Weekend Playlist: Cold

Weekend Playlist: Cold

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Ian looking at X/twitter selections (17/01/2025) with Songs that reference the cold.
This was inspired by Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrival at the South Pole, 123 years ago on 17/01/1912.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Mecano - Heroes de la Antartida
2. Al Stewart - Antarctica
3. Muddy waters - Cold weather blues
4. Tori Amos - Winter
5. Frank Sinatra - Violets for your furs
6. Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries

[Side 2]
7. Foreigner - Cold As Ice
8. Madonna - Frozen
9. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
10. Elton John - Sacrifice
11. Major Lazer - Cold Water
12. Freeez - Southern Freeez

[Bonus]
Tenpole Tudoe - Swords a thousand men
Bright Eyes - At the bottom of everything

Long list

• Al Stewart - Antarctica
• Annie Lennox - Cold
• Avril Lavigne - I’m With You
• B52s - Roam
• Bangles - Hazy shade of winter
• Billy Bragg - Bitter Tears
• Bright Eyes - At the bottom of everything
• Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freeze out
• Coldplay - Shiver (George Benson or Natalie Imbruglia)
• Eagles - Lyin' eyes
• Elton & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart
• Elton John - Sacrifice
• Fleet foxes - White winter hymnal
• Follian Films - Ny Kirree Fo Niaghtey
• Foreigner - Cold As Ice
• Frank Sinatra - Violets for your furs
• Frank Zappa - Don't eat the yellow snow
• Freeez - Southern Freeez
• Gary Moore - Cold Day in Hell
• Ian Dury - I wanna be straight
• Idina Menzel - Let it go (Frozen)
• James - 10 below
• JJ72 - Snow
• Katy Perry - Hot n Cold
• Lightning Seeds - Sugar coated iceberg
• Madonna - Frozen
• Major Lazer - Cold Water
• Mecano - Heroes de la Antartida
• Midnight Oil - Antartica
• Mike Posner - Cooler than me
• Muddy waters - Cold weather blues
• Nick Cave - 15ft of pure white snow
• Orchard - Cold day in hell
• Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries
• Pulp - Feeling called love
• Sea Power - Oh Larsen B
• Status Quo - Ice in the sun
• Steps - A Hundred Years of Winter
• Tenpole Tudoe - Swords a thousand men
• Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat
• Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews - Baby it's cold outside
• Tori Amos - Winter
• Van Morrison - Cold wind in August
• Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
• You me at six - Cold Night
• Zac Brown Band - Colder Weather

Random Musings - Day #7

The DLR have kept the opening of Woolwich Arsenal DLR station underwraps. But I've been reliably informed by a friend and this transport blog that it will commence running on January 10th with the official opening a couple days later. This section should be another way getting about from the southeast into London and presumably is in place as an alternative means to the area where most of London 2012 Olympics will be held.

Now I am totally down with the flu but I am fighting it with Vicks, my special ginger drink, multivitamins, fisherman's friend and lots of water. Keeping hydrated is probably the key to it all. Anyways spotted this nice little recipe, which actually sounds tasty.

Moonwalking. There's some good tutorials on how to do it properly. One from videojug is here. Another good video tutorial is from
glowsticking.com. There's even one from Borat... well not quite but I LIKE!

Another friend says he is going to do some running in the not to distant future and asked what do I recommend. Decathlon and Sweatshop are probably your best bets. (Have a look at my running blog for more details...

I hate Manchester United. On paper, it wasn't humanly possible to lose to a team, that's only won 3 times in 11 with a couple of those against crap teams in cup competitions. But somehow they pulled off a 1-0 defeat to Derby in the Carling Cup. Not pleased at all. That's Man U, off my list of potential Premiership teams (as a second club) to support... It was too good to be true. I should have realised that Nigel Clough, Derby's new boss was around and they would be up for the game, whereas Fergie, the master tactician that he is realise, it's a game of two halves (there is a second leg to come at Old Trafford) and 8-1 on Derby winning. Yeah let them win. It's a fix. I swear the game was a fix! I hate Manchester United!!

Monkeh (a.k.a. the Digital/PG Tips Monkey). A little flashback to those adverts from the ill-fated itv digital. Have a look at Ryan Giggs in a pinny.

Random Musings - Day #6

It's freezing in the UK! Everything is frozen, just look at the fountains in Trafalgar Square. THe big freeze is certainly not helping with the colds and flus that are kicking about. I swear everyone I know has had it at least once. I originally had after my awful journey to Dublin last month, where I got completely frozen and possibly caught hypothermia. But since then I've had a couple sore throats and felt really really flat over Christmas but thankfully not a full blown cold/flu. I may be strong enough or just plain lucky. So I swear there is a cold/flu epidemic and this article from around Christmas supports my view. Coincidentally, there is an newscientist article from 2007 that strongly suggests the cold does indeed spread the flu.

There are apparently loads of free sites to download episodes of your favourite tv shows. I should have a look at some point...

Also had a listen to (and I'll give a namecheck to) lovetofunk radio!