There's a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if Small print overspread it, The news of a day I've forgotten-- If I ever read it.
[b] Robert Frost -- 1920 [/b]
=http://img23.photobucket.com/...It's been snowing here like mad for the past several days. Oddly enough, I've always found the world to be more alive during winter than in the spring, when everyone traditionally babbles on about the world reborn. Maybe it's the way the cold dances on your skin and your breath takes form as it collides with old man winter's. Or maybe it is just the way that the snow outlines every curve and line in the landscape such that the eye notices parts of the world that were previously camouflaged. Either way, it's like comparing [url=http://www.washacadsci.org/me...%20monet.large.jpg]Claude Monet[/url] to [url=http://www.rosarian.com/graph...]John Singer Sargent:[/url] apples and oranges, baby.
Anyway, all the white stuff got me thinking about songs that remind me, for whatever reason, of this -- the coldest and bleakest of all seasons. Some of these songs make direct references to winter, others do not. However, for me they are all perfectly suited to dark nights alight with falling snow, or the intricate simple beauty of birches in winter.
Claire Voyant: Heaven Knows Claire Voyant: Wanderlust Natalie Merchant: Frozen Charlotte Lycia: Drifting Low: Weight of Water Low: Will the Night Low: Half Light Left Banke: Pretty Ballerina Led Zepplin: Friends Dead Leaves Rising: In The Snow Gordon Lightfoot/Sarah McLachlan: Song For A Winter's Night Love is Colder Than Death: Oxeia Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence Ivoux: Rusalka Ivoux: Holle Innocence Mission: Lakes of Canada Innocence Mission: Beautiful Change Human Drama: Winter's Life Siddal: Oil Spills Siddal: Mystery and the Sea Rosewater Elizabeth: Red Hair Whisper The Softies: Winter Pageant
As always, I'm sure there are more. [i]Please feel free to share your favorites....[/i]
posted by: irishred (reply)
post date: 02.27.04 (9:21 am)
I can think of a couple LOW songs that might fit that bill. Weight of Water and Will The Night Come and The Plan maybe -- what LOW songs were thinking of?
