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Suitably dark and atmospheric.
Came to post this too.
It's a great album regardless, but its greatness doubles during winter.
Song for Jesse by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
It was from the movie 'The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford'.
It was from the movie 'The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford'.
Some incredible choices in here. Agalloch is always as is most post rock/metal.
WHOA. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis scored this movie? If it's half as good as Jesse James' score I'll love it. Gotta catch this movie on Netflix soon.
I'd also recommend checking this out.
I didn't know that either.
It is an excellent movie if you like that kind of thing. The music is more subtle than in the Jesse James movie but no less potent.
I didn't know that either.
It is an excellent movie if you like that kind of thing. The music is more subtle than in the Jesse James movie but no less potent.
spawnsniper
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That New young jeezy album fo shoooo..
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
You should also check out The Proposition (Australian Western). That film influenced Red Dead Redemption. The director did the short film of Red Dead.
The Proposition - The Rider Song
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I appreciate threads like this. Certain music encapsulates certain times in my life.
I recall driving around the town as a teen with my buddies having desperate, innocent conversations about sex, love, drugs, the future, in the freezing Florida winter (IT DOES HAPPEN!). Often times the soundtrack for these nights would be one album or another by The Smiths.
Moz's plaintive caterwauling became, for me, the very heart of cold weather and longing.
Things hardly seem real until I've a soundtrack associated with them in my head. It's weird because it's not like I'm consciously looking for one. I listen to a ton of music and there's ALWAYS something that clicks in a serious way.
For my last breakup "A grand don't come for free" by The Streets was an immense comfort for me.
I recall driving around the town as a teen with my buddies having desperate, innocent conversations about sex, love, drugs, the future, in the freezing Florida winter (IT DOES HAPPEN!). Often times the soundtrack for these nights would be one album or another by The Smiths.
Moz's plaintive caterwauling became, for me, the very heart of cold weather and longing.
Every era of my life is associated with a certain album or artist. Like a soundtrack almost.
Things hardly seem real until I've a soundtrack associated with them in my head. It's weird because it's not like I'm consciously looking for one. I listen to a ton of music and there's ALWAYS something that clicks in a serious way.
For my last breakup "A grand don't come for free" by The Streets was an immense comfort for me.
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This post intrigued me so I loaded up the album on my subscription service.
Very clever. Giving it a go right now.
Winter John
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Best cure for short gray days
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is my favourite winter song. I seen him play live in December one year so his whole playing the piano album reminds me of winter.
Have to check out a lot of the suggestions i've not heard of in here.
Have to check out a lot of the suggestions i've not heard of in here.
close to the edge
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For sure. Not an album but I nominate Der Abschied ("The Farewell") from Mahler's Lied von der Erde.
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The Head and The Heart
Perfect music for coming in from the cold and sitting by a crackling fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSQGWpy0qY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjoA4nYBD5U
Fallout-NL
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Also a fan of this:
Released in late fall of '98, right around the time I remember Half-Life came out. Will always associate this album with that particular winter.
Released in late fall of '98, right around the time I remember Half-Life came out. Will always associate this album with that particular winter.
Came to post this.
Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
A very chill album that always reminded me that winter was coming for me.
You might want to check out his other albums if you're enjoying that one. I especially recommend Safe in the Steep Cliffs.
As for my recs:
Kinack - Ondas
Hammock - Departure Songs
Lotus - Blur 2 (if you like emancipator, odds are you'll like this)
Metropolitan Poets - Greed
teruterubozu
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HappyBivouac
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This. The first track of this album IS winter in my mind.
Seriously, listen to this. You can not find a song that more perfectly embodies a cold, snowy winter night than this.
Love that song. I actually first found out about this song through one of emancipator's tracks, which he sampled this song.
I really need to make it through the entire album, though.. I have yet to do that. I guess I'll do that during the Winter time.
Never Forever
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Duh
This was the main one I was thinking of.
Although, like most other albums mentioned in this thread (such as Vespertine) I think of it more as a 'night-time' album than anything. I'm not sure whether I associate albums with seasons so much as the feeling of a time of day.
Introspection, pain and quietude feel more nocturnal than particularly seasonal. Idk, that's me. It's the same feeling of looking outside and feeling comfortable being 'in', so I guess it's interchangeable.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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I only listen to this in the winter.
sixteen-bit
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Vespertine
I've been playing a lot of Vespertine lately.
Horseticuffs
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Excellent choice!
Vigilant Walrus
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Nights in white satin by moody blues. Hooollllyyy fuck that is some goood shit. JESUS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
Human Resources
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I love that James Blake album but for me, it's still gotta be Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Came to post For Emma, glad to see it's already been covered.
Going to have to check out quite a few of these.
Well, this is one case where I have only one answer, and it's not even an album, it's one song: Cold Breath '79 by GusGus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKZ5Hi8iBQ
To stay in the spirit of the thread, then let's go with Low on Ice by Alec Empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKZ5Hi8iBQ
To stay in the spirit of the thread, then let's go with Low on Ice by Alec Empire.
Dictator93
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Opeth - Damnation
You know I thought it was a fairly weak Goldfrapp album. Not bad, and I'm appreciative of the new direction they took though. Seventh Tree is still my favourite.
Ranger Taffles
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I'm seeing a lot of Agalloch love here.
Once chilly fog sets in this is the welcome soundtrack.
Once chilly fog sets in this is the welcome soundtrack.
Lotta great albums in here.
Mind would have to be The Mantle by Agalloch:
Came to post this, and:
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Oveja Negra
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Opeth - Damnation
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Chopin's Noctures played by any of the great piano players, like Rubinstein
There are more, but to me these are great examples of perfect music for autumn/winter, specially if it's raining
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Chopin's Noctures played by any of the great piano players, like Rubinstein
There are more, but to me these are great examples of perfect music for autumn/winter, specially if it's raining
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