After a crazy, balmy, 18°C day at the beginning of last week, the week ended with a classic Winnipeg twist: rain, sleet and snow. There's now no doubt that it's winter again. I am also currently typing this post with nine fingers because I sprained one of them whilst helping my parents shovel out our entire townhouse condo complex (a job they take on most years for extra cash). I suppose it was the chipping away at layers of ice beneath the snow that did it. Fortunately, the finger I can't bend right now is one of my middle ones.
Canada, and Winterpeg specifically, gets quite the reputation for being cold, but if anything, it just makes us stronger. I discovered this fact when I was living in Ontario last winter - as others scurried around like the world was ending when the temperature dropped to -28°C, I walked calmly to school. To someone who used to wait for the bus in -50°C (with the wind chill factor), it was business as usual. And while other cities shut down when too much snow falls, we all dig ourselves out and continue. It takes a fair bit to get things to shut down here. Don't get me wrong. I still don't like winter and could do without it for the six months it resides here. And most of the winter, I hibernate next to the fireplace with a hot chocolate and a book. My days of tobogganing, snow fort construction, snowshoeing, skiing and ice skating are long over. Instead, I will make music mixes. This one's called Big Black Scissor Bite. And as an additional note, I edited the Manics' Winterlovers so that the pesky Working Class Hero hidden track isn't attached to it.
Tundra Rap - The Mighty Boosh
What the Snowman Learned About Love - Stars
Out There On the Ice - Cut Copy
Winter's Memory of Summer - The Delays
Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins
L'heure d'hiver - Little Nemo
Snow Showers - Trembling Blue Stars
Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
January's Little Joke - Trashcan Sinatras
Snowflake - Mew
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
The Throat of Winter - T.Rex
The Fox in the Snow - Belle & Sebastian
Song For the Winter Sun - The Loom
Wait For the Wintertime - Yeasayer
Winter's Coming - Temposhark
Winterlovers - Manic Street Preachers
Under Ice - Kate Bush
Coma - Bella Koshka
Other Cars Go - It Hugs Back
Winter - The Sound
In the Cold I'm Standing - M83
Glosoli - Sigur Ros
Canada, and Winterpeg specifically, gets quite the reputation for being cold, but if anything, it just makes us stronger. I discovered this fact when I was living in Ontario last winter - as others scurried around like the world was ending when the temperature dropped to -28°C, I walked calmly to school. To someone who used to wait for the bus in -50°C (with the wind chill factor), it was business as usual. And while other cities shut down when too much snow falls, we all dig ourselves out and continue. It takes a fair bit to get things to shut down here. Don't get me wrong. I still don't like winter and could do without it for the six months it resides here. And most of the winter, I hibernate next to the fireplace with a hot chocolate and a book. My days of tobogganing, snow fort construction, snowshoeing, skiing and ice skating are long over. Instead, I will make music mixes. This one's called Big Black Scissor Bite. And as an additional note, I edited the Manics' Winterlovers so that the pesky Working Class Hero hidden track isn't attached to it.
Tundra Rap - The Mighty Boosh
What the Snowman Learned About Love - Stars
Out There On the Ice - Cut Copy
Winter's Memory of Summer - The Delays
Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins
L'heure d'hiver - Little Nemo
Snow Showers - Trembling Blue Stars
Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
January's Little Joke - Trashcan Sinatras
Snowflake - Mew
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
The Throat of Winter - T.Rex
The Fox in the Snow - Belle & Sebastian
Song For the Winter Sun - The Loom
Wait For the Wintertime - Yeasayer
Winter's Coming - Temposhark
Winterlovers - Manic Street Preachers
Under Ice - Kate Bush
Coma - Bella Koshka
Other Cars Go - It Hugs Back
Winter - The Sound
In the Cold I'm Standing - M83
Glosoli - Sigur Ros
3 comments:
Although I'm not from Canada and really haven't gotten to experience such cold weather yet, I definitely feel winter coming on and have been in the mood to listen to some music that will get me into the wintery groove. I highly enjoy this list and am really happy to have found it. Rather than being forced to listen to generic, redundant Christmas music, this blog has opened my eyes to a number of great winter songs, all by artists who fall into the genres that I prefer. I have been listening to a lot of M83 lately, so its nice to see a song by them. I cannot get enough of Sigur Ros or Arcade Fire either. I just recently listened to Yeasayer for the first time after finding them on the indie music blog, Obscure Sound and I remember really liking their sound. I'm really excited to check out this entire list.
It'd be awesome if you could reupload, I stumbled upon this blog too late...
@ Glenn
This entire mix will be available for download in the final installment of the year-end round-up on December 28.
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