Question of the Week: What’s the best song about the cold?

Local Spins’ Question of the Week (Jan. 23, 2025)

What’s the best song about the cold?

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THE READER RESPONSES:

Kevin Miller – “Riding the Storm Out,” REO Speedwagon

Aimee Johnson – “LLast Winter in Copper Country,” Joshua Davis

Tricia Boot – “Spring (Among the Living)” – My Morning Jacket

Grateful Amy “‘Round the Wheel” by The String Cheese Incident is my fave .

Kurt Ehinger – “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow/Nanook Rubs It,” Frank Zappa

Shannon Perkins – Casiotone For The Painfully Alone’s song, “Cold White Christmas.”

Devin Desgranges – “Last Winter In The Copper Country” – Greensky Bluegrass (Steppin’ In It cover)

Rene Nicholas – Led Zeppelin, “Immigrant Song” – “We come from the land of ice and snow!” Runner up: Greta Van Fleet, “Age of Man” – “To wonderlands of ice and snow.”

Ted Smith – “The Blizzard,” Jim Reeves

Dennie Middleton – “Snow Blind” by Styx

Don Clapham – “No Quarter” by Led Zeppelin. “The snow falls hard, and don’t you know? The winds of Thor are blowing cold.” These lyrics perfectly describe this year’s winter – plenty of snow and frigid temperatures.

Frank Heany – “Warmer Days,” Blues Traveler

Andy Travis – Johnny Horton, “North to Alaska”

Jason Manshum – “Out in the Cold” – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Chuck Marshall – Amorphis – “BLACK WINTER DAY”

Diego Mor – “Boat Drinks,” Jimmy Buffett

Alex Austin – “Wintertime Blues,” John Hiatt; “Michigan Snow,” Sweet Japonic

John Sinkevics – “I suspect we’ll get the usual like, “Cold as Ice” and “Cold Cold Heart.” But how about The White Stripes’ “In the Cold, Cold Night” and Little Feat’s “Cold Cold Cold”?

Michael Packer – You nailed it with “Cold, Cold, Cold” by Little Feat but “A Winter’s Tale” by Genesis is a nice close second (But, Cold? This is a nice winter chill, nothing to whine about). Or “Winter” by Vivaldi.

Greg Cloon – “In Summer – Frozen,” sung by Josh Gad

Mark Svekric – The entire “Eskimo” album by The Residents

Vanessa Clark – “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes; “Frosti” by Bjork

Don Bidell – “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow,” – Frank Zappa

Melodee Van Bogelen Horsford – “Hazy Shade of Winter” by The Bangles, “Colder Weather” by Zac Brown Band, “Cold Day in the Sun” by Foo Fighters

Robert Biggie G Gill – “Take Off,” Bob & Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee

Good Tribe Vibez – “She’s So Cold,” Stones; “Stone Cold Crazy,” Queen (Metallica version)

Mick Lane – “The Walker of the Snow” sung by Sean Tyrell on Davy Spillane’s Shadow Hunter album

Arja Partanen Chetrick – “Coming In From The Cold” by Bob Marley.

Julie Bernat Swanson – Patti Larkin: “Me and that Train.”

Stacy Noonan – Megan Dooley, “Seven Below”

Mark Vandenberge – “Cold Cold Heart,” Elton John

Bonnie Sue Norment-Anderson – “January,” Black Label Society; “Snowblind,” Black Sabbath

Daniel P Hudelson – “Cold Turkey,” Plastic Ono Band; “Stone Cold Crazy,” Queen

Roger Pam – “Long Cold Winter,” Cinderella

Mike Schertenlieb – Black Sabbath, “Snowblind” – Dunno if it’s “the best” but it’s the first one that came to mind.

Harry Oman – “Nine Below Zero” – Sonny Boy Williamson

Josh Mumme – “Cold as Ice,” Foreigner

Matthew D. Zimmerman – “mmigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin.

Steve Middendorp – “Cold Day in the Sun,” Foo Fighters

Brian Haik – Cold Rain & Snow

Joziph Phillion – “Cover me up” by Jason Isbell

Quinn Baldry – “Silence in the Snow” – Trivium

Nancy Schoenheide Phares – “Icy Blue Heart,” John Hiatt – “She came on to him like a slow moving cold front…”

Bruce E. Matthews – You mentioned Little Feat’s “Cold, Cold, Cold” already although not really about the cold, I’ve always loved Gordon Lightfoot’s “Song for a Winter’s Night.”

Stephen Aldrich – Nobody said, “Ice Ice Baby,” c’mon!

Wendy Reed – “Winter Song” by Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles.

Barry Bazza Crawford – “Frozen Panties On The Line” – Bazza

Martin E. Hannah – “River” by Joni Mitchell

Jack Mellema – I already put up “Cold Cold Cold” by Little Feat on a weather page I help administrate.

Thomas Leonard Saxe – “Cold Cold Cold”

Mark Swanson – “Whispers of the North,” Gordon Lightfoot.

Jeff Martin – Rush “By Tor & the Snow Dog” and Blue Oyster Cult – “Baby Ice Dog.”

Jess William Mac AnTòisich – “Acadian Driftwood”’ -The Band.

William Hahs – How about the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

Jessica Alexander – “Cold & Wet” by Ween.

Rob Bruce – “Snowblind ,”Black Sabbath

Nicholas James Thomasma – “Ice Ice Baby!”

Craig Greshaw – “Wolves” – Garth Brooks

Jamie Geysbeek – “Winter” by Joshua Radin
Andrew Rossi – “Don’t worry about the army in the cold cold ground,” Tom Waits

Tom Harju – “Ice Cold Ice” by Husker Du on Wharehouse songs and stories

Lorilee Reimer Craker – “The Coldest Night of the Year” by Bruce Cockburn

Mike Haken – “Out in the Cold,” Judas Priest

Nathan Walton – “Cold Cold Cold,” Dr. John

Michael Van Denend – “10 Degrees and Getting Colder” by Gordon Lightfoot

Scott Stefanski – “Snowbound” by Genesis

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