Batten down, button up, and make the best of the worst winter weather.
Here are our top listening picks for the snowy, icy, overcast and cold days of winter.
"A Hazy Shade of Winter" - Simon & Garfunkel
Album: Bookends
Sample lyric:
"Hear the Salvation Army band down by the riverside.
It's bound to be a better ride than what you've got planned.
Carry your cup in your hand and look around
Leaves are brown now and the sky is a hazy shade of winter"
"A Winter's Tale" - Moody Blues
Album: December
Sample lyric:
"The nights are colder now
Maybe I should close the door
And anyway the snow has covered all your footsteps
And I can follow you no more"
"A Winter's Tale" - Queen
Album: Made in Heaven
Sample lyric:
"There's a kind of magic in the air
What a truly magnificent view
A breathtaking scene"
"First Snow on Brooklyn" - Jethro Tull
Album: The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Sample lyric:
"And the first snow on Brooklyn
Makes a lonely road to travel
Cold crunch steps that echo as the blizzard bites"
"Snow Theme" - Journey
Instrumental from soundtrack of Japanese movie
"Snowball" - Devo
Album: Freedom of Choice
Sample lyric:
"My baby took our love
And then she rolled it up
Rolled it up a hill
Like a ball of snow
Like a snowball grows"
"Snowblind" - Black Sabbath
Album: Past Lives
Sample Lyric:
"My eyes are blind but I can see
The snowflakes glisten on the trees
The sun no longer sets me free
I feel the snowflakes freezing me
Let the winter sun shine on
Let me feel the frost of dawn
Fill my dreams of flakes of snow
Soon I'll feel the chilling glow"
"Snowbound" - Donald Fagen
Album: Kamakiriad
Sample lyric:
"We hit the street
With visors down
With our thermasuits
Sealed up tight"
"Snowbound" - Genesis
Album: ... And Then There Were Three ...
Sample lyric:
"Lay your body down upon the midnight snow
Feel the cold of winter in your hair
Ooh, ooh what a snowman
They say a snow year's a good year"
"Snowman" - Rainbow
Instrumental from an animated film about a boy and a snowman who fly to the North Pole













