus from Stridulum EP


4. A Dark Wind Blows by Texture


5. Me and the Devil by Gil Scott Heron from I'm New Here


6. Bad Romance by Caro Emerald


7. You Are Here by Taphead


8. A Drowning by How to Destroy Angels from How to Destroy Angels


9. Tea by The Whitechapel Orchestra from Session 01


10. Echo Boomers (Generation Why) by Texture from Synaesthesia


11. Spraw II (Mountains beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire from The Suburbs


12. Optimism by Zoe Keating from Into The Trees

There's a bit more information on my website here.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275167#Comment_275167 2010-12-17T11:41:05-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 frenchbloke http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=759

However, NEVER, ever listen to The Residents Eskimo when it's cold as you will feel colder. And scared.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275175#Comment_275175 2010-12-17T12:02:24-08:00 2013-05-25T18:04:18-07:00 Adam Witt http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2673

In terms of full albums, you can't go wrong with YELLOW HOUSE by Grizzly Bear, or this year's HALYCON DIGEST by Deerhunter. HOSPICE by the Antlers is another one, but that comes with a warning: ...

HOSPICE by the Antlers is another one, but that comes with a warning: it's a cripplingly depressing album. Absolutely gorgeous, but it'll freeze you in your tracks.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275421#Comment_275421 2010-12-19T05:53:44-08:00 2010-12-19T05:54:12-08:00 Ed Sludden http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5100

I really like this version of 'The Snow it Melts the Soonest' by 'freyacat1992'.

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Something a little different - Do They Know It's Mithras? from English Heretic is "possibly the first occult charity record". A thirteen minute drone/field recording combo with a Mithraic ...

Do They Know It's Mithras? from English Heretic is "possibly the first occult charity record". A thirteen minute drone/field recording combo with a Mithraic ritual entwined. Come for the Difficult English Electronica, stay for the magic!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9296&Focus=275645#Comment_275645 2010-12-21T09:22:31-08:00 2010-12-21T09:37:09-08:00 oogliemooglie http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7645

For the past 11 years, an ever-expanding lineup of friends and musicians have gotten together annually to get drunk and play ridiculous versions of Christmas tunes for charity. I flew out to ...

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Quite a bit of Vladislav Delay. (The break/switch at 5:00 is glorious.)

(The break/switch at 5:00 is glorious.)]]>