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[learnedax]

Only found out late this afternoon that we might be expecting a wee bit of snow. As it turns out, New Bedford was hit a lot harder a lot earlier than up here...

I suspect that Meddle may be the world's best music to which to drive through snowstorms. I pondered options from Handel to Hendrix, but they're all just not quite right. The juxtaposition of quiet lonely stillness and the raging rushing power of nature is extremely difficult to reflect satisfactorily, and I don't think you can do better than this album.

However, I'd love to see some good competition for it. Got any suggestions?

Comments

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

A big bird suggests Tangerine Dream.

[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

I remember traveling home in a very heavy snowstorm from Danbury to Bolton CT while listening to my friend Susan Forbes Hansen's show Sunday Night Folk Festival on WHUS (http://www.whus.org/) - UCONN's radio station. Susan's shift ended at 11 PM, but the next DJ didn't make it into the station. The station policy: The previous DJ must stay at the station and keep it running until relieved. Susan, faced with programming for an unfamiliar format, resorted to playing Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007SPW/qid=1070730301/). Truly unforgettable.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Not music, per se, though it has music in it: Moon Over Morocco, by ZBS Media. Although certain passages do have a regrettable tendency to induce road-hypnosis. As do snowstorms, which is perhaps why it came to mind.

[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

Moon Over Morocco (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1881137864/)

Ohhh, I got it for Christmas last year on CD! I remember hearing it while in High School on WFCR (http://www.wfcr.org) in Amherst - and it took me forever to figure out the program name. Excellent recording - highly recommended.