Here are our top listening picks for the snowy, icy, overcast and cold days of winter.
1. "A Winter's Tale" - Moody Blues
Album: DecemberSample 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"
2. "A Winter's Tale" - Queen
Album: Made in HeavenSample lyric:
"There's a kind of magic in the air
What a truly magnificent view
A breathtaking scene"
3. "Snowbound" - Donald Fagen
Album: KamakiriadSample lyric:
"We hit the street
With visors down
With our thermasuits
Sealed up tight"
4. "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"
5. "Snow Theme" - Journey
Album: Dream After DreamInstrumental from soundtrack of Japanese movie
6. "Snowman" - Rainbow
Album: Bent Out of ShapeInstrumental from an animated film about a boy and a snowman who fly to the North Pole
7. "Snowball" - Devo
Album: Freedom of ChoiceSample 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"
8. "Under Ice" - Kate Brown
Album: Hounds of LoveSample lyric:
"Its wonderful
Everywhere, so white
The river has frozen over
Not a soul on the ice."
9. "First Snow on Brooklyn" - Jethro Tull
Album: The Jethro Tull Christmas AlbumSample lyric:
"And the first snow on Brooklyn
Makes a lonely road to travel
Cold crunch steps that echo as the blizzard bites"
